* Fritz Leiber's novella Our Lady of Darkness revolves around the secret occult studies of fictional author / occultist Thibaut de Castries and his book Megapolisomancy: A New Science of Cities.

The book revolves around the life of Ken Nott, a radio DJ on a London station called Capital Live!

The whole book also revolves around the praise of He whom God shall make manifest, promising the coming of a major prophet termed a Manifestation of God ; this would be of major importance with Bahá ' u ' lláh's claim two decades later.

The story of the first book in the series, Little House in the Big Woods revolves around the life of the Ingalls family in their small home near Pepin, Wisconsin.

* Sarah Waters's book Tipping the Velvet ( 1998 ) revolves around the world of music halls in the late Victorian era, and in particular around two fictional " mashers " ( drag kings ) named Kitty Butler and Nan King.

The book revolves around Garner's attempts to interview the two young women at the centre of the scandal who declined to meet her, along the way exploring the politics, sexual and otherwise, of the college, as well as Garner's personal feelings about the original events and the people she meets in the course of her research.

* The plot of the book The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner revolves around a Cheshire variant of the legend.

Oz credits a 1959 translation of American writer Sherwood Anderson ’ s short story collection Winesburg, Ohio with his decision to “ write about what was around me .” In A Tale of Love and Darkness, his memoir of coming of age in the midst of Israel ’ s violent birth pangs, Oz credits Anderson ’ s “ modest book ” with his own realization that " the written world … always revolves around the hand that is writing, wherever it happens to be writing: where you are is the center of the universe.

* Karen McCombie's book The Seventeen Secrets of the Karma Club revolves around two girls who ( inspired by their favourite film Amelie ) start up their ' Karma Club ', the intention of which, is to do random acts of kindness anonymously.

The Gripping Hand revolves primarily around two minor characters of the first book, Captain Sir Kevin Renner ( ISN, Reserve ) and His Excellency Horace Bury, Imperial Trader Magnate.

* Ken Follett – The Key to Rebecca ( 1980 ), World War II spy novel whose plot revolves around the heroes ' efforts to cryptanalyze a book cipher with time running out.

* The story of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle revolves around another mysterious and forbidden book, written by the title character ( Hawthorne Abendsen ), named The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.

This book by Scott Westerfield, part of a four-book series, revolves around a girl named Tally who lives in a world where at 16, you turn " pretty " and join society.

The most common myth revolves around a small book on the desk with the letters JOB printed on it.

This book revolves around several new characters in the Sword of Truth series.

The book revolves heavily around the great friendship he experienced with fellow hostage John McCarthy, and the brutality that was inflicted upon them by their captors.

The main plot of the book revolves around a young egyptologist in her debut trip to Egypt and the trouble she gets into by being witness to a crime and inadvertently stumbling upon the egyptian historical artifacts black market's dealers in that country.

The book revolves around the theory that " the seven sins of memory " are similar to the Seven deadly sins, and that if you try to avoid committing these sins, it will help to improve your ability to remember.

This book revolves around the badger Lord Brocktree, father of Boar the Fighter, grandfather of Bella of Brockhall, and great-grandfather of Sunflash the Mace.

Derek states in his book Promised Land, " The central theme of biblical prophecy, as it is being unfolded in our time, revolves around the land and the people of Israel.

His most recent book, War, revolves around Junger's time spent with a United States Army platoon of the 173rd Airborne in Afghanistan.

Mel Bakersfield is the main character around whom the book revolves.

Set in London in the first years of the 21st century, the book revolves around two main topics: Britain's gutter press and Christian religion.

Tom's father even wrote a book, The Belladona Document, which revolves around the mysterious letter.

The storyline of the book revolves around an investigation of several horrifically-but surgically-mutilated corpses, all chained around their necks and ankles, and one night resting on the muddy banks of the Huangpu, near the Bund.

To set up a co-operative library system, the law requires a central book collection of 100,000 nonfiction volumes as the nucleus, and the system is organized around it.

But the book is written around a somewhat dizzy cartoonist, and it has to be that way.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

Octave Chanute provided a great service to those interested in aerodynamics and flying machines by publishing a book outlining all of the research conducted around the world up to 1893.

He then grabs the book from the cradle, and rushes back to the castle, while the dead rise from graves all around.

Similar to the traditional view in Judaism, conservative Christians view the Book of Daniel as written by the prophet Daniel, who they claim wrote the book around 536 BC after having been in captivity for about 70 years.

The original core of the book, the first-person memoir, may have been combined with the core of the Book of Ezra around 400 BC.

Ezra-Nehemiah, grouped as a single book with the title " Ezra ", was translated into Greek around the middle of the 2nd century BC.

1 and 2 Samuel were originally ( and still is in some Jewish bibles ) a single book, but the first Greek translation, produced in the centuries immediately before Christ, divided it into two ; this was adopted by the Latin translation used in the early Christian church of the West, and finally introduced into Jewish bibles around the early 16th century CE.

According to early tradition, this book was composed near the end of Domitian's reign, around the year 95 AD.

The visions, and the book, are structured around three themes: ( 1 ) judgment on Israel ( chapters 1-24 ); ( 2 ) judgment on the nations ( chapters 25-32 ); and future blessings for Israel ( chapters 33-48 ).

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

However, mendicant friars travelled around a lot and needed a shortened, or abbreviated, daily office contained in one portable book, and single-volume breviaries flourished from the thirteenth century onwards.

But if the intended exploitation of the work includes publication ( or distribution of derivative work, such as a film based on a book protected by copyright ) outside the U. S., the terms of copyright around the world must be considered.

" Nevertheless, Northcutt would keep the stories on the website and in her books, citing them as a " funny-but-true safety guide ", and mentioning that children who read the book are going to be a lot more careful around explosives.

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

Bellamy himself came to actively participate in the political movement which emerged around his book, particularly after 1891 when he founded his own magazine, The New Nation, and began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging People's Party.

This is based in part on the vision in the book of Revelation of the 24 elders gathered around the throne of Christ, who are believed to represent the 12 patriarchs of Israel and the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ.

In March 1943 Orwell's mother died and around the same time he told Moore he was starting work on a new book, which would turn out to be Animal Farm.

Some scholars who maintain the antiquity of the Gospel of Barnabas propose that the text purportedly discovered in 478 should be identified with the Gospel of Barnabas instead ; but this supposition is at variance with an account of Anthemios's gospel book by Severus of Antioch, who reported having examined the manuscript around the year 500, seeking to find whether it supported the piercing of the crucifed Jesus by a spear at Matthew 27: 49 ( it did not ).

The book describes its own structure around ten " toledot " sections ( the " these are the generations of ..." phrases ), but many modern commentators see it in terms of a " primeval history " ( chapters 1 – 11 ) followed by the cycle of Patriarchal stories ( chapters 12 – 50 ).

Others have suggested the book was built around rape fantasies.

Judah at this time was a vassal of Assyria, but Assyrian power collapsed in the 630s, and in around 622 Josiah and the Deuteronomists, as the circle around him are called by modern scholars, launched a bid for independence expressed as loyalty to " Yahweh alone " and the law-code in the book of Deuteronomy, written in the form of a treaty between Judah and Yahweh to replace the vassal-treaty with Assyria.