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I own and operate The Chisholm Trail Bookstore in Duncan, Oklahoma, which has been in the business of selling books for eleven years. My personal reading tastes tend toward history, books about books, and science fiction, with forays into many interesting nonfiction topics.
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Roswell, Vegas, and Area 51, by Connie Willis
By Lynn, Jul 14, 2006 at 1:56 pm
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Connie Willis is best known for her award-winning science fiction, such as Bellwether and the Doomsday Book, in which her characters are immersed in improbable but incredibly complex situations. She has turned that same writing skill to nonfiction in Roswell, Vegas, and Area 51—a road trip viewing unidentified flying objects and outer-space alien sightings, museums, […]
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, by John Lewis Gaddis
By Lynn, Jul 5, 2006 at 7:00 am
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In his opening paragraphs of The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, the author, John Lewis Gaddis, begins with a description of a painting in which a young man views the rocks and distant mountains in landscape before him. The young man is a metaphor for the historian who, of necessity, must turn […]
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World, by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
By Lynn, Jun 27, 2006 at 3:42 pm
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The mix of theology, history, and biography is common within the world of books, but rarely has it been done so seamlessly as in Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World. In it, the husband-wife team of Lawrence Goldstone […]
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