Series of this type include the Famous Five ( 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog ), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, ( 15 novels, 1943 – 1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police ) as well as The Secret Seven ( 15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries ).

* The Radcliffe Publishing Course rank Catch-22 as number 15 of the twentieth century's top 100 novels.

In the afterword of Ender in Exile, Card stated that many of the details in chapter 15 of Ender's Game have been modified for use in the subsequent novels and short stories.

Thus, all three series are set in the same universe, giving them a combined length of 15 novels, and a total of about 1, 500, 000 words.

Stead wrote 15 novels and several volumes of short stories in her lifetime.

In some novels, the protagonists may be impossible to identify, because multiple plots in the novel do not permit clear identification of one as the main plot, such as in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, depicting a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp, or in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, depicting 15 major characters involved in or affected by a war.

In the 15 years she spent writing three novels and four mysteries set during the period of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine Penman claims she found no villains.

The first of these graphic novels, Buckaroo Banzai: Return of the Screw, was published on September 15, 2007.

Ralph Hammond Innes ( 15 July 1913 – 10 June 1998 ) was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books.

Starting with a first volume A Postillion Struck by Lightning ( an allusion to the phrase My postillion has been struck by lightning ), he wrote a series of 15 best-selling memoirs, novels, essays, reviews, poetry, and collected journalism.

David Suchet confirmed that the filming of the last five novels, for series 13, begins on 15 October 2012, with Curtain: Poirot's Last Case shooting first out of the remaining books.

More than 15 million copies of Fandorin novels have been sold as of May 2006, even though the novels were freely available from many Russian web-sites and the hard-copies were relatively expensive by Russian standards.

Nobody else can tell it right .” " Project Overlord " grew into a trilogy of novels ( Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning, from 1984 – 85 ) and 15 linked modules, and it got a new name: Dragonlance.

John Dudley Ball ( July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988 ), writing as John Ball, was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs.

The popular Philo Vance detective novels by S. S. Van Dine inspired 15 feature films made from 1929 to 1947.

In the novels, Wibberley goes beyond the merely comic, placing the tiny nation ( 15 square miles / 39 square kilometres ) in absurd situations so as to comment satirically on contemporary politics and events.

Walter " Walt " Dumaux Edmonds ( July 15, 1903 Boonville, New York – January 24, 1998 ) was an American author noted for his historical novels, including the popular Drums Along the Mohawk ( 1936 ), which was successfully made into a Technicolor feature film in 1939 directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.

Driss Chraïbi ( July 15, 1926, El Jadida – April 1, 2007, Drôme, France ) was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often semi-autobiographical.

The cowardly Oakes starred in another seven novels over the next 15 years and eventually, once again by inadvertence, becomes the head of the secret agency that has caused him to be in a constant state of terror for so long.

A Night to Remember is a 1955 non-fiction book by Walter Lord about the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.

Marjorie Harris BA ( born 15 Sep 1937 as Marjorie Stibbards in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian non-fiction writer who has published numerous books on gardening.

Le Monde placed the book among the 100 best books of any kind of the 20th century, while the National Review ranked it # 15 on its list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century.

Kantha ( 1992 ), in a survey of an elite group of scientists who have authored over 1, 000 research publications, identified Selye as one who had published 1, 700 research papers, 15 monographs and 7 popular books.

In the U. S., public library users have borrowed on average roughly 15 books per user per year from 1856 to 1978.

Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

A nuclear engineer turned Islamic-scholar, Mahmood authored more than 15 books, all in English, on the relationship between Islam and science.

Andreas Vesalius ( 31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564 ) was a Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica ( On the Structure of the Human Body ).

3: 16 ; 2 Peter 1: 19 – 20, 3: 15 – 16 ), holds that the books of both the Old and New Testaments in their entirety, with all their parts, are sacred and canonical because written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself.

* In L. Sprague de Camp's Viagens books the planet Krishna is protected by Regulation 368 whose Section 4, subsection 24, paragraph 15 reads: " it is forbidden to communicate to any native resident of the planet Krishna any device, appliance, machine, tool, weapon, or invention representing an improvement upon the science and technology already in existence upon this planet.

Some ballet historians also use the word libretto to refer to the 15 – 40 page books which were on sale to 19th century ballet audiences in Paris and contained a very detailed description of the ballet's story, scene by scene.

He has written more than 15 books, including his annual movie yearbook which is predominantly a collection of his reviews of that year.

Sales figures as high as 35 to 40 million have been cited in various reference books and by media, as have lower numbers in the 15 – 22 million range, whilst a " more than 30 million copies " figure was quoted by Star, as early as 1983, on back cover page of Swenson's book.

He has authored or co-authored 15 books on cosmology and astrophysics, and wrote, with Alexander S. Sharov, a biography of Edwin Hubble, E. Hubble, Life and Work ( Cambridge University Press 1992 ).

Edward St. John Gorey ( February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000 ) was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.

Because his original books are rather short, these editions may contain 15 or more in each volume.

§ 78dd-1 ) and making false entries into its books and records ( 15 U. S. C § 78m ( b )( 2 ) & ( 5 )).

The fictional character Morgan Kane is described as a US Marshal in more than 15 of the 83 books in the Morgan Kane book series, penned by Louis Masterson.

His books, medals, drawings and engravings were bought by a bookseller named Evans for £ 1, 423 on 15 July.

The Thomasville Public Library has an annual operating budget of $ 88, 761 and has a collection of 15, 206 books, 455 audio materials, 418 video materials, and 33 serial subscriptions.

The library opened its doors and began circulating books on October 15, 1962.

Alan I Marcus ( born August 15, 1949 ) is the author of the history textbook Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam ( 1998 ) and other books.

Leland reports that at Malmesbury, he found a copy of a now lost work which he ascribed to William of Malmesbury, verses in 15 books on the four Evangelists.

It is one of the longest running and widest ranging Festivals of the Arts in the UK lasting for 15 days and includes music ( including folk, jazz, rock, classical & world, poetry, film, talks and books.

Comstock's total accomplishment in a long and influential career is estimated to have been the destruction of some 15 tons of books, 284, 000 pounds of plates for printing such ' objectionable ' books, and nearly 4, 000, 000 pictures.

In 1913, Cupples & Leon published a series of 15 All About books, emulating the form and size of the Beatrix Potter books, All About Peter Rabbit, All About The Three Bears, All About Mother Goose, and All About Little Red Hen.