2011 readings

Adams, Douglas. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1-5)
Adler-Olsen, Jussi. The Keeper of Lost Causes (Serie Q, #1)
Ansary, Tamim. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Benn, James R. Billy Boyle, A World War II Mystery (Billy Boyle World War II, #1)
Black, Cara. Murder in Clichy (Aimee Leduc Investigations, #5)
Black, Cara. Murder in the Palais Royal (Aimee Leduc Investigations, #10)
Camilleri, Andrea. August Heat
Camilleri, Andrea. The Wings of the Sphinx
Churchill, Winston S. Memoirs of the Second World War
Coben, Harlan. The Woods 
Connelly, Michael. Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch, #14)
Connelly, Michael. The Reversal (Mickey Haller, #3)
Cotterill, Colin. Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Dr. Siri Paiboun Investigation #7)
Cotterill, Colin. Slash and Burn (Dr. Siri Paiboun Investigation #8)
Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion
DeLillo, Don. Falling Man
Disher, Garry. The Dragon Man (Inspector Challis, #1)
Downing, David. Zoo Station (John Russell, #1)
Drehle, David von. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America 
Edwardson, Ãke. Frozen Tracks (Inspector Winter, #5)
Edwardson, Ãke. The Shadow Woman (Inspector Winter #2)
Eriksson, Kjell. The Cruel Stars of the Night 
Eriksson, Kjell. The Princess of Burundi 
Fairstein, Linda. Killer Heat (Alexandra Cooper, #10)
Fitzgerald, Conor. The Dogs Of Rome (Commissario Alec Blume, #1)
Fossum, Karin. He Who Fears the Wolf
Fossum, Karin. When the Devil Holds the Candle 
Hale, John R. Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy 
Hastings, Max. Bomber Command 
Hastings, Max. Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945 
Heim, Scott. We Disappear 
Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption 
James, Peter. Dead Like You (Roy Grace, #6)
Joss, Morag. Funeral Music
Kneale, Matthew. English Passengers
Knowles, John. A Separate Peace 
Kohl, Christiane. The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials 
Larsson, Stieg. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
Leon, Donna. A Noble Radiance (Commissario Brunetti #7)
Leon, Donna. A Sea of Troubles 
Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here
Mankell, Henning. The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries 
McCann, Maria. As Meat Loves Salt
Moore, Christopher. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal 
Nesbo, Jo. The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)
Nesbo, Jo. Nemesis 
Nesbo, Jo. The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
Nesbo, Jo. The Snowman 
Nesser, Hakan. Borkmann's Point (Inspector Van Veeteren #2)
Nesser, Hakan. The Inspector and Silence (Inspector Van Veeteren #5)
Nesser, Hakan. Mind's Eye (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Nesser, Hakan. Woman with Birthmark (Inspector Van Veeteren #4)
Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Queijo, Jon. Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World
Rankin, Ian. Watchman: A Novel
Rees, Matt. The Samaritan's Secret
Rendell, Ruth. The Monster in the Box 
Rendell, Ruth. Not in the Flesh 
Robinson, Peter. Aftermath (Inspector Banks, #12)
Robinson, Peter. Bad Boy (Inspector Banks, #19)
Robinson, Peter. Blood at the Root (Inspector Alan Banks Series #9)
Robinson, Peter. Close to Home (Inspector Alan Banks Series #13)
Robinson, Peter. Cold Is The Grave (Inspector Banks, #11)
Robinson, Peter. The First Cut
Robinson, Peter. In a Dry Season (Inspector Alan Banks Series #10)
Robinson, Peter. Innocent Graves (Inspector Alan Banks Series #8)
Robinson, Peter. Playing with Fire (Inspector Alan Banks Series #14)
Sandford, John. Broken Prey (Lucas Davenport, #16)
Sandford, John. Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport, #18)
Sandford, John. Rough Country (Virgil Flowers, #3)
Sandford, John. Storm Prey (Lucas Davenport, #20)
Shriver, Lionel. Checker and the Derailleurs: A Novel (P.S.)
Shriver, Lionel. We Need to Talk About Kevin
Sloan, Brian. Tale of Two Summers
Sonnenfeldt, Richard W. Witness to Nuremberg
Stabenow, Dana. A Night Too Dark: A Kate Shugak Novel (Kate Shugak, #17)
Thompson, James. Snow Angels (Inspector Kari Vaara, #1)
Waddell, Martin. The Park in the Dark
Welch, Denton. In Youth Is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather's House
White, Edmund. City Boy

Holstee Manifesto

Orwell's six rules for writers

• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 
• Never use a long word where a short one will do. 
• If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 
• Never use the passive where you can use the active. 
• Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. 
• Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

from Politics and the English Language (1946)

Cathy

The New Ten Commandments

1. Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you. 
2. In all things, strive to cause no harm. 
3. Treat your fellow human beings, your fellow living things, and the world in general with love, honesty, faithfulness and respect. 
4. Do not overlook evil or shrink from administering justice, but always be ready to forgive wrongdoing freely admitted and honestly regretted. 
5. Live life with a sense of joy and wonder.
6. Always seek to be learning something new. 
7. Test all things; always check your ideas against the facts, and be ready to discard even a cherished belief if it does not conform to them. 
8. Never seek to censor or cut yourself off from dissent; always respect the right of others to disagree with you. 
9. Form independent opinions on the basis of your own reason and experience; do not allow yourself to be led blindly by others. 
10. Question everything.

http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/new10c.html

...annotated.

... I am trying my best not to view things through a smug later prism. Only the Almighty can scan matters sub specie aeternitatis: from the viewpoint of eternity. One must also avoid cultural and historical relativism: there’s no point in retroactively ordering the Children of Israel to develop a germ theory of disease (so as to avoid mistaking plagues for divine punishments) or to understand astronomy (so as not to make foolish predictions and boasts based on the planets and stars). Still, if we think of the evils that afflict humanity today and that are man-made and not inflicted by nature, we would be morally numb if we did not feel strongly about genocide, slavery, rape, child abuse, sexual repression, white-collar crime, the wanton destruction of the natural world, and people who yak on cell phones in restaurants. (Also, people who commit simultaneous suicide and murder while screaming “God is great”: is that taking the Lord’s name in vain or is it not?) 

It’s difficult to take oneself with sufficient seriousness to begin any sentence with the words “Thou shalt not.” But who cannot summon the confidence to say: Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or color. Do not ever use people as private property. Despise those who use violence or the threat of it in sexual relations. Hide your face and weep if you dare to harm a child. Do not condemn people for their inborn nature—why would God create so many homosexuals only in order to torture and destroy them? Be aware that you too are an animal and dependent on the web of nature, and think and act accordingly. Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife. ... Denounce all jihadists and crusaders for what they are: psychopathic criminals with ugly delusions. Be willing to renounce any god or any religion if any holy commandments should contradict any of the above. In short: Do not swallow your moral code in tablet form.

Christopher Hitchens, from http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/04/hitchens-201004

2011 Top 10 Most Stolen Vehicles in the U.S.

1. 1994 Honda Accord 
2. 1995 Honda Civic 
3. 1991 Toyota Camry 
4. 1999 Chevrolet Pickup (Full Size) 
5. 1997 Ford F150 Series/Pickup 
6. 2004 Dodge Ram 
7. 2000 Dodge Caravan 
8. 1994 Acura Integra 
9. 2002 Ford Explorer 
10. 1999 Ford Taurus

(Source: National Insurance Crime Bureau, October 2011)

2004 Top 10 Most Stolen Vehicles in the U.S.

1. 1995 Honda Civic
2. 1989 Toyota Camry
3. 1991 Honda Accord
4. 1994 Dodge Caravan
5. 1994 Chevrolet Full Size C/K 1500 Pickup
6. 1997 Ford F150 Series
7. 2003 Dodge Ram Pickup
8. 1990 Acura Integra
9. 1988 Toyota Pickup
10. 1991 Nissan Sentra

(Source: National Insurance Crime Bureau, November 2005)

from Here is New York

“The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.”

E.B.White, 1948

Cowboy Code

1. Never pass anyone on the trail without saying "Howdy".
2. When approaching someone from behind, give a loud greeting before you get within pistol shot.
3. Don't wave at a man on a horse.  It might spook the horse and the man will think you're an idiot. (A nod is the proper greeting.)
4. After you pass someone on the trail, don't look back at him.  It implies you don't trust him.
5. Riding another man's horse without his permission is nearly as bad as making love to his wife.  Never even bother another man's horse.
6. Never shoot an unarmed man.  Never shoot a woman at all.
7. A cowboy is pleasant even when out of sorts.  Complaining is what quitters do, and cowboys hate quitters.
8. Always be courageous.  Cowards aren't tolerated in any outfit worth its salt.
9. A cowboy always helps someone in need, even a stranger or an enemy.
10. When you leave town after a weekend of carousing, it's perfectly all right to shoot your six-guns into the air, whoop like crazy and ride your horse as fast as you can.  This is called "hurrahing" a town.
11. A horse thief may be hung peremptorily.
12. Never try on another man's hat.
13. Never wake another man by shaking or touching him.  He might wake up suddenly and shoot you.
14. Real cowboys are modest.  A braggart who is "all gurgle and no guts" is not tolerated.
15. A cowboy doesn't talk much; he saves his breath for breathing.
16. No matter how weary and hungry you are after a long day in the saddle, always tend to your horse's needs before your own, and get your horse some feed before you eat.
17. Cuss all you want, but only around men, horses and cows.

http://www.thewildwest.org/cowboys/wildwestcowboyfacts/218-cowboy-codesofthewest

Church and Worth

Cerveza Pacifico

from A Separate Peace

"In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt the Devon School came into existence the day I entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left.

"Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnish and wax. Preserved along with it, like stale air in an unopened room, was the well known fear which had surrounded and filled those days, so much of it that I didn't even know it was there. Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I had not been able to identify its presence.

"Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with great clarity the the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

"I felt fear's echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompaniment and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky."

by John Knowles, 1959

DC

10 Rules to Reverse the Email Spiral

1. Respect Recipients' Time This is the fundamental rule. As the message sender, the onus is on YOU to minimize the time your email will take to process. Even if it means taking more time at your end before sending.

2. Short or Slow is not Rude Let's mutually agree to cut each other some slack. Given the email load we're all facing, it's OK if replies take a while coming and if they don't give detailed responses to all your questions. No one wants to come over as brusque, so please don't take it personally. We just want our lives back!

3. Celebrate Clarity Start with a subject line that clearly labels the topic, and maybe includes a status category [Info], [Action], [Time Sens] [Low Priority]. Use crisp, muddle-free sentences. If the email has to be longer than five sentences, make sure the first provides the basic reason for writing. Avoid strange fonts and colors.

4. Quash Open-Ended Questions It is asking a lot to send someone an email with four long paragraphs of turgid text followed by "Thoughts?". Even well-intended-but-open questions like "How can I help?" may not be that helpful. Email generosity requires simplifying, easy-to-answer questions. "Can I help best by a) calling b) visiting or c) staying right out of it?!"

5. Slash Surplus cc's cc's are like mating bunnies. For every recipient you add, you are dramatically multiplying total response time. Not to be done lightly! When there are multiple recipients, please don't default to 'Reply All'. Maybe you only need to cc a couple of people on the original thread. Or none.

6. Tighten the Thread Some emails depend for their meaning on context. Which means it's usually right to include the thread being responded to. But it's rare that a thread should extend to more than 3 emails. Before sending, cut what's not relevant. Or consider making a phone call instead.

7. Attack Attachments Don't use graphics files as logos or signatures that appear as attachments. Time is wasted trying to see if there's something to open. Even worse is sending text as an attachment when it could have been included in the body of the email.

8. Give these Gifts: EOM NNTR If your email message can be expressed in half a dozen words, just put it in the subject line, followed by EOM (= End of Message). This saves the recipient having to actually open the message. Ending a note with "No need to respond" or NNTR, is a wonderful act of generosity. Many acronyms confuse as much as help, but these two are golden and deserve wide adoption.

9. Cut Contentless Responses You don't need to reply to every email, especially not those that are themselves clear responses. An email saying "Thanks for your note. I'm in." does not need you to reply "Great." That just cost someone another 30 seconds.

10. Disconnect! If we all agreed to spend less time doing email, we'd all get less email! Consider calendaring half-days at work where you can't go online. Or a commitment to email-free weekends. Or an 'auto-response' that references this charter. And don't forget to smell the roses.

(http://emailcharter.org/)

Office space

Instructions for Life

• (erroneously attributed to the Dalai Lama)

• Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
• When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
• Follow the three Rs:Respect for self, Respect for others, and Responsibility for all your actions.
• Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
• Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
• Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
• When you realise you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
• Spend some time alone every day.
• Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
• Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
• Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
• A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
• In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
• Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
• Be gentle with the earth.
• Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
• Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
• Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
• Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Suicidal signs

• Increased Isolation – From family and friends
• Alcohol or Drug Use Increases
• Expression of negative attitude toward self
• Expression of hopelessness or helplessness
• Change in Regular Behavior
• Loss of interest in usual activities
• Giving away valued possessions
• Expression of a lack of future orientation (i.e. "It won't matter soon anyway")
• Expressing Suicidal Feelings
• Signs of Depression
• Describes a Specific Plan for Suicide
• History of Suicide in the Family
• A person who has been extremely depressed in the past may be at an increased risk for suicide if the depression begins to cease, as they may now have the psychological energy to follow through on a suicidal ideation.

(The Trevor Project)

Shoes Repaired

from "Aubade"

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what's really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
(Philip Larkin)

Comment Code of Conduct

I will express myself with civility, courtesy, and respect for every member of the ... online community, especially toward those with whom I disagree—even if I feel disrespected by them. (Romans 12:17-21) 

I will express my disagreements with other community members' ideas without insulting, mocking, or slandering them personally. (Matthew 5:22) 

I will not exaggerate others' beliefs nor make unfounded prejudicial assumptions based on labels, categories, or stereotypes. I will always extend the benefit of the doubt. (Ephesians 4:29) 

I will hold others accountable by clicking "report" on comments that violate these principles, based not on what ideas are expressed but on how they're expressed. (2 Thessalonians 3:13-15) 

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Greene Street

Babur's inscription

I have heard that Jamshid, the magnificent,
Inscribed on a rock at a spring.

