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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 04:10 PM
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Weeee! I love free books!
:bounce:

The Prof of the class I'm tutoring just gave the other tutor and I a ton of history books...I got 10!

And they are:

Religion And the Decline of Magic
Dr America: The Lives of Thomas A Dooley, 1927-1961
Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution
The Vietnam Wars: 1945-1990
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy

:woohoo:

:hi:
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unsavedtrash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 04:20 PM
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1. Have you heard of this game?
Kinda like geocaching but for books.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/

None in my town but I plan to release some soon in hopes that others follow.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 04:22 PM
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2. oooh, that looks awesome, thanks!!
:hi:
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 05:10 PM
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9. What a great idea!
I just signed up. I have a ton of hardbacks that the used bookstores don't want. I plan to release them soon.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 04:22 PM
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3. I thought maybe you joined the Conservative Book Club
They usually give you 10 free books for joining their club
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 04:24 PM
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5. Ha! Ewwww!
:spank:
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 05:22 PM
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10. Did you see my post about what madinmaryland said?
:D
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 04:23 PM
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4. AH, LUCKY
A quiet afternoon will take care of those.:yourock: :loveya:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 04:25 PM
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6. Hmm, I got a few 500+ pagers here...
But I should have a good 6 wk winter break :D

:loveya:
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 04:52 PM
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7. What, no math books?
What's the point?
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Rising Phoenix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 04:53 PM
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8. let me know
how Religion and the Decline of Magic is....sounds interesting...who wrote it?
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 06:56 PM
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11. Take a random paragraph from any of those books and post it in GD.
Then step back slowly.
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