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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 #37 – General Books

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The Liar ’s  Club (1996): Mary Karr   2012: Book Box #37 – General Books   Bonesteel: Georgia Bonesteel. Bright ideas for Lap Quilting , 1990 (Hardcover) Bouton: Jim Bouton. Ball Four , June 1971 (Paperback) Breslin: James Breslin. The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight: A Novel , 1971 (Paperback) Bryant: Carolyn Bryant. And the Band Played On , 1776-1976, 1975 (Paperback) Butcher: Philip Butcher. George W. Cable , 1962 (Hardcover) Carpenter: Frederic I. Carpenter. Eugene O’Neill , 1964 (Hardcover) Chapkis: Wendy Chapkis. Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance , 1986 (Paperback) Connelly: Neil Connelly. St. Michael’s Scales , 2002, 1st Edition, Advanced Reader’s Edition (Paperback) Department of the Army Field Manual: Department of the Air Force Manual . Military Sanitation FM-21-10, AFM 160-46 (Paperback) Department of the Army ROTC Manual. ROTCM 145-60. Small Unit Tactics Including Communications . July 1958 (Paperback) Dickens: Charles Dickens. A Tale of ...

2012: Book Box #36 – General Books

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: A Path to Power (1982), Robert Caro   2012: Book Box #36 – General Books   Beard: Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard. The Rise of American Civilization: New Edition, Two Volumes in One, Revised and Enlarged . Decorations by Wilfred Jones, 1954 edition (Hardcover) Brown: Jennifer S.H. Brown. Strangers in Blood , 1980 (Hardcover) Buck: Philo M. Buck. An Anthology of World Literature , 3rd Edition, 1964, 11th Printing (Hardcover) Butcher: Harry C. Butcher. The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR, Naval Aide to General Eisenhower, 1942 -1945: My Three Years with Eisenhower , 1945 (Hardcover) Caro: Robert A. Caro. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: A Path to Power , 1982, 1st Edition (Hardcover) Chapman: Audrey B. Chapman. Man Sharing: Dilemma or Choice , 1986 (Hardcover) Denker: Henry. Denker. A Gift of Life , 1989, 1st Edition (Hardcover) Dennis: Wendy Dennis. Hot and Bothered: Sex and Love in the Nineties , 1992 (Hardcover) Enger: Leif ...

2012: Book Box #35 – General Books and Gettysburg Review

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Aftershocks/Near Escapes  (1991): Stephen Dobyns   2012: Book Box #35 – General Books and Gettysburg Review   Cammermeyer: Margarethe Cammermeyer (with Chris Fisher). Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story , 1994 (Hardcover) Christie: Agatha Christie. Curtain , 1975, 3rd Printing (Hardcover) Christie: Agatha Christie. Passenger to Frankfort , 1970 (Hardcover) Christie: Agatha Christie. The Nursery Rhyme Murders , 1970 (Hardcover) Christie: Agatha Christie. The Postern of Fate , 1973 (Hardcover) Christie: Agatha Christie. The Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple’s Last Case) and The Murder at the Vicarage , 1976 (Hardcover) Dobyns: Stephen Dobyns. Aftershocks/Near Escapes , 1991 (Hardcover) Duras: Marguerite Duras. Blue Eyes, Black Hair , 1987, 1st American Edition (Hardcover) Freud: Sigmund Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams . New Translation by James Strachey, 1961 (Hardcover) Fulbright: J. William Fulbright. The Price of Empire , 1989, 1st Edition (Hardcov...

2012: Book Box #34 – General Books to Read and then to Shelve or Donate

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Midair  (1985, 1st Edition): Frank Conroy 2012: Book Box #34 – General Books to Read and then to Shelve or Donate     Asbury: Herbert Asbury. The French Quarter , 1949 (Paperback) Austin: Jane Austin. Pride and Prejudice , N.D. (Hardcover) Boccaccio: Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron , N.D. (Hardcover) Brace: Gerald Warner Brace. The Department: A Novel , 1968, 1st Edition (Hardcover) Bradbury: Ray Bradbury. Quicker Than the Eye: Stories , 1997 (Paperback) Brautigan: Richard Brautigan. Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery , 1975 (Hardcover) Cerf: Bennett A. Cerf and Van H. Cartmell, eds. The Best Short Stories of O. Henry , 1945 edition (Hardcover) Conroy: Frank Conroy. Midair , 1985, 1st Edition (Hardcover) DeAngelis: Barbara DeAngelis. Are You the One for Me? 1992 (Hardcover) Doctor X. Intern , 1965 (Hardcover) Dubus: Andre Dubus. Selected Stories , 1988, 1st Edition (Hardcover) Dymond: Andrew Dymond. Farscape: Dark Side of the Sun , 2000 (Paperback) Fa...

