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Books (& Articles of Note) Read in 2022


updated: 2022-12-31

Subject Categories/Key-Words

Computers:

H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Ethem Alpaydin 2021 _Machine Learning_ (255 pages; ISDN 9780262542524; OCLC ; MIT; 006.31 Alp; Main+East)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Eric Lengyel 2002, 2011 _Mathematics for 3D Game Programming & Computer Graphics_ (geometry; 382-400 pages; 17.5MB; ISBN 1584500379; CharlesRiver; 794.81526 Len; Main; always chooses least-mnemonic notation; chose brevity over clarity & explanatory power; poor illustrations)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Cathy O'Neil, Ph.D. 2016 _Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases InEqulity and Threatens Democracy_ (259 pages; 005.7 O'Ne; Main+NE)

other computer books


Economics

H4.0, E3.0, R3.9: Horace Cooper, J.D. 2020 _How Trump is Making "Black" "America" Great Again: The UnTold Story of "Black" Advancement in the Era of Trump_/_How Trump is Making "Black" USA Great Again: The UnTold Story of "Black" Advancement in the Era of Trump_ (200-210 pages; 2.2MB; ISBN 1642932213/ 9781642932218; OCLC 1113474299; Post Hill/Bombardier; GoodReads; 305.8009 Cooper)

H4.0, E3.0, R0.9: William Greider 2003, 2004 _The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy_/_Opening Paths to an Immoral Economy_ (ethics; economics; is WG an engine of liberty & prosperity destruction? at least he says he dislikes crony socialism; 360-366 pages; ISBN 9780684862200/ 9780684862194; OCLC 762203899; Simon&Schuster; TCC, Santa Fe Gainesville, Hogtown, Felonious State; 330.122; Main; HB501.G6472)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Nobel laureate economist Friedrich August Hayek, Ph.D., economist Ludwig von Mises, Ph.D., Gottfried Haberler, economist Roger W. Garrison, Ph.D. & economist Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D. 1996, 2007, 2009, 2014 _Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays_ (economics; 120 pages; 858KB; ISBN 1933550457/ 9781933550459; OCLC 943782012; Auburn/LvMI; ILL request #191456; Wichita)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Laura Ingraham 2017 _Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump_ (280 pages; 973.933 Ing; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.9: Mark Reed Levin, J.D. 2015 _Plunder and Deceit: Big Government's Abuse of Young People and the Future_ (244-256 pages; ISBN 9781451606300; Threshold; 320.520973 Lev; NE+East)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Stephen Moore & Arthur B. Laffer 2018 _Trumponomics: InSide the USA First Plan to Revive Our Economy_ (271 pages; 2.9MB; ISBN 1250193710/ 9781250193711; OCLC 1060650965; AllPoints)

see separate page of econ books jgo has read


Science:

H4.0, E3.0, R3.4: Amir R. Alexander 2014 _Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World_ (math; 352 pages; 511 Ale; Main; pretty good, but in the end disappointing, stopped short, incomplete)

H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Tony Attwood/Anthony Attwood 2007, 2015 _The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome_ (390-400-412 pages; ISBN 9781843106692; OCLC 964901167; Jessica Kingsley; 616.8588 Att)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, Ph.D. & Elissa Epel, Ph.D. 2017 _The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer_ (telomerase; 340-360-380 pages; 15MB; 572.87 Bla; Main+Jax+NE)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Nessa Carey 2015 _Junk DNA: A Journey through the Dark Matter of the Genome_ (340 pages; 572.86; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.8: Sean B. Carroll, Ph.D. 2006, 2007 _The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution_ (301 pages; 572.86 Car; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: Rob de Salle, Susan L. Perkins & Patricia J. Wynne 2015 _Welcome to the MicroBiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria & Other Microbes In, On, & Around You_ (220 pages; YaleU; 579.3 deS)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Richard A. Fortey 2000 _Trilobite: EyeWitness to Evolution_ (490Mya-440Mya; Ordovician; 284-320 pages; ISBN 0375406255; OCLC 1016531328; Knopf; 565.39 For; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: John Gribbin 1998 _Q Is for Quantum: Particle Physics from A to Z_ (physics; would be better with index; 595 pages; ISBN 9780684855783; Free; 539.703 Gri; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: David Quammen 2018, 2019-08-06 _The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life_ (Carl Woese; horizontal gene exchange; endosymbiosis; taxonomic tree/forest of life; 461-480 pages; ISBN 9781476776620/ 9781476776637; OCLC ; Simon&Schuster; 591.38; Main+NE+E)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Paul A. Offit, M.D. 2017 _Pandora's Lab: 7 Stories of Science Gone Wrong_ (270 pages; ISBN 9781426217982; OCLC 957223250; National Geographic; 001.96; Main+NE)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.4: Sergio Sismondo, Ph.D. 2018-07-23 _Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma's InVisible Hands_ (231-234 pages; ISBN 9780995527775; Mattering; https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/upload/2018/07/Sismondo-managed-Medicine-2018-1.pdf )

