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LibraryThing

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I was looking for something in my apartment and found a box of books that I got from my Aunt Louise that I was suppose to catalog.  Usually I use Shelfari for this, but recently my brother-in-law was telling me about this other WordPress friendly book cataloging site called LibraryThing.  One of the reasons he [...]

There will be no apology…

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It’s been a while since I last posted, but the world kept spinning. A flash storm passed my house and blew up my laptop that I use to work on. I frantically bought another one only to get home and realize it had vista on it. Weeks later, I haven’t been able to remove the [...]

Shelfari

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I was hanging out on someone’s blog when i saw this kool widget called Shelfari. It’s one of those social networking things under the guise of you getting to tell the world what kinda books you’ve read. But I like books and am apparently willing to give up some of my privacy to get to [...]

The African Book of Names

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From an author who adopted an African name as an adult, comes the most all-inclusive book of African names. THE AFRICAN BOOK OF NAMES: 5,000+ Common and Uncommon Names from the African Continent (Health Communications, Inc., February 2009) by Askhari Hodari, Ph.D., offers readers names organized by theme from 37 countries and at least 70 [...]

The Black Facts Calendar

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Greetings & Happy New Year: In response to numerous requests for hard copies and a 2009 version of the Black Facts Calendars, we have had our calendars printed and have shipped a limited supply of the Black Facts Calendars to Amazon.com for availability.  I know people always say the supply is limited, but we really [...]