Cosmic Kennels

Reading Rocks

Clive Barker

“You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.”

“I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.”

Herge

Terry Brooks

http://www.terrybrooks.net/index.html

The Original Shannara Trilogy
   · The Sword of Shannara
   · The Elfstones of Shannara
   · The Wishsong of Shannara

A Shannara Short Story
· Indomitable

The Heritage of Shannara
   · The Scions of Shannara
   · The Druid of Shannara
   · The Elf Queen of Shannara
   · The Talismans of Shannara

The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara
   · Ilse Witch
   · Antrax
   · Morgawr

High Druid of Shannara
   · Jarka Ruus
   · Tanequil
   · Straken

A Shannara Companion
· The World of Shannara

The Collected Shannara
   · The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
   · The Heritage of Shannara
   · The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara (forthcoming)

The Magic Kingdom of Landover
   · Magic Kingdom For Sale -- Sold!
   · The Black Unicorn
   · Wizard At Large
   · The Tangle Box
   · Witches' Brew

The Word & the Void Series
   · Running with the Demon
   · A Knight of the Word
   · Angel Fire East
   · Armageddon's Children
   · The Elves of Cintra (August 2007)
   · Untitled Book Three (August 2008)

Other Works
   · Imaginary Friends (short story)
   · Hook (novelization)
   · Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (novelization)
   · Sometimes the Magic Works (memoir/writing guide)
   · Why I Write About Elves (memoir/writing guide)

Nicholas Evans

http://www.nicholasevans.com/

The Divide
A young woman's body is found embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. Abbie Cooper has been missing for many months, wanted for murder. How did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray?

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The Loop
Wolves return to a Montana valley, rekindling ancient hatred and conflict. Wolf biologist, Helen Ross, is sent to monitor and protect them and starts a dangerous affair with with the son of her most bitter opponent, brutal and philandering rancher Buck Calder.

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The Smoke Jumper
Montana photographer, Connor Ford and his best friend, Ed Tully, spend their summers 'smoke jumping'- parachuting in to fight forest fires. Then Connor falls in love with Ed's new girlfriend and their destinies are changed forever by a tragic mountain blaze.

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The Horse Whisperer
When New York teenager Grace McLean and her horse Pilgrim are horribly injured in a riding accident, her motherAnnie's comfortable life is shattered. She hauls Grace and Pilgrim across America to see 'horse whisperer' Tom Booker who will utterly transform all of their lives.

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Red Dwarf

http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/

John Birmingham

http://www.duffyandsnellgrove.com.au/authors/birmingham.htm

"Actually, twenty-three beers will not improve your judgment"

Geoffrey McSkimming

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GeoffreyMcSkimming/CairoJimGMcS.html

Armistead maupin

http://www.armisteadmaupin.com/bio.php

Mitch albom

www.albom.com

Terry Pratchett

http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/

PG Wodehouse

PG Wodehouse Quotes

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."	The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun	It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that . . . just loafed, I suppose.	As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight
Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse	Her face was shining like the seat of a bus-driver's trousers
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of someone who had searched for the leak in life's gas pipe with a lighted candle	"Have you ever tasted such filthy coffee?" "Never" said Joe, though he had lived in French hotels
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks	I pressed down the mental accelerator
The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea	There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more	I always advise people never to give advice
She gave me the sort of look she would have given a leper she wasn't fond of	Wilfred Allsop was sitting up, his face pale, his eyes glassy, his hair disordered. He looked like the poet Shelley after a big night out with Lord Byron
She wrinkles her nose at me as if I were a drain that had got out of order	The Aberdeen terrier gave me an unpleasant look and said something under his breath in Gaelic
Her eye swivelling round stopped me like a bullet. The Wedding Guest, if you remember, had the same trouble with the Ancient Mariner	There is a fog sir. If you will recollect, we are now in Autumn - season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
I explain this to Jeeves and he said the same thing had bothered Hamlet

http://www.pgwodehousebooks.com/

ALL BOOKS STAR TREK

http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lcars/

David Weber

Douglas Adams

http://www.douglasadams.com/

Philip Pullman

http://www.philip-pullman.com/

Jasper Fforde

http://www.jasperfforde.com/

http://www.ffotographica.com/mari/dogs.html

Stephen Fry

http://www.stephenfry.com/

James Herriot

http://www.jamesherriot.org/

INDEX Mini Foxies Next Free TV Authors

(Kitty is reading a pamphlet titled "Is Johnny High?")

Kitty: Well, okay, now, so far Eric is nine out of ten. He's got, he's got blood shot eyes, mood swings, irregular appetite, odd sleeping patterns, oh Red!

Our Johnny is high!

Red: Kitty, that's nonsense! He's not on drugs, he's just weird!

(Eric comes in looking terrible)

Eric: Um, I gotta go, um, I'm late for school, bye.

Red: That kid's on dope.

Kitty: Well, I'll say, it's Sunday.

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