H4.0, E3.0, R3.4: Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. 2006, 2008 _My Stroke of InSight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey_ (neuroscience; 190 pages; 3MB; LT 362.1968 Tay)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., Lisa M. Schwartz, M.D. & Steven Woloshin, M.D. 2011 _Over-Diagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health_ (200 pages; ISBN 97887022009; Beacon; 616.0754 Wel; Main)


Ethics/Constitution/Laws/Criminology:

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Sharyl Attkisson 2017 _The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote_ (media; propaganda; ethics; crime; 285-294 pages; ISBN 9780062468161/ 9780062468178; OCLC 1042907401/ 1002102806; Harper; 070.4 Att; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.3: Miranda Devine 2021-11-30 _LapTop from 7734: Hunter Biden, Big Tech [Immoral Tech Tyrants], and the Dirty Secrets the BiteMe Crime Family, Leftist Media, & Immoral Tech Tyrants & Other Illiberal Leftists/ Dems/ Reds/ Regressives/ Socialists/ Fascists/ Nazis/ Marxists/ Communists/ Bolsheviks/ Stalinists/ Maoists/ Collectivists Tried to Hide_ (criminology; ethics; 224 pages; ISBN 9781637581056; Post Hill; 973.93408 Dev)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Marjorie Gann & Janet Willen 2011 _5K Years of Slavery_ (161 pages; ISBN 9780887769146; Tundra; J 306.362 Gan)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Sarah Kendzior 2015, 2018 _The View from FlyOver Country_ (239 pages; 546KB; 973.932 Ken; little about actual fly-over USA; an odd mix of shining light on under-reported issues & deranged ravings, sometimes mixed in a single paragraph)

H4.0, E3.0, R4.0: David Kupelian 2005, 2015, 2021 _The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, & Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom_ (#1 of series; 255-341 pages; ISBN 1581824599/ 9781942475217/ 9781645720386; OCLC 918285006/ 1200495442; WND/Republic; 658.8 Kup)

H4.5, E3.5, R4.6: Matt Kibbe 2014 _Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff_ (ethics; 272 pages; ISBN 0062308270/ 9780062308275; OCLC 1023149935; Harper Collins)

H4.0, E3.0, R4.5: Mark Reed Levin, J.D. 2021-07-13 _American Marxism_ (Saint-Simon, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Frankfurt School, Dewey, Wilson, Croly, Marcuse, Gamson, Anyon, Weis, Young, Crenshaw, Bell; 304 pages; ISBN 9781501135972; OCLC 1249572909; Threshold; 320.973 Lev)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Andy Ngo 2021-02-02 _UnMasked: InSide Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy [& Liberty]_ (309-320 pages; ISBN 9781546059585; OCLC 1137851522; CenterStreet; 320.53309 Ngo; Main+East)

H3.5, E3.0, R2.7: Bill O'Reilly 2019 _The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees the USA_ (295 pages; ISBN 9781250237224; OCLC ; Holt; 973.933 Ore; Jax)


Engineering/ Making/ Manufacturing/ Building/ Designing:

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Norm Abram 1996 _Measure Twice, Cut Once: Lessons from a Master Carpenter_ (architecture; construction; carpentry; tools; 196 pages; 684.08 Abr; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Hannah Jenkins 2017 _The American House: 100 Contemporary Homes_ (architecture; mostly big hideously expensive; 432 pages; 728.0973; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Carla Mooney & Tom Casteel 2018 _Industrial Design: Why IdiotPhones Aren't Round and Other Mysteries_ (engineering; J but better than nothing; 122 pages; J745.2 Moo; Main+NE)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Jim Richey 1974 _Finishing: Methods of Work_ (230 pages; 684.3097 Ric; Main)

H3.5, E2.70, R3.5: Trevor Rowan 2009 _Compact Cabins: Simple Living in 1K Square Feet Or Less_ (213 pages; 728.73 Row; Main)


History:

H4.0, E3.0, R2.8: Anthony P. Andrews & Jeremy A. Sabloff 1995, 2005 _First Cities_ (archaeology; c.9KBCE; 176 pages; 307.76 And; Main+NE)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Alfred S. Bradford & Pamela M. Bradford 2001 _With Arrow, Sword, and Spear: An History of Warare in the Ancient World_ (8KBCE-500CE; nice over-view; 280 pages; ISBN 0275952592; Praeger; 355.0093 Bra; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.6: Steve Brusatte, Ph.D./Stephen Brusatte, Ph.D. 2018, 2019 _The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World_ (46GBCE-55MBCE; 380 pages; ISBN 9780062490421; OCLC 1104675180; Morrow/HarperCollins; 567.9 Bru; Main+East)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Ray Charles & David Ritz 1978, 1992 _Brother Ray: Ray Charles's Own Story_ (1930-2004; 330 pages; auto-biography Ray Charles Robinson i 1930-2004; an index would greatly improve it)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Craig Childs & Sarah Gilman 2018 _Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America_ (c.33KBCE-12KBCE; 269 pages; ISBN 9780307908660; Pantheon; 441.792 Chi; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Barry W. Cunliffe/sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, Ph.D., Alison Wilkins & Lynda Smithson 2001, 2004 _Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its People 8000BCE-1500CE_ (8KBCE-1500CE; 600 pages; ISBN 9780192853554; OCLC 758071938; OxfordU; 940 Cun; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Jessica Faust & Jacky Sach 2002 _The Book of ThanksGiving: Stories, Poems, & Recipes for one of the USA's Greatest Holidays_ (170 pages; ISBN 9780806523675; Citadel/Kensington; 394.2649 Fau; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.6: Richard A. Fortey 1997, 1998 _Life: A Natural History of the 1st 4G Years of Life on Earth_ (322 pages; ISBN 0375401199; Knopf/RandomHouse; 576.8 For; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.4: Chuck Fulkerson & Katherine Ace 1992 _The Shawnee_ (J 973.04973 Ful; Main+BLPerry+E+Jax+NE)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Marjorie Gann & Janet Willen 2011 _5K Years of Slavery_ (161 pages; ISBN 9780887769146; Tundra; J 306.362 Gan)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Daniel Greenfield 2022-04-29 _How Obummer & BiteMe Destroyed the Greatest Military the World Has Ever Seen_ (67 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Victor Davis Hanson, Ph.D. 2013, 2014 _The Savior Generals: How 5 Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost from Ancient Greece to Iraq_ (305-320 pages; 5.1MB; ISBN 160819342/ 160819163/ 9781608191635/ 9781608193424; OCLC 943909566/ 854832659; Bloomsbury)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.6: Jack E. Levin & Mark Reed Levin, J.D. 2014 _Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address_ (1865; 64 pages; 39.2MB; ISBN 9781476784264; Threshold; 973.7092 Lev; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.5: Donald R. Prothero & Qarie Marshall 2018 _When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano_ (73KBCE; 75Kya; 195 pages; 23.1MB; ISBN 1588346358/ 1588346366/ 9781588346353/ 9781588346360; OCLC 1031403237; Smithsonian; incoherent, scattered)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: K.G. Richardson 2015, 2016 _Human Trafficking from 5KBCE to the 21st Century: 7K Years of Slavery, Rape, Greed_ (history; criminology; 100-120 pages; 991KB; ISBN 1522978372/ 9781522978374; OCLC 953187804; CreateSpace; good 8th-9th-grade intro/overview)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Simon Schama 2000 _An History of Britain: vol1 At the Edge of the World 3000BCE-1603CE_ (3000BCE-1603CE; 400 pages; 941 Sch; Main+FtBraden)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Vicky Alvear Schecter & Bill Mayer 2019 _Warrior Queens: True Stories of 6 Ancient Rebels Who Slayed History_ (J but better than nothing; Hatshepsut c.1479BCE-1458BCE, Artemisia c.510BCE-c.470BCE, Boudika/Boadicea/Boudicca c.20CE-c.60CE, Zenobia c.230CE-c.275CE, Amanirenas c.60BCE-c.10BCE, Trung Trac c.75BCE-c.43BCE; 151 pages; ISBN 9781629796796; Boyds Mills; J 920.72 Sch; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Anita Silvey & Wendell Minor 2010 _Henry Knox: BookSeller, Soldier, Patriot_ (AmRev; postAmRev; J but better than nothing; 40 pages; 4.2MB; J B Knox; Main)

