Saturday, August 19, 2006

Thinning the Herd--Take Two

It's that time again. Here's what I took to Half Price Books today:

Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Flu by Gina Kolata

Molecules at an Exhibition by John Emsley

The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler

Patenting the Sun by Jane Smith

Walk on Water by Michael Ruhlman

Stiff by Mary Roach

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan

blink by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Complications by Atul Gawande

Blue Latitudes by Tony Horowitz

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

Personal History by Katherine Graham

Honeymoon in Purdah by Alison Wearing

Fortunate Son by Lewis Puller

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

Alexandra by Carolly Erickson

The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth

Christmas Books by Charles Dickens

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossenini

Bodies in Motion and at Rest by Thomas Lynch

Unto the Sons by Gay Talese

Nisa by Marjorie Shostak

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder

The Girl in the Picture by Denise Chong

Rising Tide by John Barry

Complete Works of Wlliam Shakespeare

Family Matters by David Guterson

Kingdom of Children by Mitchell Stevens

Dictionary of First Names

On Becoming baby Wise

The Best Baby Name Book

The Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey

Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Collapse by Jared Diamond

Why We Eat What We Eat by Raymond Sokolov

American Pie by Pascale Le Draoulec

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch

Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick

3 comments:

Amira said...

Well, why didn't you offer to mail these off to good owners like you did last time? I could have taken some this time. :)

Anonymous said...

Oh I want to live by you! I have wanted to read some of those books for-ev-er!! That is quite the list!

Anonymous said...

This is a very good collection. The subjects are varied and the authors all have different background. These books make for a great reading. Nice job on the listing.

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