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Sam’s favorite books

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Sharpe's Revenge by Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Enemy by Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Escape by Bernard Cornwell The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook by Alan Lee Old Man's War by John Scalzi "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" by Richard P. Feynman Sharpe's Skirmish by Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Christmas by Bernard Cornwell A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain The Eagle in the Sand by Simon Scarrow
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The Empty Throne
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by Bernard Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
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Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) by John Scalzi
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I had been escorted into a conference room with more brass in it than an eighteenth-century schooner.
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