When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: number of stars summary book

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Number the Stars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_the_Stars

    18947847. LC Class. PZ7.L9673 Nu 1989. Number the Stars is a work of historical fiction by the American author Lois Lowry about the escape of a family of Jews from Copenhagen, Denmark, during World War II. The story revolves around ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen, who lives with her mother, father, and sister Kirsti in Copenhagen in 1943.

  3. Lois Lowry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry

    Lois Lowry. Lois Ann Lowry (/ ˈlaʊəri /; [2] née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for ...

  4. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Sleep_in_a_Sea_of_Stars

    Official website. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a 2020 science fiction novel written by American author Christopher Paolini and published under the Tor imprint of Macmillan Publishers. [2][3][4] The book is unrelated to his Inheritance Cycle series. [5] In an interview, Paolini described the book as adult-oriented as opposed to the young adult ...

  5. The Three-Body Problem (novel) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)

    The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. [1] The series portrays a fictional past, present, and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three Sun-like stars ...

  6. Stellar designations and names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_designations_and_names

    Of the fifty-seven stars included in the new almanac, these two had no traditional names. The RAF insisted that all of the stars must have names, so new names were invented for them. [8] These names have been approved by the IAU WGSN. [2] The book Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning by R. H. Allen (1899) [9] has had effects on star names:

  7. The Giver of Stars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver_of_Stars

    823.92. LC Class. PR6113.O94. The Giver of Stars is a 2019 historical fiction novel by Jojo Moyes about packhorse librarians in a remote area of Kentucky. Set in Depression-era America, The Giver of Stars is the story of five extraordinary women and their journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. The women deliver library books to ...

  8. Fractal Noise - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_Noise

    Publication place. United States. ISBN. 978-1250862488. Preceded by. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. Fractal Noise is a 2023 science fiction novel written by American author Christopher Paolini and published under the Tor imprint of Macmillan Publishers. It is a prequel to the 2020 book To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and was released on May 16, 2023.

  9. Almagest - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almagest

    Almagest. An edition in Latin of the Almagestum in 1515. The Almagest / ˈælmədʒɛst / is a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 100 – c. 170) in Koine Greek. [1] One of the most influential scientific texts in history, it canonized a ...