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    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban~ J.K Rowling.....I have waited until now to read them!

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    # 1 of: Fathers and Sons (Penguin Classics)
    Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
    # 1 of: The Confusions of Young Törless (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
    # 1 of: Cosmicomics
    Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
    # 1 of: Snow
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    # 1 of: Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
    Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
    # 1 of: Mao: The Unknown Story
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    # 1 of: Sputnik Sweetheart by Murakami, Haruki
    Sold by: dvdlegacy

    Not from Amazon
    Blaze - Stephen King
    Dylan's Vision of Sin - Cristopher Ricks
    Chronicles - Bob Dylan
    After Dark - Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin
    The Immortal Game - David Shenk

    Some are school books, some are books for my enjoyment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seant018 View Post
    # 1 of: Fathers and Sons (Penguin Classics)
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    Very good book. Enjoy it!

    I haven't purchased a book for a while, but my grandma bought me Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows.
    com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity

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    Thanks, I bought it for an upper level English class and didn't know what to expect, I am happy to hear it is a good book

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    "Pirates of the West Country" E.T Fox

    Well researched and racily written account of some West of England pirates.

    (Declaration of interest: I am not the author, but do know him quite well)
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    Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?

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    Toward an Anthropology of Women, ed. by Rayna R. Reiter; bought it online but thanks to near incessant postal strikes I am yet to receive it. I ordered it for Gayle Rubin's 'Traffic in Women', which I've had for years in a critical anthology, but one can hardly refer to one of those in an academic work.

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    Just got back from Barnes and Noble

    #1- Why I Write-George Orwell-at the moment I've just revived my addiction of Orwell while in Mexico. I re-read 1984, Animal Farm and read Burmese Days. I've never seen this one in any of the bookstores I've been to and it just called out to me.

    #2-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: And proud of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Annamariah View Post
    (Plus of course Quidditch Through Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
    I had no idea that there were books like those?! Wow...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mortis Anarchy View Post
    I had no idea that there were books like those?! Wow...
    Oh yes! Rowling wrote those some years ago and all the profits go to comic relief I have them both in English but only Quidditch Through the Ages in Finnish, because someone wanted to read my copy of Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them and I never got it back. I can't buy a new one, because they haven't re-printed it in Finnish
    Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
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    That would be...

    Fagles translation of The Odyssey on audiobook and Biology; 7th edition by Campbell, et. al.

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    The English Novel: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Star View Post
    That would be...

    Fagles translation of The Odyssey on audiobook
    Oh, nobody does Homer in English better than Fagles!

    He is my only choice!

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    On Becoming a Novelist - John Gardner
    Moby-Dick, A Norton Critical Edition - Melville
    Billy Budd and Other Stories - Melville

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    Those Who Seek by Daniil Granin
    the luminous grass of the prairie hides
    feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
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    The Aquanauts by Daniel Bard was just delivered to me at work about 10 minutes ago. Paperback based on a TV series from 1960 I've been looking forthis on e-bay for almost two years with the attitude that all things come to those who wait--patiently. By-the-by no one has heard of this series and if it ever makes DVDs I shall be annoying the long suffering wife with a marathon viewing.

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