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Tietoja minustaI'm a retired library and IT director and college dean. I love books and electrons. For about 20 years I published a bi-monthly review periodical until the mailing list got too large and expensive. Switched then to electronic delivery and finally when Amazon and sites like Goodreads appeared realized it was redundant.

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RekisteröitymispäiväMay 4, 2009

Parhaillaan lukemassaGlory Enough for All: The Battle of the Crater : A Novel of the Civil War – tekijä: Duane Schultz
Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale Of Greed, Sex, Lies, And The Pursuit Of A Swivel Chair – tekijä: Cameron Stracher
Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical – tekijä: Anthony Bourdain
The Chaneysville Incident – tekijä: David Bradley
Every Contact Leaves A Trace: A Novel – tekijä: Elanor Dymott
American Studies – tekijä: Louis Menand
Croaker: Chalk Whispers (Fey Croaker Novels - Book 4) – tekijä: Paul Bishop
Never Mind – tekijä: Edward St. Aubyn
Raven: The Untold Story of The Rev. Jim Jones and His People – tekijä: Tim Reiterman
Les Miserables (Everyman's Library) – tekijä: Victor Hugo
Pandora's Succession – tekijä: Russell Brooks
Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic – tekijä: Martin Gardner
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States – tekijä: James F. Simon
Time Zones, Containers And Three Square Meals A Day – tekijä: Maria Staal
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA – tekijä: George Tenet
Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I – tekijä: John Ellis
From the trenches : Louvain to the Aisne, the first record of an eye-witness (1914) – tekijä: Geoffrey Wintrhop Young
Strata Florida-A tale of the Grail – tekijä: R.D. Le Coeur
Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know – tekijä: Jason Brennan
Icebound – tekijä: Leonard F. Guttridge
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician – tekijä: Anthony Everitt
Beside a Narrow Stream (Ulverscroft Mystery) – tekijä: Faith Martin
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today – tekijä: Thomas E. Ricks
The Boy in the Snow: An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery (Edie Kiglatuk Mysteries) – tekijä: M. J. McGrath
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess Team – tekijä: Michael Weinreb
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts – tekijä: Antonin Scalia
God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields – tekijä: Peter Irons
Sand's War – tekijä: Ennis Willie
Delilah: A Novel about a U.S. Navy Destroyer and the Epic Struggles of Her Crew – tekijä: Marcus Goodrich
A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial – tekijä: H.L. Mencken
The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America – tekijä: Lauri Lebo
ARCTIC CONVOYS 1941 - 1945 – tekijä: Richard Woodman
Happy Birthday Turke! (German Edition) – tekijä: Jakob Arjouni
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest – tekijä: Wade Davis
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) – tekijä: Michael Lienesch
A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument – tekijä: Jasper Rees
Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress – tekijä: William Lee Miller
Cathedral of the Sea - Unabr CDs – tekijä: Ildefonso Falcones
On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation – tekijä: Robert Whitaker
The Return of Philo T. McGiffin (Bluejacket Books) – tekijä: David Poyer
The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History – tekijä: Kirsten Grind
Torch (Henry Holt Mystery Series) – tekijä: John Lutz
The World within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II – tekijä: Gerald F. Linderman
Dresden 1945: The Devil's Tinderbox – tekijä: Alexander McKee
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.) – tekijä: Trevor Corson
Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat – tekijä: Harvey Levenstein
Death in Captivity – tekijä: Michael Gilbert
To the Ends of the Earth – tekijä: William Golding
To the Edge of the World – tekijä: Harry Thompson
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History) – tekijä: David Hackett Fischer
Altered Carbon (GollanczF.) – tekijä: Richard Morgan
The Confession (Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar) – tekijä: Olen Steinhauer
The Three Edwards – tekijä: Thomas B. Costain
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq – tekijä: Michael R. Gordon
Mystery Mile (Campion Mystery) – tekijä: Margery Allingham
Chasm City (Revelation Space) – tekijä: Alastair Reynolds
Crows Over A Wheatfield – tekijä: Paula Sharp
