An updated list of sites that offer free public domain books in electronic and audio format.
Every year new publications enter public domain. That means their intellectual property rights have expired or are not applicable any longer.
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Now boy wizard and his friends can be sent to every place, literary. The most popular YA characters go on stamps. Great lifting to old-fashioned hobby and original accessories for all Harry Potter fans.
The United States Postal Service reveled five stamps which are part of a 20-stamp Harry Potter Forever collection. The collection will count 20 stamps and will be officially released on Tuesday (Nov 19th). But you can pre-order them now here: usps.com/stamps
What other characters would you like to see in this stamp collection?
P.S. If you're a fan of J.K. Rowling's series, join BookLikes Discussion Room where you can (re)read all seven titles and discuss them with other Potter fans :-)
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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
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I don't know if it's just my bad luck or most Kindle Freebies are duplicates from previous weeks. Still here are some new ones I managed to find...
WARNING: Check price before downloading, some of these titles may not be free in your country.
Fantasy YA Fantasy YA Fantasy YA Fantasy
YA Paranormal YA Paranormal YA Paranormal YA Paranormal
Paranormal Romance (with vampires) Paranormal Romance (with vampires) Paranormal Romance (with vampires) Paranormal Romance
Paranormal Romance Paranormal Romance (with vampires) Paranormal Romance (with vampires) Paranormal Romance (with vampires)
YA Paranormal Fantasy Fantasy Paranormal Romance
Novella, Zombies Urban Fantasy Urban Fantasy Urban Fantasy
Thriller Murder Mystery Historical Mystery Mystery
Feel free to share your recommendations in comments and tell us what you downloaded or if I should download, read or avoid something from this list.
2013 will be full of new books, new great releases, series continuations and new born bestsellers - that's easy to foresee. But it's also great time to reming yourself about books published some time age and will get second premiere as a book adaptations. Here are five books that probably will be higly aticipated movie versions and gain reading boost in pre-watching mood. Ready?
On February, as it's responsible for sweet and lovely atmosphere (Valentine's Day, you know), will be relesed Nicholas Sparks'
The are set two movie releases for March. The first one will be a remake 
of already done adaptation, namely a next interpretations of Stephen King's
Another March book to movie is Stephenie Meyer's
Two more books don't have a release date but seems to be doing good looking at the cast. Kate Winslet will be on the
And in the story of serial killer by Erik Larson
This book to movie set convinced me that it's worth re-reading or discovering books published some years ago.
Let's begin New Year with New Books - we played a little scrabble game with the first month of the new year and picked some interesting new releases of J-A-N-U-A-R-Y. So let's have a look and discover new reads for new year.
J stands for January 2013 New Releases
A stands for Action Pages
N stands for Nonfiction Of All Sorts
U stands for Ultimate Literary Fiction
A stands for Alternative Worlds Novels
R stands for Romance Stories
Y stands for YA Reads Not Only for Youngsters
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I came across article or rather a list of books that were mostly talked about in social media in November 2012 (via Publishers Weekly). It's a proof that readers do set up social reading trends, it is them (us) commenting the books after all. But is there some kind of pattern why some books are more trending than others?
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My first conclusion was that book adaptations are definitely on the spotlight. 
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Second and seventh on the list are second and third part of Suzanne Collin’s 
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This is big, like romantic affair on high political level. Oh, did I hit the nail on the head? Scandals are always widely commented, like here: CIA Director David Petraeus had an affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell (the book author) and so the story is still on and the book out. The love uplifts, right? But there’s no win-win situation here. Only the author and her book 
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I must admit I had a crush on this book from the very beginning, it’s on my wishlist and I’m impatiently waiting for the Santa.
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John Grisham is damn good author and that’s the reason why his books are great and trending. Period. 
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New traditions are made with this books and some tabu are broken, for example how Santa knows who is good and who is naughty. We all know that elves do the list ;-) I came across instruction on the web that parents after reading the book with a kid should leave an elf doll on the shelf to spy on their child! The parent can hide the elf for the day and bring it back during night so the kid believes he’s really moving and coming back. For me it’s little schizophrenic and scary! If I were the child I would be really terrified to fall asleep. I'm afraid that social media is full of psychological hints rather than book reviews when it comes to this one ...
Is there a pattern? Not really. There are as many reading tastes as readers and books. But in era of social reading, readers aren't anonymous any more. Nor are they (we) only readers. We became active participants of bookish sphere in wide spectrum, some of us want to be reviewers and others only spotters. But at some point we all point to a given book, for different reasons. And when we do that it is heard, the above summary proves that it is happening.
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Title: The Replacement by Brenna YovanoffAuthor:
Publisher: Razorbill/Penguin Group
Genera: paranormal.
Reading Level: Young Adult
Source: Sent to me by the publisher.
Rating: 3/5
Perfect for: Readers from age 14 and Up.
Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world.Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practice on his bass or spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs.
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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
He paused, and then said in a deep voice,
"This is the Master-Ring, the One Ring to rule them all.
This is the One Ring lost many years ago,
to the great weakening of its maker's power.
Now, he greatly desires to have it again,
- but he must NOT get it"
-J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings; The followship of the Ring)
This poem from The Quiet American novel & film...
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Commentary and full text of The Ambler from Dipsychus, by Arthur Hugh Clough
========================================================================= The line comes from a long satirical verse called "Dipsychus," by the English poet Arthur Hugh Clough. "Dipsychus," written in 1850, is a hybrid between a poem and a play. It takes the form of scenes which, in various styles of verse, develop a dialogue between an idealist and a "devil's advocate." The word 'dipsychus' means 'divided mind' or 'two minds', and the work (which was never finished by Clough, nor published during his lifetime) depicts the ongoing squabble in the human soul between the starry-eyed do-gooder and the cynical hedonist. Here are some verses in which you'll find the refrain "So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!" As I sat at the café, I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking, How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! How pleasant it is to have money. I sit at my table en grand seigneur, And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one’s self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. It was but last winter I came up to town, But already I’m getting a little renown; I make new acquaintance where’er I appear; I am not too shy, and have nothing to fear. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. I drive through the streets, and I care not a d--n; The people they stare, and they ask who I am; And if I should chance to run over a cad, I can pay for the damage if ever so bad. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. We stroll to our box and look down on the pit, And if it weren’t low should be tempted to spit; We loll and we talk until people look up, And when it’s half over we go out to sup. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. The best of the tables and the best of the fare - And as for the others, the devil may care; It isn’t our fault if they dare not afford To sup like a prince and be drunk as a lord. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. We sit at our tables and tipple champagne; Ere one bottle goes, comes another again; The waiters they skip and they scuttle about, And the landlord attends us so civilly out. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. It was but last winter I came up to town, But already I’m getting a little renown; I get to good houses without much ado, Am beginning to see the nobility too. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. O dear! what a pity they ever should lose it! For they are the gentry that know how to use it; So grand and so graceful, such manners, such dinners, But yet, after all, it is we are the winners. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. Thus I sat at my table en grand seigneur, And when I had done threw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one’s self, of good eating. But also the pleasure of now and then treating, So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money. They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, And how one ought never to think of one’s self, And how pleasures of thought surpass eating and drinking - My pleasure of thought is the pleasure of thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! How pleasant it is to have money. -Arthur Hugh Clough The Ambler |
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