 | A Letter of Mary (Mary Russell Novels) by Laurie R. King
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A mystery novel set in 19th century England, featuring Sherlock Holmes. Sent to Malaysia
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 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Buy used from: $0.01 Maya Angelou's beautiful, heartbreaking autobiography of her childhood. Also sent to Malaysia.
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 | Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.75 Ken Kesey's Cain-n-Abel-esque tale of Oregon loggers. Also sent to Malaysia.
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 | A storm upon Ulster by Kenneth C. Flint
Buy used from: $0.19 Crummy pseudo-Celtic fantasy. Left at U. of WA's Kane Hall before a physics lecture.
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 | A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
Buy used from: $0.01 A weird, hallucinatory mystery set in Tasmania. Left at U. of WA's Allen North library.
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 | Bombardiers by Po Bronson
Buy used from: $0.01 Didn't read this novel about investment bankers, but did leave it at the U. of WA Business School.
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 | The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $1.25 An amusing set of stories about a wildly illogical family. Left in a stairwell at University Hospital.
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 | Elementary Turkish by Lewis V. Thomas
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $2.20 A decent introduction to the Turkish language; would be better with tapes. Sent to Iran.
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 | The First Men in the Moon (Dover Thrift Editions) by H. G. Wells
Buy new: $3.00 / Used from: $0.01 An HG Wells story combining SF with an anticolonialist tract. Left at a Mars party on U of WA campus.
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 | Ritual Bath (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels) by Faye Kellerman
Buy used from: $0.01 An engaging mystery with an interesting introduction to some aspects of Jewish culture. Left in the espresso bar of the UW Hospital.
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 | Of Men and Mountains: The Classic Memoir of Wilderness Adventure by William O. Douglas
Buy used from: $10.00 Justice Wm O. Douglas' story of his adventures in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Released in UW Hospital lobby.
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 | Small World by David Lodge
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $0.40 Brilliantly savage academic satire. Left at U. of WA student union building.
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 | The Terrible Hours by Peter Maas
Buy used from: $0.01 Fascinating story of the first (very dangerous) submarine rescue. Left at U. of WA Naval ROTC office.
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 | American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Highly enjoyable book about a road trip with wacked-out deities. Left outside the Cafe Allegro on University Way.
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 | The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, Book 3 by Douglas Preston
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Creepy mystery featuring Agent Pendergast and more natural history museum stuff. Left in UW Hospital stairwell.
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| The Crepe Cookbook by Paulette Fono and Maria Stacho
Buy used from: $28.00 Ummm....a cookbook about crepes. They all turned out rubbery or soggy. Left somewhere in the UW Hospital...don't recall exactly where...
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 | The Simpsons : A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family by Groening Matt
Buy used from: $0.14 Definitely one of *my* favorite families...full of fascinating bits of useless trivia. Mailed to fellow BCer in Newfoundland.
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 | The Love Slave by Bertrice Small
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.76 Ridiculously bad, but in a good way. Released at the U of WA Playhouse on the Ave.
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 | Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.01 A really interesting book about the little horse who could. Wanted to leave it at the track, but ended up leaving it in the UW Hospital instead, in a stairwell...
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| Collins Gem Irish Dictionary by HarperCollins
Buy used from: $1.50 I have 2 copies of this handy little dictionary, which includes some grammar and useful phrases, so I left one sitting on a window ledge on the Ave.
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 | Sultry Climates: Travel and Sex by Ian Littlewood
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $2.50 More about authors who write about travel and sex than about travel and sex themselves. Sent to Ohio.
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 | THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO LEARNING ITALIAN by GABRIELLE EUVINO
Buy used from: $0.40 Useful book for those starting out, but would be better with audiotapes. Also found some errors...Left outside Pagliacci Pizza on the Ave.
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| Yan Kits Classic Chinese Cook Book by Yan-Kit So
Yummy recipes, but I don't really cook Chinese food much, so I left this sitting outside a Chinese restaurant on University Way.
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 | Comet in Moominland (Moomintrolls) by Tove Jansson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.22 My favorite of this series, wherein a comet is headed for Moominvalley...eek! Sent to Germany.
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 | La Nausee (Folio) (French Edition) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $2.48 Sartre really should have stuck with writing plays...his novels are dull and uninspiring. Mailed to Portugal.
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