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The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert Frank
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Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy by Theodore Beale
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Hood (King Raven Trilogy, Book 1) by Stephen R. Lawhead
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Legion of the Lost: The True Experience of An American in the French Foreign Legion by Jaime Salazar
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The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal by John N. Maclean
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"This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned. But no, apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by this author from people’s Kindles and credited their accounts for the price."

Will people never learn? This is completely why I will never buy a Kindle, or a Sony Reader, or any other similarly DRM-crippled ebook reader. Unless someone clever figures out how they can be hacked, with open firmware or similar, in which case I'll consider buying a used one if it's cheap enough.