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Staff Picks --
If You Like... --
Genre Lists --
Featured in our Book-to-Film Series --
New Books at the KFL (Highlights) --
From the front page
Staff Picks:
Bernie Alie,
Youth Services Librarian
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Janet Cate,
Assistant Director
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Elyse Davis,
Children's Circulation
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Luna
by Julie Anne Peters
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My Antonia
by Willa Cather |
The Ordinary Princess
by M. M. Kaye
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A Sense of Wonder
by Rachel Carson
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Flight of Passage
by Rinker Buck |
Lightning
by Dean Koontz
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Monster
by Walter Dean Myers
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather |
The Rainbabies
by Laura Krauss Melmed
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Barefoot Gen (series)
by Keiji Nakazawa
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D is for Deadbeat
by Sue Grafton |
The Dragon and the Unicorn
by Lynne Cherry
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Minnie and Moo Go to the Moon
by Denys Cazet
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Operating Instructions:
a journal of my son's first year
by Anne Lamott |
Wise Child
by Monica Furlong
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Allyson Mansfield,
Administrative Assistant |
Susan Mirisola,
Children's Circulation
Staff
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A Murder is Announced
by Agatha Christie |
Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen |
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
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Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen |
Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
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The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
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A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
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Suzanne O'Hara,
Assistant Youth Services Librarian |
Leila Roy,
Adult Circulation
Staff
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Nancy Wheeler,
Page
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A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly |
The Blue Sword
by Robin McKinley
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Fair and Tender Ladies
by Lee Smith
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The Miraculous Journey of
Edward Tulane
by Kate DiCamillo |
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
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Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte |
Leave it to Psmith
by P.G. Wodehouse
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The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
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Good Brother, Bad Brother
by James Giblin |
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
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1000 White Women
by Jim Fergus
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Give a Boy a Gun
by Todd Strasser |
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
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Dalziel/Pascoe series
by Reginald Hill
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Carol Whitten,
Adult Circulation Staff
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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Silas Marner
by George Eliot
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A Redbird Christmas
by Fannie Flagg
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Morning Glory
by LaVyrle Spencer
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Featured New Books:
Fiction --
Nonfiction
For a complete list of our new books, check out our
New Books
page.
Fiction:
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From Publishers Weekly
*Starred Review* At the start of Groff's
lyrical debut, 28-year-old Wilhelmina Willie Upton returns to her
picturesque hometown of Templeton, N.Y., after a disastrous affair with her
graduate school professor during an archeological dig in Alaska. In
Templeton, Willie's shocked to find that her once-bohemian mother, Vi, has
found religion. Vi also reveals to Willie that her father wasn't a nameless
hippie from Vi's commune days, but a man living in Templeton. With only the
scantiest of clues from Vi, Willie is determined to untangle the roots of
the town's greatest families and discover her father's identity. Brilliantly
incorporating accounts from generations of Templetonians—as well as
characters borrowed from the works of James Fenimore Cooper, who named an
upstate New York town Templeton in The Pioneers—Groff paints a rich picture
of Willie's current predicaments and those of her ancestors. Readers will
delight in Willie's sharp wit and Groff's creation of an entire world,
complete with a lake monster and illegitimate children.
