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Position:Home>Books & Authors> What Is A Really Good Non Fiction BookQuestion: What Is A Really Good Non Fiction Book I've read Cirque Du Freak and I loved it!. There's 12 books and I've read them all!. I'm wondering if anyone knows any books along those lines, preferably in a series or anything that has to do with vampires, werewolves, and mystical creatures, but not along the lines of unicorns or faeries!. Hah!. Basically any dark, mysterious types of creatures or humans!. Any suggestions!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Omg Cirque Du freak is my fav series of all time!!!!!!!!!!!! So other books that are like that (im not really into the unicorn stuff either too light) are: Morganville vampires by Rachel caine House of the night series Blue bloods vampire kisses in serpent's coils series Princetta Wicked series by holly black vampire beach R!.L!. stines halloween books Daughters of the moon series Www@QuestionHome@Com Cirque Du Freak is definitely fiction, darling!. FICTION: literature in the form of prose that describes IMAGINARY events and people!. Don't read Twilight!. Read The Looking Glass Wars, The Da Vinci Code, The Little Prince, Thirteen Reasons Why, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Hitckhiker's Guide to the Galaxy If you really want non-fiction, read Freakonomics!. It's really good and is, at points, like a bunch of little stories!. I suppose you could also try books about the Salem witch trials because of the magical/mystical connection!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Ok, wait!.!.!. do you want a fiction book (like your details seem to describe) or a non-fiction book (like your question reads)!? If you're looking for a non-fiction book, it sounds like you want one about mythical creatures!. Ask your librarian for some help or browse these until you find what you want: http://www!.amazon!.com/s/qid=1218222802/r!.!.!. !. If you want a fiction novel, other answerers seem to have that covered!. I'll add 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, and Dracula by Bram Stoker - all involve vampires!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Try "Dracula: Prince of Many Faces" by Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally!. It's a historical investigation into the life of the real Dracula, Vlad "the Impaler," who was much more terrifying than his fictional descendent!. It's also well-written has photos of what may have been his actual castle!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Devil in the White City !. I just read it!. GREAT book on Chicago's World's Fair about the fair and also about a serial killer during the fair!. Pretty good!. Best Non-Fiction I've read in a while!. Creatures and fairies aren't non fiction though!. I think you want fiction!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Non-fiction refers to books about the real world, like histories, biographies, the sciences, etc!. Novels are fiction!. Try Clive Barker!. Very little of what he's written is "series" literature, but you'd probably enjoy the worlds he creates!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Non-Fiction means real books!. Fiction means books that are not about real things!. Fiction books I know that you will like are Maximum Ride, Twilight, and Lightning Thief!. Non-fiction books that I enjoyed are Into the Wild and Catch Me If You Can!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Those types of creatures are all fictional!. Can't suggest a nonfiction book with them!. Try Howard Zinn's, Peoples History of the United States!.Www@QuestionHome@Com dead witch walking by kim harrison its has vampires and witches but it aint like rotten harry potter, kim brings this world to life as if these creatures live side by side in our real life!Www@QuestionHome@Com The Bible if you're into that sort of thing, though the non fiction part is up for debate Did you mean fiction!? Non fiction means true stories!?Www@QuestionHome@Com try the twilight series, best book ever and it includes vampires and werewolves!.Www@QuestionHome@Com twilight series have mystical creatures vampires and wolves but u proobably alredy no that i guess!.!. oxox Www@QuestionHome@Com Bran Stoker's Dracula!. It's a classic!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Twilight series is huge right now!.!.!. it's about vampires!.Www@QuestionHome@Com You could try the Twilight saga, but it's not non-fiction!. There's four books!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Freakonomics!.Www@QuestionHome@Com FreakonomicsWww@QuestionHome@Com A non-fiction book about mythical creatures!? You sure you aren't looking for fiction!?Www@QuestionHome@Com i think your looking for fiction !.!.!.!. Robert R!. McCammon's 'The Wolf's Hour' is a good one about werewolves!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The God DelusionWww@QuestionHome@Com Twilight serier or FarseerWww@QuestionHome@Com maximum ride sereisWww@QuestionHome@Com The blue girl!.!.!. its good try it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Twilight Eyes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com try theses websites!!! i am sure they will help you!