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№49
Title: The Gun Seller [$]
Author: Hugh Laurie
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Year: 1998
Pages: 368
For many people, House might be their first exposure to British actor Hugh Laurie; others, especially if you live on the Isles or have a particular affection for British [...]
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№45
Title: Night of the Avenging Blowfish [$]
Author: John Welter
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Year: 1994
Pages: 304
I’ve read this one before, and yet a couple of weeks ago I got an inexplicable urge to read it again.
I’m not aware of Welter writing anything after the [...]
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№43
Title: Martin the Warrior [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1994
Pages: 384
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Salamandastron
Martin the Warrior marks something of a turning point for the Redwall series: Jacques, for the first time, seems [...]
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№41
Title: A Spot of Bother [$]
Author: Mark Haddon
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2007
Pages: 368
I can recall with tremendous clarity how surprised I was by Mark Haddon’s debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It wasn’t that the story was [...]
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№39
Title: Salamandastron [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1993
Pages: 400
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Mariel of Redwall
Continuing a theme that’s been developing for a number of books now, Jacques takes parallel narratives to extremes in this [...]
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№36
Title: Mariel of Redwall [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1992
Pages: 400
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Mattimeo
One thing I’ve noticed about Brian Jacques is that he’s not afraid of strong female characters, and in fact Mariel [...]
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№34
Title: Mattimeo [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1990
Pages: 448
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Mossflower
In the early days of the Redwall series, it was common for Jacques to reuse some characters; though he tended to [...]
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№33
Title: Mossflower [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1988
Pages: 432
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Redwall
Mossflower, technically the second book in the Redwall series, serves as a prequel to the eponymous book, and is one of the [...]
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№32
Title: Redwall [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1987
Pages: 352
I was first introduced to the Redwall series by my brother, who was intellectually an early bloomer than I, both by dint of his elder status and, I suspect, a more genuine intellect. [...]
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