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Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan?
My sister is a musician and she loves a band name that he made up--
Chalky Aftertaste and his Musical Poltroons.
The Jane Whitefield series by Thomas Perry.
Non-fiction, but Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson is a great and very funny book about depression.
I was nine when I got my first glasses, but I remember the thrill of seeing things clearly for the first time.
Picture books:
Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger.
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen.
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco.
Books for older kids:
My Side of the Mountain by Jean George.
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright.
I've read this story -- I'll try to see if I can remember title or author. I'm pretty sure I read it in the Ellery Queen mystery magazine.
I love S. J. Perelman. He can still make me laugh out loud.
Thanks for posting this.
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbon.
The Sharing Knife series by Lois Macmaster Bujold. It's fantasy, but not high fantasy. The setting is kind of like 1800s America.
The story is about two people from different cultures who are trying to persuade their people to understand each other.
I read it a long time ago, but I enjoyed it and thought it was very original. I may have to re-read it now
I know I preferred it to Brave New World
Maybe not exactly what you have in mind, but I really enjoyed Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper.
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates.
Funny that SHE says entitled parents don't exist.
The Gate to Women's Country by Sherri Tepper.
The Toby Peters mysteries by Stuart Kaminsky.
Books set in Old Hollywood?
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