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John’s favorite books

Sword & Citadel by Gene Wolfe

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria

The Professor's House by Willa Cather

Night Train to Rigel by Timothy Zahn

Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono

The Arabic Alphabet by Nicholas Awde

Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick

Cuckoo's Egg by C.J. Cherryh

Accelerando by Charles Stross

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Trammel's Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North (Volume 5) (Red River Valley Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Texarkana)

by Gary L. Pinkerton

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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

by Sogyal Rinpoche

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Hour Is Now, The: Praying with the Gospel of John

by Richard W. Chilson CSP

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Roadkill by Dennis E. Taylor

“As I understand it, my choices are immediate obliteration or an eternity of interacting with humans. That’s a hard one. No it isn’t. I choose obliteration.” Our jaws all dropped at the same time. Sheldon said into the stunned silence, “I ...more

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