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From Publishers Weekly
*Starred Review* Phenomenal clarity and
rapacious movement are only two of the virtues of Millhauser's new
collection, which focuses on the misery wrought by misdirected human desire
and ambition. The citizens who build insulated domes over their houses in
The Dome escalate their ambitions to great literal and figurative heights,
but the accomplishment becomes bittersweet. The uncontrollably amused
adolescents in the book's title story, who gather together for laughing
sessions, find something ultimately joyless in their mirth. As in earlier
works like The Barnum Museum, Millhauser's tales evolve more like lyrical
essays than like stories; the most breathlessly paced sound the most like
essays. The painter at the center of A Precursor of the Cinema develops from
entirely conventional works to paintings that blend photographic realism
with inexplicable movement, to—something entirely new. Similarly, haute
couture dresses grow in A Change in Fashion until the people beneath them
disappear, and the socioeconomic tension Millhauser induces is as tight as a
corset. Though his exaggerated outlook on contemporary life might seem to be
at once uncomfortably clinical and fantastical, Millhauser's stories draw us
in all the more powerfully, extending his peculiar domain further than ever. |
Nonfiction:
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From Publishers Weekly
*Starred Review* Unabashedly inspired by
Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling The Tipping Point, the brothers Heath—Chip
a professor at Stanford's business school, Dan a teacher and textbook
publisher—offer an entertaining, practical guide to effective
communication. Drawing extensively on psychosocial studies on memory,
emotion and motivation, their study is couched in terms of
"stickiness"—that is, the art of making ideas unforgettable. They start by
relating the gruesome urban legend about a man who succumbs to a barroom
flirtation only to wake up in a tub of ice, victim of an organ-harvesting
ring. What makes such stories memorable and ensures their spread around
the globe? The authors credit six key principles: simplicity,
unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions and stories. (The
initial letters spell out "success"—well, almost.) They illustrate these
principles with a host of stories, some familiar (Kennedy's stirring call
to "land a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth" within a
decade) and others very funny (Nora Ephron's anecdote of how her high
school journalism teacher used a simple, embarrassing trick to teach her
how not to "bury the lead"). Throughout the book, sidebars show how bland
messages can be made intriguing. Fun to read and solidly researched, this
book deserves a wide readership.
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From the Book Description
“In a brilliant marriage of myth and
manner, histories sacred and profane, prayers of petition and of praise,
these poems both articulate and illumine the trouble in the gap in which we
live–the gap between human affections and Divine Love. L’Engle is unfailing
in her willingness to see through–not around–human suffering, and in so
doing announces no final severing of spirit and flesh but an enduring vision
of resurrection in that crux, in the cross, in the One in Whom all things
meet, continuing.”
–Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim and Philokalia: New and Selected Poems
“I love L’Engle’s poetry for the way it incarnates not only the great Truths
of the faith, but all the little truths of our ordinary existence–our
working and playing and loving and fighting and dreaming and idling and all
the rest of it–and for the way it shows us that those big and little truths
should not, cannot, be separated.”
–Carolyn Arends, recording artist and author
“Why is L’Engle one of the defining poets of our time? Because when life
hurts, she does not shrink from the wounds. She clarifies the murk with hope
as we feel the lift of grace.”
–Calvin Miller, Beeson Divinity School
Birmingham, Alabama
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From the front page:
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From Publishers
Weekly
*Starred Review*
Set in post WWII suburban London, this superb debut
novel charts the downward spiral and tortured redemption
of a young man shattered by loss. The war is over, and
Lewis Aldridge is getting used to having his father,
Gilbert, back in the house. Things hum along splendidly
until Lewis's mother drowns, casting the 10-year-old
into deep isolation. Lewis is ignored by grief-stricken
Gilbert, who remarries a year after the death, and
Lewis's sadness festers during his adolescence until he
boils over and torches a church. After serving two years
in prison, Lewis returns home seeking redemption and
forgiveness, only to find himself ostracized. The town's
most prominent family, the Carmichaels, poses particular
danger: terrifying, abusive patriarch Dicky (who is also
Gilbert's boss) wants to humiliate him; beautiful
21-year-old Tamsin possesses an insidious
coquettishness; and patient, innocent Kit—not quite 16
years old—confounds him with her youthful affection.
Mutual distrust between Lewis and the locals grows, but
Kit may be able to save Lewis. Jones's prose is fluid,
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From Kirkus Reviews
*Starred Review*
One of the funniest and most madcap of science writers,
the author has approached sticky subjects to hilarious
effect in her two previous books. ... Her latest is no
less captivating or entertaining, as she flings wide the
closed doors behind which the scientific study of coitus
has traditionally been conducted. Roach details the
careers of sex researchers Alfred Kinsey, William
Masters and Virginia Johnson, Marie Bonaparte
(Napoleon's great-grand-niece) and porn-star-turned-Ph.D.
