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MARCH 2014
Article:  Peru: Hell and Back, by Kira Salak (
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0603/features/peru.html)

JANUARY 2014
Book:  A Feast for Crows, by George R.R. Martin
Article:  PopChess, by Mike Klein (Chess Life, Jan. 2014)
Article:  Don't Give Up The Ship: The United States Navy Comes of Age During the War of 1812, by Mark Cantrell (Military Officer, Sep. 2013)
Article:  A Rebirth of Liberty and Learning, by Larry P. Arnn (Imprimis, Dec. 2013)

NOVEMBER 2013
Book:  A Storm of Swords, by George R. R. Martin

JUNE 2013
Book:  A Clash of Kings, by George R. R. Martin

MARCH 2013
Book:  A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin

OCTOBER 2012
Book:  The Winter of Our Discontent, by John Steinbeck
 
SEPTEMBER 2012
Audio:  The Modern Scholar: Tolkien and the West: Recovering the Lost Tradition
           of Europe, by Michael Drout
Audio:  The Log From the Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck
 
AUGUST 2012
Audio:  Helmet For My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific, by Robert Leckie
 
NOVEMBER 2011
Book:  I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation, by Bruce Chadwick
 
MARCH 2010
Book:  The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and
           Bystanders, edited by Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, and Volker Riess
 
FEBRUARY 2010
Audio:  Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life, by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
 
DECEMBER 2009
Audio:  Red Mutiny, by Neal Bascomb
 
NOVEMBER 2009
Audio:  Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell
 
AUGUST 2009
Book:  The Fourth Horseman, by Randy Lee Eickhoff
 
JULY 2009
Book:  Executive Orders, by Tom Clancy
 
JUNE 2009
Audio:  Death in the Afternoon, by Ernest Hemingway
Audio:  The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Get Organized to Do More
           Work in Less Time, by Kerry Gleeson
 
APRIL 2009
Book:  Yorktown: The Winning of American Independence, by Burke Davis
 
MARCH 2009
Audio:  Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Dafoe
Audio:  Small Town, by Lawrence Block
Audio:  Disclosure, by Michael Crichton
 
FEBRUARY 2009
Audio:  Jubal Sackett, by Louis L'Amour
Audio:  Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know about 
           the World but Never Learned, by Kenneth C. Davis
Audio:  Call of the Wild & Other Stories (Moon-Face, Brown Wolf, That Spot, and
           To Build A Fire), by Jack London
 
NOVEMBER 2008
Article:  Hidden in Plain Sight, by Betsy DiJulio (Portfolio Weekly, 11/04/08)
Article:  Main Street Turns Against Wall Street, by Nina Easton (Fortune, Oct.
            13, 2008)

OCTOBER 2008
Article:  Tilting We Will Go?, by William Tucker (National Review, Aug. 18, 2008)
Book:  John Jay Janney's Virginia: An American Farm Lad's Life in the
           Early 19th Century, ed. by Werner L. Janney & Asa Moore Janney
 
JULY 2008
Audio:  Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
Book:  Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm,
           and an Untold Rescue, by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
 
JUNE 2008
Book:  An Inconvenient Book, by Glenn Beck
 
MAY 2008
Book:  The Secret Hunters, by Ranulph Fiennes
Article:  Veterans At Risk, by Mike D'Orso (Portfolio Weekly 04/15/08)
 
APRIL 2008
Audio:  The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
 
MARCH 2008
Article:  Clinton's Nemesis, by Jason Roop (Portfolio Weekly 03/04/08)
 
FEBRUARY 2008
Audio:  The Lost Mother, by Mary McGarry Morris
Audio:   A Prairie Home Companion (20TH Anniversary Collection)
 
JANUARY 2008
Article: China's Charm Offensive, by Joshua Kurlantzick (MO JAN 2008)
Book: Krakatoa, Simon Winchester
 
DECEMBER 2007
Book: The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
 
OCTOBER 2007
Book: The Last Juror, by John Grisham
 
JUNE 2007
Book: Stella, by Peter Wyden
 
FEBRUARY 2007
Book: Rising Sun, by Michael Crichton
 
DECEMBER 2006
Audio:  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Book:   Arthritis RX: A Cutting Edge Program For A Pain-Free Life, by Vijay Vad,
           M.D.
Audio:  On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King
 
NOVEMBER 2006
Audio:  The Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-
           1914, by David McCullough
Book:  Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight For America From Baghdad To
           Washington, by Paul Rieckhoff
Audio:  King Rat, by James Clavell
Audio:  Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel
Audio:  The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball, by John Feinstein
Book:  State of the World 2006 (Chapter 4: Cultivating Renewable Alternatives to
          Oil, by Suzanne C. Hunt and Janet L. Sawin with Peter Stair), by
          Worldwatch Institute
 
 
OCTOBER 2006
Audio:  The Great Train Robbery, by Michael Crichton
Audio:  Sea Change: Alone Across The Atlantic, by Peter Nichols
Audio:  Airframe, by Michael Crichton
Book:  Game of Shadows, by Mark Fainaur-Wada and Lance Williams
Audio:  The Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Audio:  The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien
 
SEPTEMBER 2006
Audio:  The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Audio:  To The Gates of Richmond: The Penisula Campaign, by Stephen W.
           Sears
Audio:  Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know about 
           American History but Never Learned, by Kenneth C. Davis
 
AUGUST 2006
Audio:  Lost at Sea--An American Tragedy, by Patrick Dillion
Audio:  The Lives of the kings and queens of England, by Antonia Fraser
Audio:  In The Heart of the Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick
 
JULY 2006
Audio:  The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth
Audio:  All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria
Audio:  My Life as a Seer--The Lost Memoirs, by Edgar Cayce

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