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Old 01-06-2008, 02:15 PM
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Question $20 Border's Gift Card - What To Buy?

One of the gifts I got for Christmas was a $20 gift card for Borders. I am looking for suggestions of what to buy. The book doesn't have to be theological in nature. I'll take suggestions for good histories, novels, scientific books, etc. And if the book is slightly more than $20, that's ok too.

So, basically, what I'm asking is: If you had this gift card, what would you buy?
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Old 01-06-2008, 02:21 PM
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Before you do anything with that card, join Borders' Rewards - it's free, and they send you excellent coupons via e-mail on the whole gamut of the selection from books, to music, to movies - 20-40 percent savings, so you could make a $30-40 book get a substantial discount before using your card.
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Before you do anything with that card, join Borders' Rewards - it's free, and they send you excellent coupons via e-mail on the whole gamut of the selection from books, to music, to movies - 20-40 percent savings, so you could make a $30-40 book get a substantial discount before using your card.
Thank you, Scott for the suggestion. I am already a member of Border's Rewards!
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If you are interested in ID books, this book by Sanford is excellent.

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Send the card to me and I can give you a definitive answer after I've bought something.

Currently I am trying to add to my church history collection. A recent purchase included The Church in History by B. K. Kuiper and The Story of Christianity, One-Volume Edition by Justo L. Gonzalez (Kuiper I finished and am half-way through Gonzalez).

I am also having lots of online discussions with some Catholics and resently bought Sola Scriptura edited by Don Kistler and The Shape of Sola Scriptura by Keith Mathison (both are around 50%+ read).

For mindless entertainment I confess I like historical and science fiction.

Actually I need to stop buying books and catch up on all the ones I've bought over the years - we estimate we have around 5,000+ books in our house of which too many have not been read yet.
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Dawkins or Hitchens? . . . just to get my middle-aged blood moving a little faster.

Last year I liked reading Bill Bennett's America: The Last Best Hope (Vol 1 and Vol 2).
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Anything by Dave Hunt.

He has the same surname as me so he must be good.










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with twenty bucks... I dunno a newspaper and a coffee?
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Old 01-06-2008, 10:48 PM
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Just kidding. The last time I was in a Borders (it's in an other country y'know) I picked up "Blue Like Jazz" for around 10 bucks. (+ a coffee and a newspaper)
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Anything by Dave Hunt.

He has the same surname as me so he must be good.










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