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Green Book is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly.Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.
The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was founded by Victor Hugo Green , an African American postal worker from New York City who published it annually from 1936 to 1966.
Victor Hugo Green (November 9, 1892 – October 16, 1960) was an American postal employee and travel writer from Harlem, New York City, [1] best known for developing and writing what became known as The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans in the United States.
The book, released in 2020, is the first Scottish-Gaelic translation of Anne of Green Gables. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] The novel has been popular in Japan, where it is known as Red-haired Anne (赤毛のアン ( Akage no An ) ), [ 31 ] [ 32 ] and where it has been included in the national school curriculum since 1952.
The Green Book (Arabic: الكتاب الأخضر al-Kitāb al-Aḫḍar) is a short book setting out the political philosophy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The book was first published in 1975. [ 2 ]
Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a novel by John Green and David Levithan, published in April 2010 by Dutton Juvenile.The book's narrative is divided evenly between two boys named Will Grayson, one of whom is heterosexual and is referred to in capitalized letters, and the other who is gay and is referred to in lowercase.
Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character Richard Hannay.It was first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe spent 36 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List. [10] Harper Lee praised the book in the publisher's Reader's Guide, saying, "Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic ...