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CLOSED - WILD RELEASE 10/31/18. Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel (co-author of Seven Days in May) is an out of print 1965 book about a President of the United States who may be insane. It is enjoying a recent resur…
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anyone read The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn- Holocaust family memoir.great!
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RE: Re Mendelsohn: Lost
[[I've gotten through 10 pages of it but haven't continued.]]
I read the end.
If you tried the Starbucks in Raleigh, I understand your frustration. Two separate Starbucks in the city removed the OBCZs inside of one year and we have lost a major way to release books.
I have recently set up the N…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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James Patterson USA Bookbox anyone?
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RE: James Patterson USA Bookbox anyone?
Due to lack of interest, I broke up this bookbox into individual wild releases.
I will accept anything suitable to a university campus.
I am happy to announce that Raleigh North Carolina has a functioning OBCZ again. It is on the NC State University campus near the D.H. Hill Library.
NC State Univ Free Book Box
http://www.bookcrossing.com/hunt/1/36/1…
James Patterson USA Bookbox anyone?
I have 10 James Patterson books and would like to start sending around a James Patterson bookbox. Anyone interested in participating would take out of the box the books they're inte…
I have 10 James Patterson books and would like to start sending around a James Patterson bookbox. Anyone interested in participating would take out of the box the books they're interested in and replace with an equal num…
Raleigh-Durham BookCrossing Group meeting @ Old Raleigh Village Starbucks, 3101-105 Edwards Mill Rd, Raleigh, 7pm, April 12. There is an Official BookCrossing Zone here so bring books to release. See you there.
In addition to the two Official BookCrossing Zones (OBCZs) in Raleigh:
1. Starbucks - Lake Boone Shopping Center http://idek.net/Mj7
2. Starbucks - Old Raleigh Village, 3101-105 Edwards Mill Rd. http://idek.net/MjA
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My daughter is in France this fall studying and has bought lots of books that she wants to bring back to the USA. Does anyone know of the cheapest method to ship books from France? Thank you!
Today I read the following news item:
Explorer who found lost Peru cities dies Sun Sep 16, 2:44 AM ET
RENO, Nev. - Douglas Eugene "Gene" Savoy, an explorer who discovered more than 40 lost cities in Peru and led long-d…
I have read every book he has out in English but don't collect them.
I have a copy of Locked Rooms by Laurie King that I would love to send you. It is on your Wish List. Let me know if you would still like a copy. I love the Mary Russell series and would love to share this with someone wh…
And most of the times I read it out loud. I started reading it as a child then to my children, first "in utero" and then a few times as they grew up. We used to read through the series a chapter or two at a time as bedti…
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What local authors would you recommend?
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Forever Crossed by A. Leigh Jones, Raleigh, North Carolina
I am in the Heart of Southern Literature Heaven and yet I don't often like Southern novels. Forever Crossed is not your mother's Southern Literature as it deals with Were-animals, vampires, and witchcraft in modern Ralei…
I love these books so. I read them as a child. Read them to my girlfriend in college (yes, she still speaks to me). Then I read them to my daughters.
A new BookCrosser came to our local monthly meeting asking about a manuscript called Unlock Reality, unpublished but released through BookCrossing across England. Well a quick search shows there are 50 manuscript copies …
A new BookCrosser came to our local monthly meeting asking about a manuscript called Unlock Reality, unpublished but released through BookCrossing across England. Well a quick search shows there are 50 manuscript copies …
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What is the most shocking book you have ever read?
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120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade
It has been a while since I read it, but this excerpt from an Amazon review by David Leeson gives a great summary.
The story is simple: four eighteenth-century French libertines spend an entire winter in an isolated c…
I read your news story and it really touched my heart. I too believe that it is on the individual level that we finally get to experience the events of the world.
Just after reading your entry I read an unrelated pie…
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What book have you re-read the most times?
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
First as a child, then in college I read it again out loud with my girlfriend. Then when I had children I read it to each of them in the womb and together a bunch of times after they were born.
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What was the last book you read that had been translated into English...
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This is actually a recent novel from Portugal
This is actually a novel: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago.
From Publishers Weekly
"Like other earthy fictionalized accounts of the life of Jesus, this loose interpretation of the Gospel provoked a…
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What was the last book you read that had been translated into English...
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Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy
I just started reading this large book by a member of the Hungarian upper class. My family is from the Carpathian Mountains and were once peasants in Hungary so I am interested in what the rich were doing in this part of…