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'Harry Potter' books
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"I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write."
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well
not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
"Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be."
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that." — character Albus Dumbledore
"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with."
"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
"Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates."
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official J.K. Rowling website
Joanne 'Jo' Rowling entry at Wikipedia
browse the J.K. Rowling Store at Amazon
J.K. Rowling credits [since 1987] at Internet Movie Database
'Harry Potter' Books [1997-2007]
The 'Harry Potter' Books & Movies Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
book series entry at Wikipedia
"Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)" [1997]
listed by Publishers Weekly as #19 All-time Bestselling Hardcover Children's Book (2001)
listed by Publishers Weekly as #7 All-time Bestselling Paperback Children's Book (2001)
"Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)" [1998]
listed by Publishers Weekly as #10 All-time Bestselling Hardcover Children's Book (2001)
listed by Publishers Weekly as #19 All-time Bestselling Paperback Children's Book (2001)
"Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)" [1999]
listed by Publishers Weekly as #11 All-time Bestselling Hardcover Children's Book (2001)
"Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire (Book 4)" [2000]
listed by Publishers Weekly as #5 All-time Bestselling Hardcover Children's Book (2001)
"Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix (Book 5)" [2003]
"Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)" [2005]
"Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (Book 7)" [2007]
'Harry Potter' Movies
The 'Harry Potter' Books & Movies Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
J.K. Rowling credits [since 1987] at Internet Movie Database
'Harry Potter' Other
"The Hogwarts Library" [] by J. K. Rowling
http://www.amazon.com/The-Hogwarts-Library-Harry-Potter/dp/0545615402/
"Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them" [ages 8 & up; 2000]
"Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them" [Heyday Films/Warner Bros. Nov 2016]
 | The adventures of British wizard Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards takes place seventy years before Harry Potter reads Scamander's book at Hogwarts School • Directed by David Yates; co-produced & written by J.K. Rowling; starring Eddie Redmayne {as Newt Scamander}, Katherine Waterston {as Porpentina Goldstein}, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Zoë Kravitz, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Gemma Chan, Samantha Morton, Carmen Ejogo, Dan Fogler, Kamil Lemieszewski, Lucie Pohl, Jenn Murray, Christine Marzano, Alison Sudol, Kevin Guthrie, Ronan Raftery, Solomon Taiwo Justified, Lobna Futers, Akin Gazi, Todd Boyce, Andreea Paduraru, Anick Wiget, Bart Edwards, Josh Cowdery, Peter Breitmayer, Kirsty Grace, Jason Redshaw, Elizabeth Moynihan, Gjevat Kelmendi, Abi Adeyemi, Attila G. Kerekes, Andrei Satalov, Olivia Quinn, Walles Hamonde, Adam Lazarus, Geeta Vij, Fanny Carbonnel, Gino Picciano, Ashley Hudson, Lee Asquith-Coe, Henry Douthwaite, Faith Wood-Blagrove, Denis Khoroshko, Christian Dixon, and creature performer Edd Osmond
Warner Bros. Home Video widescreen color Blu-ray [3/2017] 2 disks for $22.99 
Warner Bros. Home Video widescreen color Ultra/Blu-ray/DVD combo [3/2017] 2 disks for $29.95
Warner Bros. Home Video widescreen color DVD [3/2017] 2 disks for $17.96
full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers at YouTube: 7/2016 trailer [2:26] • 4/2016 trailer [3:03] • 7/2016 trailer [4:38] |
"Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald" 
[Heyday Films/Warner Bros. Nov 2018]
 | Announced 9/2013: Actress Zoe Kravitz is a late addition to the cast of Warner’s "Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them" feature film; she will have only a small part in the first film, but her character has the potential for a larger role in the David Yates-helmed sequel, which is set for a release in November 2018. Announced 10/2016: Actor Johnny Depp, who has a cameo in the first 'Fantastic Beasts' film, will take a prominent role alongside Eddie Redmayne in the second film in J.K. Rowling’s Potterverse franchise • Script by Rowling: A few months later (in 1927), Grindelwald makes a dramatic escape and the only one who might be able to stop him is the wizard Albus Dumbledore; but Dumbledore will need help from his former student Newt Scamander • Directed by David Yates; returning actors include Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Johnny Depp; new actors include Jude Law, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Callum Turner & Kevin Guthrie; the creative team includes DP Philippe Rousselot and VFX supervisors Tim Burke & Christian Manz
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • latest credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers online at YouTube: 11/2017 silent teaser [0:22] • Comic-Con 7/2018 trailer [3:16] • Comic-Con 7/2018 extended trailer [4:58] |
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3" [Nov 2020?] /tt4123432/
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 4" (announced) /tt6149052/
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 5" (announced) /tt6149054/
Other Works by J.K. Rowling
"The Tales of Beedle The Bard" [2008]
"The Casual Vacancy" [2012]
grownup novel by J.K. Rowling
  | The little town of Pagford appears to be an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but behind the pretty façade is a town at war – rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils. When town council member Barry Fairweather dies unexpect-edly in his early forties, Pagford is left in shock, and the empty council seat soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen – an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations.
