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Sons will converse with their fathers about life and work, and sometimes that makes its way into a family reunion booklet or genealogical research for the county historical society. If your name is Robert H. Gollmar, and your father is Fred C. Gollmar, you can claim My Father Owned a Circus, and supplement your income selling a few books, and the ( Read more... )

The Collectors by David Baldacci, 436 pages.My dad gave me this for Christmas 3 years ago, and it never made it more than half-way up my to-read pile. I picked it up after New Years, and it hooked me straight away. A murder-mystery, con-artists, two plots that end up twisting together - and it's partially set in the Rare Books Division of a library ( Read more... )

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23.  We Are All Fine Here
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I'm giving this book a mixed review. It started out okay, but lost speed for me as I got near the end.

Four Princeton students get caught up in the mystery of a 500 year old book - Hypnerotomachia, that leads them down a dangerous path.