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Lulu wrote: "Any recommendations on where to START looking for out-of-print/hard to find books?"Depends on what you are looking for but here are a couple of suggestions:
- second hand book store
- amazon - it usually can tell you sources that sell a particular book once you type the name in
- some authors have gotten their rights back for out-of-print books and are self-publishing them with a different ISBN number - look on Smashwords, or kindle store on Amazon
- Goodreads will tell you which library close to you has your book
- author's site as sometimes they still have copies of their out-of-print books
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Lulu wrote: "Any recommendations on where to START looking for out-of-print/hard to find books?"eBay maybe.
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I've just started Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan. This is book 13 in the series I first started reading in 2003.
I just started Reading Lolita in Tehran
for a book club I'm in here in Birmingham. Somehow, I never read this when it first came out.
Forbidden#ReflectionsofABookaholic
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#ReadingBINGOChallenge2014 (A Book w/Non-Human Characters)
#WomensHistoryMonth
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Samson by Jacquelin Thomas - really enjoying this book although I find the main character very annoying.
Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America by Elliot Jaspin
“Leave now, or die!” Those words-or ones just as ominous-have echoed through the past hundred years of American history, heralding a very unnatural disaster-a wave of racial cleansing that wiped out or drove away black populations from counties across the nation. While we have long known about horrific episodes of lynching in the South, this story of racial cleansing has remained almost entirely unknown. These expulsions, always swift and often violent, were extraordinarily widespread in the period between Reconstruction and the Depression era. In the heart of the Midwest and the Deep South, whites rose up in rage, fear, and resentment to lash out at local blacks. They burned and killed indiscriminately, sweeping entire counties clear of blacks to make them racially “pure.” Many of these counties remain virtually all-white to this day. In Buried in the Bitter Waters, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elliot Jaspin exposes a deeply shameful chapter in the nation’s history-and one that continues to shape the geography of race in America.
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" WITH A FOREWORD BY MARION WRIGHT EDELMAN The award-winning biography of black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. ""Riveting. Provides a history that helps us to understand the choices made by so many black men and women of Hamer's generation, who somehow found the courage to join a movement in which they risked everything."" --New York Times Book Review ""One is forced to pause and consider that this black daughter of the Old South might have been braver than King and Malcolm."" --Washington Post Book World ""An epic that nurtures us as we confront today's challenges and helps us Keep Hope Alive.'"" --Jesse L. Jackson ""Not only does This Little Light of Mine recount a vital part of America""s history, but it lights our future as readers are inspired anew by Mrs. Hamer's spirit, courage, and commitment."" --Marian Wright Edelman ""This book is the essence of raw courage. It must be read."" --Rep. John Lewis
Lulu wrote: "This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer " WITH A FOREWORD BY MARION WRIGHT EDELMAN The awar..."
One of my Sheroes :)
Lulu wrote: "This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer " WITH A FOREWORD BY MARION WRIGHT EDELMAN The awar..."
I want to read this! Thanks.
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Sometimes my library is the root of my temptations not to stay on task with my reading list. Was drawn to this book because the expedition team is made up of women and it is the first book of a trilogy with the second book being published in May 2014 and the third book in September 2014.
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by Leanda de LisleThe Tudors are England’s most notorious royal family. But, as Leanda de Lisle’s gripping new history reveals, they are a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew.
The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the family’s obscure Welsh origins, the ordinary man known as Owen Tudor who would fall (literally) into a Queen’s lap—and later her bed. It passes by the courage of Margaret Beaufort, the pregnant thirteen-year-old girl who would help found the Tudor dynasty, and the childhood and painful exile of her son, the future Henry VII. It ignores the fact that the Tudors were shaped by their past—those parts they wished to remember and those they wished to forget.
By creating a full family portrait set against the background of this past, de Lisle enables us to see the Tudor dynasty in its own terms, and presents new perspectives and revelations on key figures and events. De Lisle discovers a family dominated by remarkable women doing everything possible to secure its future; shows why the princes in the Tower had to vanish; and reexamines the bloodiness of Mary’s reign, Elizabeth’s fraught relationships with her cousins, and the true significance of previously overlooked figures. Throughout the Tudor story, Leanda de Lisle emphasizes the supreme importance of achieving peace and stability in a violent and uncertain world, and of protecting and securing the bloodline.
Tudor is bristling with religious and political intrigue but at heart is a thrilling story of one family’s determined and flamboyant ambition.
Next up on reading list:Red Now and Laters by Marcus J. Guillory
In this impressive debut Marcus J. Guillory brilliantly weaves together the many obstacles of a young man growing into adulthood, the realities of urban life, the history of Louisiana Creole culture, the glory of the black cowboy, and the role of religion in shaping lives.
