 | Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud
Buy new: $15.82 / Used from: $9.84 Great. I learned something. It opened my eyes.
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 | Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $10.71 Just Awesome!!
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 | The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $7.99 very well written. Really enjoyed it.
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 | The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3) by Stephen King
Buy used from: $0.01 I was ready to drop this series. After 2 disappointing books, finally something good to read
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 | Columbine by Dave Cullen
Buy new: $17.81 / Used from: $11.13 great.
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 | Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb by Rodger Claire
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.70 Simple and easy book. I loved it.
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 | Once a Runner: A Novel by John L Parker
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $12.95 Majestic fiction. If you run, you will love it
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 | One Second After by William R. Forstchen
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $11.75 |
 | Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4) by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.91 If you can make it to book 4, it really draws you in
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 | The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer by David Goldblatt
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $9.95 epic!!!
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 | Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $0.22 Classic
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 | J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $4.83 Very engrossing. Almost too much info to digest.
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 | The Core Performance: The Revolutionary Workout Program to Transform Your Body & Your Life by Mark Verstegen
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.49 Good stuff - a different way to work out. Not sure yet if effective.
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 | Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine by George M Taber
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $3.50 A solid read. The event itself takes up about 25 pages of 300. The rest is a history of wine.
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 | The Retirement Savings Time Bomb . . . and How to Defuse It: A Five-Step Action Plan for Protecting Your IRAs, 401(k)s, and Other RetirementPlans from Near Annihilation by the Taxman by Ed Slott
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $5.50 good tips
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 | Cash Games (How to Win at No-Limit Hold'em Money Games) Vol. 1 by Dan Harrington
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $18.43 Good primer. I needed to read this. However could have been better organized.
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 | The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer
Buy new: $20.15 / Used from: $6.20 not as good as I expected. One of those books that is based around a couple of interviews.
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 | Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself by Michael Shapiro
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $8.15 |
 | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.16 good good - quick read
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 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
Buy new: $22.02 / Used from: $15.90 A Classic and quick read.
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 | Tip Off: How the 1984 NBA Draft Changed Basketball Forever by Filip Bondy
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $1.14 profile on each player was the filler for some info on the draft. Did as much as he could with the material.
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 | The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $10.26 ok - half biography, half a story of how the author goes into the area. would have been better as a long article.
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 | How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.08 Got to Michigan - good stuff but a little repetitive.
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 | Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 A bit rambling and out of date since the murder trial defendants were acquitted. Just read the books he lists in the bibliography to learn about poker.
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 | The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.51 Skimmed in about 1 hour. OK, some good ideas. Mapping was interesting (kitchen stove)
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 | A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
Buy used from: $6.69 Not bad - after Apollo 13 I did a lot of skipping.
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 | But Wait ... There's More!: Tighten Your Abs, Make Millions, and Learn How the $100 Billion Infomercial Industry Sold Us Everything But the Kitchen Sink by Remy Stern
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $4.09 ok - read in one night. should be an article
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 | Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life by David Allen
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $7.98 If you have taken his seminar - skip the book. I did and breezed through it in 10 minutes.
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 | Stretching, 20th Anniversary Revised Edition by Bob Anderson
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $5.46 Good for what it is
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 | The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $10.69 Blah, Blah Blah. Pretty boring and read in one night. One good insight (bonds).
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 | Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.52 trying to get through it. Actually poorly organized. Mixes all stories together. Better seperate. Too many names. Can't finish.....
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 | Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon by John Brant
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $6.50 Disappointing. A long biopic with little about the race.
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 | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $5.00 |
 | No Limit Hold 'em: Theory and Practice by David Sklansky
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.60 ok
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 | Insiders' Guide to Glacier National Park, 5th: Including the Flathead Valley and Waterton Lakes National Park (Insiders' Guide Series) by Susan Olin
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.98 |
 | The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $29.50 beyond me
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 | Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte
Buy new: $32.40 / Used from: $10.00 |
 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (P.S.) by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.48 I don't get the hype
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 | The Soul Of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $2.21 Old. Dated. A great explanation of cubicles - they must have just been invented.
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 | Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible by David Plotz
Buy new: $17.81 / Used from: $14.99 |
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