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com A Really Good Non-Fiction would be Scribbler Of Dreams by Mary E!. Parsons!. Its is Like Romeo And Juliet but i think better ^-^ or The Gravesavers by Sheree Fitch, those books are both of my favorites ^-^ u should read them, just give them a try ^!.^ Summarys : Scribbler of Dreams: The story begins with Katilyn or Kati as she is known having to go to Twin Oaks highschool instead of the private Holy Trinity!. Twin Oaks is a Crutchfield school so Kati does not want to go!. Kati and her sister cannot go to the private school because their family has no money!. Kati’s father is in prison for murdering Roger Crutchfield, which he says was an accident!. When they start school, they use their mother’s maiden name Hampton to make it easier!. Malone is not a popular name at the school!. Abbey is more at ease at the school because she plays sports and has already made friends!. Kati feels out of place and withdraws to herself!. This is where she meets Bram!. Looking for a quite place to write, Kati goes to the courtyard and sees Bram who is sketching!. The two begin to talk and they fall in love!. Bram does not know that Kati is the daughter of the man who murdered his father!. Kati has to tell one lie after another to cover up her love for Bram!. This leads to more and more problems for her!. While at Bram’s house , she uncovers some old diaries of Maggie Crutchfield!. It is through these that she discovers the truth of why the two families hate each other!. It is not all the lies that her parents told her!. That Maggie was a whore and exploited Amanda so the Crutchfields were at fault!. Through the diaries, Kati has a bond with Maggie and discovers a lot about herself and her family!. Kati tells her parents that she is dating Bram and they tell her to break it off!. She refuses!. She knows it is time to tell Bram but he finds out before she can tell him and he is furious with her and tells her he never wants to see her again!. In the end, Kati must give a speech about the future to her senior class!. During this speech, she tells her own story of betrayal and hate between two families and how it is time to make a new start and live in the present!. After the speech, Kati goes to her favorite spot to write and Bram comes to see her!. He tells her he is willing to make that new start and he has always loved her!. Gravesavers: Minn and her grandmother, who Minn calls Nana Vinegar, have not seen eye to eye for a long time, but their mutual animosity came to a head some years back during what Minn refers to as the "Night of the Jellied Tongue!." Her grandmother had served beef tongue for supper, and Minn refused to eat it and was sent to bed without supper!. In retaliation, Minn made an effigy of herself and threw it out her bedroom window so her parents and grandmother would think she was jumping to her death!. Since then, Nana Vinegar has had disdain for Minn and her melodrama!. Minn is also somewhat frightened of her grandmother!. There is a secret room in her house that Minn is sure holds something evil!. Minn's mother has told her that it is just her OI—"overactive imagination!." Minn cannot believe that her parents would send her to Nana Vinegar's for the whole summer!. She realizes that they are grieving, but it's like they've forgotten she exists!. After her first morning run in Boulder Basin, Minn's eye is caught by what she thinks is an unusual stone!. She picks it up and realizes that it is a tiny human skull!. When she reveals her find, Nana Vinegar opens up the secret room!. It is filled with human bones!. Nana shares with Minn the research she's done on the wreck of the SS Atlantic and also the fact that the local cemetery holding the graves of that wreck is slowly being washed out to sea!. Nana has been trying to get the community to raise enough money to fix up the graveyard so the souls of the wreck can rest in peace!. Minn channels the grief for her little sister into a plan to save the graves of the SS Atlantic!. She meets a mysterious teen on the beach who is just as keen as she is to see the graves saved!. Minn begins with a petition, but the method is too slow for her, and so she and her mysterious friend come up with an audacious plan that nearly costs her life!. The past story told in chapters blended skillfully throughout!. The reader steps into the shoes of young John Hindley as he leaves Britain in 1873 with his family as they emigrate to the United States!. The scenes on the ship are crisply real, and the shipwreck scene itself—with nearly frozen John Hindley amongst the icy corpses of his family and friends—is devastatingly lyrical!. The two stories come together in a tight knot in the final dramatic chapters!. In the end, Minn and Nana realize how much they love each other and how much they have in common!. Minn's parents also realize that their grief over the miscarriage has almost cost their older daughter's life!. Minn's plan brings national attention to the disintegrating cemetery, but her mysterious friend suddenly disappears!. When Minn happens upon an old newspaper clipping that shows a photograph of John Hindley, she realizes the identity of her mysterious friend!. She knows that now the graves are saved, the ghost of John Hindley can rest in peace!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |