Twenty of Whom are Immortals
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Molly Beth
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#43 - Buy $30 worth of books at a Library Book Sale.
The Shock of the New - Robert Hughes c. 1980
Complete Home Workshop Cyclopedia - Popular Science c. 1945
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien c. 1969 reprint (because, oddly, we didn't own a copy)
The Martian Child - David Gerrold c. 2002 movie tie-in
Ramona the Pest - Beverly Cleary c.1975 reprint
Ramona Forever - Beverly Cleary c. 1984 reprint
We Were The Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates c. 1997
Hitler Victorious: 11 Stories of the German Victory in WWII - Gregory Benford ed. c. 1986
Anne of Windy Polars - Lucy Maude Montgomery c. 1975 reprint (AWESOME cover of Anne looking like she was a college student in the mid-70's.)
Anne of the Island - Lucy Maude Montgomery c. 1994 reprint
Threshold - Caitlin R Kiernan c. 2001
Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings - Katherine S. Newman c. 2004
Sins of the Day - No Author (although it's probably from the Catholic church) c. 1959
The Truth About Stone Hollow - Zilpha Keatley Snyder c. 1974
Miffy - Dick Bruna c. 1984 English reprint
Lost girls - Andrew Pyper c. 2001
The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt - Patricia MacLachlan c. 1988
The True Meaning of Smekday - Adam Rex c. 2007
The Birthday Room - Kevin Henkes c. 1999
Alice's Adventures in Oxford - No Author or copyright (Souvenir Book)
Amazing Magical Jell-O Desserts - General Foods Corp c. 1977 (I got this one because it had oddly attractive desserts and it reminded me of my friend Hannah who collects Jell-O books.)
Marjorie's Busy Days - Carolyn Wells c. 1908 (First edition! A ridiculously sweet children's book.)
This I Believe - Edward R. Murrow c. 1954 (First edition! Awesome find that I'm incredibly excited by whose Title Page reads:
The personal philosophies of one hundred thoughtful men and women in all walks of life - twenty of whom are immortals in the history of ideas, eighty of whom are contemporaries of today.
Among the "contemporaries" are Darwin, Oscar Hammerstein, James Michener, Carl Sandburg, and Harry Truman.
Plus I got a VHS copy of William Wegman's The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold for $0.50.
I wish I could get Loki to act. It would solve some of all of our money woes.
So, #43, we can watch the Hardly Boys movie?