CHRISTMAS BOOKS, 2015

Dear Son,

You, a college freshman, told us a story of a gentleman who often visits your campus and spreads books on a table to sell. We remember such booksellers, too, from our college days. And we are so moved that you thought to patronize this bookseller for holiday gifts to us this year. We are heartened because you not only chose well but also at the significance of you understanding the import of books. We are delighted at your growth and look forward to watching you continue to grow.  Thank you for your book-gifts this holiday. Mom appreciates the 1881 PIZARRO or the DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF PERU, and Dad the sci-fi fan appreciates his Star Trek novel.

Here is a list below of all the books that came into our house as holiday gifts. They shall join the Family Library which we hope will grace your house someday.

Love,

Mom & Dad

BOOKS FOR EILEEN

Poetry or by Poets

SELECT POEMS by John M. Bennett (Poetry Hotel Press and Luna Bisonte Productions, San Francisco / Columbus, OH, 2016)

SOME NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING by Anselm Berrigan (Edge, New York, 2005)

ROBERT FROST: A One-Volume Edition of the Authorized Biography by Lawrance Thompson and R.H. Winnick, Edited by Edward Connery Lathem (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1981)

THE ART OF MEMOIR by Mary Karr (Harper Collins, New York, 2015)

VOYAGE OF THE SABLE VENUS AND OTHER POEMS by Robin Coste Lewis (Knopf, New York, 2015)

KANSOZ by Joel Chace (Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, Newton-Le-Willows, U.K., 2015)

I MUST BE LIVING TWICE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Eileen Myles (ecco/HarperCollins, New York, 2015)

BENEDICTION by Alice Notley (Letter Machine Editions, Tucson, AZ, 2015)

NEGATIVITY’S KISS by Alice  Notley (Presses Universitairies de Rouen et du Havre, 2014)

APOLOGY: a novel by Jon Pineda (Milkweed Editions, 2013)

LITTLE ANODYNES by Jon Pineda (The University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 2015)

FOX: Poems 1998-2000 by Adrienne Rich (Norton, New York, 2001)

FLOATING LANTERNS by Mercedes Roffe, Trans. by Anne Deeny (Shearsman Books, Bristol, U.K., 2009)

THE VALISE by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino (Dead Academics Press, Columbus, GA, 2012)

ORDINARY LIGHT: A MEMOIR by Tracy K. Smith (Knopf, New York, 2015)

Art

WRITINGS INTERVIEWS by Richard Serra (University of Chicago Press, 1994)

RICHARD SERRA DRAWING: A Retrospective (The Menil Collection, Houston)

RICHARD SERRA SCULPTURE 1985-1998 Edited by Russell Ferguson, Anthony McCall and Clara Weyergraf-Serra (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, exhibition 20 Sept. 1998-3 Jan. 1999)

Sidenote from Mom: Dear Son, Dad thought it would be lovely to get me a signed edition of one of Richard Serra's books. He found on Ebay a signed version of SCULPTURE, which also amused us both as it was signed to an "Elaine." Thus, we could pretend it was signed to me with a name-typo. In all seriousness, your Mom loves to have the presence of artists' hands in the house and so I was delighted to receive this gift:

Others

PIZARRO or the DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF PERU, edited by Fred H. Allen (Cincinnati: Walden and Stowe. New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1881)

THE DECOLONIZED EYE: FILIPINO AMERICAN ART AND PERFORMANCE by Sarita Echavez See (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)

BEYOND THE NATION: DIASPORIC FILIPINO LITERATURE AND QUEER READING by Martin Joseph Ponce (New York University Press, New York / London, 2012)

THE DIARY OF A FORTY-NINER Edited by Chauncey L. Canfield (Turtle Point Press, New York, 1992)

GIRL IN THE GOLD CAMP: A TRUE ACCOUNT OF AN ALASKA ADVENTURE 1909-1910 by Peggy Rouch Dodson (Epicenter Press, Fairbanks / Seattle, 1996)

BOOKS FOR TOM

THE ABODE OF LIFE, a Star Trek novel by Lee Correy (Timescape/Pocket Books, New York, 1982)

THE LETTERS OF MOZART AND HIS FAMILY, Edited with an Introduction by Emily Anderson, Second Edition prepared by A. Hyatt King and Monica Carolan (MacMillan / St. Martin’s Press, 1996)

EURIPIDES: FRAGMENTS AEGEUS-MELEAGER, Edited and Translated by Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 2008)

EURIPIDES: CYCLOPS * ALCESTIS * MEDEA, Edited and Translated by David Kovacs  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1994)

