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Hi

Wonder if anyone can help - I am finding it increasingly difficult to get hold of my favourite authors over here in the US. Amazon.com doesn't stock half the books that I like reading and stores like Books etc and Barnes and Noble have a very limited stock, at high prices.

I have just been on to Amazon.co.uk and went to order 7 books and the total came to £40 plus £22 postage which I thought was reasonable until I converted it to $'s. Then I realised that it was a little excessive at nearly $120 for 7 novels and plus I think my hubbie would have killed me! I am used to looking in charity shops and buying cheap books from British Bookshops stores which are half the price of any other book shop.

Anyone any ideas - would it be cheaper to order them to a UK address and then get someone to post them royal mail?

Any advice or good websites appreciated.

Mrs Chandler

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Two websites my other half uses for buying books are:
www.alibris.com
www.abebooks.com

May I also suggest www.overstock.com. They sell books too and seem to have a huge range of books. This may include some of the authors you're searching for.




NC Penguin

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Do the authors you read have publishers in the US? If they don't, then the first two sites I gave you would be your best bet.



NC Penguin

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Thanks for these I shall get searching! Some of the authors have publishers here - they seem to change the cover and the spiel on the back to entertain the US reader - if I had read the back of a US version I wouldn't have bought half the books I have!

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hehe...I've noticed that too...what get's me is when they actually change the name of a book, get all excited there's a new one, and it ain't *lol*

What you can do is check out "antique book barns", usually aren't antiques at all, just second hand books, there's plenty of those in maine at least...very scary places and a mare to find things, but worth a poke around...