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times – tekijä: George Crile
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) – tekijä: Naomi Novik
Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax – tekijä: Dorothy Gilman
The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I – tekijä: Thomas Fleming
Testimony – tekijä: Anita Shreve
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center – tekijä: William Langewiesche
An Advancement of Learning – tekijä: Reginald Hill
In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany – tekijä: Thomas Childers
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World – tekijä: Dan Koeppel
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1) – tekijä: Cormac McCarthy
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror – tekijä: Stephen Kinzer
Growing Up Amish: A Memoir – tekijä: Ira Wagler
Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal – tekijä: David France
Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 – tekijä: A.J. Langguth
The Halo Effect (MIRA) – tekijä: M. J. Rose
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War – tekijä: Tony Horwitz
The Road to Disunion, Vol. 1: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 – tekijä: William W. Freehling
The Steam Pig – tekijä: James McClure
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America – tekijä: Garrett Epps
Ordeal of the Union, Vol 1: Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-52 – tekijä: Allan Nevins
Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America – tekijä: Randall Balmer
Red Sky in Morning: A Novel – tekijä: Patrick Culhane
65 Proof - Jack Daniels and Other Thriller Stories – tekijä: J.A. Konrath
The Paris Gun of 1918, and the Century Leading to It – tekijä: John T. Cullen
Search the Dark (Inspector Ian Rutledge Novels) – tekijä: Charles Todd
Water for Elephants: A Novel – tekijä: Sara Gruen
The Girl Who Played with Fire – tekijä: Stieg Larsson
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author,Who Went in Search of Them – tekijä: Donovan Hohn
Reapers: A Botswana Mystery – tekijä: Frederick Ramsay
Fiddlers and Whores: The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson's Fleet – tekijä: James Lowry
Hard Day's Knight (Black Night Chronicles) – tekijä: John G. Hartness
The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man – tekijä: Amir Aczel
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero – tekijä: William Kalush
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul – tekijä: Edward Humes
At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union – tekijä: Robert V. Remini
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox – tekijä: Stephen Budiansky
Lunar Park – tekijä: Bret Easton Ellis
This Game of Ghosts – tekijä: Joe Simpson
Goodfellowe MP – tekijä: Michael Dobbs
Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court – tekijä: Edward Lazarus
Red Sky in Morning: A Novel of World War II – tekijä: Patrick Culhane
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea – tekijä: Noah Andre Trudeau
The Sixth Wife: The Wives of Henry VIII – tekijä: Jean Plaidy
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon – tekijä: Neil Sheehan
The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis – tekijä: Michael W. Hudson
Silence of the Grave (Reykjavik Murder Mysteries, No. 2) – tekijä: Arnaldur Indridason
Kill All the Lawyers (Solomon vs. Lord Novels) – tekijä: Paul Levine
Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend – tekijä: Bart D. Ehrman
Gentleman Captain – tekijä: J. D. Davies
Man in the Window – tekijä:
The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion – tekijä: Stephen B. Oates
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front – tekijä: Gunter K. Koschorrek
Watchman – tekijä: Ian Rankin
Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives – tekijä: Edwin Black
An Absence of Light – tekijä: David L. Lindsey
The Big Lie: Spying, Scandal, and Ethical Collapse at Hewlett Packard – tekijä: Anthony Bianco
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign – tekijä: Edward J. Larson
OPERATION MINCEMEAT – tekijä: BEN MACINTYRE
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine – tekijä: Michael Lewis
Dirty Snow (New York Review Books Classics) – tekijä: Georges Simenon
The Bad Samaritan (Crime, Penguin) – tekijä: Robert Barnard
A Lonely Death: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries) – tekijä: Charles Todd
Justice Brennan: The Great Conciliator – tekijä: Hunter R. Clark
Bangkok Days – tekijä: Lawrence Osborne
Unicorn's Blood – tekijä: Patricia Finney
Bitter ocean: the dramatic story of the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945 – tekijä: WHITE DAVID F.