HISTORIA AUGUSTA, Vol. I, Translated by David Magie (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1921)

SCRIPTORES HISTORIAE AUGUSTA II, Translated by David Magie (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924)

HISTORIA AUGUSTA, Vol. III, Translated by David Magie (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1932)

JOSEPHUS: JEWISH ANTIQUITIES, Book VII-VIII, Translated by Ralph Marcus  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1934)

JOSEPHUS: JEWISH ANTIQUITIES, Book XX, General Index, Translated by L.H. Feldman  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1965)

JOSEPHUS: JEWISH ANTIQUITIES, Books XII-XIII, Translated by Ralph Marcus  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1943)

JOSEPHUS: JEWISH ANTIQUITIES, Books 4-6, Translated by H. ST. J. Thackeray and  Ralph Marcus  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1934)

PROCOPIUS: HISTORY OF THE WARS, Books 5-6, 15, Translated by H.B. Dewing  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1919)

PROCOPIUS: HISTORY OF THE WARS, Books 7, 36-8, Translated by H.B. Dewing  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1928)

SICULUS: THE LIBRARY OF HISTORY, Books 1-2, 19, Translated by H.B. Dewing  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1914)

SICULUS: THE LIBRARY OF HISTORY, Books 1-2, 34, Translated by C.H. Oldfather  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1933)

SICULUS: THE LIBRARY OF HISTORY, Books XIV-XV, 19, Translated by C.H. Oldfather  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 19__)

SICULUS: THE LIBRARY OF HISTORY, Books XIX, 66-XX, Translated by Russel M. Geer  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 19__)

SICULUS: THE LIBRARY OF HISTORY, Books XII, 41-XIII, Translated by C.H. Oldfather  (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1950)

ARISTOPHANES: ACHARNIANBS * KNIGHTS, Edited and Translated by Jeffrey Henderson (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1998)

HERODIAN: HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE, Books 5-8 Translated by C.R. Whittaker (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1970)

ZACHARY TAYLOR: SOLDIER OF THE REPUBLIC by Holman Hamilton (The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1941)

THE COMMAND OF THE AIR by Giulio Douhet (The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1994)

MISSION OF GRAVITY by Hal Clement (The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1987)

DUST by Charles Pellegrino (signed, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1998)

THE DAY THE MARTIANS CAME (signed, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1998)

BRIGHTNESS REEF (Book One of the Uplift Trilogy) by David Brin (signed, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1995)

THE LAST LEGENDS OF EARTH by A.A. Attanabio (signed, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1989)

THE OUTPOST by Mike Resnick (signed, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 2001)

MOVING MARS by Greg Bear (The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn., 1995)

THE WINEMAKER by Richard G. Peterson (Meadowlark Publishing, California, 2015)

A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS by Neil MacGregor (Viking, 1996)

A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 12 MAPS by Jerry Brotton (Viking, 2012)

CIVIL WAR: DAY BY DAY w/ Introduction by Henry Steele Commager (Bison, 1989)

THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne, New York, 1991)

PUBLICATIONS FOR MICHAEL

ENDERS’ GAME by Orson Welles (signed. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Conn.)

ANALOG, science fiction fantasy journal (August 1977) containing a short story  precursor to the novel ENDERS’ GAME by Orson Welles

[Of related interest, HERE were the Holiday 2014 gift books.] 

Additional Labels: Spain and Latin America; Westerns (U.S.)

CHRISTMAS BOOKS, 2014

Dear Son,

As you know, we love to read and to encourage you (and others) to read.  So our typical Christmas is always a bookish one.  Here is the list of books we all received this Christmas, which will become part of the family library as well:

BOOKS FOR MICHAEL, TOM AND EILEEN

SWEET PROMISED LAND by Robert Laxalt (University of Nevada Press, 1959)

HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by George Orwell (Benediction Classics/Oxford, 2010)

BOOKS FOR EILEEN

(Some books are in transit; list will be updated when they arrive)
Poetry:

DISOBEDIENCE by Alice Notley (Penguin, 2001)

RELIQUARIA by R.A. Villanueva (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)

DON’T LET ME BE LONELY: AN AMERICAN LYRIC by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf, 2004)

THE OPEN SECRET by Jennifer Moxley (Flood Editions, Chicago, 2014)

ECODEVIANCE: (SOMA)TICS FOR THE FUTURE WILDERNESS by CAConrad (Wave, Seattle and New York, 2014)

