Today, we offer four used books for sale as part of the Bedlam Farm Book Sales Project. Maria read two of them, and I read the other three.
We liked our books very much; we don’t sell any of the books we thought were stinkers.
The four are different; each has been well and thoroughly reviewed if you wish to look the reviews up online. Maria is charging $10 plus $5 shipping. She is handling payment; please don’t send any money until she knows if the books are still for sale, and please don’t send any payments to me or in my name.
To purchase a book or get on the list, e-mail Maria at [email protected] to ask if the book you want is available.
This is her project; she does the work and gets the money. We love to read and are pleased to see these well-cared-for books go to our readers and friends at a meager price. All are hardcovers in good condition.
The first is a copy of the AKC’s famous “The Complete Dog Book.” This book is enormous, almost $900 pages, and cost me $35 when I bought it in 2007. It is the Bible of dog books, a complete top-to-bottom guide to finding a dog, understanding breeds, training, and caring for a dog, from birth or acquisition to death.
It’s long and thorough – about 900 pages.
This was my very reliable guide to caring for dogs. It’s the official publican of the American Kennel Club. The book on sale is the 20th edition, and it’s in great shape.
In one book, it can tell you everything you might need to know about finding, buying, choosing a breed, training, and health care. It is for serious dog lovers who want to know all there is to understand rather than getting a dog emotionally or on impulse. I highly recommend it and am happy it might go to a dog lover. It was one of my primary dog guidebooks. It’s heavy, and Maria may need to charge more than $5 for shipping. She’ll let you know.
The second book – Three Hours, is a gripping, best-selling story that is all too familiar to Americans. British writer Rosamund Lipton has written a novel about something most people don’t care to read about – school shootings. The story covers three hours (180 minutes) in the life of a British private school under siege by terrorists or sociopaths who wounded the headmaster by gunshot. They promise more deaths if their demands are not met, but they won’t say what their demands are.
A police psychologist has just a few hours to figure out who the invaders are before they kill some children trapped in the school auditorium.
It’s not a book I could put down easily, but it was in no way horrific.
The book is done skillfully; it is a gripping read, thoughtfully and delicately done. Still, it was tense, I felt the clock running out. It was never bloody, just tense and nail-biting. I was impressed; I never thought I would appreciate a book on that subject. This book is simple; it’s an important book.
The third book for sale is I Have Some Questions For You by award-winning Rebecca Makkaiwas.
Maria read this book and loved it. It’s a mystery and novel about Bodie Kane, a film professor and podcaster who returns to her New Hampshire Private school as a short-term lecturer. Twenty years earlier, her friend and roommate was murdered at the school, and she is not persuaded that they got the right killer. The book is 435 pages long, too long for me to take up at the time but an easy and good read for Maria. She recommends it highly.
I’d call it an unusual boarding school murder drama; Bodie has to confront herself and the natural killer.
The fourth book is How To Say Babylon, by Jamaican writer Safiya Sinclair, a Pulitzer Prize Winner. The New York Times hooked me on this book, and I didn’t regret it. How to Say Babylon, said the Times, is “a gripping tale of fundamentalism and the light of rebellion piercing through its cracks.” That is the truth.
Sinclair’s father was a violent and sometimes vicious reggae musician and a militant Rastafarian. He was obsessed with Sinclair’s purity and the corrupting influences of Western Culture, which was pulling her farther and farther away.
She was desperate to get out of Jamaica and to the U.S. Her father is determined to stop her.
I loved this book; it is a story of courage, determination, and a fantastic ending. Sinclair is a great writer and a powerful human being. I recommend this book highly. In one sense, it’s also a powerful feminist tale about freedom.
All of our books sell for $10 plus $5 shipping. They are all in first-rate shape; We care greatly for our books.
The AKC Dog Book is the first of my extensive library of dog and animal books. I’m sorry to see it go. I don’t need it anymore. Much to my astonishment, I have read it cover to cover, except for some of the breed descriptions I’m not interested in. I used it almost every day for some time.
If you are interested in these books, e-mail Maria at [email protected]. Please don’t send any payment until she e-mails back and confirms the book is still available. Please don’t send the payments to me or in my name. She accepts PayPal, Venmo, and checks and will review the payment details when she contacts you.
Thanks for your interest in this project. The farmhouse is stuffed to the ceiling with good books in good shape. We are delighted to sell them cheaply to our readers, who have supported us. Every book we put up for sale has sold almost instantly. It feels very good to be doing this.