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Member: bfertig

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Favorite authorsOrson Scott Card, Jared Diamond, David Hackett Fischer, Thomas L. Friedman, Mark Kurlansky, David McCullough, Joseph Wheelan, Simon Winchester (Shared favorites)

About meEcology grad student, at Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. www.ian.umces.edu www.hpl.umces.edu Married, 2 cats.

About my libraryCurrent challenges/Group Reading
All Africa "Safari"
US Presidents Challenge
Dewey Decimal Challenge
50 book challenge
999 challenge
Go Review That Book!
Horn Point Lab Fast and Loose Book Club (face to face - what a concept!)

Quotes I like
"Education is the enemy of prejudice" - Nelson Mandela

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Member sinceFeb 17, 2007

Currently readingThe Unnatural History of the Sea by Callum Roberts
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Wildfire and Americans: How to Save Lives, Property, and Your Tax Dollars by Roger G. Kennedy
The Founding Fish by John McPhee
1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (P.S.) by Isabel Allende
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
Zorro SPA: Una Novela (Spanish Edition) by Isabel Allende
Nelson Mandela: In His Own Words by
People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
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