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Boy's Life by Robert McCammon (again, sorry, but it is THAT good!) From Publishers Weekly McCammon ( Swan Song ; Mine ) hangs this expertly told episodic tale on the bones of a skeleton that becomes symbolic of evil doings in the quiet waters of small-town life. Twelve-year-old Cory Mackenson...

I hope four suggestions is ok! I have such a hard time picking just one I want to read or re-read! I'll break it up into two posts to hopefully make it less huge and annoying. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris From Publishers Weekly Sedaris is Garrison Keillor's evil twin: like the...

The second book of the series Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan deals with the Bermuda Triangle. It is called The Sea of Monsters. It is a book for Young Adults but I have read the first two of the series and loved them. Very funny and imaginative and has a lot to do with the Greek...

Wow, that is specific! Here is one that may fit the bill: The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff A lot of Alice Hoffman books have the romance and the supernatural, but not the comedy. If you are open to books for younger audiences I absolutely love the Inkworld series and the Harry Potter...

I was also stuck between Roots and The Book Thief BUT ultimately I figured that although Roots got a lot of attention years ago the newer generations (including me a year ago) haven't read it and are really missing out. The Book Thief is doing very well, as it should, but Roots needs more...

I don't know if this is what you're looking for or not but it sure is interesting: the third volume in the trilogy His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Sorry if there are any repeats from a list I gave you a few weeks ago, but I am going to do one on purpose: The Great Brain series. They're old and set in Utah maybe around the late 1800s early 1900s but they're hilarious and one of them is about them getting a basketball goal right around the...

Dream Big: Finding the Courage to Follow Your Dreams and Laugh at Your Nightmares by Lisa Hammond is a great one. Her story is about starting a business but the message can apply to anyone and anything. Letters to A Young Poet by Rainer Marie Rilke is one on my to-read list, Whoopie Goldberg...

It depends on what kind of poetry you're looking for. I like very funky poetry with neat words and styles or really important, deep meanings...I LOVE LOVE LOVE Jim Carroll, who also wrote The Basketball Diaries book, which was made into a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio. His books of poetry Fear...

While the meds are still screwy would books on CD work? Or does your concentration still go? Maybe short stories on CD?

For many years I have been interested in Holocaust memoirs. The best I have read so far is Alicia: My Story, by Alicia Appleman-Jurman. It is absolutely amazing, and a huge adventure story. Very sad, like you would expect, but she was also amazingly heroic. She is still alive and giving...

The Book Thief is one of the most wonderful books I have ever read, and one of the saddest. The beginning, with the narration by Death, was a little odd at first but that was not the majority of the book and so it was not "too much." The characters in this story are real and beautiful at the...

It isn't exactly adventure, but you may want to try The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

I have several Elie Wisesel books on my to-read shelf but I started one and it was so heartbreaking I had to put it down...and I love reading about the Holocaust, so I think that really says something. I definitely plan on reading his work, but I'm having to get myself ready to try again. Gad...

I totally agree with the Armistead Maupin recommendation above, I adore his Tales of the City series about Barbary Lane! The Night Listener was a little weird for me but his book Maybe the Moon is also incredible and supposedly a great and funny description of what it is like being a little...

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

Right now off the top of my head I can think if: Crazy- Benjamin Leber Most books by Markus Zusak, especially I Am the Messenger and the Wolfe brothers series Into the Wild- Jon Krakauer Getting In- by James Finney Boylan when I read it...I just looked the author up though, and she is...

I also thought about the Anne of Green Gables series...also check out the movies with Megan Follows! More ideas: Fannie Flagg- especially Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe or Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man Billie Letts- especially the Honk and Holler Opening Soon and Where the Heart Is...

Dan Simmons- Summer of Night and pretty much anything of Robert McCammon's...Swan Song might remind you some of The Stand, it is great...you would also like They Thirst, The Wolf's Hour, Mystery Walk...probably Mine, too. Boy's Life is my favorite of his, more like King's amazing storytelling...