Free Books

[Alex]

The other discussion of "too many books" reminded me that since I started working again last fall I haven't been good about getting the unnecessary books out of the house. So, here are is a list of books that I'll be moving out one way or another.

If you want one (or more) just reply saying what and then PM me with a mailing address and I'll eventually drop in the mail. There is a small chance of Lani vetoing some from being deaccessioned (see, library school teaches you big words). But otherwise, first claimed, first served.

The commute requirement of easy reading has reintroduced an embarrassment of mid-quality science fiction to my recent reading list.

Balfour, Sandy, pretty girl in crimson rose (8): A Memoir of Love, Exile, and Crosswords (hardcover)

Bryson, Bill, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (trade paperback)

Bryson, Bill, Notes from a Small Island (trade paperback)

Casti, John L., The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation (trade paperback)

Chabon, Michael, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (trade paperback) - Pulitzer Prize winner (and deserving of it)

Cohen, Patricia Cline, A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America (trade paperback)

Cornwell, Patricia, Blow Fly (mass market paperback)

Denby, David, Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World (hardcover)

Ellis, Richard, Aquagenesis: The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea (trade paperback)

Fadiman, Anne (editor), The Best American Essays, 2003 (trade paperback)

Ferguson, Craig, Between the Bridge and the River (trade paperback) - Yes, that Craig Ferguson and it is a novel not an autobiography.

Fouts, Roger with Mills, Stephen Tukel, Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are (trade paperback)

Gaiman, Neil, Neverwhere (trade paperback)

Gibson, William, Pattern Recognition (trade paperback)

Gleeson, Janet, Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance (trade paperback)

Grisham, John, The Broker (mass market paperback)

Hamilton, Peter F.
Judas Unchained (hardcover)
The Naked God, Part 1: Flight (mass market paperback)
The Naked God, Part 2: Faith (mass market paperback)
The Neutronium Alchemist, Part 1: Consolidation (mass market paperback)
The Neutronium Alchemist, Part 2: Conflict (mass market paperback)
Pandora's Star (mass market paperback)
The Reality Dysfunction, Part 1: Emergence (mass market paperback)
The Reality Dysfunction, Park 2: Expansion (mass market paperback)

Heinlein, Robert A., Tunnel in the Sky (mass market paperback)

Kislevitz, Gail Waesche, First Marathons: Personal Encounters with the 26.2 Mile Monster (trade paperback)

Kpomassie, Tete-Michel, An African in Greenland (trade paperback)

Lederer, Katy, Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (hardcover) - Biography of sister to famous poker players Howard Lederer and Annie Duke

Linnman, Paul, The Exploding Whale and Other Remarkable Stories from the Evening News (trade paperback) - Linnman was a longtime local anchorman in Portland, Oregon. This is something of a biography but has all the details of the famous dynamited whale which he covered.

Maupin, Amistead, Tales of the City (trade paperback)

McDevitt, Jack, The Engines of God (mass market paperback)

Millington, Mil, Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (trade paperback) - This is an actual novel, not just a print collection of rants from the somewhat famous web site.

Nash, Bruce and Zullo, Allan, The Baseball Hall of Shame (trade paperback) - A former Sacramento Public Library book but I swear it was acquired legally.

Parker, Andrew, In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Kick-Started the Big Bang of Evolution (trade paperback)

Shearer, Harry, It's the Stupidity, Stupid: Why (Some) People Hate Clinton and Why the Rest of Us Have to Watch (hardcover)

Vowell, Sarah, Assassination Vacation (trade paperback)

Will, George, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball (trade paperback)