 | The World's Greatest Master and Commander Stories
Buy used from: $0.83 Mostly good, fun stories. Well, there was one that was unbearable, un-finish-able, but the rest were a hootin' good time.
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 | The Craft of Sail: A Primer of Sailing by Jan E. Adkins
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.19 What a nifty little treat of a book.
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 | Great Expectations (Bantam Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 Wow, this Dickens guy is really great. Who knew?
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 | Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: $3.75 Just ran out of gas reading this one. Couldn't finish. It's no "Great Expectations."
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 | Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville by Witold Rybczynski
Buy used from: $1.12 Rybczynski is the architecture critic for Slate, and I always enjoy his articles and slide shows. So I was reading the excerpts from this and, having been reading nothing but woodworking tips since giving up on "Little Dorrit," I was excited to buy this.
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 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $4.15 Finished "Last Harvest" on the plane ride from DC to Denver, and then also inhaled the Atlantic Monthly that I bought at the Denver airport. So I bought this at the Albuquerque airport on the way back. Finished it about an hour out of DC.
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 | Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture by Witold Rybczynski
Buy new: $12.75 / Used from: $0.01 Just some general essays about various architectural topics, written for various magazines and newspapers when Rybczynski was teaching at McGill back in the late eighties and early nineties. He's now at Penn.
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 | A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia McAlester
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $7.75 Witold Rybczynski's writing about architecture, especially about houses, made me want to get this, as a primer to styles and movements in general as well as specifically about houses.
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 | Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Mother Dillon sent me this. Started it & liked what I read. But then I had my annual review at work. See next book.
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 | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $5.29 After receiving a not-so-good annual job performance review at work, I decided to try and do something about my productivity. I followed up with HR, and Julie mentioned this book. So I decided to give it a try.
Life changing.
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 | Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life by David Allen
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $3.62 Just some newsletter columns re-packaged. Nothing special here.
Allen's podcasts and other goodies available at his website, though, are golden.
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 | Ubuntu Linux For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Paul G. Sery
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $10.74 The home computer's been running real slow lately. It is three or four years old now. Thought maybe Linux would run better than big old bloaty Windows XP.
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 | The Official Ubuntu Book (2nd Edition) by Benjamin Mako Hill
Buy new: $30.39 / Used from: $2.29 More Ubuntu. Dawn hates it.
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 | Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Re-read this. Man is it good.
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 | Post Captain (Vol. Book 2) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Re-read this. Man is it good.
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 | H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.27 Re-read this. Man is it good.
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 | The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.04 Re-read this. Man is it good.
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 | Desolation Island (The Aubrey/Maturin Novels, Book 5) by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.83 Re-read this. Man is it good.
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 | The Fortune of War (Vol. Book 6) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.93 Re-read this. Man is it good.
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 | The Surgeon's Mate (Vol. Book 7) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.89 Re-read this. Man is it good.
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 | The Ionian Mission (Vol. Book 8) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.75 Re-read this. Man is it good.
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 | I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
Buy new: $17.81 / Used from: $0.93 Got from Dawn for Christmas. Reading at breakfast.
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 | Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander by David Cordingly
Buy new: $21.45 / Used from: $5.99 Got from in-laws for Christmas. Barely started.
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 | Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $0.01 Got from Gordon & Babs & Ally for Christmas. Barely started.
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 | Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.50 Helena loaned me this. Haven't started yet.
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