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You Know You’re a Rockhound When…

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Snowflake Obsidian Specimen _____________________ – You look down instead of up. – Any rock, no matter how common, will raise your pulse. – You see beauty in all rocks, even “Leaverites,” the ones you leave behind. – Your family and friends just roll their eyes when you pick up yet another rock. – You are willing to dig up a rock with a spoon, even if it means ruining the spoon. – You have been known to visit urban rock piles and risk stares from people who are wondering why an old person is crawling around on a dirt pile. – You are willing to pay excess baggage fees (international, yet) for a large yellow rock that looks like a loaf of bread. – Your pockets are always filled with rocks and residual dirt. – You often find pebbles in your shoes and even socks. – You don’t mind dirt at all, even under your fingernails. That’s why soap and water exist. – You get why rocks are so spiritual; you understand that rocks have been around since the beginning of earth ...

2012: Book Box #14 – Books

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Derek Humphry,  Final Exit , 1991   2012: Book Box #14 – Books   (Note: Publication dates are for original release dates, not necessarily the specific date for these specific books. I never marked the dates, and I’m disinclined to redo the box to look for the dates .)   1. Diamant: Anita Diament. The Red Tent , 1997 2. Dunson: John Dunson. Keeper of Secrets , 2002. 3. Francis: Dick Francis. Wild Horses , 1994 4. Hayslip: Le Ly Hayslip. Child of War, Woman of Peace , 1993 5. Humphry: Derek Humphry. Final Exit , 1991 6. Leleux: Robert Leleux. Beautiful Boy , 2008 7. Marr: John S. Marr and John Baldwin. The Eleventh Plague , 1999 8. Millhauser: Steven Millhauser. In the Penny Arcade , 1986 9. Nin: Anais Nin. The Diary of Anais Nin , Volume 7 (1966 -1974), 1974? 10. Patchett: Ann Patchett. Bel Canto , 2001 11. Pratt: Fletcher Pratt. Double Jeopardy , 1952 12. Shreve: Anita Shreve. Fortune Rocks , 1999 13. Siegel: Gerald Siegel. The Poe-e...

2012: Book Box #13 – Large Books and Yearbooks

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Robert Ergang.  Europe from the Renaissance to Waterloo.  1954   2012: Book Box #13 – Large Books and Yearbooks   1. Ergang: Robert Ergang. Europe from the Renaissance to Waterloo. 1954 2. Kytle: Ray Kytle. The Comp Box. 1972 3. Maline: Julian L. Maline. Prose and Poetry of America. 1955 4. Reflections. Kenwood Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 1 5. Yearbook: Heelan High School. The Shield . 1966, 1967, 1968 6. Yearbook: Kenwood High School. The Bluebook. 1958, 1959 7. Yearbook: Western Maryland College. Aloha . 1 960, 1961, 1962, 1963 8. Yearbook: Western Maryland College. Aloha . 1978 supplement   2012-Book-13-Large Books and Yearbooks Brown Box   Keywords: -2012- -Books- Composition Fiction History Poetry The Lists Yearbooks   Attic

2012: Book Box #12 – Books

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Cliff’s Notes.  Orwell  1984  Notes   2012: Book Box #12 – Books   1. Barrington: E. Barrington (L. Adams Beck). The Irish Beauties , 1930, 1931 2. Butler: Samuel Butler. The Way of All Flesh , 1903, 1966 3. Camus: Albert Camus. The Stranger , 1942, 1946 (paperback) 4. Carr: Terry Carr, Ed. Universe: Twelve Great Original Science Fiction Stories , 1974 (with dust jacket) 5. Chopin: Kate Chopin. The Awakening and Selected Stories , 1981 (1st Edition, paperback) 6. Chopin: Kate Chopin. The Awakening, An Authoritative Text (Text, Contents, Criticism) , Edited by Margaret Cully (Norton), 1976 7. Cliff’s Notes. Orwell 1984 Notes , 1967 8. Davie: Donald Davie. Russian Literature & Modern English Fiction , 1965, 2nd Impression 9. De Felita: Frank De Felita. Audrey Rose , 1975 10. Durant: Will Durant. The Story of Philosophy , 1954, 1960 (paperback) 11. Eliot: George Eliot. Middlemarch , 1964 (paperback) 12. Forster: E.M. Forster. Maurice , 1971 (paperback) 1...

2012: Book Box #11 – Books

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Anthony Caputi, ed.  Eight Modern Plays.  Norton Critical Edition. 1991   2012: Book Box #11 – Books   1. Bacon: Francis Bacon. A Selection of His Works. 1965. 2. Caputi: Anthony Caputi, ed. Eight Modern Plays. Norton Critical Edition. 1991. 3. Joseph, Nancy L. Style Manual: A Student’s Guide for Working with Sources. 1987. 4. Levy, Walter, ed. Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present. 1999. 5. Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges . 1982 and 1983.   2012-Book-Box-11-Books Updated 2014 Small Brown Box   Keywords: -2012- -Books- Drama Non-fiction Reference The Lists     Attic

