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This is the story of a collection of 500+ books scattered around the language lab at Richland College in Dallas, Texas and how I organized the collection using an online platform called LibraryThing.
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It's best to read them in order, but I've always recommend trying to read up through HMS Surprise before giving the series up. By Lisa Katzenstein, Tutor Coordinator-Language Corner, Richland College, Dallas, TX. There's of course Jeeves and Wooster for a lighter touch.Īway from London proper, there's the Master and Commander novels, set during the Napoleonic War in the Royal Navy. King's Mary Russell books (starting with The Beekeeper's Apprentice), although these are less about the city than the characters. For a different look at the same time period (the Interwar years between WWI-WWII) there're Laurie R. If you're also paying a visit to Oxford, Gaudy Night is highly recommended. I'd highly recommend Dorothy L Sayer's Lord Peter mysteries (though now that I think about it, many of them are outside of London altogether) - in particular Murder Must Advertise or Whose Body?. Sherlock Holmes is always fun - though some of his stories take place outside of the city, you still get a good feel for it. But, they do some of the best job of capturing London that I know :) Among the many things LibraryThing isbook recommendations, social networking and so forthLibraryThing started out and and is a kick-ass tool for. Hello, Mrs.I admit that these are mostly books not written as historical fiction, but were concurrent with the time the author was writing. It is testimony to the passion and diligence of LibraryThing members over the last 13 years that they have added some 125,000 regular series and 30,000 publisher series.The Year of Billy Miller de Kevin Henkes.The Gooney Bird Collection: Gooney Bird Greene Gooney Bird and the Room Mother Gooney the Fabulous Gooney Bird Is So Absurd de Lois Lowry.we mean Amazon's (LibraryThing's, respectively) book recommender. On the Banks of Plum Creek de Laura Ingalls Wilder The Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) of the ranked book recommendations generated by.Little House in the Big Woods de Laura Ingalls Wilder.My Father's Dragon de Ruth Stiles Gannett.Little House on the Prairie de Laura Ingalls Wilder.Who Was Jackie Robinson? de Gail Herman Add books to your catalogue and get recommendations based on what youve read or select member recommendations instead of LibraryThing recommendations to get.The Lucky Lottery (A to Z Mysteries) de Ron Roy.Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, No.The Sweetest Heist in History (Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective) de Octavia Spencer.Using the Suggester turned out to be a good way to spot books that had been.
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How to Train Your Dragon de Cressida Cowell My books have always been shelved by category, then by author for fiction." Bless this Mouse" is sweet and funny, but set in a church if that is an issue. My children also love the Little House on the Prairie series on CD, which we've been able to get at our library. I'm not sure if any other Kevin Henkes mouse books are available on CD or not, but they are all pretty good. With those you may want to prescreen a bit for the younger end of your audience - the content level varies with the life of the person.Ĭhester's Way is great. No one knew what happened to him in those mist-shrouded. He returned changed, ennobledand with a secret.
Some of the "Who was" biographies are available on CD - for example Who was Jackie Robinson?. The tale is told that Tanis Half-Elven once disappeared in the mountains near Solace. Also Ron Roy's A to Z Mystery series are fun. There are audio versions of Mary Pope Osbourne's The Magic Tree House series books that my kids loved. Unfortunately, where I live, none of it is available at the library. He does everything from silly stories to fairy tales to Sherlock Holmes to narrated history. Discussion Forum Board of Fawn Creek Montgomery County Kansas, US. At anyrate:Īnything by Jim Weiss - he has one of the most marvelous storytelling styles and my kids both adore his CDs. TOPIX, Facebook Group, Craigslist, City-Data Replacement (Alternative). My kids both love audio books, but thinking it through none of their favorites will get bonus points, and it's hard to know what your library will have. Is that touchstone right for Storming the Castle?
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