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quotes from the books).
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quotes from the books).
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Vixon 03 - Clive Cussler
A Series of Unfortunate Events #13 - Lemony Snicket
Armadillos and Old Lace - Kinky Friedman
The Short Reign of Pippin IV - John Steinbeck
The Landry News - Andrew Clements
The Plague - Albert Camus
Surviving the Applewhites - Stephanie Tolan
No More Dead Dogs - Gordon Korman
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through - P.G. Wodehouse
Murder on the Links - Agatha Christy
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Room of Marvels - James Bryan Smith
Fahrenheit 454 - Ray Bradbury
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
The Chronicles of Narnia (Book 1-7) - C.S. Lewis
Criss Cross - Lynne Rae Perkins
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Dubliners - James Joyce
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Mark Haddon
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish - Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril
- Lemony Snicket
Family: The Ties that Bind ... and Gag - Erma Bombeck
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire - Niall Ferguson
A Beginner's Guide to the New Testament - William Barclay
Listen to the Heart - Bobbie Reed
Fantastic Voyage - Ray Kurzweil & Terry Grossman
Zero to Sixty - Gary Paulsen
Night Light - James & Shirley Dobson
Creating an Intimate Marriage - Jim Burns
Chariots of the Gods - Erich von Daniken
Made to be Broken - Allen St. John
Love Is . . . - Les & Leslie Parrott
Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry & Mary - Lee Strobel
God at Ground Zero - Curt Sewell
When Bad Things Happen to Good People - Harold Kushner
The Productivity Handbook - Donald Wetmore
The Case for a Creator - Lee Strobel
Lake Stevens: My Town - Jim Mitchell
The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
Does Anything Eat Wasps? - New Scientist
On the 7th Day - John Ashton
How to Read a Book - Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Doren
Christian Perspectives: Creation/Evolution - Michael McCoy
Six Thinking Hats - Edwared de Bono
Sundown Towns - James W. Loewen
The Lie - Ken Ham
Refrigerator Rights - Will Miller
Age of Propaganda - Anthony Pratkanis & Elliot Aronson
Dave Barry's Money Secrets - Dave Barry
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
It Takes a Family - Rick Santorum
Unsolved Mysteries of History - Paul Aron
Collapse - Jared Diamond
A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
Bucky Works - J. Baldwin
The Last Destroyer - Barry Foster
Outwitting Clutter - Bill Adler, Jr.
Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents - Cormac O'Brien
More Unsolved Mysteries of American History - Paul Aron
The Biology of Belief - Bruce Lipton
Unsolved Mysteries of American History - Paul Aron
Do Fish Know They're Wet? - Tom Neven
2005
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
Foundation and Earth - Isaac Asimov
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe - Douglas Adams
Knife of Dreams - Robert Jordan
Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov
The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
Flash Forward - Robert Sawyer
On the Beach - Nevil Shute
The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Things Not Seen - Andrew Clements
Spiderwick Chronicles #1-5-Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Man and Superman - George Bernard Shaw
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
The Tent - Gary Paulsen
Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
2004
The Gold Coast - Nelson DeMille
God's Debris - Scott Adams
Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
A Series of Unfortunate Events: books 1-11 - Lemony Snicket
The Giver - Lois Lowry
The Diaries of Adam and Even - Mark Twain
The Transall Saga - Gary Paulsen
Letters for Emily - Camron Wright
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
The Glass Cafe - Gary Paulsen
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Belles on Their Toes - Frank Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
The Wanderer - Sharon Creech
Cheaper by the Dozen - Frank Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Pudd'n'head Wilson - Mark Twain
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-exupery
2003
Without Remorse - Tom Clancy
The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
Holes - Louis Sachar
Rosshalde - Herman Hesse
Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
Wheel of Time series: books 1-10 - Robert Jordan
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
2002
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Testament - John Grisham
Nightfall and Other Stories - Isaac Asimov
Me Talk Pretty Someday - David Sedaris
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
2001
Many Waters - Madeline L'Engle
A Wind in the Door - Madeline L'Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeline L'Engle
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Brave New World - Alduous Huxley
Deal With Your Debt - Liz Pulliam Weston
Your Credit Score - Liz Pulliam Weston
Oddball Ohio - Jerome Pohlen
And the Angels Were Silent - Max Lucado
Time Flies - Bill Cosby
Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy - John Nichols & Robert McChesney
Prison Letters - Corrie ten Boom
The Debt - Randall Robinson
Practicing the Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
Loving God - Charles Colson
How We Believe - Michael Shermer
Answers for Atheists - Calvin Beisner
Mickey Mantle: My Favorite Summer - Mickey Mantle & Phil Pepe
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Flyboys - James Bradley
I Know What You're Thinking - Lillian Glass
In Six Days - John Ashton
The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story - Paul Aurandt, Jr.
Destiny: Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story - Paul Aurandt, Jr.
More of Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story - Paul Aurandt, Jr.
Paul Harvey For What It's Worth - Paul Aurandt, Jr.
God's Politics - Jim Wallis
The Revised & Expanded Answers Book - Don Batten,ed
Fast Facts on False Teachings - Ron Carlson & Ed Decker
Answers to Distraction - Edward Hallowell & John Ratey
Babyhood - Paul Reiser
Not By Chance! - Lee Spetner
One Blood - Ken Ham & Batten Wieland
The Freemasons - Jasper Ridley
Science Friction - Michael Shermer
Winterdance - Gary Paulsen
Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynn Truss
Wild at Heart - John Eldredge
Covenant Marriage - Gary Chapman
Faith Journey through Fantasy Lands - Russel W. Dalton
Can a Smart Person Believe in God? - Michael Guillen
Studies in Creation - John Klotz
Probability 1: Why there must be intelligent
life in the universe - Amir Aczel
America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction - Jon Stewart
2004
In the beginning was information - Werner Gitt
Become an energy addict - Jon Gordon
Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger
Stars and Their Purpose - Werner Gitt
The Psychology of Persuasion - Kevin Hogan
Toward a Growing Marriage - Gary Chapman
Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man - Hardy & Clarke
Why Societies Need Dissent - Cass Sunstein
Bowling Alone - Robert Putnam
Strange Unsolved Mysteries - Phyllis Emert
Not Even a Hint - Joshua Harris
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
Dude, Where's My Country - Michael Moore
The Influentials - Ed Keller & Jon Berry
A Geography of Time - Robert Levine
Designer Universe - Jimmy Davis & Harry Poe
2003
Dismantling Evolution - Ralph Muncaster
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
Refuting Evolution 2 - Jonathan Sarfati
Darwin's Proof: The triumph of religion over science - C. Hunter
The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth - Jonathan Wells
Tower of Babel: evidence against the new Creationism - R. Pennock
Dave Barry Slept Here: A sort of history of the U.S. - Dave Barry
7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness - Jim Rohn
Refuting Evolution - Jonathan Sarfati
Power and Terror- Noam Chomsky
"9-11" - Noam Chomsky
The Love List - Les & Leslie Parrot
Linked - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Career Paths in Psychology - Robert Sternberg (ed.)
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
How to stubbornly refuse to make yourself miserable about anything -Albert Ellis
2002
Defying the Crowd: Cultivating Creativity in a Culture of Conformity - Robert Sternberg & Todd Lubart
Nobody Left to Hate: teaching compassion after Columbine - Elliot Aronson
The Wellness Revolution - Paul Zane Pilzer
God Wants You to be Rich - Paul Zane Pilzer
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
2001
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
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