2012: Book Box #10 – Books

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Strunk and White: William Strunk and E. B. White.  The Elements of Style.  1959.   2012: Book Box #10 – Books   1. Beckett: Samuel Beckett. Endgame. 1958. First Grove Press edition. 2. Blumberg and Lewittes. Modern Hebrew. 1956. 3. The Book of Knowledge, vol. 6(?), 1903 (?)—from Grandpa Siegel 4. Department of the Army. American Military History, 1607-1953. 1956. 5. Dickens: Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge. N.D., Seems 19 th century w/ flier inside. Paper. 6. Dickens: Charles Dickens. The Old Curiosity Shop. N. d. Paper. 7. Dickens: Charles Dickens. Sketches by Boz. 1868. Paper. 8. Durant: Will Durant. Transition: A Sentimental Story of One Mind and One Era. 1927. 9. Durrell: Lawrence Durell. Justine. 1957. 10. Forster: E.M. Forster. A Passage to India. 1937. 11. Freud: Sigmund Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams. 12. Freud: Sigmund Freud. Introductory Lectures on Psych-Analysis. 1966. 13. Gibran: Kahlil Gibran. Tears and Laughter. 1949....

2012: Book Box #9 – Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian Books and Notes

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Skopje, North Macedonia: Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, circa 2009-2010    2012: Book Box #9 – Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian Books and Notes   1. Exercises: folder of exercises Macedonian classes with Language Instructor 2. Notes: ESLI Serbo-Croatian notes in notebook 3. Notes: from Macedonian classes with Language Instructor (2 notebooks)   2012-Book-9-Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian Books and Notes Small Brown Box   Keywords: -2012- -Books- Language Lessons The Lists   Shed

2012: Book Box #8 – Some Business Writing Books

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Simone Beauvoir:  Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter , 1959   2012: Book Box #8 – Some Business Writing Books   1. Aird: Catherine Aird. A Most Contagious Game , 1967 2. Beauvoir: Simone Beauvoir. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter , 1959 3. Bowman: Joel P. Bowman and Bernadine Branshaw, Successful Communication in Business , 1980 4. D’Angelo: Frank J. D’Angelo. A Conceptual Theory of Rhetoric , 1975 5. Deutsches Museum, Guide Through Collections , 1988 6. Drill and Ceremonies (U.S. Army publication), 1958 7. Ellmann: Richard Ellman. The Identity of Yeats , 1964 8. Evans: Oliver Evans and others. A World of the Short Story: Archetypes in Action , 1971 9. Frederick: Howard H. Frederick. Global Communication & International Relations , 1993 10. Gibbs: Willa Gibbs. Seed of Mischief , 1953 11. Goldsmith: Olivia Goldsmith. Bestseller , 1997 12. Gordon: Barbara Gordon. Jennifer Fever , 1988 13. Griffith: John W. Griffith and others. Classics of Childre...

2012: Book Box #7 – Books

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Joseph Conrad.  Tales of Land and Sea .   2012: Book Box #7 – Books     1. Blume: Judy Blume. Blubber. 1974. 2. Bulgakov: Mikhael Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita . 1967 3. Caputi: Anthony Caputi. Modern Drama . Norton Critical Edition. 1966. 4. Conrad: Joseph Conrad. Tales of Land and Sea . 1953. 5. Conrad: Joseph Conrad. The N---ger of the Narcissus and The End of the Tether . 1961. 6. Conrad: Joseph Conrad. The N---ger of the Narcissus . Norton Critical Edition. 1979. 7. Dickens: Charles Dickens. Hard Times . 1960. 8. Donaldson: E. T. Donaldson. Chaucer’s Poetry . 1958. 9. Drabble: Margaret Drabble. Wordsworth . 1969. 10. Drinkwater: John Drinkwater. The Art of Theatre-Going . 1927. 11. Forster: E. M. Forster. A Passage to India . 1952. 12. Joyce: James Joyce. The Portable James Joyce . 1947. 13. Kernodle: George R. Kernodle. Invitation to the Theatre . 1967. 14. Lamb: Charles and Mary Lamb. Tales from Shakespeare . 1918. 15. La...

2012: Book Box #6 – Signed or Personalized Books

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Philip Sendak (Illustrated by Maurice Sendak).  In Grandpa’s House , 1985. Signed by Maurice Sendak.   2012: Book Box #6 – Signed or Personalized Books   *No signature on book; part of a group of books with an accompanying signed letter.   1. 18th Century Life , Spring, 1979 (Signed by Van Baker) 2. Baca: Jimmy Santiago Baca. A Place to Stand . 2001. 3. Beim: George Beim with Julia Ruth Stevens. Babe Ruth: A Daughter’s Portrait . 1998. 4. Bok: Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan. Escape from Slavery . 2003. 5. Butler: Robert Olen Butler. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain . 2001. 6. Cronin: John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy. The Riverkeepers . 1977. 7. Dobyns: Stephen Dobyns. The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini , 1988. 8. Dove: Rita Dove. Sonata Mulattica . 2009. 9. Dunn: Mark Dunn. Ella Minnoow Pea . 2001. 10. Emig: Janet Emig. The Web of Meaning , 1983. 11. Fitzgerald: Gary B. Fitzgerald. Evolving: Poems 1965-2005 *. 2005. 12. Fitzgerald:...

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