Everyone loves free books, right? Well, I know I do, and since I've got a huge stack of books in my apartment that are seeking a loving home, I want to share them with you. These books are duplicates of review copies, advance reading copies and uncorrected proofs as well as some books that I purchased or somehow obtained. All books are in excellent (like new) shape, unless otherwise noted. I am offering them to you several times per week for the next few months, free of charge, although I will ask you to pay the cost of the shipping envelope and postage for mailing each book to you. Below the jump is a short list of these books that I am offering to you today on a first-come first-sent basis;
The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat by Eric Roston. Advance reading copy. Paperback.
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver. Paperback. I am madly in love with Mary Oliver's poetry, but alas, this is an extra copy, so I am sharing with you.
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence -- and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene M. Pepperberg. Hardback. [my review].
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg. Advance reading copy. Paperback. [my review is forthcoming]
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories by John Murray. Hardback. The dustjacket looks different from the book appearing on the Amazon link. I have no idea how this book snuck into my apartment or onto my bookshelves, but it's here, and needs a home.
How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas by David P Barash, PhD and Judith Eve Lipton, MD. Review copy. Hardback. Even though I know David, I am sorry to admit that I really don't like this book (but that doesn't mean you won't like it!).
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernière. Paperback.
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama. Paperback.
Kitchens of India "Indian Classical Duets" (music CDs). Vol 3 (2 copies); Vol 4 (1 copy); Vol 5 (2 copies).
Disclaimers: If you want any of these books (or CDs or DVDs), let me know which ones (in comments) and within 24 hours or less, I'll send you email asking for your mailing address so I can get these items shipped ASAP. These items are free, but I am asking for $5 for each book to cover the cost of postage and the shipping envelope or box and, if there is any money left over, to help cover the cost of a coffee and cookie for me. You can pay this fee by mailing me cash, a check or via an electronic transaction using the Paypal "donate" button on my left sidebar (please do NOT create another Paypal account in my name; "my" Paypal accounts are spawning faster than Atlantic salmon these past few days). If you wish to write a review of any book that you've received through me, feel free to email it to me and I'll happily publish it on my blog (the publishers will be grateful to you, as will I). I will be giving away a similar number of books/CDs/DVDs every day or two for the next couple months until they have all been dispersed to new homes. Any claimed items that I do not have mailing addresses for within 7 days of them first being spoken for will be offered to my readers once again. All unclaimed items will be donated to the NYPL.
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I'd like to claim Where The Wild Things Were.
May I ask for
How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas
I'd like to claim Alex and Me. Will there be extra shipping fees to send north of the border?
Femi Folami-Browne: your email bounced as being nonexistent. can you try again?
No book requests. I just like the idea of books sneaking into people's homes. I think it's a conspiracy. Or it's all related to l-space.
Ooh...if the "Where the wild things were" has gone already, I'd love to claim the "Birds without Wings".
Well looks like someone snatched the Alex the Parrot book, but at least I'm now aware of the memoir. I'll have to get a copy. Also, may I reccomend "The Parrot Who Owns Me" http://www.amazon.com/Parrot-Who-Owns-Me-Relationship/dp/0679463305 by Joanna Burger. Touching autobiography about an ornithologist and her Amazon, including how he led her to look at unexplored aspects of animal behavior.
Bah! I wasn't fast enough! The three I wanted are clearly popular!
rcs: i am a book magnet. i know this is impossible, but i've been doing the impossible for most of my life.
erin siegel: i've got that book (thanks for the recommendation) and i think it's better than pepperberg's book.
michellespidermonkey: there's lots more coming, so don't give up yet. i try to list the books in the evenings, although which evenings is anyone's guess .. i usually wait for the stack of homeless books to get shorter before i list more, i guess
I also dearly love Mary Oliver's poetry, so I'd like to claim Owls and Other Fantasies, as well as one of your Indian duet CDs. I don't have a preference for which CD; could you send me your favorite of the three choices?