see separate pages
 


Career

see career books
 


Screen-plays/Movie-Making/Writing

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Robert Ben Garant & Thomas Furneaux Lennon 2011 _Writing Movies For Fun & Profit: How We Made $1G at the Box Office and You Can, Too_ (movies; writing/screen-writing; 322 pages; 808.23 Gar)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Jane K. Cleland 2016 _Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot_ (movies; novels; writing; 225 pages; ISBN 9781599639673; OCLC ; Writer's Digest/CoinsMagazine, E Galbraith between Kenwood & Pine; 808.3872 Cle)

see movie-making books


Religion

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel & Adam Mansbach 2017 _For This We Left Egypt?: A PassOver Haggadah for Jews & Those Who Love Them_ (126 pages; ISBN 9781250110213; FlatIron; 296.45371 Bar; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.5: Steven Furtick 2016 _UnQualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things_ (212 pages; 248.4 Fur; NE)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Richard Taylor 1960, 1974, 1990 _The Empiricists_ (1690; 1710; 1713; 1748; 1779; Enlightenment: 517 pages; ISBN 0385096224/ 9780385096225; OCLC 933078518; Anchor/Doubleday)

see earlier read Religion


Fiction

H4.0, E3.0, R2.3: Shana Abe 2006 _The Smoke Thief_ (Drakon #1; 324 pages; PB F Abe)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.6: Mitch Albom 2012 _The Time Keeper_ (448 pages; F Alb; Woodville+BLPerry+East+Jax+NE)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.8: A. American 2012 _Going Home_ (#1; 450 pages; F Ame)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: A. American 2013 _Surviving Home_ (#2; 500 pages; F Ame)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: A. American 2013 _Forsaking Home_ (#3; 371 pages; Plume/Penguin/RandomHouse; F Ame)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Kelley Armstrong/Kelly Armstrong 2020-10-31, 2021-03-17 _A Rip through Time_ (time travel; 342 pages; ISBN 9781250820006; Minotaur/St.Martin's; F Arm; Main+NE)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Rachel Bach 2009 _Fortune's Pawn_ (Devi Morris #1; 320 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Kage Baker 2002 _Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers_ (Company #4.5; 288 pages; F Bak)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: T.F. Banks 2009 _The Thief-Taker: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner_ (constable Henry Morton #1; 276 pages; 2.3MB)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: R.S. Belcher 2016 _Brotherhood of the Wheel_ (Brotherhood of the Wheel #1; 381 pages; TOR; G Bel; Main)