Many men like us have taken breath at this spring,
And have passed away in the twinkling of an eye;

We took the world by courage and might,
But we could not take it with us to the grave.

–Zāhir ud-Dīn Muḥammad Babur (ﻇﻬﻴﺮ ﻟﺪﻳﻦ محمد), Baburnama (بابر نامہ) bk ix (ca. 1530)

Bunny

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for History in My Lifetime (so far)

1954: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
1956: The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 by George F. Kennan
1958: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
1959: The Republican Era: 1869–1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
1960: In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
1962: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
1965: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger
1966: The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
1970: Present At The Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
1972: Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler
1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen
1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
1975: Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
1976: Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
1977: The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 by David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)
1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
1979: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher
1980: Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
1984: no award given
1985: Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall
1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce
1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 by Taylor Branch
1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1991: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1993: The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
1994: no award given
1995: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
1999: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 by David M. Kennedy
2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 by Rick Atkinson
2004: A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
2005: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2006: Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
2007: The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2008: What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2010: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

Fireboat House (Pier A)

Tolstoy's 10 rules of life

Get up early (five o'clock).

Go to bed early (nine to ten o'clock).

Eat little and avoid sweets.

Try to do everything by yourself.

Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for one section of your life, a goal for a shorter period and a goal for the year; a goal for every month, a goal for every week, a goal for every day, a goal for every hour and for every minute, and sacrifice the lesser goal to the greater.

Keep away from women.

Kill desire by work.

Be good, but try to let no one know it.

Always live less expensively than you might.

Change nothing in your style of living even if you become ten times richer.

Atisha di Pankara's list

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the world's ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

(11th century, CE)

2010 readings

Alexander, Caroline. The War that Killed Achilles
Atkinson, Rick. The Day of Battle
Blum, Deborah. The Poisoner's Handbook
Burdett, John. The Godfather of Kathmandu
Burke, James Lee. Swan Peak
Camilleri, Andrea. The Paper Moon
Camilleri, Andrea. The Shape of Water
Camilleri, Andrea. The Snack Thief
Camilleri, Andrea. The Terra-Cotta Dog
Camilleri, Andrea. Voice of the Violin
Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist
Cotterill, Colin. Anarchy and Old Dogs
Cotterill, Colin. The Coroner's Lunch
Cotterill, Colin. Curse of the Pogo Stick
Cotterill, Colin. The  Merry Misogynist
Cotterill, Colin. Thirty-Three Teeth
Cussler, Clive. ed. Thriller 2
De Botton, Alain. The Consolations of Philosophy
Dobbs, Michael. One Minute to Midnight
Dosa, David. Making Rounds with Oscar
Fallada, Hans. Every Man Dies Alone
Furst, Alan. Spies of the Balkans
Hartinger, Brent. Geography Club
Hastings, Max. Armageddon: the Battle for Germany 1944-1945
Hastings, Max. Overlord; D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
Hastings, Max. The Korean War
Hiaasen, Carl. Scat
Hinton, S.E. Hawkes Harbor
Holmes, Richard. The Age of Wonder
Indriason, Arnaldur. Hypothermia
Judt, Tony. Ill Fares the Land
Keegan, John. The Battle for History
Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days
Larsson, Stieg. The Girl Who Played with Fire
Marozzi, Justin. The Way of Herodotus
Mayer, Jane. The Dark Side
O'Grady, Jason D. The Droid Pocket Guide
Perelman, S.J. Acres and Pains
Rius. Marx for Beginners
Robinson, Peter. A Necessary End (Inspector Banks, #3)
Robinson, Peter. All The Colours Of Darkness (Inspector Banks, #18)
Robinson, Peter. Final Account (Inspector Alan Banks Series #7)
Robinson, Peter. Friend Of The Devil (Inspector Banks, #17)
Robinson, Peter. Piece Of My Heart (Inspector Banks, #16)
Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things
Sjowall, Maj and Per Wahloo. The Abominable Man
Sjowall, Maj and Per Wahloo. Cop Killer
Sjowall, Maj and Per Wahloo. The Fire Engine that Disappeared
Sjowall, Maj and Per Wahloo. The Man on the Balcony
Sjowall, Maj and Per Wahloo. Murder at the Savoy
Sjowall, Maj and Per Wahloo. The Terrorists
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Snyder, Blake. Save the Cat
Suarez, Daniel. Daemon
Suarez, Daniel. Freedom
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Taylor, Telford. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
Theorin, Johan. The Darkest Room
Werth, Barry. Banquet at Delmonico's
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief

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