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    Searching for the Garden of Eden

    Perhaps #3 in the Babylon Rising series by Tim LaHaye and Bob Phillips?
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    I need to find the Author's Name, can you guys help out. Thanks

    ?? Terry Pratchett
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    Recommend detective series??

    There are also Margery Allingham, Josephine Tey and Edith Pargeter.
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    Modern Jane Austen?

    For Regency novels, you cannot do better than Georgette Heyer.
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    I am looking for a book, not sure what it is called

    Possibly "The Story of the Other Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke.
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    Dante Comedia translation suggestions, pls.

    There are two recommended translations: Dorothy L. Sayers [Penguin classics] and Allen Mandelbaum [Everyman Editions]
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    best adventure book

    Carl Sagan wrote some sci-fi adventure stories.
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    I need some help with the book "The Darkest Evening".

    http://www.secondaryenglish.com/darkestevening.htm http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=2750
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    Current Non-Fiction reads

    Mrs Shakespeare by Germaine Greer - a model of how a book about an obscure historical person should be written.
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    Websites to buy books

    This site is usually worth checking: http://www.abebooks.com/
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    Cannot remember the title of a story book about a stray cat

    Possibly "The Silent Miaow" by Paul Gallico : http://www.paulgallico.info/silentmiaow.html
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    Please recommend me a good book!

    If you liked "Of Human Bondage", then try "The Good Companions" by J.B. Priestley "Anna of the Five Towns" and "Clayhanger" by Arnold Bennett
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    King Arthur and Jane Austen

    Here's a listing of novels based on Arthurian legend: http://tinyurl.com/2qwrgf and here's a site with loads of Austen lookalikes and sequels: http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/austseql.html
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    Please recommend me a good book!

    A long shot, but how about "War and Peace", or Dostoievsky? I read the latter at the age of 16, and was blown away by the reality of the dialogue. Or indeed, Tolkien, or Philip Pullman, or Derek Hansen - the possibilities are endless.
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    Suggested reading for 14 year old.

    How about Philip Pullman? I read "Jane Eyre" at 13 and was completely taken with it.
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    Jane Austen Biographies

    David Cecil, A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978) is gentlemanly and urbane; David Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life (1997) is more up-to-date. Note spelling of her name.
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    Recommendations for an inexperienced reader?

    Have you tried Philip Pullman's books? His Dark Materials trilogy is a good place to start. Also, when you read, are you interested in the people, the writing style, or the exciting action?
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    Gwillian? Your help please

    Gweilo A memoir of a Hong Kong childhood - Martin Booth
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    Gwillian? Your help please

    sorry - wrong title. still looking
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    Hope someone can help me..

    Blue Water by A. Manette Anstay
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