Tuesday, June 23, 2009

English Doctor, immigrates to Canada - Gibson

Morris Gibson: (autobiographyl)

(autobiographical stories of a Scottish doctor who practiced with his wife in England, then moved to Western Canada – sometimes called the "people version" of James Herriot).  Contemporary and friend of James Herriot; educated in England; served in WWII.  Publication dates are included as some are out of print and dual U.S./Canadian publication data is very confusing.

  • One Man’s Medicine [1984]
  • A View of the Mountains [1985] - (published in Canada as Doctor in the West [1985])
  • Doctor at Large [1986] - (published in Canada as A Doctor's Calling [1986])
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All Creatures Great and Small series - Herriot

James Herriot: (autobiographical)
Great stories of a country Vet in Yorkshire, England; training before WWII, wartime, postwar – published during the 1970’s. There are more books, but most of the stories are included in this 4-volume set
  • All Creatures Great and Small
  • All Things Bright and Beautiful
  • All Things Wise and Wonderful
  • The Lord God Made Them All
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Autobiographical - Iowa Farm life during 1930's - Kalish

Mildred Armstrong Kalish: (autobiographical account)
· Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
[Not a "story" per se; tells details of how they farmed, went to school, had family gatherings, recipes they used, etc.]
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Little House Series - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder: (autobiographical)
· Little House in the Big Woods
· Little House on the Prairie
· Farmer Boy [Alonzo’s story]
· On the Banks of Plum Creek
· By the Shores of Silver Lake
· The Long Winter
· Little Town on the Prairie
· These Happy Golden Years
· The First Four Years

(Our 7-year old grandson went right through the series including The Long Winter, before the story got too grownup for his interests.)
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Friday, June 5, 2009

Louis L'Amour - Historical Novels, etc.




from Wikipedia and other sources

Louis L'Amour [1908-1988]
(I have not read all of these; should I determine any are not family friendly I will note the circumstance by the title as I read them.)

Novels - (including series novels)




There are also two Sackett-related short stories:
  • "The Courting of Griselda" (available in End of the Drive)
  • "Booty for a Badman" (available in War Party)
Sacketts are also involved in the plot of 7 other novels:
  • Bendigo Shafter (Ethan Sackett)
  • Dark Canyon (William Tell Sackett)
  • Borden Chantry (Joe Sackett, killed in ambush that B Chantry solves murder, and Tyrel Sackett)
  • Passin' Through (Parmalee Sackett is mentioned as defending a main character in the book)
  • Son of a Wanted Man (Tyrel Sackett)
  • Catlow (Ben Cowhan marries a cousin of Tyrel Sackett’s wife)
  • Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon a main character in this book was in fact born a Sackett. Mentions William Tell Sackett)

Talon and Chantry series

  • Borden Chantry
  • Fair Blows the Wind
  • The Ferguson Rifle
  • The Man from the Broken Hills (Em Talon was born a Sackett she is the main character's mother.)
  • Milo Talon (Is a cousin to the Sacketts through his mother Em Talon)
  • North to the Rails
  • Over on the Dry Side
  • Rivers West



Kilkenny series

  • The Rider of Lost Creek (1976)
  • The Mountain Valley War (1978), which previously been released as a magazine novella, entitled A Man Called Trent and was re-written for the Kilkenny trilogy. A Man Called Trent is included in the short story collection entitled The Rider of the Ruby Hills(1986)
  • Kilkenny (1954)
  • A Gun for Kilkenny is a short story featuring Kilkenny as a minor character, from the collection Dutchman's Flat (1986).
  • Monument Rock is a novella in the story collection of the same name.

Hopalong Cassidy series

Originally published under the pseudonym "Tex Burns".
  • The Riders of High Rock
  • The Rustlers of West Fork
  • The Trail to Seven Pines
  • Trouble Shooter



Collections of short stories

  • War Party (1975)
  • The Strong Shall Live (1980)
  • Yondering (1980; revised edition 1989)
  • Buckskin Run (1981)
  • Bowdrie (1983)
  • The Hills of Homicide (1983)
  • Law of the Desert Born (1983)
  • Bowdrie's Law (1984)
  • Night Over the Solomons (1986)
  • The Rider of the Ruby Hills (1986)
  • Riding for the Brand (1986)
  • The Trail to Crazy Man (1986)
  • Dutchman's Flat (1986)
  • Lonigan (1988)
  • Long Ride Home (1989)
  • The Outlaws of Mesquite (1990)
  • West from Singapore (1991)
  • Valley of the Sun (1995)
  • West of Dodge (1996)
  • End of the Drive (1997)
  • Monument Rock (1998)
  • Beyond the Great Snow Mountains (1999)
  • Off the Mangrove Coast (2000)
  • May There Be a Road (2001)
  • With These Hands (2002)
  • From the Listening Hills (2003)
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 1
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 2
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 3
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Adventure Stories - Volume 4
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 5
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Crime Stories - Volume 6
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories - Volume 7
  • "Trap of Gold"
  • "The Gift of Cochise"

Non-fiction

  • Education Of A Wandering Man
  • Frontier
  • The Sackett Companion
  • A Trail Of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour (compiled by Angelique L'Amour)

Poetry

  • Smoke From This Altar



Compilations with other authors

  • The Golden West
  • Stagecoach
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Thriller - horse racing - Francis