H4.0, E2.5, R3.6: Anne Bishop 2013 _Written in Red_ (Others #1; 433 pages; F Bis; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.6: Anne Bishop 2014 _Murder of Crows_ (Others #2; 354 pages; ROC/NewAmericanLibrary/Penguin/RandomHouse; F Bis; East)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Anne Bishop 2015 _Vision in Silver_ (Others #3; 400 pages; ROC/NewAmericanLibrary/Penguin/RandomHouse)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.9: Anne Bishop 2015 _Marked in Flesh_ (Others #3; 399 pages; ROC/NewAmericanLibrary/Penguin/RandomHouse)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Anne Bishop 2017 _Etched in Bone_ (Others #5; 397 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: John Buchan 1996 _John MacNab_ (Hannay?; 188 pages; F Buc; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R1.0: Stella Cameron 2010 _Out of Sight_ (Court of Angels #3; 383 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Jillian Cantor 2019 _In Another Time_ (325-459 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.4: Robin Cook 1995 _Contagion_ (Jack Stapleton & Laura Montgomery #2?; 434 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Genevieve Cogman 2021 _The UnTold Story_ (InVisible Library #8; 384 pages; ISBN 9781984804808; Ace; F Cog; Main+NE)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: William C. Dietz 2019 _Into the Guns_ (327 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Lynette Eason 2014 _No One to Trust_ (HiddenID #1; 330 pages; NE+FtBraden)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.6: Lynette Eason 2016 _Always Watching_ (Elite Guardians; 318 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Michael F. Flynn 2008 _The January Dancer_ (Spiral Arm #1; 350 pages; TOR; F Fly)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Charles E. Gannon 2013 _Fire with Fire_ (Caine Riordan #1; 625 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Charles E. Gannon 2014 _Trial by Fire_ (Caine Riordan #2; 625 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Charles E. Gannon 2015 _Raising Caine_ (Caine Riordan #3; 548 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: W. Michael Gear 2018 _OutPost_ (Donovan #1; 422 pages; DAW)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.9: W. Michael Gear 2018 _Abandoned_ (Donovan #2; 438 pages; DAW)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Manuel Gonzalez 2016 _The Regional Office Is Under Attack_ (400 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Robert J. Harris 2018 _The 31 Kings_ (newRichardHannay #1; WW2; 212 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.2: Sue Henry 2004 _The Serpents Trail_ (Maxie & Stretch #1; 276 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.6: Sue Henry 2006 _The Tooth of Time_ (Maxie & Stretch #2; 242 pages; F Hen; Jax+NE+BLPerry)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.1: colonel David Hunt & Christine Hunsinger 2013 _Terror Red_ (Hunter Stark #1?; 332 pages; 834KB)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Vivien Jackson 2017 _Wanted & Wired_ (353 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.1: Ward Larsen 2010 _Fly By Wire_ (Jammer Davis #1; 301 pages; OceanView)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Kate Mascarenhas 2019 _The Psychology of Time Travel_ (340 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Rob McCarthy 2018 _A Handful of Ashes_ (Harry Kent #2; 373 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Jack McDevitt 1995 _The Engines of God_ (Academy/Priscilla Hutchins #1; 419 pages; Ace/Berkley; starts slow)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Julia McElwain 2016 _A Murder in Time_ (Kendra Donovan #1; 713 pages; ISBN 9781410492432; OCLC 1302452141; Thorndike; LT F McE; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: Julie McElwain 2017 _A Twist in Time_ (Kendra Donovan #2; Pegasus/Norton; 452 pages; F McE; East)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.3: Scott McEwen, J.D., Esq. & Thomas Koloniar 2015 _The Sniper and the Wolf_ (Sniper Elite #3; 385 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.5: Jenn McKinlay 2011 _Books Can Be Deceiving_ (Library Lover's Mystery #1; 291 pages; PB F McK)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Jenn McKinlay 2013 _Book, Line, and Sinker_ (Library Lover's Mystery #3; 319 pages; LT F McK; Main+Woodville)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Carla Neggers 2011 _Saint's Gate_ (Sharpe & Donovan #1; 479 pages; LT F Neg; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.9: Carla Neggers 2013 _Declan's Cross_ (Sharpe & Donovan #3; 473 pages; LT F Neg)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.5: Michael Palmer, M.D. 2013 _Political Suicide_ (528 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.4: Carrie Stuart Parks 2018 _Formula of Deception_ (288 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: John Scalzi 2014, 2015 _Lock In_ (Lock In #1; 420 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.7: John Scalzi 2005 _Old Man's War_ (Old Man's War #1; TOR/Doherty; 320 pages; PB)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.6: John Scalzi 2007 _The Ghost Brigades_ (Old Man's War #2; 374 pages; PB)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: John Scalzi 2007 _The Last Colony_ (Old Man's War #3; 324 pages; 718KB; TOR/Doherty/MacMillan; PB; Main+East)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.6: George Gaylord Simpson, Joan Simpson Burns, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Jay Gould 1997 _The DeChronization of Sam Magruder_ (134 pages)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.8: Ann Swinfen 2014 _The Enterprise of England_ (Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez #2; 304 pages; F Swi)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Ann Swinfen, M.S., Ph.D. 2014 _The Portuguese Affair_ (Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez #3; 237 pages; F Swi; Main+East)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.5: Ann van der Meer/Vandermeer & Jeff van der Meer 2014-03-18 _The Time Traveler's Almanac_ (anthology; 960 pages; ISBN 9780765374219; Tor)

