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L'organist
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The Sea-Wolf Jack London
Another of London's tales of a "soft" protagonist improved after being forced to deal with physical adversity.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Jack Staff by Paul Grist
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Jane R
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Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
In which a wizard's staff (with, presumably, a knob on the end) is accidentally handed on to the seventh daughter of a seventh son, With Hilarious Consequences.
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The Spiral Dance, by Starhawk.
(Pagan theology and practice.)
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Lyda*Rose
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A Wizard of Earthsea By Ursula K. LeGuin
The wizard's "use name" is Sparrowhawk.
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Garasu
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Archipelago, Monique Roffey. - When a flood destroys Gavin Weald's home, tearing apart his family and his way of life, he doesn't know how to continue. A year later, he returns to his rebuilt home and tries to start again, but when the new rainy season arrives, so do his daughter's nightmares about the torrents, and life there becomes unbearable. So father and daughter and their dog - embark upon a voyage to make peace with the waters. Their journey will take them far from their Caribbean island home, into other unknown harbours and eventually across a massive ocean. They will sail through archipelagos, encounter the grandeur of the sea, meet with the challenges and surprises of the natural world. A miraculous future lies ahead of them, unknown territories await to be discovered. But it will take more than an ocean to put the memory of the flood behind them.
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Sir Kevin
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quote: Originally posted by Lyda*Rose: A Wizard of Earthsea By Ursula K. LeGuin
The wizard's "use name" is Sparrowhawk.
My wife is a big fan and I know she read it.
I just re-finished reading a book by Dame Agatha Christie for book club featuring semi-retired Belgian detective Hercule Poirot called The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. It seems to take place between the wars. For more about it, see my thread in Heaven....
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agrgurich
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quote: Originally posted by Lyda*Rose: A Wizard of Earthsea By Ursula K. LeGuin
The wizard's "use name" is Sparrowhawk.
Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
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ArachnidinElmet
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Was by Geoff Ryman
A fictionalized account of the life of a number people connected to the film of The Wizard of Oz, including Frank L. Baum and Judy Garland.
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Cara
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Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
(brilliant book about failing to write a biography of D. H.Lawrence)
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Jane R
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Out of the Silent Planet by C S Lewis
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agrgurich
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Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof
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Garasu
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The basic eight, by Daniel Handler. - The diary of a jailed woman, describing the murders for which she is held responsible. It happened in a California high school and involved a group of students on drugs and alcohol. The victims were a teacher and a student.
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Jane R
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The colo(u)r of magic by Terry Pratchett
Featuring the eighth colour in the spectrum, which can only be seen by wizards.
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Garasu
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Turtles all the way down, by Gaye Shortland.
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Gardening without a Garden Gay Search
Actually a very good book for the frustrated gardener with only a balcony or window-box.
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Jane R
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The Magician's Nephew by C S Lewis
Featuring the Narnian Garden of Eden.
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Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
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Cara
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A Penny to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse
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Almost Famous by Cameron Crowe
Published screenplay with the character Penny Lane.
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Almost Human by Melanie Novak
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Garasu
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quote: Originally posted by agrgurich: Almost Human by Melanie Novak
Is "so in need of editing it's painful" a sufficient link?
Assuming not: The Humans, by Matt Haig. - One wet Friday evening, Professor Andrew Martin of Cambridge University solves the world's greatest mathematical riddle. Then he disappears. When he is found walking naked along the motorway, Professor Martin seems different. Besides the lack of clothes, he now finds normal life pointless. His loving wife and teenage son seem repulsive to him.
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Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther
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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
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The outlandish adventures of Liberty Aimes, Kelly Easton ; illustrated by Greg Swearingen. - Ten-year-old Liberty Aimes escapes her prison-like home by using a strange concoction of her father's, then tries to make her way to the boarding school of her dreams, aided by various people and animals.
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Give Me Liberty by Frank Miller
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The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American Dream, Barack Obama. - Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy. He explores those forces--from the fear of losing, to the perpetual need to raise money, to the power of the media--that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats--from terrorism to pandemic--that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a broken political process, and restore to working order a government dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans.
("American dream" features in the subtitle of both works).
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Hope For The Flowersby Trina Paulus.
(Feel-good, encouraging classic from the '70s. Hand-lettered and -illustrated.)
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agrgurich
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Have Tux, Will Travel by Bob Hope
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Travels with my aunt - Graham Greene
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Jane R
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The next move is obvious...
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P.G. Wodehouse
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Garasu
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Leading to the equally predictable:
Gentlemen and players : a novel, Joanne Harris. - As the new term gets under way at the elite St. Oswald's School for Boys, a number of increasingly devastating incidents occurs, leaving the unraveling school in the hands of the only person who can save it, Roy Straitley.
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The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
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Games people play : the psychology of human relationships, Eric Berne. - Eric Berne developed the technique of transactional analysis in group therapy, and here presents his findings to the general public in a witty and entertaining best-seller. He shows how people can achieve a new self-awareness by analyzing their behavior in terms of "games." People tend to live their lives by consistently playing out certain games in their interpersonal relationships. They play these games for a variety of reasons: to avoid confronting reality, to conceal ulterior motives, to rationalize their activities, or to avoid actual participation. These games--if they are not destructive--are both desirable and necessary, and here Dr. Berne offers an analysis of 36 common games, which he breaks down into seven major categories.
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Funeral Games - Mary Renault
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The Funeral of Figaro by Ellis Peters
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Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
Could we call this a double link?! Peters/Peter. And Funeral/Death (since Chatterton is so closely identified with the painting "Death of Chatterton" by Henry Wallis....).
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Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
One of the most absorbing crime novels I've ever read.
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Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
A Lord Peter Wimsey mystery.
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Greedy Night, by E.C. Bentley
(Parody of Gaudy Night!)
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The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits by Elizabeth Peters
which (unusually for EP) does not live up to the promise of its title...
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The Hundred and One Dalmations by Dodie Smith.
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Low Man On the Totem Pole by H. Allan Smith
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Welease Woderwick
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Mike and Psmith - P G Wodehouse
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Jane R
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Psmith Journalist by P G Wodehouse
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Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion
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Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
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The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
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The Princess Bride by William Goldman
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Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
-------------------- Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. \_(ツ)_/
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