Posted on 04/26/2010 6:44:59 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
Look up bookfinder.com.
It is a booksearch engine that crosschecks against Amazon, Alibris, and others (new and used and there are even foreign sellers’ search by language).
I will do that, thank you!
Yes.
That would be wonderful. I have searched Amazon, google and ebay many times.
Are there any book clubs on the internet? By that I mean websites that have chat for people who are book lovers and wich to discuss books. It would be especially nice if these websites were conservative.
How did you save these books from being weeded?
Oprah has one ....good luck.
thanks...great thread..never thought of this.
I read it in high school and it made quite an impression on me.
Consider making them a donation to a good charity or foundation or organization.
If they're in section that I'm weeding, I pass them by. Or I'll sometimes check them out so that they will have a record of having recently circulated. If they've been selected by someone else as weeding candidates, I'll sometimes have to plead the case for saving them to my superior.
Right now, I'm weeding the special collection, which can be heartbreaking, since it means having to part with some venerable tomes. There are a quite a few books in there that are more than 100 years old, including many by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. I'm recommending that most of those be transferred to the circulating collection, but a goodly portion will probably go to the Friends of the Library for sale.
Same here and I had my son read it when I home schooled him.
Canticle was a singular work, a science fiction novel that exceeded the limitations of the genre, with strong Catholic themes, but not a Catholic novel. Sadly, its author later suffered from severe depression, became a loner alienated even from family, and died of a self-inflicted gunshot.
In the world of reference librarians, your question is known as a stumper. I sent it to the Chicago Public Library, but their trusty reference sleuths, who have always come through in the past, couldn’t come up with a title for the book that matched your description. However, they offered some suggestions (I doubt that it’s the Zinn opus):
A people’s history of the United States, 1492-present
Zinn, Howard
American History
John A Garraty
The Story of America
John A. Garraty
1,001 Things Everyone Should Know About American History
John A. Garraty
The Reader’s Companion to American History
John A. Garraty
There are chronologies that list events in chronological order.
The Timetables of American History
Laurence Urdang
Others do a comprehensive treatment of world history:
An Unfinished History of the World
Hugh Thomas
The Outline of History Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
Herbert George Wells
Well, you are amazing. Thanks so much for trying. I cannot believe you put so much time into this. Thank you so much!
I will keep looking for that book. Maybe I have the title all wrong, but I don’t think so. I will check out the other ones you listed. Thank you again so much! You went above and beyond!
That's what we reference librarians are supposed to do, but I still wish I could have satisfied your information need. You might surf over to some online public library sites and see if they have an "ask a librarian" feature that allows one to pose a reference question online.
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