Annie Sprinkle, among others. Such researchers "to this
day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and
prudery," she writes. "Their lives are not easy. But
their cocktail parties are the best." Emulating her
subjects' daring spirit, Roach displays a firm belief
that there is no question too goofy to ask—or, barring
that, to Google. What happens when you implant a monkey
testicle in a man: Does he get more vital, or does he
get an infection? She explores centuries of research
into such questions as how penile implants work (a pump
could be involved); whether surgically relocating the
clitoris can lead to better sex (no); why the human
penis is shaped as it is (to scoop out competitors'
sperm); and what exactly is going on when it enters a
vagina (shockingly, there is still much to learn). Apart
from its considerable comic value, the book also
emulates its predecessors by illustrating a precept of
scientific research: The passion to know, in the face of
censure and propriety, is what advances our
understanding of the world. A lively, hilarious and
informative look at science's dirty secrets.
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Joy Fielding
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| Carole Epstein |
Eileen Dreyer |
Joseph Garber
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| G. M. Ford |
Lisa Gardner |
Lisa Gardner
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| Carl Hiassen |
Leonard S. Goldberg |
Tami Hoag
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| Jane Heller |
Thomas Harris |
Greg Iles
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| Lauren Henderson |
Michael Palmer |
John Katzenbach
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| Susan Isaacs |
Steven Spruill |
Andrew Klavan
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| Gillian Roberts |
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Philip Margolin
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| Chris Rogers |
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T. Jefferson Parker
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| Jane Rubino |
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Ridley Pearson
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| Sarah Shrinkman |
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John Sandford
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| Lisa Scottoline |
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Stuart Woods
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Elizabeth Adler
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Elizabeth Cadell
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Sandra Brown
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Phillipa Carr
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Catherine Coulter
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| Diane Chamberlain |
Barbara Delinsky
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Janet Dailey
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| Jane Hamilton |
Elizabeth Goudge
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Kay Hooper
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| Kristin Hannah |
Hazel Hucker
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Linda Howard
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| Alice Hoffman |
Angela Huth
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Judith Krantz
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| Ann Hood |
Jojo Moyes
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Jayne Anne Krentz
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| Sue Miller |
Belva Plain
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Elizabeth Lowell
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| Jacquelyn Mitchard |
LaVyrle Spencer
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Judith McNaught
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| Anna Quindlen |
D. E. Stevenson
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Debbie Macomber
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| Luanne Rice |
Sally Stewart
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Judith Michael
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| Carol Shields |
Joanne Trollope
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Mary Jo Putney
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| Anita Shreve |
Marcia Willett
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Katherine Stone
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Genre Lists:
Inspired by Austen
Mysteries:
Sleuthing Old Ladies --
Crime and Cooking --
Hardboiled
Fantasy: Urban Fantasy --
Arthurian Legend
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Sleuthing Old Ladies
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Crime and Cooking |
Hardboiled |
Marian Babson
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Claudia Bishop |
Raymond Chandler |
M.C. Beaton
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JoAnna Carl |
James Ellroy |
Nancy Bell
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Laura Childs |
Sue Grafton |
Eleanor Boylan
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Isis Crawford |
Dashiell Hammett |
Simon Brett
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Mary Daheim |
Jack Higgins |
Heron Carvic
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Diane Mott Davidson |
Chester Himes |
Agatha Christie
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Nancy Fairbanks |
Ross MacDonald |
Hamilton Crane
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Joanne Fluke |
John D. MacDonald |
Dorothy Gilman
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Peter King |
Walter Mosley |
Carolyn Hart
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Karen MacInerney |
Robert B. Parker |
Virginia Rich
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Joanne Pence |
Sara Paretsky |
Elliott Roosevelt
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Virginia Rich |
Mickey Spillaine |
Corinne Holt Sawyer
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Phyllis C. Richman |
Richard Stark |
Patricia Wentworth
