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Great Courses Collection
Read more: Great Courses CollectionWe have many of the Great Courses in stock, especially history and music. Most in DVD form, some CD. Prices range from $15 to $35 for sets. The holidays are coming up fast!
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Collections
Read more: CollectionsThis marvelous collection of children’s classics are still available today. The golden age of collecting has been rapidly vanishing as the boomer generation reaches their 80s. Interest in collecting stamps, coins, books, dolls, antique toys, and what not, is approaching extinction. Hobbies are scarce. It seems to me that collecting anything was a cultural product…
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Shogun by James Clavell
Read more: Shogun by James ClavellSHOGUN, by James Clavell It is not often that I write a book review 43 years late. I read this book and saw the mini series while attending beekeeping school at ATI/Ohio State University and living in a trailer in the middle of a corn field on an Ohio dairy farm with my daughter. That’s…
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IT’S BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Read more: IT’S BLACK HISTORY MONTHFinally, my display for Black History Month is set up. I’ve sold one thing so far, a DVD/book set on Martin Luther King. I am working on lists of movies and books I have seen and read that I think worthwhile. I will post those next and welcome suggestions. Here is a poem by Countee…
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A CHARMING JUVENILE PICTURE BOOK
Read more: A CHARMING JUVENILE PICTURE BOOKBarkis was originally published in 1938. Clare Turlay Newberry (1903-1970) published 17 books in her lifetime. I read many as a child: Mittens, Smudge, Marshmallow, Barkis, and more. She received the Caldecott Book Honor four times for her illustration. These books are timeless, and I am happy to see that they have been republished and…