Series Read Alikes
Mitford Years series by Jan Karon
Creators: Robin Beerbower and Fiction_L Subscribers
(We own all of these series)
Author: Atherton, Nancy
Series: Aunt Dimity
Annotation: Lori Shepherd lives in a cottage in an English village and
communicates with her late "Aunt" Dimity via written messages. Whenever Lori
stumbles across a mystery, Aunt Dimity helps out with inside information from the
other side.
Author: Binchy, Dan
Series: Brulagh
Annotation: Irish author, cousin of Maeve Binchy, writes about life in small-town
Ireland. Brulagh is the town, characters include Father Jerry O'Sullivan, Luke
Divareli, and Mick Flannery. Some strong language.
Author: Duncan, Jane
Series: My Friends
Annotation: Semi-autobiographical novels which describe Janet Alexander's
childhood in Scotland, young adulthood during World War II, and later life in
Jamaica. Janet later marries and becomes Janet Sandison. The author also
wrote four novels under the pseudonym Janet Sandison.
Author: Gulley, Phillip
Series: Harmony, Indiana
Annotation: Life in the small Indiana town of Harmony as seen through the eyes
of its Quaker pastor, Sam Gardner.
Author: Thirkell, Angela
Series: Barsetshire Chronicles
Annotation: Life in England in the first part of the 1900s. Covers family life.
Many of the titles are comedies of manners.
Author: Wilder, Effie
Series: Miss Hattie
Annotation: Like herself, eighty-five-year-old Wilder's protagonist, Hattie, is in a
home for the elderly. After fourteen months there, Hattie is compelled to jot down
the often amusing and sometimes sad situations she and her neighbors get into.
She uses these notes to help convince an old college friend, whose name is
almost to "the top of the list," that the home is a good place to live.
Title Read Alikes
Mitford Years series by Jan Karon
Creators: Robin Beerbower and Fiction_L Subscribers
(We own all of these books)
RC26187
Author: Edgerton, Clyde
Title: Walking Across Egypt
Annotation: At seventy-eight Mattie Rigsbee is slowing down. She plans her
funeral so as not to be a burden; she supports the local Baptist church, entertains
herself with hymns, and tries not to meddle in her children's lives. Then comes
Wesley, reared in an orphanage until he graduated to the reformatory. Wesley
touches her heart and revives her life with his need for a grandmother's love and
stability. 1987. Followed by "Killer Diller."
BRN9838
Author: Goudge, Elizabeth
Title: The Dean’s Watch
Annotation: An English cathedral city in the middle of the nineteenth century is
the scene of this novel about the transforming power of love. Of the many
characters, the two who stand out are the dean of the cathedral, respected,
feared, and acutely conscious of his own shortcomings; and old Isaac Peabody,
the watchmaker. A chance meeting between them leads to friendship and to
changes in a number of lives..
RC39381, BR9859
Author: Hanff, Helene
Annotation: Hanff tells how her love of old books sparked a twenty-year
transatlantic correspondence between herself and Frank Doel of Marks and
Company, Booksellers, London, England. Their correspondence began in 1949
when Hanff read an ad indicating Marks and Company specialized in out-of-print
books. The friendship lasted twenty years even though Hanff and Doel never met
in person. 1990.
Author Read Alikes
Mitford Years Series by Jan Karon
(We own books by all of these authors)
Cadell, Elizabeth
Pilcher, Rosamunde
Read, Miss
Stevenson, Dorothy E.
(Modified by Rachel Bussan on 11/19/2010)