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Lou Jane Temple |
Andrew H. Vachss |
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| Urban Fantasy |
Arthurian Legend |
Arthurian Legend
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Charles de Lint
-Newford series- |
Sir Thomas Malory
-Le Morte D'Arthur-
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John Steinbeck
-The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights- |
Emma Bull
-War for the Oaks- |
T. H. White
-The Once and Future King-
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Rosalind Miles
-The Guenevere Novels- |
John Crowley
-Little, Big- |
Mark Twain
-A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-
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Stephen Lawhead
-The Pendragon Cycle- |
Neil Gaiman
-Neverwhere-
-American Gods- |
Gerald Morris
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Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Howard Pyle
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Jack Whyte
-Camulod Chronicles- |
Jim Butcher
-Harry Dresden series- |
Meg Cabot
-Avalon High-
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Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
-The Tales of Arthur- |
Jonathan Carroll
-The Land of Laughs- |
T. A. Barron
-Lost Years of Merlin series-
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Robert Holdstock
-Merlin Codex series- |
| Tim Powers |
Mary Stewart
-The Merlin series-
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Helen Hollick
-Pendragon's Banner series- |
| Will Shetterly |
Guy Gavriel Kay
-Fionavar Tapestry series-
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J. Robert King
-Arthurian Series- |
Simon R. Green
-Nightside series- |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
-The Lady of Shalott-
-Idylls of the King-
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Janice Elliott
-The King Awakes-
-The Empty Throne- |
Pamela Dean
-Tam Lin- |
China Mieville
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C. S. Lewis
-Space Trilogy-
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James Mallory
-Merlin series- |
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Susan Cooper
-Dark is Rising series-
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Diana Paxson
-Hallowed Isle series- |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
Marion Zimmer Bradley
-The Mists of Avalon-
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John Matthews
-The Book of Arthur- |
| Alice Hoffman |
Bernard Cornwell
-Grail Quest series-
-Warlord Chronicles series-
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Joan Wolf
-Born of the Sun-
-Road to Avalon- |
| Holly Black |
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Inspired by Austen
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Inspired by Austen |
Inspired by Austen
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-Eliza's Daughter-
-Emma Watson-
-Jane Fairfax-
-Mansfield Revisited-
-The Youngest Miss Ward-
by Joan Aiken |
-Pride and Prescience-
-Suspense and Sensibility-
-North by Northanger-
by Carrie Bebris
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-Antipodes Jane-
by Barbara Kerr Wilson
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-The Heiress of Rosings-
by Cedric Wallis
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-Letters to Alice
on First Reading Jane Austen-
by Fay Weldon |
-Presumption-
-The Third Sister-
by Julia Barrett
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-The Jane Austen Book Club-
by Karen Joy Fowler
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-Jane Austen in Boca-
-Jane Austen in Scarsdale-
by Paula Marantz Cohen
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-The Visitor-
by Lisa Kirazian
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-Version and Diversion-
by Judith Terry |
-Textermination-
by Christine Brooke-Rose
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-Pemberly-
-An Unequal Marriage-
-Elinor and Marianne-
-Emma in Love-
by Emma Tennant |
-Aunt Celia-
-Brightsea-
-Ladysmead-
-Teverton Hall-
-Uninvited Guests-
by Jane Gillespie
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-Mr. Darcy's Daughters-
-The Exploits & Adventures of
Miss Alethea Darcy-
-The True Darcy Spirit-
by Elizabeth Aston
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-A Visit to Highbury-
-Later Days at Highbury-
by Joan Austen-Leigh
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-The Janeites-
(from Debits and Credits)
by Rudyard Kipling
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-Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin
Field-
by Melissa Nathan |
-Bridget Jones' Diary-
by Helen Fielding
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-Current Confusion-
by Kitty Grey
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-Austenland-
by Shannon Hale |
-Enthusiasm-
by Polly Shulman
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-The Sidmouth Letters-
by Jane Gardam |
-Jane Austen Mysteries-
by Stephanie Barron
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-Darkness at Pemberley-
by T. H. White
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-Lions and Liquorice-
by Kate Fenton |
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May's
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Out of Sight
by Elmore Leonard
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The Manchurian Candidate
by Richard Condon
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
by Peter Hedges
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The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
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Night of the Hunter
by Davis Grubb
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The Ice Storm
by Rick Moody
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Matchstick Men
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by Oscar Wilde The Thin Man
by Dashiell Hammett The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean Big Fish
by Daniel Wallace
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