Photo of the Week: Iowa Street Cred

It ain't much but it's honest work.

 

Updated book list #9

 Completed:

• The 9/11 Commission Report
• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• Caught in the Revolution: Witnesses to the Fall of Imperial Russia by Helen Rappaport
• World War I: The Definitive Visual History
• World War II: The Definitive Visual History
• The Romanovs 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History
• The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
• The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
• The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
• What If? and What If? 2 - A series of essays by historians on what might have been.
• Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• America Before by Graham Hancock
• All the Gallant Men by Donald Stratton
• Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
• The Cay by Theodore Taylor
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
• 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley
• Creature by John Saul
• The Civil War: A Visual History
• The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
• War and Peace (abridged) by Leo Tolstoy
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Bleachers by John Grisham
• The American Revolution: A Visual History
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In progress:

• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

On the docket:

• The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power by Max Boot (A book I bought between 8th and 9th grades in July 2003 but never actually read.)
• Dark History of Russia by Michael Kerrigan
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Wilderness Tales: Forty Stories of the North American Wild edited by Diana Fuss

Photo of the Week: Candid

 

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Photo of the Week: Important Document

Look at my report card!

 

Photo(s) of the Week: Riverwalk, circa 2013

 

Photo of the Week: Shelf Cloud

 

Americans are stupid: Smoke is smoke

Many Americans wrongly believe exposure to marijuana smoke is safer than tobacco, study finds 

Photo of the Week: Thunderheads

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 July 6, 2014

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