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Learn Raspberry Pi with Linux
David Hows, Peter Membrey
A Common Faith (The Terry Lectures Series)
John Dewey
The Gate Behind the Wall
Samuel C. Heilman
Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies
Don Hubert, Kenneth Thompson, David Held, Stuart Hall
Lectures on Russian Literature
Vladimir Nabokov, Владимир Набоков
The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
Kevin Bales;Ron Soodalter
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, James Grieve
Love
Jean Stewart, B.C.J.G. Knight, Suzanne Sale, Gilbert Sale, Stendhal
Atlas of the Roman World
John Matthews, Tim J. Cornell
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
The Rocking Horse Winner (Travelman Classics) - D.H. Lawrence A good 'subway ride' tale for the dissatisfied.
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul  Bellow, Christopher Hitchens Because I <3 the cover. Judging books by their covers is surprisingly effective.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself - Olaudah Equiano an odd mix between a narrative and a religious tract.
Self-Reliance and Other Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson In the words of E.M. Forster, "Emerson the philosopher, a most trying man."
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye i was having fun until tom sawyer came in and ruined it all.
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster, Pankaj Mishra, Oliver Stallybrass Good book, pretty complicated. Shame Forster didn't write any more novels after this - his writing is beautiful.
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry Short, but full, full to the brim.
Bleak House - Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Nicola Bradbury Bah. Humbug!
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins There are some annoying parts, but it is a great fun to read on the overall. Collins is a hell of a storyteller for sure.
Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore, W.B. Yeats Yeats's intro is insufferable.
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore, Sourindro Mohun Tagore, Surendranath Tagore, Anita Desai, William Radice http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1922/tagore.htm
100 Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings No use reading poetry when one cannot breathe, slow and deep.
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights - John Steinbeck The edition I have had the letters steinbeck wrote about his work on this book. Amazing. The book in itself is a curious thing.
A Child's Garden of Verses - Tasha Tudor, Robert Louis Stevenson Missing the 'right' time of your life to read certain books is a sad thing.
Wrapped in Lace: Knitted Heirloom Designs from Around the World - Margaret Stove Sorely disappointed by the prettiness level of the patterns. I guess New Zealander aesthetics and I just don't mesh. Doubt I will ever make any of these patterns.
Dignity, Rank, and Rights (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) - Jeremy Waldron, Meir Dan-Cohen This book will best serve those who have a bit of background (and interest) in the dignity debate, and who favors more 'casual' styles. That said,this book is sufficiently charming to be read by those who don't care for dignity or lectures (for the former, a careful reading of this book will probably make them care about it at least some). Prof. Waldron is the best kind of liberal that currently exists, and the comment and response format allows the readers a glimpse into how people actually 'debate' these issues in a constructive way - a treat for those of us not dignified enough to belong in the ivory tower.