 | Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years by Jane Goodall
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $0.01 She has been a heroine of mine for many years. A young girl who had a dream and did anything she had to do to make it come true.
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 | African mythology. by Geoffrey. PARRINDER
Buy used from: $3.00 I am trying to learn more about mythology, which we were not taught in school. And I am interested in East Africa in particular right now.
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 | Assault on Paradise by Tatiana Lobo
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $5.81 I am also interested in the history of Brasil, and in how help turns to interference, and does damage.
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| Aid As Obstacle: Twenty Questions About Our Foreign Aid and the Hungry by Frances Moore Lappe
Buy used from: $0.01 How does helping hurt? I'd like to know. The world needs our compassion so terribly.
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 | The Complete Conversations with God (Boxed Set) by Neale Donald Walsch
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $26.83 I read Book One some years ago, and I have two or three others, just haven't read them yet. Maybe this year.
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 | East of the Mountains by David Guterson
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 I love the man's writing, and yet I have not really read the book. Now that I live in the area discussed, I should read it, what say?
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 | A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $0.01 I've actually already read this one, and plan to read them all. What a heartwrenching story!
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 | The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family by Dave Pelzer
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.01 Chapter two in Pelzer's life.
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 | The Privilege of Youth : A Teenager's Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship by Dave Pelzer
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $0.64 Chapter 3
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 | A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness by Dave Pelzer
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $0.01 Chapter four
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 | Dave Pelzer's Life Lessons by Dave Pelzer
Buy used from: $6.00 Should have some deep learning
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 | Long Quiet Highway by Natalie Goldberg
Buy used from: $0.37 Another book I've had for some time, and really want to read. She taught me the other half of what I know about writing.
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 | Thunder and Lightning : Cracking Open the Writer's Craft by Natalie Goldberg
Buy used from: $6.41 I would like to read this also; see if it matches her "Wild Mind" ideas.
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 | The Pact: A Love Story by Jodi Picoult
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.76 I've only read "My Sister's Keeper" but was profoundly moved, and in awe of her writing power and skill. I've got to read some fiction too, after all.
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 | Dreamer by Charles Johnson
Buy used from: $0.01 I have read lots about Dr. King, and this should be good, although his first novel was not one I enjoyed.
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 | Digging to America: A Novel by Anne Tyler
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.60 There are a few Anne Tyler novels I haven't read, and this is one of them, so I have to get busy.
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 | Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Buy used from: $0.82 I've always loved this book for its title, and when I met the author was certain it was a book I should read. This year, for sure.
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 | The Julie Trilogy (Julie of the Wolves) by Jean Craighead George
Buy new: $17.97 / Used from: $4.11 I've begun this series, and I want to read as many of her stories as possible. I love her writing!
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 | My Side of the Mountain Trilogy (My Side of the Mountain / On the Far Side of the Mountain / Frightful's Mountain) by Jean Craighead George
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $11.25 I can't wait to read these as well
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 | The Other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy used from: $2.07 I've read the first three in the trilogy, now the last three are waiting.
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 | Tales from Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 5) by Ursula K. LeGuin
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.97 Book 5 of the Earthsea Series
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 | Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season
Buy new: $15.16 / Used from: $2.23 A good book for when the snow flies next winter. I have to find his other seasonal books.
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 | Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace by Kent Nerburn
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.83 I've just been totally breathless reading his other essays. I am really lookng forward to this one.
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 | Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love by Kent Nerburn
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.49 I've already started this one, enchanting.
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 | Here I Stand by Paul Robeson
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.50 I watched James Earl Jones' portrayal of the man blackballed during the McCarthy witch-hunt of the 50s. This will be an interesting read.
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 | The Dolphins of Pern (Dragonriders of Pern) by Anne McCaffrey
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 It has been so, so long since I read Anne's Pern books, and I need to go home with her to Pern and my dragons.
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 | Francis: The Journey and the Dream by Murray Bodo
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $2.62 I've already started this one too. Another of my heroes.
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 | Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned by Alan Alda
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.20 I can't wait to read this--so many books ... so little time!
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 | A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt by C. Coco De Young
Buy new: $5.50 / Used from: $0.93 I've read this already, but in 2008. I was lucky to find it, it is about my hometown, Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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| Librarians (Community Helpers) by Dee Ready
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $56.09 Okay, so it is written for children, but it is about the profession I dream of entering someday soon.
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| Gandhi (Great Lives) by Nigel Hunter
Buy used from: $68.28 A brief concise biography of this great man. Another of my heroes. Read in '08.
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| Grandpa's Slide Show by Deborah Gould
Buy used from: $0.05 A warm, moving book about coping with the loss of a much-loved grandparent, very well done. I finished it and gave my copy to our chaplain.
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| My Daddy Died: When Someone You Love Dies and You Need to Tell a Child by Roberta Andresen
Buy used from: $19.99 Another one that I donated to the chaplain. A tender subject.
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 | The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Buy used from: $7.00 I'd heard of this book years ago, and the name stuck with me. I found the book two weeks before the movie came out at our theatre. Excellent cinematography and powerful story about strokes and "locked-in syndrome." A true story as well. Now I have to read the book.
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| The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Buy used from: $1.36 I've been trying to finish this book since Christmas. I've seen the movie two or three times. I will finish it this year.
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 | Red Bird: Poems by Mary Oliver
Buy new: $13.39 / Used from: $12.72 When this comes out, I will read every word. Her poetry is poetry of awe and gratitude, and releases those feelings in me.
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| Woman Alone: A Farmhouse Journal by Carol Burdick
Buy used from: $3.26 this book intrigued me when I saw it. We'll see if it is as interesting as it appears.
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 | Black Snowman (Scholastic Bookshelf) by Phil Mendez
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.50 What a fabulous story, and the illustrations are wonderful! I had to give this one back, then ordered one for myself.
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 | Rapunzel by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $4.75 A re-read of this old fairy tale. I'd forgotten how much fairy tales are moral lessons. And I got Rapunzel and Rumpelstilsken and a couple of other fairy tales all mixed up. Needed to re-read, obviously.
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 | Beauty and the Beast (Little Golden Book) by Teddy Slater
Buy new: $2.99 / Used from: $0.49 I've read two or three of these children's versions of one of my favorite fairy tales. Is the beast the other half of ourselves, or is it the person we judge? Why are the sisters always mean and vain in fairy tales? Still, I love this story. If only beasts would turn into princes more often.
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