2012: Book Box #33 – General Books

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Mary Wollstonecraft: circa 1797   2012: Book Box #33 – General Books   Allen: Eliot D. Allen and Ethel B. Colbrunn. The Student’s Writer’s Guide , 1970 (Paper) American R.D.M. Corporation. The Glass Menagerie: A Critical Commentary (Study Master), 1965 (Paper) Army Medical Service School. The Medical Field Manual: Instructor Training Program in Emergency Care , May 1960 (Paper) Berlin: Normand Berlin. Eugene O’Neill , 1982 (Paper) Bogard: Travis Bogard, Ed. The Later Plays of Eugene O’Neill: Ah! Wilderness! ; A Touch of the Poet ; Hughie ; and A Moon for the Misbegotten , 1967 (Paper) Carpenter: Frederic I. Carpenter. Eugene O’Neill , 1964 (Paper) Clark: Barrett H. Clark. Eugene O’Neill: The Man and His Plays , 1947 (Revised Edition) (Paper) Cummins: Maria S. Cummins. The Lamplighter , N.D. (Hardcover) Dickens: Charles Dickens. Child’s History of England , N.D. (But old, late 1800’s or early 1900’s) (Hardcover) Dickens: Charles Dickens. Pickwick Papers , N.D. (Hardcove...

2012: Book Box #32 – General Books

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Here Comes Garfield , March 1982, 1st edition (Paper): Jim Davis  2012: Book Box #32 – General Book s   Adams: Eustace L. Adams. On the Wing of Flame: An Andy Lane Story , 1929 (Hardcover) Adams: Henry Adams. The Education of Henry Adams . Introduction by James Truslow Adams, 1946 edition (Hardcover) Bollen: Rog Bollen. Animal Crackers: Save the Dodos! 1982 (Paper) Craddock: Charles Egbert Craddock. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains , 1885 (Hardcover) Davis: Jim Davis. Here Comes Garfield , March 1982, 1st edition (Paper) Hersey: John Hersey. A Bell for Adano , 1944. May be a 1st Edition (no dust jacket). All caps note: “This book has not been condensed. Its bulk is less because government regulations prohibit use of heavier paper.” (wartime) Pub. Alfred A. Knopf (Hardcover) Iwin: Will Iwin. Herbert Hoover: A Reminiscent Biography , March 1928, 1st printing (Hardcover) Kerouac: Jack Kerouac. Lonesome Traveler , 1960 (Paper) Longfellow: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Out...

Glass: Shot Glass (“The Rock”)

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Glass: Shot Glass (“The Rock”) Glass: Shot Glass (“The Rock”) Glass: Shot Glass (“The Rock”) Glass: Shot Glass (“The Rock”) (top) Glass: Shot Glass (“The Rock”) (base) Glass: Shot Glass (“The Rock”) Heavy Glass with Green Lettering   7.48 ounces 211 grams 1055 carats   Community Aid York, Pennsylvania   25 April 2026   2026-York-4-25 Glass: Shot Glass (“The Rock”)

Plastic Toy Cup: Disney Parks Star Wars BB-8 Souvenir Sipper Cup with Orange Straw

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2012: Book Box #31 – General and Presidential Books

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Nunquam (1st Edition, 1970): Lawrence Durrell 2012: Book Box #31 – General and Presidential Books   Abeel: Erica Abeel. Only When I Laugh , 1978, 1st Edition (Hardcover) Anderson: Kenneth Anderson. Mystery of Parkview , 1940 (Hardcover) Bloom: Harold Bloom. The Closing of the American Mind, 1987 (Hardcover) Capra: Frank Capra. The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography , 1971 (Hardcover) de Maurier: Daphne de Maurier. The House on the Strand: A Novel , 1969, 1st U.S. Edition (Hardback) Durrell: Lawrence Durrell. Nunquam , 1970 (1st Edition) (Hardcover) Frost: John Frost, Ed. American Poetry Anthology 1983 , Vol. II, No. 3 and 4, Fall/Winter 1983 (Vanity Publication). Jen’s awful poem “Ode to Friendship Plus” Kept as a reminder (Hardcover) Frye: Northrop Frye. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye , October 1966, 3rd Printing (Paper) Gaitskill: Mary Gaitskill. Two Girls Fat and Thin , 1991 (Hardcover) Garfunkel: Art Garfunkel. Still Water: Prose Poems , 1989 (1st ...

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