Book Match

Hello! Since you read a wide variety of authors - Haruki Murakami,
Gail Tsukiyama, Amy Tan, Alexander McCall Smith, John Irving, and Anne Tyler - I have recommended a broad range of authors and titles for your enjoyment:

"Kangaroo Notebook" by Kobo Abe

"In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most
distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society
that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The

Thank you for your request for a Book Match from the Central Rappahannock Regional Library. You asked for books like those of Robert Heinlein, and mentioned that you liked the real science or physics aspects. Heinlein is one of our “old” masters of hard science fiction. Since you like his books, you will probably like the books by these authors, also “old” masters of hard science fiction: Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven, and Hal Clement.

You asked for a book similar to Pyro by Earl Emerson, and mentioned that you
also like Wambaugh's Fire Lover and Picciotto's Last Man Down. Here are
a few suggestions, both fiction and nonfiction, featuring firefighters:

Fiction:

Emerson has written quite a few books featuring firefighters, including
a series about a female ex-firefighter and arson investigator, Mac
Fontana, such as Morons and Madmen, Going Crazy in Public, and The Dead
Horse Paint Company. But, one of his books with a male firefighting

Thank you for requesting a Book Match from the Central Rappahannock Regional Library. You asked us to match Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara, and mentioned that you liked well-written biographies. Let’s start with novels which, like Gods and Generals, are historical fiction. Some feature actual historical figures, some chronicle actual events using fictional characters. Some are set in the Civil War, most deal with war.

The killer angels : a novel / Michael Shaara

Thank you for requesting a book match. If you like the romance of Cold Mountain, you might like these titles.

Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
The Colleys are farmers in the Missouri Ozarks. Although Southerners,
the family tries to remain neutral, a fact ignored by the Union militia
who confiscate their livestock and arrest their daughter, Adair, on
charges of "enemy collaboration." Yet as Adair soon discovers, fate can
be a double-edged sword. (Catalog summary)

The Odyssey by Homer

Hello! If you liked "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark, you might like the following titles:

Susanna Clark suggests these authors/titles:

"Comparisons with other books are useful as rough guidelines for
readers. If you like Harry Potter/Jane Austen/The Quincunx/Instance of the Fingerpost, then maybe you'll like this - or maybe you won't.
Readers are very sharp people - they'll know how to take such claims."

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Thank you for e-mailing CRRL for a Book Match. You mentioned that you
like non-fiction accounts of survival, such as Skeletons of the Zahara,
Into Thin Air, and the Shackleton expedition. How about checking out
the following books, available at CRRL, if you have not already read
them?



Touching the void / Joe Simpson

"A truly astounding account of suffering and fortitude." --The Times
(London) Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just

I'm not sure if you only like books set during the U.S.
Civil War or books set against the backdrop of any war. So, I have come
up with the following suggestions based on my assumptions:

"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.
summary from the Publisher: "When the starving French masses rise in
hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and
innocent become victims of their frenzied anger. Soon nothing stands in
the way of the chilling figure they enlist for their cause-La

Thank you for requesting a book match! If you like Patricia Cornwell,
here are some other books and authors that you might like.

A Thin Dark Line by Tami Hoag
In this latest from Hoag, who hit it big with Night Sins (LJ 1/95), a
female cop teams with a notoriously ill-tempered male detective in hopes
of trapping a vicious killer. (Library Journal)

Nine by Jan Burke
In her first stand-alone thriller, the bestselling author of the popular
Irene Kelly series introduces LAPD Homicide Detective Alex Brandon, who

Thank you for asking the Central Rappahannock Regional Library for a
Book Match. You requested books similar to The Locket. If you like
Richard Paul Evans, you may like these books:

The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The
Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner
returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a
plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the