A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: NEW (SOMA)TICS by CAConrad (Wave, Seattle and New York, 2012)

THE DAY OF SHELLY’S DEATH by Renato Rosaldo (Duke University Press, 2014)

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LARRY EIGNER, VOLUMES 1-4, Edited by Curtis Faville and Bob Grenier

GREAT GUNS by Farnoosh Fathi (Canarium Books, Ann Arbor / Stuttgart / Iowa City, 2013)

SPONTANEOUS PARTICULARS: THE TELEPATHY OF ARCHIVES by Susan Howe (Christine Burgin / New Directions, New York, 2014)

DICKINSON UNBOUND: PAPER, PROCESS, POETICS by Alexandra Socarides (Oxford University Press, 2012)

APOPHALLATION SKETCHES: A THEATER OF AFFECTIVE EXTREMES / STRENUOUS ESSAYS FOR THE SENSES by j/j hastain (Nous-zot Press, 2014)

POST SUBJECT: A FABLE by Oliver de la Paz (The University of Akron Press, Akron, OH, 2014)

HOURGLASS MUSEUM by Kelli Russell Agodon (White Pine Press, Buffalo, N.Y., 2014)

KULCHUR GIRL: NOTES FROM BERKELEY 1965 by Rachel Loden

ABU GHRAIB ARIAS by Philip Metres

BLUETS by Maggie Nelson (Wave, Seattle and New York, 2009)

ODE TO THE HEART SMALLER THAN A PENCIL by Luisa A. Igloria (Utah State University Press, 2014)

Non-Poetry:

MAN IS WOLF TO MAN: SURVIVING THE GULAG by Janusz Bordach and Kathleen Gleeson (University of California Press, 1999)

GIRL DRIVE: CRISS-CROSSING AMERICA, REDEFINING FEMINISM by Nona Willis Aronowitz & Emma Bee Bernstein

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS: INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkwood, 2013)

AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE U.S. by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (Beacon Press, Boston, 2014)

TOMORROW’S MEMORIES: A DIARY 1924-1928 by Angeles Monrayo, Edited by Rizaline R. Raymundo (University of Hawai’i Press, 2003)

THE DESCARTES HIGHLANDS, novel by Eric Gamalinda (Akashic, 2014)

THE ART FORGER, novel by B.A. Shapiro (Algonquin, Chapel Hill, NC, 2012)

PULSE, novel by Robert Cook (Royal Wulff Publishing, 2014)

TEXTS FROM JANE EYRE AND OTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR FAVORITE LITERARY CHARACTER by Mallory Ortberg (Henry Holt, 2014)

BOOKS FOR MICHAEL 

MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury (Signed Edition released by Easton Press)

THE WINE REGION OF RIOJA by Ana Fabiano

CULINARIA SPAIN, Ed. Marion Trutter, Potography by Gunter Beer, Art by Peter Feierabend, Coordinator & Layout by Michael Ditter

STRENGTH TRAINING ANATOMY by Frederic Delouier

BOOKS FOR TOM

THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCHER CHURCHILL: VISIONS OF GLORY 1874-1932 by William Manchester (Little Brown, 1983)

THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCHER CHURCHILL: ALONE 1932-1940 by William Manchester (Little Brown, 1988)

THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCHER CHURCHILL: DEFENDER OF THE REALM 1940-1965 by William Manchester and Paul Reid (Little Brown, 2012)

MEMORIES by Fannie A. Beers (Collectors Library of the Civil War / Time Life, Reprinted from Press of J.B. Lipincott Co., Philadelphia, 1888)

CIVIL WAR POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY, Editor Paul Negri (Dover Thrift Editions, 1997)

MR. LINCOLN GOES TO WAR by William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)

LINCOLN’S DARKEST YEAR: THE WAR IN 1862 by William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin, 2008)

THE GREAT TASK REMAINING: THE THIRD YEAR OF LINCOLN’S WAR by William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin, 2010)

ARISTOTLE: PARTS OF ANIMALS, MOVEMENT OF ANIMALS, PROGRESSION OF ANIMALS, Trans. by A.L. Peck & E.S. Forster (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1937-1961)

THUCYDIDES: HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, BOOKS 1-2, Trans. by C.F. Smith (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1919-2003)

HOMER: ILIAD, Books 1-12 (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1999)

CICERO: ORATIONS PRO SESTIO IN VATINIUM, Trans. by R. Gardner (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1958)

BOETHIUS: TRACTATES, DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIAE, Trans. by H.F. Stewart & E.K. Rand (Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press, 1918-1968)