Kindle Edition from Little, Brown/Hachette [9/2012] for $11.99 Back Bay Books 9x5½ pb [7/2013] for $11.08 Little, Brown & Co. 9½x6&frac hardcover [9/2012] for $13.69 Little, Brown & Co. UNABR audio CD [7/2013] for $19.98 book entry at Wikipedia |
  | "The Casual Vacancy" TV mini-series [BBC-TV Feb 2015, USA April 2015] Announced 12/2012: B.B.C. sceduled mini-series for 2014, then bumped the broadcast to sometime in 2015 • Directed by Jonny Campbell; adapted by Sarah Phelps; listed cast includes Monica Dolan, Michael Gambon, Keeley Hawes, Rory Kinnear, Abigail Lawrie & Julia McKenzie Warner Bros. widescreen color Blu-ray [6/2015] for $23.99 Warner Bros. Standard Edition widescreen color Blu-ray + DVD [8/2015] for $9.95 Warner Bros. Standard Edition widescreen color DVD [8/2015] for $6.92 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
Cormoran Strike Series
by Robert Galbraith (actually J.K. Rowling)
browse Robert Galbraith Store at Amazon
'Cormoran Strike' entry at Wikipedia
at some point, Rowling stated that she has plans for at least ten more Cormoran Strike novels
"The Cuckoo’s Calling" [CS#1 = 4/2013]
 | Legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, fell to her death and the police ruled it a suicide. But her brother does not believe it, and hires struggling private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the matter. Early sales were 'middling' until The Sunday Times of London revealed that the author is actually J.K. Rowling; sales immediately skyrocketed, requiring additional printings; the sequel was quickly scheduled for publication in Summer 2014.
Kindle Edition from Mulholland/Hachette [4/2013] for $9.99 Mulholland Books mass pb [5/2018] for $9.34 Mulholland Books 8¼x5½ pb [4/2014] for $14.40 Mulholland Books 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2013] for $14.42 book entry at Wikipedia |
"The Silkworm: A Cormoran Strike Novel" [CS#2 = 6/2014]
 | Novelist Owen Quine has gone missing again; his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike to find him; Owen has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen portraits of almost everyone he knows and if the novel gets published, it could ruin lives - meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced; then Owen is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances . . .
Kindle Edition from Mulholland/Hachette [6/2014] for $8.99 Mulholland Books mass pb [12/2015] for $8.99 Mulholland Books 8¼x5½ pb [6/2015] for $11.06 Mulholland Books 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2014] out of print/hundreds used book entry at Wikipedia |
"Career of Evil: A Cormoran Strike Novel" [CS#3 = 10/2015]
 | Robin Ellacott, trusted assistant to private detective Cormoran Strike, receives a mysterious package that contains a woman's severed leg . . .
Kindle Edition from Mulholland/Hachette [10/2015] for $8.99 Mulholland Books mass pb [6/2018] for $9.89 Mulholland Books 8¼x5½ pb [4/2016] for $11.02 Mulholland Books 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2015] for $15.59 book entry at Wikipedia |
"The Cormoran Strike Mysteries" TV series [BBC-TV 2017-2018]
Announced 10/2016: British actor Tom Burke and actress Holliday Grainger are cast in the BBC series based on J.K. Rowling’s bestselling crime novels written under the
pseudonym Robert Galbraith; first season is set for seven 60-minute episodes. 'Cuckoo' was broadcast as 3 episodes in Aug-Sept 2017; 'Silkworm' was broadcast as
2 episodes in Sept 2017; 'Career' was broadcast as 2 episodes in Feb-March 2018.
 | all seven episodes of the first season are on DVD, but in Region 2 PAL format only • recurring cast includes Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Kerr Logan, Ben Crompton, Natasha O'Keeffe, Killian Scott, Sargon Yelda
series credits at IMDb • official movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia another Amazon database 'lack of integrity' screw-up: not sure what you get, but this is the link HBO Home Video color DVD [9/2018] for $19.96 |
"Lethal White: A Cormoran Strike Novel" [CS#4 = 9/2018]
 | A troubled young man comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime that he thinks he witnessed as a child . . .