see earlier read fiction


Other

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Guy Campbell & Simon Ecob 2008, 2009, 2011 _The Boys' Book of Survival_ (80% humor; 10% practical; 7% dangerously wrong; 125 pages; ISBN 9780545085366; OCLC 227328000; O'Mara/Scholastic/Buster; J 796.54 Cam)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Mary Elaine Jacobsen 1999 _Liberating EveryDay Genius: A Revolutionary Guide for Identifying and Mastering Your Exceptional Gifts_ (380 pages; 4.3MB; 153.98 Jac; NE; due 2022-03-06)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.0: Peggy Klaus, Jane M. Rohman & Molly Hamaker 2007, 2008, 2009 _The Hard Truth About "Soft Skills": WorkPlace Lessons Smart People Wish They'd Learned Sooner_ (190 pages; 459KB; ISBN 9780061284144; OCLC ; Collins; 650.1 Kla; BLPerry)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Darren Levine, Bas Rutten & Andy Mogg 2007 _Complete Krav Maga: The Ultimate Guide to over 230 Self-Defense & Combative Techniques_ (342 pages; 769.81; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Lawrence Osborne 2002, 2005, 2010, 2011 _American Normal: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome_/_American Normal: The Culture of Asperger Syndrome_ (220-224 pages; ISBN 9781441929464/ 9780387953076; OCLC 752481088/ 723108327/ 925783721; Springer/Copernicus; GoodReads; 616.8982/RC 553 .A88 O83 2002; UNF)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: Michael Newton 2011-07-20, 2011-08-10 _Chronology of Organized Crime WorldWide 6KBCE to 2010CE_ (criminology; 360-364 pages; 6.8MB; 1.44 pounds; ISBN 9780786444113; OCLC 689522299; McFarland)

H4.0, E2.5, R2.4: Joe Palca & Flora Lichtman 2011 _Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us_ (262 pages; 612.8 Pal; National Socialist Radio; a little too much pop-psych, not enough neuro-physiology)

H4.0, E3.0, R3.0: Joseph R. Provey, Kris Robinson & Van Cline, Ph.D. 2008 _Toro Expert Guide to Lawns: Pro Secrets for a Beautiul Yard_ (175 pages; 635.9647 Pro; Main)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.7: K.G. Richardson 2015, 2016 _Human Trafficking from 5KBCE to the 21st Century: 7K Years of Slavery, Rape, Greed_ (history; criminology; 100-120 pages; 991KB; ISBN 1522978372/ 9781522978374; OCLC 953187804; CreateSpace; good 8th-9th-grade intro/overview)

H4.0, E3.0, R2.2: Eric Rutkow 2012 _American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation_ (trees; nature; uncrowded; 406 pages; 18MB; ISBN 9781439193549; Scribner; 577.3097 Rut)

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