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Help Needed to Give Away a Million Books on World Book Night!
Dec 14 2011
The list of 30 books that will be offered on World Book Night USA has just been released. If you are a USA resident aged 16 or over and would like to give away books, go to www.us.worldbooknight.org and complete the form which asks, simply, which book you want to giveaway, where, to whom & why?
For more about the history of World Book Night (which has its genesis in Catalonia, Spain where The Day of the Book has long been celebrated) see BookBrowse's blog.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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