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Growing Up Plain: Witty and Confessional Memories from the Adolescence of a by Shirley Kurtz

In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language by Arika Okrent

Reference grammar of Chinese sentences with exercises by Henry Hung-Yeh Tiee

Share in Death by Deborah E. Crombie

Living Without Electricity: People's Place Book No. 9 by Stephen Scott

Crucible: Kirk: The Star to Every Wandering (Star Trek) by David R. George III

Maclaren's Gaelic self-taught : an introduction to Gaelic for beginners by James Maclaren

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CollectionsYour library (2,487), Wishlist (180), Read but unowned (151), All collections (2,560)

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TagsJudaica (458), language (315), mystery (272), Star Trek (246), Quaker (134), Anabaptist (122), Star Trek - original series (118), knitting (114), linguistics (113), history (97) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsCatherine Aird, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Diane Duane, Diana Gabaldon, Stephen Jay Gould, Faye Kellerman, Laurie R. King, Jonathan Sacks, Dorothy L. Sayers (Shared favorites)

About my libraryHeavy on mysteries, Judaica, writing, linguistics, and old Quaker books, with a smattering of cookbooks, history, and science fiction (mostly Star Trek in the owned collection). For relaxation/vegging out, I have a weird fascination with time travel and certain saga-type romances.

I've kept my categories fairly broad, so that cookbooks includes not only straight cookbooks but other books about food. When I have everything catalogued, I may go back and add more refinement. (Added note: my tags are already getting more detailed. So much for keeping things simple.....)

On ratings: for the most part, I only buy/keep books that I like and/or know that I will use more than once (libraries are for the others), so my standard rating for books I own is probably somewhere in the 2.5 range. Books with a 1 are mostly those I bought because I am interested in the topic and would like to have fairly comprehensive collection for the topic but I was disappointed in the actual book.

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The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel by Radu Ioanid

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The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy (Contributions in Ethnic Studies) by Stanislao G. Pugliese

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Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900 by Geoffrey Cantor

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Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) by Barbara Kessel

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Hebrew Talk: 101 Hebrew Roots And The Stories They Tell by Joseph Lowin

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Operation Esther: Opening the Door for the Last Jews of Yemen by Hayim Tawil

Hi - saw your post regarding The Accidental Florist at the Worst Books thread. Actually, I thought the previous two were so bad that this one was a marginal improvement ... think D- to a solid D.

posted by Seajack at 11:15 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2007

You have a wonderful collection of Judaica. There are so many books there to add to my own TBR list. Thanks!

posted by kageeh at 1:56 pm (EST) on Feb 28, 2007

Seeing we own a book in common--true Baptism and Communion a very small hard back pamphlet. I know my great grandmother (Susannah Morris) was Quaker and withdrawn from when she married my g grandfather David Owen Randolph, Musgingham (?) Co., Ohio. I believe this may have been her book. Do you have any info date of publication or about Phipps?? Do you have family info on Quaker in that area??

posted by lhr3 at 5:51 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2007

Hi! Thanks for joining Used Books.

posted by Hermgirl at 8:54 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2006

Thanks for joining The Gene Pool, I look forward to getting to know you. Jaysee

posted by Jaysee at 3:15 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2006

Oh good. I thought there ought to already be a Philadelphia group, but I didn't find it when I searched.

posted by froggie at 9:12 am (EST) on Jul 28, 2006

I was very impressed with your Judaica collection. I noted that the tag appeared twice, one tag indicated 129 books, and the other 139 books. It also indicated that we had 13 books in common, but when I attempted to view them, I sawnone of them an got an error message. I did go through the entire catagory and found it quite different from my Judaism listing. I did pick some titles that I would like to own. You also have an interesting homepage.

posted by regott at 11:17 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2006

Great collection. I was intrigued by the wonderful Judaica and the Quaker and others until I read your blog which helped explain things.

posted by stephen18 at 7:33 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2006

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