Saturday, August 13, 2011

Aquisition: FoL Book Sale

I went to the booksale at the local library. My dear husband gave me a 20-dollar bill and said have fun.

Usually, the price is 50 cents a paperback and $1 per hardback, so I anticipated bringing home around 10-15 books. But, they were doing something new - handing each person a small plastic grocery bag and inviting them to fill it up - for $3.

Hoo-rah!

My Tally: 82 Books for $20
6 Bags at $3 a Bag
2 Books from the Special Price at $1 a Book

The special books were out-of-print items, both of which I wanted. Part of the 82 were some books from my husband, and I have listed them at the end.

Normally, I would make a video for this, but with almost 70 books, it would be a loooonnnnggg video. So instead, I leave you to drool over my loot.

The Special Books:

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggins (First Edition)

Chronicles of Fairacre: An Omnibus by Miss Read

In the Bags:

Narratives of Hernado de Soto in the Conquest of Florida trans. by Buckingham Smith
Volume I and Volume II (1904)

Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

The Return of the Native by Thomas Harding

Stories and Toasts for After Dinner by Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. (1914)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

More Stories to Remember ed. by Thomas B. Costain and John Beecroft (Volume I)

Black Voyage: Eyewitness Accounts of the Atlantic Slave Trade ed. by Thomas Howard

How We Do It: How the Science of Sex Can Make You a Better Lover by Judy Dutton

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

George MacDonald: The Best from All His Works ed. by Charles Erlandson

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle

French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano

Roman Medicine by John Scarborough (Aspects of Greek and Roman Life)

Ancient Peoples and Places: Writing by David Diringer

American Through British Eyes ed by Allan Nevins

Walking Through the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler

The Sign of Jonas by Thomas Merton

The Humanity of God by Karl Barth

Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the World's Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

How to Survive on Land and Sea by Craighead et al (Fourth Edition)

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party by George R. Stewart

Wild Girl and Gran by Nan Gregory

Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier

The Witching Hour by Stephen Krensky

The Dragon Circle by Stephen Krensky

Girls to the Rescue ed. by Bruce Lansky

The Rainbow People by Laurence Yep

Glennis, Before and After by Patricia Calvert

More Perfect than the Moon by Patricia MacLachlan

Ranger's Apprentice: The Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagnan (Book 5)

Once Upon a Curse by E. D. Baker

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan

Martha Washington: An American Life by Patricia Brady

Willa Cather Living: A Personal Record by Edith Lewis

A Useful Woman: The Eary Life of Jane Addams by Gioia Diliberto

Jules Verne: A Biography by Jean Jules-Verne

Lucretia Mott by Otelia Cromwell

Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen by Jane Aiken Hodge

The Character of John Adams by Peter Shaw

Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch

Engaging the Enemy by Elizabeth Moon (Vatta's War, Book 3)

Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon (Vatta's War, Book 4)

The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

Echoes of Time by Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith

The Nine Princes of Amber / The Gun of Avalon by Roger Zelazny (The Chronicles of Amber, Volume I)

Measles and the Wrathmonk by Ian Ogilvy

Eon by Greg Bear

Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King

Exploring Amerca's Historic Place by National Geographic Society

The Southwest: Gold, God and Grandeur by National Geographic Society

Exploring the Great Rivers of North America by National Geographic Society

Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland ed. by Malachy McCourt

The Great Liners by Melvin Maddocks

Ships Through History by Ralph T. Ward

Inside the White House by Betty Boyd Caroli

Disney's Celebration: The Story of a Town by Michael Lassell

Ships: A History by Enzo Angelucci and Attilio Cucari

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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

The Essays of E. B. White

Book 1 - 14 of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole


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