If you like.......... then try..........

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Fri, 06-17-2005 - 7:42am

When we finish with an enjoyable book- one that really stand out in our mind we go searching for similar books. Maybe we find it by reading the same author and maybe we check with a librarian and just maybe we pop in at ABC and ask for some help.

So here's a chance to expand our TBR lists and piles again. I'll go first

If you like the Harry Potter series then try this book by Anna Dale "Whispering to Witches"

Joe slid, face first, underneath a desk, narrowly avoiding a pair of square-toed black shoes with shiny silver buckles. A cat screeched in his ear and sprang on to his back. It sank its claws through his blazer and into his flesh. Joe rolled over to dislodge the cat, which hissed and spat as it leaped on to an armchair.

So begins the real adventure of Joe Binks when he journeys to Canterbury to spend what he thinks will be a dull holiday with his mother, stepfather and 7-year-old sister. Getting off at the wrong stop, he borrows a strange tricycle to ride into Canterbury but is waylaid when the tricycle takes him smack-dab into the middle of Dead-nettle Coven. Although Joe knows little to nothing about witches, he is soon caught up in a hunt for a missing page from a famous spell book (MABEL'S BOOK). Twiggy, a young novice witch, becomes Joe's friend as they work together to figure out the puzzles surrounding the strange happenings in the covens.


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Fri, 06-17-2005 - 9:37am

If you like Sue Grafton's Alphabet mystery series you may want to try J.D Robb (aka Nora Roberts) In Death Series.

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Fri, 06-17-2005 - 12:14pm

Great Idea, Maggie!


If You Like Harry Potter ..... then try ..... "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke:


A top candidate for my favorite read of 2005 (there are so MANY candidates ;-) ... "Harry Potter for Adults", as reviewers have dubbed this ... I'd HIGHLY RECOMMEND it!


http://www.jonathanstrange.com/copy.asp?s=2

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Fri, 06-17-2005 - 2:31pm

If you like The Hobbit, then try Stardust, by Neil Gaiman:


In the tranquil fields and meadows of long-ago England, there is a small hamlet that has stood on a jut of granite for 600 years. Just to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here, in the hamlet of Wall, young Tristan Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. And here, one crisp October eve, Tristan makes his love a promise--an impetuous vow that will send him through the only breach in the wall, across the pasture . . . and into the most exhilarating adventure of his life.


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Sat, 06-18-2005 - 7:16am

If you like Sue Grafton, you might also want to try Karen Kijewski...she, too, has a female