Beyond the Blue Horizon: On the Track of Imperial Airways – tekijä: Alexander Frater
Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriage – tekijä: Diane Middlebrook
Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family (Borealis (Saint Paul, Minn.).) – tekijä: John Hildebrand
The Gun Seller – tekijä: Hugh Laurie
Seven Men of Gascony (Classics of Military Fiction) – tekijä: R.F. Delderfield
Phoenix Noir (Akashic Noir) – tekijä: Patrick Millikin
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion – tekijä: Seth Stern
The Appeal – tekijä: John Grisham
Manhattan Noir – tekijä: Lawrence Block
Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education – tekijä: Liza Picard
LeMay (Great Generals) – tekijä: Barrett Tillman
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics – tekijä: Don E. Fehrenbacher
The Desert of Wheat – tekijä: Zane Grey
Brother Cadfael: One Corpse Too Many – tekijä: Derek Jacobi
Dead Aim – tekijä: Thomas Perry
Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years – tekijä: John Philip Jenkins
Death of a Perfect Wife – tekijä: M. C. Beaton
Henry VIII: The King and His Court – tekijä: Alison Weir
Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 – tekijä: Evan Thomas
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel – tekijä: Kurt Vonnegut
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France – tekijä: Eric Jager
Fireball: A Courtroom Drama – tekijä: Robert G. Begam
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town – tekijä: Nick Reding
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife – tekijä: Mary Roach
A Visible Darkness: A Mystery – tekijä: Michael Gregorio
Vampire a Go-Go – tekijä: Victor Gischler
Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries, No. 3) – tekijä: C. J. Sansom
Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England – tekijä: James Ruddick
The Devil Went Down to Austin – tekijä: Rick Riordan
The Unquiet: A Thriller (Charlie Parker Thrillers) – tekijä: John Connolly
An Author Bites the Dust (An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery) – tekijä: Arthur Upfield
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism (Turning Points in History) – tekijä: Bob Edwards
Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War – tekijä: Bill Sloan
Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer – tekijä: Henry Petroski
The Eye of Jade: A Mei Wang Mystery (Mei Wang Mysteries) – tekijä: Diane Wei Liang
The 8:55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie and theOrient Express – tekijä: Andrew Eames
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party – tekijä: Max Blumenthal
Submarine! The Classic Account of Undersea Combat in World War II – tekijä: Cap. Edward L. Beach USN (Ret.)
Traitor's Kiss – tekijä: Gerald Seymour
One Under (DI Joe Faraday) – tekijä: Graham Hurley
The Ghosts of Belfast – tekijä: Stuart Neville
The Torment of Others: A Novel – tekijä: Val McDermid
Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man – tekijä: Oliver August
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson – tekijä: Robert Polito
When Satan Wore A Cross – tekijä: Fred Rosen
The Masterpiece – tekijä: Emile Zola
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream – tekijä: Patrick Radden Keefe
A Year at the Supreme Court (Constitutional Conflicts) – tekijä: Jr. Stuart Taylor
Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court – tekijä: Jan Crawford Greenburg
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga – tekijä: Steven Naifeh
The Man on the Balcony – tekijä: Maj Sjowall
Away All Boats (Classics of Naval Literature) – tekijä: Kenneth Dodson
Seaflower: A Kydd Novel (Kydd Novels) – tekijä: Julian Stockwin
Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy – tekijä: Dean Baker
Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution Of People And Plagues (Helix Book) – tekijä: Christopher Wills
American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone – tekijä: D. D. Guttenplan
Life on the Mississippi (Signet Classics) – tekijä: Mark Twain
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism – tekijä: Kevin Phillips
Lost – tekijä: Michael Robotham
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power – tekijä: James Carroll
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium – tekijä: Bart D. Ehrman
Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power – tekijä: Fred Kaplan
Even – tekijä: Andrew Grant
Agincourt CD – tekijä: Bernard Cornwell
Citizen Vince: A Novel – tekijä: Jess Walter
Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's – tekijä: R. A. Scotti
Moscow 1941: A City & Its People at War: A City and Its People at War – tekijä: RODRIC BRAITHWAITE
Detective Inspector Huss – tekijä: Helene Tursten
Learning To Kill – tekijä: Ed McBain
One Summer: America, 1927 – tekijä: Bill Bryson
He Who Hesitates (87th Precinct) – tekijä: Ed McBain
Capitol Offense (The Bill Travis Mysteries) – tekijä: George Wier
The Timothy Files – tekijä: Lawrence Sanders
The Beckoning Silence – tekijä: Joe Simpson
The Arnheiter affair – tekijä: Neil Sheehan
The Main: A Novel – tekijä: Trevanian
Sea Change – tekijä: ROBERT GODDARD
Bluejacket: An Autobiography (Classics of Naval Literature) – tekijä: Fred J. Buenzle
The Amateur – tekijä: Robert Littell
Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics – tekijä: Kenneth Ford
Strange Ground: An Oral History Of Americans In Vietnam, 1945-1975 – tekijä: Harry Maurer
Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President--and Won – tekijä: Brandt Goldstein
Fifth Avenue – tekijä: Christopher Smith
The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South – tekijä: Bruce Levine
Kaddish in Dublin: A Matt Minogue Mystery – tekijä: John Brady
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