Hangin' Out with Cici
10 best books like Hangin' Out with Cici (Francine Pascal): 84, Charing Cross Road, Good Night, Mr. Tom, All Things Wise and Wonderful, Remember Me, The October Man, Vet in a Spin, Skellig, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, Gobbolino The Witch's Cat, Vet in Harness
| Author | Helene Hanff |
| ISBN | 0140143505 |
This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share...
London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech -- the abused child of a single mother -- is evacuated to the English countryside. At first, he is terrified of everything, of the country sounds and sights, even of Mr. Tom, the gruff, kindly old man who has taken him in. But gradually...
All Things Wise and Wonderful
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0312335288 |
The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series
Readers adored James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0340877480 |
Shari Cooper hadn't planned on dying, but four floors is a long way to fall. Her friends say she fell but Shari knew she had been murdered. Making a vow to herself to find her killer, Shari spies on her friends, and even enters their dreams. She also comes face-to-face with a nightmare from beyond the grave....
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 1473224314 |
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.
Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.
Enter...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0330443577 |
James Herriot has swapped his wellies for a flying jacket, but he can't wait to get back to the practice and his old Darrowby friends James Herriot, strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, feels rather out of place, but he hasn't found a new profession and it surely won't be long before the RAF...
| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0440229081 |
Well, that was excellent.
This book is a brief mouthful of myth and hope and atmosphere. Reasons to read it?
1. There's a magical, irritable man in the narrator's garage. He likes Chinese take out and dead mice.
2. There is a wise and judgmental girl-neighbor who becomes the...
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
| Author | Lucy Mangan |
| ISBN | 0224098853 |
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.
She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens...
| Author | Ursula Moray Williams |
| ISBN | 0753412098 |
Why was I ever born a witch's kitten? Why - oh, why? With his bright blue eyes and sparky magic whiskers, no one could mistake Gobbolino for a kitchen cat, but that's just what he longs to be. So, while his sister Sootica learns how to ride a broomstick and turn mice into toads, Gobbolino sets off to find a nice...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0330443569 |
The Yorkshire dales have never seemed more beautiful for James - now he has a lovely wife by his side, a partner's plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of farm animals, pets and owners demanding his constant attention and teaching him a few lessons along the way.
All of the old Darrowby friends...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0330237837 |
When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series "All Creatures Great and Small", this first volume of unforgettable memoirs...
