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As part of moving, I just got rid of these:

• Aczel, Fermat’s Last Theorem
• Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything
• Adams, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
• Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
• Armstrong, Basic Topology
• Asher, Gridlinked
• Asimov, Forward the Foundation
• Asimov, Foundation
• Asimov, Foundation and Earth
• Asimov, Foundation and Empire
• Asimov, Foundation’s Edge
• Asimov, Nemesis
• Asimov, Nine Tomorrows
• Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
• Asimov, Prelude to Foundation
• Asimov, Robots and Empire
• Asimov, Second Foundation
• Asimov, The Caves of Steel
• Asimov, The Currents of Space
• Asimov, The Neutrino
• Asimov, The Winds of Change
• Banks, Against a Dark Background
• Banks, Look to Windward
• Banks, Matter
• Barry, Dave Barry Talks Back
• Barry, Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys
• Baxter, Anti-Ice
• Baxter, Evolution
• Baxter, Manifold Origin
• Baxter, Manifold Space
• Baxter, Moonseed
• Baxter, Ring
• Baxter, Titan
• Baxter, Vacuum Diagrams
• Benford, Across the Sea of Suns
• Benford, Furious Gulf
• Benford, Great Sky River
• Benford, In Alien Flesh
• Benford, In the Ocean of Night
• Benford, Sailing Bright Eternity
• Benford, Tides of Light
• Benford, Timescape
• Brin, Brightness Reef
• Brin, Heaven’s Reach
• Brin, Infinity’s Shore
• Brin, Kiln People
• Brin, Startide Rising
• Brin, Sundiver
• Brin, The Uplift War
• Camus, The Stranger
• Clark and Baxter, Sunstorm
• Clark and Baxter, Time’s Eye
• Clark, A Farewell to Alms
• Crichton, Timeline
• Darwin, The Origin of Species
• Debnath and Mikusinski, Introduction to Hilbert Spaces with Applications
• Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
• Egan, Permutation City
• Evans, Partial Differential Equations
• Finney, Winter Chill
• Flynn, Firestar
• French, Vibrations and Waves
• Funakoshi, Karate-Do Kyohan
• Gaiman, Neverwhere
• Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
• Golding, Lord of the Flies
• Gowdy, Limited Wants, Unlimited Means
• Hamilton, A Quantum Murder
• Hamilton, Judas Unchained
• Hamilton, Mindstar Rising
• Hamilton, Pandora’s Star
• Hamilton, The Dreaming Void
• Hamilton, The Naked God: Faith
• Hamilton, The Naked God: Flight
• Hamilton, The Nano Flower
• Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist: Conflict
• Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist: Consolidation
• Hamilton, The Reality Disfunction: Emergence
• Hamilton, The Reality Disfunction: Expansion
• Heinlein, I Will Fear No Evil
• Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
• Herbert, Children of Dune
• Herbert, Dune
• Herbert, Dune Messiah
• Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
• Herbert, Heretics of Dune
• Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
• Hesse, Peter Camenzind
• Hesse, Rosshalde
• Hesse, Steppenwolf
• Hesse, The Journey to the East
• Hoffmann, Tales of Hoffmann
• Korschelt, The Theory and Practice of Go
• Kreps, Notes on the Theory of Choice
• L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
• Le Carre, A Perfect Spy
• Le Carre, Our Game
• Le Carre, Single and Single
• Le Carre, The Secret Pilgrim
• LeGuin, Threshold
• Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
• Lewis, Perelandra
• Lewis, That Hideous Strength
• McCarthy, Bloom
• McCarthy, Lost in Transmission
• McCarthy, To Crush the Moon
• McCarthy, Wellstone
• McEliece, The Theory of Information and Coding
• Mieville, Iron Council
• Mitchell, Technogenesis
• Moravcsik, Meaning, Creativity, and the Inscrutability of the Human Mind
• Moriarty, Spin State
• Niven and Pournelle, The Gripping Hand
• Niven, Ringworld Throne
• Niven, The Integral Trees
• Niven, The Ringworld Engineers
• Ordeshook, A Political Theory Primer
• Pierce, Types and Programming Languages
• Pratchett, Interesting Times
• Pratchett, Jingo
• Pratchett, Small Gods
• Preston, The Hot Zone
• Proulx, Postcards
• Proulx, The Shipping News
• Quinn, After Dachau
• Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• Roderick, Crude Dreams
• Sagan, Contact
• Shelley, Frankenstein
• Silbershatz and Gavin, Operating Systems Concepts
• Simmons, Ilium
• Simmons, Olympos
• Simmons, The Hollow Man
• Stephenson, Snow Crash
• Stephenson, Zodiac
• Stienstra, California Camping
• Strichartz, The Way of Analysis
• Stross, Glasshouse
• Stross, Halting State
• Sturgeon, More than Human
• Taylor, Economics
• Tolkien, The Return of the King
• Tolkien, The Two Towers
• Updike, Roger’s Version
• Uris, A God in Ruins
• Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box
• Vonnegut, Galapagos
• Vonnegut, Mother Night
• Vonnegut, Player Piano
• Wells, The Invisible Man
• Williams, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
• Williams, Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass
• Williams, Otherland: River of Blue Fire
• Williams, Otherland: Sea of Silver Light
• Williams, The War of the Flowers
• Wolfe, A Man in Full
• Zweig, The Royal Game

Lyre birds are spectacular:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y

Thanks for Jiayi for the link. I wasn’t sure it was real at first, so here’s independent confirmation (PBS probably isn’t lying):

http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/songs/lyre.ram