question: The author of "Ticket to Ride" wrote how many books about the Beatles?
answer: three
context: Title: Stephen F. Kelly
  Passage: Stephen F. Kelly is an English author and broadcaster, born in Liverpool, England in June 1946.  He is the author of many books, mostly on football and in particular on Liverpool Football Club.  He has written a number of biographies of football managers including Bill Shankly, Sir Alex Ferguson, Kenny Dalglish and Gerard Houllier as well as an oral history of Liverpool Football Club.  He was one of the first writers in Britain to explore sport through oral history, not only with The Kop but also with his oral history of Manchester United Football Club, Red Voices, and a further book on Liverpool, The Bootroom Boys.  His other books include a novel, Mr Shankly's Photograph which tells the story of a young boy growing up in Liverpool during the 1960s with a fascination for Liverpool Football Club, the Cavern and The Beatles.  His study of life in Britain during the 1950s, "You've never Had It So Good' was published in April 2012.  His most recent book,'British Soldiers of the Korean War: In Their Own Words' is an oral history of the Korean War between 1950-53 and is published by the History Press.  He was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Chester in 2012.
  Title: Fr. Bobby Jose Kattikad
  Passage: Fr.  Bobby Jose Kattikad popularly known as 'Bobbyachan' or 'Fr.  Bobby Jose Capuchin' is a Roman Catholic priest from Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in India, known for his preaching and especially evangelization through television, radio and other media.  He founded Theo Publications in 2002, which publishes many books related to spirituality.  Fr.  Bobby is also author for many books which gained popularity around spirituality of malayalam speaking world.  The television preaching programs called Gurucharanam in Shalom TV India and many other programs are led by him.  Those programs are reported to have large number of viewers.  He also leads growth retreats which is conducted all over the world among Malayali communities.  For a long time, he was associated with conducting growth retreats in San Pio retreat centre, Kovilthottam, Kollam.  Fr.  Bobby was appointed as the first director and guardian of the retreat center.  He is an editor and contributor for a magazine called Theo Manushyasnehi.
  Title: Larry Kane
  Passage: Larry Kane (born October 21, 1942) is an American journalist, news anchor and author.  Kane spent 36 years as a news anchor in Philadelphia, and is the only person to have anchored at all three Philadelphia owned and operated television stations.  Early in his career, he was the only broadcast journalist to travel to every stop on the Beatles' 1964 and 1965 American tours.  He has authored three books about the Beatles, as well as a memoir and a novel.  Today he is the host of "Voice of Reason", a weekly news analysis program on the Comcast Network, as well as a consultant for NBC and a special contributor for KYW News Radio.
  Title: Ticket to Ride (book)
  Passage: Ticket to Ride: Inside the Beatles' 1964 Tour that Changed the World is a 2003 memoir by Larry Kane.  It accounts his experience as the only American reporter to travel with The Beatles' entourage in their 1964 and 1965 tours of The United States and Canada, at the height of Beatlemania.  At the time the offer was given to him, Larry Kane was not himself a Beatles fan, so he wrote from the perspective of a journalist rather than a fan.  Kane was recognized by the band to be reliable, likable and professional, and he gained the trust and confidence of each individual.  As a direct result of this trust, Kane was given access to areas of The Beatles' psyches which other newsmen were not admitted to.  At one point it tells the story of how The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was courting Kane; oblivious to the whole situation, and as a result, Kane unknowingly led Epstein on.  The book comes with a companion CD which contains interviews with The Beatles and commentary from the author looking back on the events from his current perspective.
  Title: Chris van Abkoude
  Passage: Chris van Abkoude (6 November 1880, Rotterdam – 2 January 1960, Portland, Oregon) was a Dutch writer and novelist of mostly children's books.  He wrote the "series of Pietje Bell novels" from 1914 to 1936 and many books in between.  He moved to the United States in 1916 and wrote all the "Pietje Bell" books in the United States, except for the first one, which he wrote in 1914 in Rotterdam.  In 1923 Abkoude wrote the novel "Kruimeltje" ("Little Crumb") and in 1999 the film "Little Crumb" was released.  Before his writing career, Van Abkoude was a teacher; when he noticed the children did not like reading the children's books of the time, he wrote his own.
  Title: Roger Manvell
  Passage: Arnold Roger Manvell (10 October 1909 – 30 November 1987) was the first director of the British Film Academy (a post he filled for over a decade), author of many books on films and film-making, and authored and co-authored (with Heinrich Fraenkel) many books on Nazi Germany, including biographies of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring.  During World War II he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating propaganda films for the British government.  In his career, he also lectured in universities in as many as forty countries in three continents (America, Europe and the Middle East), and made a name as a broadcaster and screenwriter.  He joined the Boston University faculty in 1975 teaching film history classes at the College of Communications.  Manvell was named University Professor in 1982.
  Title: Beverley Randell
  Passage: Beverley Randell MNZM (born 1931) is a New Zealand children's author, whose work has been published by 16 publishers in several languages.  Born in Wellington, she studied English and History at Victoria University College before becoming a teacher.  In 1955 her first story, "John the Mouse who Learned to Read", was published, and has sold around 267,000 copies.  Over the years she wrote hundreds of stories, many aimed at children with limited reading skills, but also books aimed at adults.  She married Hugh Price, a publisher, in 1955 and they collaborated on many books.  In 2004 she was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to children's literature and education, and to date over two million copies of her books have been sold.
citations: Ticket to Ride (book) Larry Kane