Book Sale!!!

So the used book sale came to the University today...what joy! Used book sales are the ultimate way of building a library and that is something I am striving to do. I did some rumaging through the stacks of books and found quite a few that were of interest to me. All totalled I bought 16 books for $12. That is impressive if you ask me. For those of you who might be curious about what a guy like me might buy, here is a list of what I bought today.

Colin Thatcher, Backrooms: A Story of Politics

Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker

Peter C Newman, The Canadian Revolution: 1985 – 1995 From Deference to Defiance

Donald Creighton, Canada’s First Century

Victor Hoar and Mac Reynolds, The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion

Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Rommel’s Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps

J. S. Woodsworth, Strangers Within Our Gates: The Problem of the Immigrant – 1909

Allan Fotheringham, Look Ma…No Hands: An Affectionate Look at Our Wonderful Tories

Charles A. Reich, The Greening of America

Farley Mowat, People of the Deer (one of my favorite Canadian authors)

Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea

Dick North, The Trapper of Rat River (an account of Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper)

Leon Uris, Mitla Pass (also the author of the book, Exodus)

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto (I feel the need to know the enemy)

Charles M. Sheldon. In His Steps (the beginning of the phrase, “What would Jesus do?”)