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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn

Sources for the history of science, 1660-1914 (The Sources of history, studies in the uses of historical evidence) by David M Knight

The House Of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd

Big Money. Penguin Fiction No 937 by P G Wodehouse

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert

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About meThe picture is of Horus, one of our two cats.

About my librarySince I taught physics, I collected a number of science-related books. The library developed from my collections and those of my wife ( a retire elementary school guidance counselor) and two sons. The sons have left home, but their books remain!
There is a fine local public library, as well as a university library; so I have borrowed many books from those sources, or have given some books away. If my library has few books by a "favorite" author, it is because I had given those books away or borrowed them (before LibraryThing).

Groups75 Books Challenge for 2009, 75 Books Challenge for 2010, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Books in Books, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Bug Collectors, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Physics!, Steampunk, West Virginians

Favorite authorsBoris Akunin, John Buchan, John Connolly, Jasper Fforde, Alan Furst, Peter Gay, Arnaldur Indridason, Michael Innes, John Lawton, David Liss, Iain Pears, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Elizabeth Peters, Oliver Sacks, C. J. Sansom, Janwillem van de Wetering (Shared favorites)