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To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway

(St. Augustine is a city in Florida, Hemingway's book is set in Florida.)

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A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

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The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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Perkin by Ann Wroe
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Travels in India in the Seventeenth Century - Sir Thomas Roe

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Mr Wroe's Virgins Jane Rogers

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Virgin and Martyr by Andrew Greeley

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Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr,* Jean-Paul Sartre

*One of the very few philosophical book titles that actually gains something by being translated into English, since "actor" has all sorts of philosophical overtones an existentialist would just love.

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An Actor Prepares, by Stanislavsky.


{Classic how-to book.)

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Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando
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Noa Noa: Gauguin's Tahiti by Paul Gauguin and Nicholas Wadlet

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The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham

Novel about a fictional painter, based on Gaugin.

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Glimpses of the Moon - Edmund Crispin

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The Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron.

(Beginning of a great series about little boys who see an ad for boys to make a spaceship, of their own design. Then they take it to the address in the ad, and meet Mr. Theo...)
[Yipee]

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The Camerons on the Train by Jane Duncan

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The Book of Dave - Will Self

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The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins

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Under the Skin by Michael Faber

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How Green was my Valley by Richard Llewelyn

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The Prince And Princess In Happiness Valley, by Ken Anderson.


(Kids' book with a Christian theme. From what I remember, I liked it a lot.)

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The Princess and the Goblins by George McDonald

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The Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot.

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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman

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The Wrestling Princess and Other Stories by Judy Corbalis
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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

(In which Cassandra's father has written one of the most interesting-sounding books in a book, Jacob Wrestling )

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The Seige by Adrian Mitchell
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Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell.

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The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro

(Both have butlers - Rhett and Mr Stevens)

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The Admirable Crichton by J.M.Barrie

(The ultimate butler)

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The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

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Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie

Michael is on of the children Peter takes to the Never Never Land.

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Heidi, by Johanna Spyri.

Peter is Heidi's friend. BTW, there's a sequel by the author's translator.

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Heidi Klum's Book of Knowledge

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David Mamet's The Secret Knowledge

a book that will have you holding your head in disbelief [Eek!]

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The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee: An Origami Yoda Book by Tom Angleberger

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Noddy and his Car Enid Blyton

Because Noddy's a taxi driver and goes cabbin' too.

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National Velvet by Enid Bagnold

...the route to fame of the violet-eyed Elizabeth Taylor

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Nation by Terry Pratchett
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Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker

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A Passage to India E. M. Forster

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Kim by Rudyard Kipling

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The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

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The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

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Mother Goose edited by Alan Opie

Containing the lines:
"Goosey goosey gander, where do you wander?Upstairs and downstairs and in my lady's chamber."

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The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico

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Snow by Adam Roberts

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Love, let me not hunger by Paul Gallico

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