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Who can resist a good mystery book while curled up in a chair on a rainy night. Or a book on organic gardening while sitting on the patio on a spring day, surrounded by yellow forsythia, purple lilacs, and plum blossoms. How about a huge historical novel or biography while on that same patio in the middle of a hot summer afternoon with the rose bushes in full bloom.

If you get the impression that I love to read, you are right. I wish I had kept a list of all the books I have read - just for my own curiosity. And so I could share some good books with you. I will just have to search my memory.

Here is a list of some of my favorites.

• Tony Hillerman - Tony writes mysteries that take place on the Navajo reservation in the four Corners area (Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona). His stories are not only good reading, but very informative about the Navajo culture. Any of his books are sure to capture you and not let you go until you finish it.
  The Blessing Way
  Coyote Waits
  Dance Hall of the Dead
  Ghostway
  Jim Chee Mysteries - three books in one
  Listening Woman
  Sacred Clowns
  Skinwalkers
  Talking God
  A Thief of Time
  

• Hawaii by James Michener. It took me six months to read the first chapter. After I got through the "making of the islands", I couldn't put this book down. This one is in my library to be reread - often.

• Katherine by Anya Seton. This is the story of John of Gaunt and Katherine de Roet Swynford. John was the famous Duke of Lancaster, brother of Edward, the Black Prince, and son of King Edward III. Katherine's sister, Phillipa, married Geoffrey Chaucer. I read this book once a year for five years. I still read it occasionally, but my book if falling apart. I need to get it in the hard cover version. This story takes place in Lincoln, and since this is one of my genealogy "places", I find the book especially interesing since it is not far from where my Lowe ancestors lived.

• The Child From the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge. This is another historical novel based on a true story. The story is of King Charles II and Lucy Walters whose child was James Crofts, the Duke of Monmouth. Lucy was Welch and raised in Roch Castle. This book was based on her biography by George Scott and writing of Samuel Pepys, as well as other historical documents. It is a sad story, but another book you can't put down.
  This book is out of print, but it can be ordered through Amazon as an out-of-print book.

• Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles: a Novel by Margaret George
  A good novel of about 1300 pages. I like this one because it is not just a dry history, but a history in novel form. However, the author has done her research.

• Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo. This is the book you want in the rose garden on a hot summer day. It has 1389 pages! Much of Sacajawea's life is speculation. There have been many theories about what happened to her after the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and exactly what role she played in the expedition. Whatever the true story is, she must have been an exceptional woman. I have been in the Yellowstone area, Montana and Idaho in the winter - and only in the beginning of winter. I can't imagine living outdoors in that land - it is unforgiving. Sacajawea and her Native American people did it, and treated the earth and everything on it with the utmost respect. We could learn a lot from "The People".

• The Cat Who series by Lillian Braun. There are about twenty of these books and she keeps writing more - but not fast enough. These books have the same characters in every book, and you begin to feel like you are part of the family. These are "soft" murder mysteries, but not the porno or violent kind. They are on the order of the Agatha Christie books, but the "detectives" are Jim Qwilleran and his two siamese cats.
  The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
  The Cat Who Moved a Mountain
  The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare
  The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal
  The Cat Who Lived High
  The Cat Who Played Brahms
  The Cat Who Said Cheese
  The Cat Who Played Post Office
  The Cat Who Saw Red
  The Cat Who Tailed A Thief
  The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts
  The Cat Who Turned On & Off
  The Cat Who Wasn't There
  The Cat Who Went Into the Closet
  The Cat Who Went Underground
  The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
  The Cat Who Blew the Whistle
  The Cat Who Came to Breakfast
  

• And, of course, teach yourself HTML 4 in 24 hours by Dick Oliver & Molly Holzschlag, Copyright © 1997 by Sams.net Publishing, Second Edition.
  This list will grow as I remember my favorite books.

The following sites are good book sites. Give them all a
visit and tell them Karen sent you.

Ancestral Books
Genealogy Books
Heritage Books
LDS Books- this site also features Home Study information and curriculum. They also have miscellaneous interesting things. I found a book on soap making (which I am going to learn this summer).
Scottish Books
Willowbend Bookstore
Yorkshire Book Shop

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