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5 stars
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5 Stars. Started in 2018 but read most to finish it in 2021! Have Kindle edition.
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"Encompassing fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die moves across cultures and through time to present an eclectic collection of titles, each described with the special enthusiasm readers summon when recommending a book to a friend."--Dust jacket.
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5 stars
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5 Stars.
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"Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old former surgeon who retired in disgrace years ago. He has retreated to a Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He is perfectly content to live out his days in quiet solitude. Until he wakes up one autumn evening to find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed boots. All that remains in the morning...
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5 stars
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5 Stars.
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"An accessible, compelling introduction to today's major policy issues from columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no better foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won't die. This delightful new book finds Krugman at his best, turning readers into intelligent...
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4.8 stars
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5 Stars. Have Kindle edition.
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4.8 stars
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5 Stars. Have Kindle edition.
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Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. This edition includes illustrations, essays, and excerpts from firsthand accounts and memoirs, that add depth and reflection to this momentous work.
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5 stars
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5 Stars. Have Kindle edition.
8. Constance
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Constance (FitzSimmons) volume 1.
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5 stars
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5 Stars. Have Kindle edition.
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In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. To anticloning militants, it's an abomination against nature. For young Constance "Con" D'Arcy, who was gifted her own clone by her late aunt, it's terrifying. After a routine monthly upload of her consciousness--stored for that inevitable transition--something goes wrong. When Con wakes up in the clinic,...
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4.9 stars
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5 Stars.
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"Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet"...
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Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 2.
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5 stars
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5 Stars. Have Kindle edition.
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Portraits of Lee, Longstreet, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at Gettysburg
The story of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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5 stars
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5 Stars. Have Audiobook edition.
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5 stars
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5 Stars. Read during trip to Hatteras Island the week after Thanksgiving.
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"The legend of the Lost Colony has been captivating imaginations for nearly a century. When they left Roanoke Island, where did they go? What is the meaning of the mysterious word Croatoan? In the sixteenth century, Croatoan was the name of an island to the south now known as Hatteras. Scholars have long considered the island as one of the colonists' possible destinations, but only recently has anyone set out to prove it. Archaeologists from the University...
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5 stars
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5 Stars.
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Offers an account of the last of the Romanov dynasty, the love affair of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra, their family, their involvement with Rasputin, and the revolution that transformed imperial Russia.
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Sheldon Horowitz novels volume 1.
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5 stars
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5 Stars.
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After witnessing a murder in Oslo, elderly former Marine sniper and watch repairman Sheldon Horrowitz flees to safety with the newly orphaned son of the victim and becomes haunted by memories of his own son who died in Vietnam.