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Friday, November 15, 2013

Books of the Month (Trying to Catch Up)

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The Time Machine
The Dead Room
Bright Shiny Morning
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Watchmen
You Remind Me of Me
Something Wicked/way
The Little Book
The Lost Symbol
Dry
The Moviegoer
Then We Came to the End: A Novel
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Cat's Cradle
What the Dead Know: A Novel
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific


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Yes- 15%
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Yes- 42%
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