Books and Libraries

Further under the radar: More Books not to miss - Nancy Pearl

Morning Edition, August 13, 2007

• Dingley Falls by Michael Malone, paperback, 640 pages "One of my favorite novels was written more than a quarter-century ago, and yet each time I read it, which I do every couple of years, I fall in love with it all over again"
• Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell, hardcover, 481 pages, biography of "female Lawrence of Arabia and the woman who invented Iraq"
• The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil, paperback, 368 pages, clever and often laugh-out-loud funny second novel, is ostensibly about the search for a watch supposedly made for Marie Antoinette
• In the Woods by Tana French, hardcover, 448 pages, part whodunit, part psychological thriller (à la Barbara Vine and Patricia Highsmith), and wholly successful.
• Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris, hardcover, 400 pages

Libraries

• Camden County Library
• Moorestown Public Library
• NY Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library at 188 Madison Ave (between 34th and 35th Sts) has laptop docking 10BaseT
  Hours: opens 10AM, closes 8pm Tues, Wed, Thurs, 6pm Mon, Fri, Sat
• NY Public Library Catalog of Circulating books
• NY Public Library Catalog of Non-Circulating reference books
• links to Books on Tape
• Hytelnet by Peter Scott Northern Lights Internet Solutions, Saskatoon, Sask, Canada Electronic Library Catalog access for all libraries of the world!
• Library Spot Acronyms
• Internet Public Library (ipl)
• Camden County Library System Databases
• South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative Facts on File
• South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative EBSCO 2001
• Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources (POWER)
• BookPool.com Discount Technical Books per Tony Fica, MTA Contivity course 7/17-19/2001 pay only 30 to 50% of retail!
• BooksMatter.com San Diego Tech Book Store per Cameron Parker, Billerica Contivity course 12/18-21/2001
• ISBN.nu compare prices of any in-print, many out-of-print books at 14 online bookstores
• AddALL.com Search and Compare among 40+ sites, 20,000 sellers, millions of books!
• Amazon.com
• Barnes and Noble
• Borders Books and Music
• BookSense.com Independent Bookstores OnLine
• O'Reilly.com
• computer literacy bookstore aka Fatbrain
• FatBrain.com bookstore directly
• publishersweekly.com
• bookweb.com
• Book CloseOuts.com
• DealPilot.com was www.acses.com - retrieves prices from all major online (book) shops to track down best offer. Also finds CDs, Movies.
• Powell's Books great Portland book store.
• SoftPro an independent bookstore with locations in Burlington, MA and Denver, CO.
• BookBlvd Shopping Bot reviewed in PC World December 1999 - specifically for books. Search fields limited to 25 chars.
• BookFinder.com Shopping Bot reviewed in PC World December 1999 - specifically for books. Tends to find more expensive copies; doesn't allow sort by price.
• BottomDollar.com Shopping Bot reviewed in PC World December 1999. Has section on books; permits sorting results by price, has annoying banner ads.
• MySimon.com Shopping Bot reviewed in PC World December 1999. Has section on books; good for extremely specific searches. can resort results by price. seems to get the most hits of all 5 shopbots reviewed.
• PriceScan Shopping Bot reviewed in PC World December 1999. Has section on books; reports books prices, shipping costs, total cost. allows sorting copies on total price. Search procedure not intuitive...
• ALibris.com On-Line book finder, sponsor of WHYY TV channel 12.
• AbeBooks.com advertised on WETA 90.FM in Wash DC, Garrison Keiler's Author's Almanac

XLibris "where writers become authors" Internet publishing house

Online Library Catalogs in the Metro NY Area

USA Academic Libraries

The Internet Archive.org - building an Internet Library

About the Deep Web and searching it - from the CompletePlanet.com

Calishain's Researchbuzz chronicles search engines, new data colletions ("Online Legan Information in Denmark, Norway and Sweden"), brower software, and other deep-Web mining tools that "a research librarian, journalist, educator, and others would find helpful, from the perspective of someone who's really going to use it". tech.life@inquirer 5/31/01

Internet Scout Project NFS funded project to inform higher education and research communities about resources on the Internet. tech.life@inquirer 5/31/01

Government Printing Office listings massive amount of info not available through search engines - go to the site first... tech.life@inquirer 5/31/01

Library of Congress massive amount of info not available through search engines - go to the site first... tech.life@inquirer 5/31/01

Unbound Bible 10 English versions, 40 other languages, powerful search feature. per USA Today Feb 15, 2001

Breakthrough Books lists works that have defined a particular area of thought. per USA Today Feb 15, 2001

U of P's Kelly Writers House booklist May 29, 2001

Walter Mosley's Home at Black Classics

Enid Blyton Book Series

Agatha Christie Book Series

Books

Interesting and recommended books:

• 9/29/2007
  • Derek Robinson, Goshawk_Squadron
  • Derek Robinson, Piece_of_Cake

The Collapse of Global Public Health Laurie Garrett, per The Connection

The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, Rebecca Goldstein, with a "cognitive approach" to fiction, MacArthur Fellow

Consilience, Edward O. Wilson, Unity of Knowledge

Code and other Laws of Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig, free-wheeling internet could be severely regulated in an e-comerce future if we aren't careful

The Code Book, Simon Singh

The Bible Code, Michael Drosnik

A Practical Guide to Network Management, , McGraw-Hill; recommended by Jeff of Nortel Networks, NYC

Book of Rites - geomancy - "secure the center & heaven and earth will find their own rightful place"

Buddha, Karen Armstrong

History of God, Karen Armstrong

Philip K Dick wrote We Can Remember For You Wholesale, better than the movie, Total Recall, per Terri Gross interview.

Anthony de Mello Inspiration from a major spiritual teacher