Apr. 11th, 2014

Today we went to the First Avenue Public School book sale. Once again, a description of our "haul":

Cookbooks (all spiral-bound to lie flat):

Muslim Cookery (Ottawa Muslim Women's Auxiliary)
Lean and Luscious and Meatless, Vol. 3 (Bobbie Hinman & Millie Snyder)
Portage Green: Farmer's Market Cookbook (Portage La Prairie, Manitoba)

Other "How-to":

The Basics of Craftsmanship: Essentials of Woodworking

Music:

Handel Messiah (New Novello Choral Edition)

For the grandkids:

Blueberries for Sal (Robert McCloskey)
I took my frog to the library (Eric Kimmel)
The White Rat's Tale (Barbara Schiller)

2 Thomas the Tank Engine DVDs


Miscellaneous Literature:

A Teacher's Guide to Selected Literary Works

George Eliot: Silas Marner
Penelope Lively: According to Mark; Moon Tiger
Alison Lurie: The Truth about Lorin Jones
Ali Sethi: The Wish Maker
Merilyn Simonds: The Holding
Patrick Slater: The Yellow Briar
James Steen (local author): Buried Secrets
Mark Twain: Complete Short Stories

Memoirs:

Sita Devi (as told to Rachel Barton): The Scarlet Thread: an Indian Woman Speaks
Eva Hoffman: Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
Ken Ross (another local author): Babysitters don't live next to highways

Feminism:

Masculine/Feminine: Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women
edited by Betty Roszak & Theodore Roszak
Judith Nies: Seven Women: Portraits from the American radical tradition

Other:

Thomas Bulfinch: The Age of Fable
Richard P. Feynman: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Howard Loxton: Beautiful Cats (this was a freebie)
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer, 9th ed.
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