title: True Stories of Strange Events and Odd People: A Memoir
author: Lawrence S. Bartell
description: Lawrence S. Bartell is a professor emeritus of the chemistry department of the University of Michigan. To date, he has published over three hundred scientific articles and continues to actively publish today. This is his first work of a nonscientific nature, presenting stories accumulated over a lifetime.
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  BOOKS BY JOSEPH HELLER
  
  
  CLOSING TIME  
  PICTURE THIS  
  NO LAUGHING MATTER  
  GOD KNOWS  
  GOOD AS GOLD  
  SOMETHING HAPPENED  
  CATCH-22
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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