Sunday, May 05, 2024

2024-05-05 Sunday - Recent Personal Library Additions

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These are some books I recently picked-up through the local Friends of the Library bookstore...or, as I like to call them: treasures collected...

For a grand total of $2.50 (for all of these):

  1. Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open The Heart and Rekindle The Spirit (by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen)
  2. First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy (by Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebeca R. Merrill)
  3. Catch Me If You Can (by Frank Abagnale)
  4. The Birth of an Island (by Francois Clement)
  5. The Golden Retriever (by Eve Adamson and Wayne Hunthausen)
  6. The Not  So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live (by Sarah Susanka)
  7. The Big Book of Business Games: Icebreakers, Creativity Exercises, and Meeting Energizers (by John Newstrom and Edward Scannel)
  8. The Man from St. Petersburg (by Ken Follett)
  9. Harrington on Hold'em: Expert Strategy For No-Limit Tournaments, Volume 1: Strategic Play (by Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie)
  10. One Day In September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wraith of God" (by Simon Reeve) 
  11. Legal Problem Solving: Analysis, Research and Writing (by Marjorie R. Rombauer)
  12. Constitutional Amendments: An Encyclopedia of the People, Procedures, Politics, Primary Documents, Campaigns for the 27 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Volume One: Bill of Rights, Eleventh Amendment to eighteenth Amendment. (by Mark Grossman) 
  13. Constitutional Amendments: An Encyclopedia of the People, Procedures, Politics, Primary Documents, Campaigns for the 27 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Volume Two: Nineteenth Amendment to Twenty-seventh Amendment. (by Mark Grossman) 
  14. Bon Voyage: Florida Edition, Glencoe French 3 (by Schmitt Brillie Lutz)


On another trip, for a grand total of $3.50 (for all of these):

  1. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (by Doris Kearns Goodwin)
  2. Beyond The White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope (by Jimmy Carter)
  3. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (by Barack Obama) 
  4. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (by Navy Seal Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice) 
  5. MacMillan: The Great American Grain Family, An Illustrated Biography (by W. Duncan MacMillan, with Patricia Condon Johnston) 
  6. The Great Depression: An Eyewitness History (by David F. Burg) 
  7. Techniques of China Painting (by Gunhild Jorgensen)
  8. China Painting: Step by Step  (by Doris W. Taylor, Anne Button Hart)
  9. The CAREER ARCHITECT Development Planner: An Expert System Offering 96 Research Based and Experience Tested Development Plans and Coaching Tipos, 3rd Edition (by Michael M. Lombardo, Robert W. Eichinger)
  10. The Client (John Grisham)
  11. The Turing Option (by Harry Harrison, Marvin Minsky) 

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