Kindle Edition from Mulholland/Hachette [9/2018] for $14.99 Mulholland Books pb [6/2019] for $17.09
Mulholland Books 10x6 hardcover [9/2018] for $17.40 book entry at Wikipedia |
"Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure
and The Importance of Imagination" [April 2015]
 | J.K. Rowling was asked to give the commencement speech at Harvard University in June 2008 – inspirational advice for graduating students – or for anyone, really. Kindle Edition from Little, Brown & Co. [4/2015] for $9.99 80-page Little, Brown & Co. 7½x5¼ hardcover [4/2015] for $12.34 watch full 5 June 2008 Harvard speech [24:12] online at YouTube |
"The Christmas Pig" [ages 8 & up; 2021]
by J.K. Rowling, Illustrated by Jim Field
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"Jack loves his childhood toy Dur Pig, who has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve and something terrible happens - D.P. is lost! But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life . . . even toys."
Kindle Edition from Scholastic, Inc. [10/2021] for $15.99 Scholastic, Inc. 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2021] for $15.78 |
Movies, Stageplays, Other Media
J.K. Rowling credits [since 1987] at Internet Movie Database
"Who Do You Think You Are - J.K. Rowling" TV episode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6399QxJiPM [58:52]
Works About J.K. Rowling
 | "J.K. Rowling: A Biography (Illustrated) - The Genius Behind Harry Potter" [1999] by Sean Smith Michael O'Mara Books 9x6 pb [5/2003] out of print/many used Michael O'Mara Books 9x6¼ hardcover [12/99] out of print/used |
"J.K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter - An Unauthorized Biography" [3/2004 bestseller] by Marc Shapiro
http://www.amazon.com/J-K-Rowling-Wizard-Behind/dp/031232586X/
http://www.amazon.com/J-K-Rowling-Biography-Unauthorized/dp/0313322058/
"Conversations With J.K. Rowling: The Only Authorized Biography" []
'Person of The Year' cover article in TIME For Kids Magazine
http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-J-Rowling-Lindsey-Fraser/dp/0439314550/
http://www.amazon.com/Female-Force-Rowling-Adam-Gragg/dp/1427642281/
http://www.amazon.com/J-K-Rowling-Author-Potter-People/dp/0766018504/
http://www.amazon.com/J-K-Rowling-Birth-Harry-Potter/dp/B0006N2EF0/
http://www.amazon.com/J-K-Rowling-Challenged-Censored-Authors/dp/0766026876/
http://www.amazon.com/J-K-Rowling-Extraordinary-Essential/dp/1616135174/
http://www.amazon.com/J-K-Rowling-Favorite-Writer/dp/159036287X/
http://www.amazon.com/J-K-Rowling-First-Biographies-Abdo/dp/1604539879/
http://www.amazon.com/J-K-Rowling-Wizard-Behind/dp/0312376979/
http://www.amazon.com/J-Rowling-Biography-Colleen-Sexton/dp/0822587491/
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Beyond-Words-Rowling-Story/dp/B005D0RDU2/
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Beyond-Words-Rowling-Story/dp/B005DD7SQS/
http://www.amazon.com/Muggles-Magic-Unofficial-Rowling-Phenomenon/dp/1571745424/
http://www.amazon.com/Mythmaker-Story-J-K-Rowling-Wrote/dp/0791096327/
http://www.amazon.com/Mythmaker-Story-Rowling-Wrote-That/dp/079106719X/
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Is-J-K-Rowling-Was/dp/0448458721/
 | "Harry Potter: A History of Magic" [2018] by The British Library The official companion book to the British Library's unforgettable special exhibition "Harry Potter: A History of Magic"; a complete catalogue of the 150+ artifacts on display, an extra-ordinary treasure trove of magical artifacts, original drafts & drawings by J.K. Rowling, and additional material exclusive to the U.S. run Kindle Edition from Pottermore Publng [10/2018] for $12.99 Bloomsbury Children's Books 10½x9 pb [10/2018] for $23.55 Arthur A. Levine Books 10½x9¼ hardcover [10/2018] for $26.25 |
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Joanne 'Jo' Rowling entry at Wikipedia
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J.K. Rowling credits [since 1987] at Internet Movie Database
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