South Park, Houston, Texas, 1977, is where we first meet Ti’ John, a young boy under the care of his larger-thanlife father—a working-class rodeo star and a practitioner of vodou—and his mother—a good Catholic and cautious disciplinarian— who forbids him to play with the neighborhood “hoodlums.” Ti’ John, throughout the era of Reaganomics and the dawn of hip-hop and cassette tapes, must negotiate the world around him and a peculiar gift he’s inherited from his father and Jules Saint-Pierre “Nonc” Sonnier, a deceased ancestor who visits the boy, announcing himself with the smell of smoke on a regular basis. In many ways, Ti’ John is an ordinary kid who loses his innocence as he witnesses violence and death, as he gets his heart broken by girls and his own embittered father, as he struggles to live up to his mother’s middle-class aspirations and his father’s notion of what it is to be a man. In other ways, he is different—from his childhood buddies and from the father who is his hero.
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by Mat JohnsonRecently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Determined to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes, Jaynes convenes an all-black crew of six to follow Pym’s trail to the South Pole, armed with little but the firsthand account from which Poe derived his seafaring tale, a bag of bones, and a stash of Little Debbie snack cakes. Thus begins an epic journey by an unlikely band of adventurers under the permafrost of Antarctica, beneath the surface of American history, and behind one of literature’s great mysteries.
Lulu wrote: "Pym by Mat JohnsonRecently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a cru..."
I hope you like this book as much as I did.
I enjoy stories that have a fresh/different storyline.
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by Val McDermid.Jane Gresham, Wordsworth scholar, has long believed that Fletcher Christian, HMS Bounty mutineer, didn't die on Pitcairn Island but returned to England. She has theorized that Christian recounted his adventures to his old schoolmate Wordsworth, who wrote them down, and those documents and a related poem, now worth millions, lay forgotten in a local home. In the race to retrieve the valuable manuscripts, Jane finds herself competing against sinister forces that would stop at nothing, including murder, to reach them first.
Beverly wrote: "Lulu wrote: "Pym by Mat JohnsonRecently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manusc..."
I love satire, so Pym was a really enjoyable read for me.
Lulu wrote: "Pym by Mat JohnsonRecently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a cru..."
I loved Pym!!!
I am currently reading my first book of fiction (yay!), "Queen Mother." Here's a short summary: Queen Mother is the life adventure of Nala, an orphaned African whose search for romance and relevance takes her from slavery and the Middle Passage to motherhood and fantasy.
I just launched it (free on Amazon until 3/20). It's wild seeing my own name on my Kindle! It's also amazing to have people tell me that they have already connected to Nala.
kisha wrote: "Memoirs of a Geisha
I think this is gonna be the book that gets me out of my reading slump."This is one of my Top Five Books. This story is amazing!
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The House Girl"The reviews on this are either "This book is HORRIBLE!" or "This book is AMAZING!" I am looking forward to reading this and forming my own opinion!
Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color ComplexI attended a seminar by Marita Golden, earlier this week where she discussed this book. I purchased it and got it autographed while at the event. After reading Migrations of the Heart, I decided that I would purchase all of her books. I was able to find 4 of them at a second hand bookstore a few weeks ago. I connect with her for some reason. Maybe by the time I've finished reading all of her books, I'll figure out why.
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kisha wrote: "Andrew how are you liking it? Lulu and I just did a buddy read on it. I couldn't get into."Hi Kisha,
The writing is good but I'm not sure that the stories I've read so far have really held my attention. I can give you a better assessment once I've read a little more of the book.
- Andrew
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Angela wrote: "Jae' wrote: "The House Girl"The reviews on this are either "This book is HORRIBLE!" or "This book is AMAZING!" I am looking forward to reading t..."
lol... yes it was "ok" for me... It took a minute for it to grasp my attention.
Let me know what you think!!! (when you do get to it)
Hi Everyone I am currently reading, "Scarlet" the second in the series by Marissa Meyer. But I did just pick up the April book, "Sally Hemmings" from the library. I am looking forward to learning more but have to say I am a tad intimidated that I may have difficulty getting into it so I am glad to try with the group.
Currently my audio walking book is The Golem and the Jinni.Also reading:
A Wanted Woman
A Man's Promise
Saint Monkey
Beverly how are you liking it. That is on my TBR list.
Belinda wrote: "Beverly how are you liking it. That is on my TBR list."I am only at the beginning of The Golem and the Jinni - so far it is okay - I like that the author is going a very good job of setting up the concept of the golem and the concept of the jinni and interweaving historical events at this point. It is a 19 hour long audio book (800 page book) so the author can take her time to set the stage. It will take me a while to get through it.
Lately I have been mixing it up the audio books in addition to books and ebooks so I can get to more if my books. The only requirement is the voice talent is good. I just started our April read (1st chapter) and it is good but definitely a big book.
I look forward to reading it with the group.
Belinda wrote: "Lately I have been mixing it up the audio books in addition to books and ebooks so I can get to more if my books. The only requirement is the voice talent is good. I just started our April read (1..."
I agree the narrator can make or break an audio book.
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