The following are resource lists on Destiny:
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List of Classic Titles adapted into Graphic Novel Format. |
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An adventure is an event or series of events that happens outside the course of the protagonist's ordinary life, usually accompanied by danger, often by physical action |
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Novels concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist. |
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Biographical works are usually non-fiction, but fiction can also be used to portray a person's life. |
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Contemporary Life novels are realistic fiction that take place during (more-or-less) the time frame in which the book is being published. |
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Literature in which the protagonists are conscious of being members of a group of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage. |
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Fantasy Novel is any book that contains unrealistic settings, or magic, often set in a medieval universe, or possibly involving mythical beings or supernatural forms as a primary element of the plot, theme, or setting. |
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Historical fiction is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the period depicted. |
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Novels which intended to, or have the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. |
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Primary purpose of these books is to inform the reader about the natural or social world. |
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Primary purpose of these books is to inform the reader of medical conditions and the lives of people they affect. |
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A memoir is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events, both public or private, that took place in the subject's life. The assertions made in the work are understood to be factual. |
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Type of fiction in which a detective, or other professional, solves a crime or series of crimes. |
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Fable retellings, gods, goddesses, demigods, Greek, Roman |
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Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |
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stories portraying love, jealousy, marriage, betrayal, or heartache. |
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Typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. |
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This genre mainly originated in and is most common to American comic books. |
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BOOKS IN TRIBUTE TO VICTIMS, SUCH AS THE PULSE NIGHT CLUB AND LAS VEGAS SHOOTINGS. |
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The wordless novel is a narrative genre that uses sequences of caption less pictures to tell a story. |