The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.

According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a conquistador serving under Cortés who recorded his experiences in his book The Conquest of New Spain, the supposed plot was revealed by two men, named Tapia and Juan Velásquez.

* My Sister's a Pop Star ( 2006 ), I'm SO Not a Pop Star ( 2008 ), and the third book in the series, My Life on TV ( 2010 ), by American author Kimberly Greene, use blog posts to move the plot along and introduce key changes in the protagonist's thinking.

Its intricate plot and humorous, intimate portrayal of pre-Victorian dandyism kept gossips busy trying to associate public figures with characters in the book.

Perhaps the most clearly formulaic plots characterize the romantic comedy genre ; in a book or film labeled as such, viewers already know its most basic central plot, including to some extent the ending.

However, some female comic book writers, such as Gail Simone, believe that female characters are still relegated to plot devices ( see Women in Refrigerators ).

* Jack Higgins based his book The Eagle Has Landed on alleged research into a German abduction plot in the Second World War.

In the frame of the book's plot, Wimsey's diplomatic obligations serve as a plot device to keep him away from Britain, and leave Harriet on her own for most of the book, to try to resolve the mystery at Oxford without his help.

Urban legend has it that the film was pulled from circulation due to the similarity of its plot to the death of President Kennedy the following year, but Frankenheimer states in the Champlin book that it was pulled because of a legal battle between producer Sinatra and the studio over Sinatra's share of the profits.

In this book, Stephenson returns with a thriller set in the present with a plot that involves a medley of game developers, Chinese cyber-criminals, Russian mafia, and other stranger inhabitants of the new global village.

His book The Diamond Age follows a simpler plot but features " neo-Victorian " characters and employs Victorian-era literary conceits.

While supplying the source of the plot, the book offered nothing of the sense of place of Venice or Cyprus.

The film shares the plot element of android-hunting bounty hunters with the book, as well as a distinctive visual aesthetic said to be reminiscent of Blade Runner.

Before it was published, however, the TV series aired " The Seventh ", an episode with a similar core plot point, which forced last-minute revisions to Dillard's book.

In the children's book and movie, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a pair of red ruby slippers play a key role in the plot.

This film was entirely computer-animated, and its plot was not derived from the book.

Of interest, but not crucial to the plot of this or further books, is that North and South Korea were said to be unified at some point between The Sum of All Fears and this book.

Kir Bulychev's 1993 book An Attempt on Theseus ' Life ( Покушение на Тезея ) is about a plot to assassinate a man during a virtual reality tour in which he lives through Theseus ' life.

* The book Red Shift ( novel ) the Mow Cop Tor at the centre of its plot.

The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May ( 4 May ), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards ; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November ( the day before Guy Fawkes Night ), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess.

In his book Rude Kids: The Inside Story of Viz, Chris Donald mentions that he was interviewed by police after giving the go-ahead to publish a Top Tip which could have been interpreted as an incitement to carry out a bomb plot.

The 1993 children's book The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig inverts the cast and makes a few changes to the plot: the wolves build a brick house, then a concrete house, then a steel house, and finally a house of flowers.

P. Schuyler Miller gave the book a favorable review as " a first-rate historical novel of the near future ," saying " So subtly has the scientific detail been interwoven with plot and action that the reader never realizes how painstakingly it has been worked out.

* The title Larry Niven's Rainbow Mars ( 1999 ) alludes to Robinson's three-colored Mars trilogy, and the plot concerns a time machine that is used to visit ancient Mars.

' " The studio and Shatner himself had few concerns about the plot point.

* Melodrama – sentimental drama with musical underscoring, often with an unlikely plot that concerns the suffering of the good at the hands of evildoers but ends happily with good triumphant.

Based on the short story " Spurs " by Clarence Aaron " Tod " Robbins, the screenwriter of The Unholy Three, the film concerns a love triangle between a wealthy dwarf, a gold-digging aerialist, and a strongman ; a murder plot ; and the vengeance dealt out by the dwarf and his fellow circus freaks.

The plot concerns the troubles that Sir Francis Varney inflicts upon the Bannerworths, a formerly wealthy family driven to ruin by their recently deceased father.

The plot concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedrillo, to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio of the Pasha Selim.

The basic plot concerns Groucho, as explorer Captain Geoffrey ( or Jeffrey ) T. Spaulding, attending a party in his honor at the estate of society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse, and investigating the theft of a valuable painting during the party.

* Total Recall ( 1990 ) – A science fiction action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, where the plot concerns an apparently unsophisticated construction worker who turns out to be a freedom fighter from Mars and has been relocated to Earth.

The plot concerns a power struggle between two rival gangs and how the protagonist, Tom Reagan ( Gabriel Byrne ), plays both sides off each other.

Dedicated to " the memory of Florence Nightingale ", the plot concerns the travails and romances of young women as they study to become nurses.

The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922.

The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives.

The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades.

" Fritz Senn has also voiced concerns with some plot synopses, saying " we have some traditional summaries, also some put in circulation by Joyce himself.

Set mainly in Paris in 1979, the plot concerns a scheme by an alien, Scaroth, to steal the Mona Lisa to finance experiments in time travel in the hope of averting the accident that marooned him on Earth four hundred million years previously, which also began the existence of life on the planet as well.

Its plot concerns Supergirl, Superman's cousin, leaving her isolated Kryptonian community of Argo City for Earth in an effort to retrieve the unique " Omegahedron ", which has fallen into the hands of the evil witch Selena ( Faye Dunaway ).

With attention to the detail of day-to-day airport and airline operations, the plot concerns the response to a paralyzing snowstorm, environmental concerns over noise pollution, and an attempt to blow up an airliner.

The plot concerns Lord Peter's investigation into the death, three years earlier, of an elderly lady in the last stages of cancer.

The plot of the movie concerns Kelly Collins, a free-spirited eighth grade girl whose mother gets married to Brigadier General Joe " Sir " Maxwell ( Gary Cole ).

The opera's plot concerns the consequences of the spear's loss by the Knights of the Grail and its recovery by Parsifal.

Their plot concerns struggle of heroes against demonic forces.

The plot concerns the children of the Duke of Omnium, Plantagenet Palliser, and his late wife, Lady Glencora.

Much of the plot concerns Boston Harbor's Spectacle Island which at the time of publication was almost entirely composed of garbage.

The plot concerns a merchant, Mr Sterling, who wants to marry off his elder daughter to Sir John Melvil, who is actually in love with her younger sister, Fanny.