Dick Francis CBE (b. Richard Stanley Francis, 1920, Wales); British horse racing crime writer and retired jockey. Son of a jockey and stable manager.
He flew fighters and bombers in the RAF for six years. After WWII, he won more than 350 races in British National Hunt racing and was Champion Jockey in 1953 and 1954.
From 1953 to 1957 he was jockey to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. In 1957 a serious fall forced his retirement. His most famous jockey moment came as he rode the Queen Mother's horse, Devon Loch, in the 1956 Grand National. The horse inexplicably fell when close to winning the race.
In 1957, his autobiography, The Sport of Queens led him to become racing correspondent for the London Sunday Express for 16 years. In 1962, he published Dead Cert. His books are all set in horse racing environs.
His wife, Mary, did much research and editing of his later novels. After her death in 2000, Francis wrote nothing until Under Orders. Dead Heat and Silks were co-written by his son Felix, his manager and now research assistant. Felix was the inspiration for a character in Twice Shy. His son, Merrick, racehorse trainer and later horse transporter, inspired Driving Force.
Autobiography:
· The Sport of Queens (1957)
Collections:
Anthologies:
Novels:
With Felix Francis:
Series:
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Mystery - M.C. Beaton

Biography

M.C. BEATON has won international acclaim for her bestselling Hamish Macbeth mysteries, and the BBC has aired twenty-four episodes based on the series. Also the author of the Agatha Raisin series, M. C. Beaton lives in a Cotswold cottage with her husband.

from Wikipedia

As Ann Fairfax

1.  My Dear Duchess


As Jennie Tremaine

  1. Kitty (1979)
  2. Lucy (1980)
  3. Susie (1981)
  4. Sally (1982)

[edit]As Marion Chesney

[edit]The Six Sisters

  1. Minerva (1983)
  2. The Taming of Annabelle (1983)
  3. Deirdre and Desire (1984)
  4. Daphne (1984)
  5. Diana the Huntress (1985)
  6. Frederica in Fashion (1985)

[edit]A House for the Season Series

  1. The Miser of Mayfair (1986)
  2. Plain Jane (1986)
  3. The Wicked Godmother (1987)
  4. Rake's Progress (1987)
  5. The Adventuress (1987)
  6. Rainbird's Revenge (1988)

[edit]The School For Manners

  1. Refining Felicity (1988)
  2. Perfecting Fiona (1989)
  3. Enlightening Delilah (1989)
  4. Finessing Clarissa (1989)
  5. Animating Maria (1990)
  6. Marrying Harriet (1990)

[edit]The Traveling Matchmaker

  1. Emily Goes to Exeter (1990)
  2. Belinda Goes to Bath (1991)
  3. Penelope Goes to Portsmouth (1991)
  4. Beatrice Goes to Brighton (1991)
  5. Deborah Goes to Dover (1992)
  6. Yvonne Goes to York (1992)

[edit]Poor Relation

  1. Lady Fortescue Steps Out (1993)
  2. Miss Tonks Turns to Crime (1993)
  3. Mrs. Budley Falls From Grace (1993)
  4. Sir Philip's Folly (1993)
  5. Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue (1994)
  6. Back in Society (1994)
  7. Miss Tonks Takes a Risk (1994)

[edit]The Daughters of Mannerling Series

  1. The Banishment (1995)
  2. The Intrigue (1995)
  3. The Deception (1996)
  4. The Folly (1996)
  5. The Romance (1997)
  6. The Homecoming (1997)

[edit]Edwardian Mystery

  1. Snobbery with Violence (2003)
  2. Hasty Death (2004)
  3. Sick of Shadows (2005)
  4. Our Lady of Pain (2006)

[edit]Regency Romance

  1. Quadrille (1981)
  2. The Flirt (1985)
  3. At The Sign of the Golden Pineapple (1987)
  4. Miss Davenport's Christmas (1993)

[edit]As M. C. Beaton

[edit]Agatha Raisin series

  1. Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (1992)
  2. Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (1993)
  3. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (1994)
  4. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (1995)
  5. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage (1996)
  6. Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (1997)
  7. Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death (1998)
  8. Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (1999)
  9. Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden (1999)
  10. Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam (2000)
  11. Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell (2001)
  12. Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (2002)
  13. Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate (2003)
  14. Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House (2003)
  15. Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance (2004)
  16. Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon (2005)
  17. Love, Lies and Liquor (2006)
  18. Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye (2007)
  19. Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison (2008)
  20. There Goes The Bride (2009)

[edit]Hamish Macbeth series

  1. Death of a Gossip (1985)
  2. Death of a Cad (1987)
  3. Death of an Outsider (1988)
  4. Death of a Perfect Wife (1989)
  5. Death of a Hussy (1991)
  6. Death of a Snob (1992 )
  7. Death of a Prankster (1992)
  8. Death of a Glutton (1993)
  9. Death of a Travelling Man (1993)
  10. Death of a Charming Man (1994)
  11. Death of a Nag (1995)
  12. Death of a Macho Man (1996)
  13. Death of a Dentist (1997)
  14. Death of a Scriptwriter (1998)
  15. Death of an Addict (1999)
  16. A Highland Christmas (1999)
  17. Death of a Dustman (2001)
  18. Death of a Celebrity (2002)
  19. Death of a Village (2003)
  20. Death of a Poison Pen (2004)
  21. Death of a Bore (2005)
  22. Death of a Dreamer (2006)
  23. Death of a Maid (2007)
  24. Death of a Gentle Lady (2008)
  25. Death of a Witch (2009)
  26. Death of a Valentine (USA: 12 January 2010; UK: 28 January 2010)

[edit]Other

  1. The Skeleton in the Closet (2001)
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