06-20-2013, 11:27 AM | #16 |
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I'll third Escape From Camp 14
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06-20-2013, 11:31 AM | #17 |
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For my second nomination, I nominate What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool (print length: 416 pages).
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06-20-2013, 12:01 PM | #18 | |
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I'll nominate The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. You can find it at the library (Overdrive) and all the usual bookstores.
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06-20-2013, 12:33 PM | #19 | |
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06-20-2013, 01:08 PM | #20 |
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06-20-2013, 01:08 PM | #21 |
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06-20-2013, 07:16 PM | #23 |
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06-21-2013, 01:56 AM | #24 |
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06-21-2013, 02:25 AM | #25 | |
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I'd like to nominate "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramhansa Yogananda.
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06-21-2013, 03:20 AM | #26 | |
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06-21-2013, 03:40 AM | #27 |
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I'll second What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool (print length: 416 pages).
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06-21-2013, 07:12 AM | #29 |
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06-21-2013, 08:20 AM | #30 |
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I second the Philip Gourevitch: I remember reading about it when it was published and always meant to read it.
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