THE NATURAL CUISINE OF GEORGES BLANC, photography by Christopher Baker (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1987)

A CENTURY OF WINE, THE STORY OF THE WINE REVOLUTION, General Editor Stephen Brook with Foreword by Hugh Johnson (Octopus Publishing, London, 2000)

AN IDEAL WINE: ONE GENERATION’S PURSUIT OF PERFECTION—AND PROFIT—IN CALIFORNIA by David Darlington (Harper Collilns, 2011)

THE JUICE: VINUOUS VERITAS by Jay McInerney (Knopf, N.Y., 2012)

GREAT COURSES (Books as DVDs):

36 REVOLUTIONARY FIGURES OF HISTORY

GREECE AND ROME: AN INTEGRATED HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN

THE CONSERVATIVE TRADITION

A HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Son, you will rarely be bored if you are a reader.  We hope you will not live a boring life.

Love,

Mom and Dad

P.S.  Trust Mom to sneak poetry into Dad's Civil War Collection:

CHRISTMAS BOOKS

Dear Son,

The holidays will be here in no time!  And, as you know, we always give and receive plenty of books.  We wanted you to learn early that the book is a wonderful present.  As I write this, Dad and I are making up holiday book lists for each of us to give the other -- we can't think of a more wonderful present, and are glad to see that you are coming to treasure the book as well.

I happen to have the list of our holiday book-giving from last Christmas -- these, too, are now part of our family library.  We look forward to seeing the book tally under this year's Christmas tree!

Love,

Mom and Dad
[This post also under "Fairy Tales," "Cuisine," and "Spain and Latin America" -- could not fit in Labels as went on too long to reflect varied interests of books under tree.]

2013 CHRISTMAS

BOOKS MOM RECEIVED AS HOLIDAY PRESENTS:
CHASING CHAOS: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander 

FERRAN: The Inside Story of El Bulli and The Man Who Reinvented Food by Colman Andrews 

I’LL DROWN MY BOOK: Conceptual Writing by Women, Eds. Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place 

The Hemingway Play by Frederic Hunter 

BACK FROM THE CROCODILE'S BELLY: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory, Eds. S. Lily Mendoza and Leny Mendoza Strobel 

Club Without Walls: Selections From the Journals of Philip Pavia, Ed. Natalie Edgar 

Revelator by Ron Silliman 

Another Path by Gladys Tabor 

Stillmeadow Seasons by Gladys Tabor 

The Stillmeadow Road by Gladys Tabor 


BOOKS MOM AND DAD GAVE MICHAEL:
THE SECRETS OF MENTAL MATH 

PANORAMIC COLOMBIA, photographs by Miguel Salazar Aparicio and text by Enrique Pulecio Marino 

BOLIVAR: American Liberator by Marie Arana 

AFRICA UNITED: Soccer, Passion, Politics and the First World Cup in Africa by Steve Bloomfield 

Lord of the Flies by William Golding 

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Easton Press. Books from Easton and Loeb are primarily to encourage a collector's library) 

THE HOUSE OF HADES by Rick Riordan 

THE COMEDIES by William Shakespeare (Easton) 

THE TRAGEDIES by William Shakespeare (Easton) 

THE HISTORIES by William Shakespeare (Easton) 

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (9th printing, Sept. 1939) 

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951 Book of the Month Club printing) 

Mastering the Fundamentals of Mathematics, Prof. James A. Sellers 


BOOKS DAD RECEIVED AS HOLIDAY PRESENTS:
The Official Record of the WAR OF THE REBELLION 

AESOP’S Fables (Easton) 

St. Agustine Confessions, Trans. by William Watts (Loeb Classical Library) 

St. Agustine Confessions, II, Trans. by William Watts (Loeb) 

The Confessions of St. Augustine, Trans. J.G. Pilkington (Easton) 

THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI, Trans. Arthur Livingston, with drawings by William Blake (Easton) 

BOLIVAR: American Liberator by Marie Arana 

The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks 

OVER THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigating of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Easton) 

WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte (Easton) 

THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler (Easton) 

CICERO on The Republic of the Laws, Trans. Clinton W. Kayes (Loeb) 

CICERO ORATIONS, Philippics 1-6, Ed. & Trans. D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Revised by John T. Ramsey & Gesine Manuwald (Loeb) 

CICERO ORATIONS, Pro Caelio De Provincii’s Consularibus Pro Balbo, Trans. R. Gardner (Loeb) 

CICERO: Tusculan Disputations, Trans. JE King (Loeb) 

