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Robert Kurson
Shadow Divers
(Random House, 2004)
ISBN 0-37550858-9
Fascinating study of two
flawed but stubbornly
courageous divers who became
obsessed with a sunken
WWII German submarine
they discovered off the
New Jersey coast.
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Leonard Mosley
The Battle of Britain: The
Making of a Film
(Stein & Day, 1969)
The making of this film
portrayal of the epic defense
of
Britain is an epic in its own
right. This long out of print
volume offers a
producer's-eye view of the
trials and triumphs.
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Fred Stabley, Jr. and Tim
Staudt
Tales of the Magical
Spartans
(Sports Publishing, 2003)
This 25th anniversary memoir
of the Magic Johnson-led 1979
national champions contained
anecdotes that even a devoted
fan like me had never heard.
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Peter Maas
The Terrible Hours
(HarperCollins, 1999)
ISBN 0-06-093277-5
I thought I knew the story of the
submarine Squalus--until Peter Maas
introduced me properly to "Swede"
Momson, the story's real-life hero.
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A. Heinlein
For Us, The Living
(Scribners, 2003)
ISBN 0-7432-5998-X
While I wouldn't hand
this to anyone who
hadn't read and
enjoyed most of
Heinlein's ouvre, I found it a delightful
throwback that reawakened my hopeful
wish-to-believe.
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Warren Kidder
Willow Run: Colossus of
American Indiustry
(KLF Publishing, 1995)
ISBN 0-96472053-1
One of the most remarkable
stories of America's wartime
industrial effort concerns
Ford's bomber-an-hour B-24
assembly line at Willow Run, Michigan. This writing in
this
self-published history is uneven,
but I learned a great deal all
the same.
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Jack McDevitt
Moonfall
(HarperPrism, 1998)
ISBN 0-06-105112-8
Jack's writing possesses
the old-time virtues of
traditional SF storytelling
without seeming at all dated.
He has never disappointed
me.
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Colin Garratt
The World Encyclopedia
of Locomotives
(Hermes House, 2002)
ISBN 1-84309-033-3
I'm only keeping this
until I can find something
better. It simply isn't
big enough or appropriately
organized to live up to its
billing as a "world
encyclopedia."
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Bob Woodward &
Scott Armstrong
The Brethren: Inside the
Supreme Court
(Simon & Schuster, 1979)
ISBN: Unknown
No one who has read this could
have been surprised by Bush v.
Gore. One glimpse of the
little men behind the curtain,
and everything changes.
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Richard Feynman
The Meaning of it All
(Addison-Wesley, 1998)
ISBN 0-965-058219
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Terry C. Treadwell
Ironworks: The Story
of Grumman and its Aircraft
(Tempus Publishing, 2000)
ISBN 0-7524-1717-7
Exhaustively detailed
behind-the-factory-gates
story of the company which
created most of the U.S.
Navy's most notable carrier
aircraft.
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Stephen E. Ambrose
The Wild Blue: The Men
and Boys Who Flew The
B-24s Over Germany
(Touchstone, 2001)
ISBN 0-7432-2309-8
The George McGovern you
never knew. One of the best
books ever written about
the bomber crews of the
Army Air Forces.
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Michael Shermer
How We Believe: The search
for God in an age of science
(W.H. Freeman, 2000)
ISBN 0-7167-3561-X
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Niles Eldridge
The Triumph of Evolution and
the Failure of Creationism
(W.H. Freeman, 2000)
ISBN 0-7167-3638-1
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Dossie Easton &
Catherine A. Liszt
The Ethical Slut: A guide
to infinite sexual possibilities
(Greenery Press, 1997)
ISBN 1-890159-01-8
This generation's answer to Open
Marriage -- an optimistic look at the
challenges of responsible polyamory.
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Gina Ogden
Women Who Love Sex
- Revised Edition
(Womanspirit Press, 1999)
ISBN 0-9672705-0-2
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Bill Bryson
Made In America: An Informal
History of the English
Language in the United States
(Avon Bard, 1994)
ISBN 0-380-71381-0
Almost every page contained
a delightful historical or
linguistic tidbit I wanted to share.
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Patrick F. McManus
A Fine and Pleasant Misery
(Henry Holt, 1978)
ISBN 0-8050-0032-1
My wife gave me this book when
she thought I needed to laugh.
She was right, and I did.
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Patricia Payne
Sex Tips From A Dominatrix
(Regan Books, 1999)
ISBN 0-06039287-8
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Lawrence S. Ritter
Lost Ballparks: A
Celebration of Baseball's
Legendary Fields
(Penguin Studio, 1992)
ISBN 0-14-023422-5
Can the steroid-era cable-TV
baseball fan appreciate the
gentle pleasures of a tour through
the ballparks in which yesterday's
heroes earned their reputation? I'd like to think so--in
any case,
I did.
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