 | Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $0.64 Not his best, but I still enjoyed it. Nice change of pace.
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 | Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee Miller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.96 Interesting theory, but written in a broken manner that I found tough to follow
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 | The Xeno Chronicles: Two Years on the Frontier of Medicine Inside Harvard's Transplant Research Lab by G. Wayne Miller
Buy new: $17.50 / Used from: $0.01 Really enjoyed this -- read it in two afternoons. Fascinating, even if some of the images are rather grisly
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 | A History Of The World In Six Glasses by Tom Standage
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $5.91 A quick read that was full of information
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 | Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.82 I laughed while reading the back cover, but not once during the book
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.92 Worth the effort. This is a good one to discuss with other people who've read it.
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 | Microsoft Windows XP Registry Guide (Bpg-Other) by Jerry Honeycutt
Buy used from: $13.99 Great introduction to the registry. Not too dry, either.
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Another really good book from Irving
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 | The Great Trials Of The Twenties: The Watershed Decade In America's Courtrooms by Robert Grant
Buy new: $21.20 / Used from: $0.94 Got it to learn more about Sacco and Vanzetti, but ended up reading (and enjoying) the whole book
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 | The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil by C. D. Jaco
Buy used from: $1.00 Very accessible and informative
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 | The Coma by Garland Alex
Buy used from: $0.01 Like a dream, maybe more like a nightmare
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 | The FairTax Book by Neal Boortz
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $1.31 Interesting idea -- could it be any worse than what we already have?
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 | The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $2.70 Clever, but not exactly what I'd hoped for
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 | The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
Buy used from: $0.01 Not bad. Entertaining at least. Learned a few things, too.
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 | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $0.01 Brief and witty
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 | Evil: A Primer: A History of a Bad Idea from Beelzebub to Bin Laden by William Hart
Buy used from: $2.18 Nice touch of humor to a rather dark subject. Fun read.
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 | Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine by Donald L. Barlett
Buy used from: $0.72 Would like to hear an insurance company defend their side of this arguement.
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 | What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Entertaining history of a bipolar state. Only got real partisan at the end of the book.
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 | The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $1.98 Great introduction to Montessori. Look forward to reading more.
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 | Two Trains Running: A Novel by Andrew Vachss
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $0.01 Fun conspiracy novel.
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 | Almost History: Close Calls, Plan B's, and Twists of Fate in America's Past by Roger Bruns
Buy used from: $0.94 Some were more interesting than others, but the majority were interesting
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 | Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes by Kerry Emanuel
Buy new: $37.12 / Used from: $4.00 Nice combination of science, history and art
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 | The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.62 Some really wonderful images.
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 | The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (No 1) by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $13.47 Amazing how moving a book in this format can be
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 | MBA In A Day: What You Would Learn At Top-Tier Business Schools (If You Only Had The Time!) by Steven Stralser
Buy new: $25.51 / Used from: $12.96 Good, compact overview. Worth a quick read.
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