CICERO: IX Orations, Trans. H. Grose Hodge (Loeb) 

CICERO: DE SENECTUTE DE AMICITIA DE DIVINATIONS, trans. W.A. Falconer (Loeb) 

CICERO: ON THE NATURE OF THE GODS - ACADEMICS, trans. H. Rackham (Loeb) 

CICERO: ON THE ORATOR, trans. by E.W. Sutton and H. Rackham (Loeb) 

CICERO: LETTERS TO ATTICUS, Vol. II, Ed. & Trans. D.R. Shackleton Bailey (Loeb) 

CICERO: Letters to Quintus and Brutus to Octavian / Inventions Handbook of Electioneering, Ed. & Trans. by D.R. Shackleton Bailey (Loeb) 

CICERO: Orations Philippics 7-14, Ed & Trans. by D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Revised by John T. Ramsey & Gesine Manuwald (Loeb) 

CICERO: Letters to Atticus, Vol. I, Ed & Trans by D.R. Shackleton Bailey (Loeb) 

CICERO: Orations in Catilinam I-IV, Pro Murena – Pro Sulla – Pro Flacco, Trans. C. MacDonald (Loeb) 

CICERO: Orations Pro Quinctio Pro Roscio Amerino Pro Roscio Comoedo On the Agrarian Law (Loeb) 

CICERO Orations Pro Archia Post Reditum In Senatu Post Reditum Ad Quirites De Domo Sua De Haruspicum Responsis Pro Planco, trans. by MH Watts (Loeb) 

CICERO XXI, Ed. Jeffrey Haderson (Loeb) 

CICERO IV De Oratore, Book III De Facto Paradoxa Stoicorum Partitiones Oratoriae, Trans. H. Rackham (Loeb) 

CICERO Orations Pro Milone – In Pisonem – Pro Scauno – Pro Fonteio – Pro Rabirio Postumo – Pro Marcello – Pro Ligario – Pro Rege Deiotaro, Trans. N.H. Watta (Loeb) 

[CICERO] Rhetorica Ad Herennum, Trans. Harry Caplan (Loeb) 

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Easton) 

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (Easton) 

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (Easton) 

How The Crusades Changed History, Prof. Philip Daileader (Great Courses) 

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin (Easton) 

GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens (Easton) 

The Short Stories by Charles Dickens (Easton) 

The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco 

THE MILL ON THE FLOSS by George Eliot with illustrations by Wray Manning (Easton) 

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 

In Flagrante Collecto (caught in the art of collecting) by Marilyn Gelfman Karp 

FAUST by Goethe (Easton) 

THE MAPS OF ANTIETAM by Bradley M. Gottfried 

THE MAPS OF THE BRISTOE STATION AND MINE RUN CAMPAIGNS by Bradley M. Gottfried 

THE MAPS OF FIRST BULL RUN by Bradley M. Gottfried 

THE MAPS OF GETTYSBURG: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign June 3-July 13, 1863 by Bradley M. Gottfried 

Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Easton) 

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Easton) 

HESIOD The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, trans H.G. Evelyn-White 

THE ILIAD by Homer (Easton) 

THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER (Easton) 

PASSIONS: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson 

A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce (Easton) 

SHERMAN: A Soldier’s Life by Lee Kennett 

HOW MUSIC AND MATHEMATICS RELATE, Prof. David Kung (Great Courses) 

The Prince by Machiavelli (Easton) 

Caesar’s Women by Colleen McCullough 

ANCIENT SHORES by Jack McDevitt (Easton) 

LANGUAGES A to Z, Prof. John McWhorter (Great Courses) 

Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville (Easton) 

WIRED FOR WAR: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P.W. Singer 

IVANHOE by Walter Scott (Easton) 

The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott (Easton) 

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (8th printing but replica cover) 

CALIFORNIA: A History by Kevin Starr 

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Easton) 

The Alhambra by Desmond Stewart and the Editors of the Newsweek Book Editions 

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (Easton) 

TACITUS Annals, Books XIII-XVI, trans. by John Jackson 

TACITUS Agricola Germania Dialogue, Trans. M. Hutton, W. Peterson; Revised by RM Ogilvie, EH Warmington, and M Winterbottom 

TACITUS, Histories IV-V, Annals I-III, Trans. by CH Moore and J. Jackson 

TACITUS The Histories, Books I-III, Trans. by CH Moore 

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Easton) 

TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA by Jules Verne (Easton) 

REASON AND FAITH: Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Thomas Williams