Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bestselling novel that fueled abolitionist work, was the best known of the anti-slavery novels that portrayed such escapes across the Ohio.

Hoffman finally had a chance to work with Gene Hackman in Gary Fleder's Runaway Jury ( also 2003 ), an adaptation of John Grisham's bestselling novel.

The World Almanac and Book of Facts is an American-published reference work and is the bestselling almanac conveying information about such subjects as world changes, tragedies, sports feats, etc.

Natchez, MS has often been used as backdrop in several bestselling fiction work.

As a result, he has since embarked on several solo endeavors including guest appearances on other artists ' music, film and TV roles ( including as a judge on American Idol ), authoring a bestselling book, and solo work ( including a Top 40 hit single in 2011 ).

Professor Christensen is the bestselling author of five books, including his seminal work The Innovator's Dilemma ( 1997 ) which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book of the year, The Innovator's Solution ( 2003 ), and Seeing What's Next ( 2004 ).

He also published the early work of Ralph Nader, Howard Zinn, Theodore Roszak, and Hunter S. Thompson, who credited McWilliams with the idea for his first bestselling book, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga ( 1966 ).

Steyn's work America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It ( ISBN 0-89526-078-6 ) is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction book published in 2006.

The book, which became his bestselling work, questions whether there is a scientific consensus for anthropogenic global warming and postulates that the measures taken by governments to combat climate change " will turn out to be one of the most expensive, destructive, and foolish mistakes the human race has ever made ".

His work was also included in the bestselling Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse.

Celebrities who have supported the Mission to Seafarers ' work or performed readings at its popular Christmas carol services at include historian Dan Snow, actor Julian Glover, Patricia Routledge, Oscar winner and former shipping minister Glenda Jackson, sailors Tracy Edwards and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, maritime photographer Baron Greenway, painter Rolf Harris, writer and journalist Libby Purves, and frontline reporter Kate Adie.

Wary of being pigeonholed, particularly in the USA where The Crimson Petal and the White is by far his most popular work, Faber vowed never to write a sequel to his bestselling Victorian novel.

A Widow for One Year is a 1998 bestselling work of fiction by John Irving, the ninth of his novels to be published.

He is perhaps best known for his bestselling work The Body ( originally published in 1968 and later renamed The Human Body ), which has sold over 800, 000 copies worldwide and tied in with a BBC television series, known in America by the name Intimate Universe: The Human Body.

Den of Thieves is a 1992 non-fiction bestselling work by Pulitzer prize-winning writer James B. Stewart.

Johnston's next work titled Audrey was the 5th bestselling book in the U. S. in 1902, and Sir Mortimer serialized in the Harper's Monthly Magazine from November 1903 through April 1904 and published in 1904.

Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s ( 1931 ) bestselling, well-written history full text online free

He has presented three television series on art and the BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects, which aired in 2010 and later became a bestselling book.

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is an international bestselling book by Thomas Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century.

He is also the New York Times and Booksense bestselling author of four books, A Nasty Bit of Rough, Somewhere in Ireland a Village Is Missing an Idiot, An Idiot for All Seasons, and David Feherty's Totally Subjective History of the Ryder Cup.

The best known is Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, which, like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is based on the idea that the real Grail is not a cup but the womb and later the earthly remains of Mary Magdalene ( again cast as Jesus ' wife ), plus a set of ancient documents claimed to tell the true story of Jesus, his teachings and descendants.

The companion book to the series ( co-authored by Milton and his wife, Rose Friedman ), also titled Free To Choose, was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1980 and has since been translated into 14 foreign languages.

Of his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ), a bestselling book since its publication, and called " the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century.

* The Great Train Robbery ( novel ), bestselling 1975 historical novel written by Michael Crichton

The bestselling memoir by Henri Charrière, Papillon ( 1969 ), described the extreme brutality and inhumane treatment of the penal colony.

Negroponte expanded many of the ideas from his Wired columns into a bestselling book Being Digital ( 1995 ), which made famous his forecasts on how the interactive world, the entertainment world and the information world would eventually merge.

-A cheerful companion for all who want to sing hit songs, write lyrics, or compose music ), and in 1972, shortly before her death, her autobiography Der Himmel hat viele Farben ( The Sky has many Colours ) appeared and topped the bestselling list of the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Beard's most influential book written with his wife Mary Beard, was the wide-ranging and bestselling The Rise of American Civilization ( 1927 ), which had a major influence on American historians.

Critically acclaimed bestselling books followed for both-including for Dunne, The Studio, his non-fiction account of 20th Century Fox, and they became collaborators on a series of screenplays, including The Panic in Needle Park ( 1971 ), A Star Is Born ( 1976 ) and True Confessions ( 1981 ), an adaptation of his own novel.

In response to the abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mary Howard Schoolcraft wrote and published The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina ( 1860 ), one of many anti-Tom novels in the years before the American Civil War.

She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in The Last Picture Show ( 1971 ), based on the bestselling book by Larry McMurtry.

The expression parasaito shinguru was first used by Professor Masahiro Yamada of Tokyo Gakugei University in his bestselling book The Age of Parasite Singles ( パラサイトシングルの時代, parasaito shinguru no jidai ), published in October 1999.

In the 1985 bestselling historical fantasy novel Teito Monogatari ( Hiroshi Aramata ), the heroine Keiko Tatsumiya is a miko who serves the guardian spirit of Taira no Masakado.

Reeve is the New York Times bestselling author of The New Jackals ( 1998 ), One Day in September ( 2000 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 2007 ).

By 1997, No Limit had gained momentum with bestselling, if not critically acclaimed, releases from TRU ( Tru 2 Da Game ), Mia X's Unlady Like, which went gold despite producing no hit singles, and Mystikal's platinum-selling Unpredictable.

* Chris Stewart ( author and politician ), bestselling author, politician, and former Air Force pilot

In 1996, FRE filed for bankruptcy, and many of the records that had been released on the label, including Skydiggers ' Restless ( one of the bestselling Canadian indie records of the 1990s ), ceased to be available in record stores.

Larry Yust's short film, The Lottery ( 1969 ), produced as part of Encyclopædia Britannica's ' Short Story Showcase ' series, was ranked by the Academic Film Archive " as one of the two bestselling educational films ever.

Meanwhile she also worked as a publisher's reader, for Hurst and Blackett, and from 1859 for Bentley, recommending for instance that Bentley publish Ellen Wood's bestselling East Lynne ( 1861 ), yet turn down such later successful authors as Rhoda Broughton, M. E. Braddon, and Ouida.

He was noted for his bestselling travel books McCarthy's Bar ( 1998 ) and The Road to McCarthy ( 2002 ), in which he explored Ireland and the Irish diaspora around the world.

Cyan Worlds began development on its next project after the company finished 1997's Riven, the sequel to the bestselling Myst.

The first publisher of Star Trek fiction aimed at adult readers was Bantam Books, which initially produced a bestselling series of novelizations of the original 79 episodes by James Blish that began in 1967.

He became best known for uncomplicated, comfort food recipes presented in early bestselling books such as The 30-Minute Cook ( 1994 ) and Real Cooking, as well as his engaging, memoir-like columns for The Observer which he began in 1993.