and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.
Guy there are books on magic on there.
There’s books on EVERYTHING there!
Wouldn’t this be bad for authors though? or is this like a normal library where they get /some/ money?
It’s like a normal library. Libraries can upload ebooks there and let people check them out through openlibrary if you have an openlibrary account, or it can point you to nearby libraries that have physical copies of the book for you to go and check out. If you check out books via openlibrary it counts towards the count of books checked out from the library that uploaded the ebook, and they can use it in their reporting and funding and stuff.
There’s like 150 libraries partnered with openlibrary so far.
They also have copies that you can check out if you are print-disabled.
You can also ‘sponsor a book’, which means you pay the cost of the ebook you want openlibrary to acquire, and then they can add it to their collection and let people check it out.
And click on a title even if it says ‘no ebook available’ and scroll down, ‘cause sometimes that just means “all of the copies of ebooks are checked out right now but you can get on the waitlist when it’s back in”
This is part of the Internet Archive! I’ve posted about this before. Please go, it’s amazing.
Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn’t making enough money, so they’re shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of its customers acquired effective July 1.
Customers will receive refunds.
This puts the difference between DRM-locked media and unencumbered media into sharp contrast. I have bought a lot of MP3s over the years, thousands of them, and many of the retailers I purchased from are long gone, but I still have the MP3s. Likewise, I have bought many books from long-defunct booksellers and even defunct publishers, but I still own those books.
When I was a bookseller, nothing I could do would result in your losing the book that I sold you. If I regretted selling you a book, I didn’t get to break into your house and steal it, even if I left you a cash refund for the price you paid.
People sometimes treat me like my decision not to sell my books through Amazon’s Audible is irrational (Audible will not let writers or publisher opt to sell their books without DRM), but if you think Amazon is immune to this kind of shenanigans, you are sadly mistaken. My books matter a lot to me. I just paid $8,000 to have a container full of books shipped from a storage locker in the UK to our home in LA so I can be closer to them. The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some kind of fucking software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I can imagine: if the publishing industry deliberately set out to destroy any sense of intrinsic, civilization-supporting value in literary works, they could not have done a better job.
If you’ve got an ereader and want to actually own your books, I heartily recommend using cailbre to scrape the DRM off and so you can backup the files.
In light of the Coronavirus outbreak, I have decided to offer my book for free until this coming Saturday, March 21. So please feel free to take advantage of this!! All I ask is that you leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads.
Saturnalia was the Ancient Roman mid-December festival of feasting, gift-giving, and wild partying, when ordinary Romans turned social norms upside down and revelled in pandemonium.
Saturnalia features in Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs, my novella of magic, makeup, crypts, and clownfish. I have three signed copies to give away this December, to lend a little pandemonium to your mid-winter festivities.
, the second installment of the Thornfield series is NOW LIVE and FREE with Kindle Unlimited!
Praise for the novel:“Lies, Deceit, Friendship, Love, Suspense, Emotional and Collateral these are the words I would use to describe the book and it totally left me Awe.” ~Sanmugapriya
“… a beautiful story filled with many feelings/emotions of highs and lows, drama with unexpected…
Seriously go read some books. I’ve only lightly browsed but I saw the Great Gatsby, Tom Sawyer and the collection of Sherlock Holmes stories as well as HUNDREDS of others
To celebrate me reaching 30k on my book blog, I decided to host this giveaway as a thank you to all my followers who helped me get here! These hardback books have all kindly been sent to me by the publishers, most of which are new to shelves this month! The books in the giveaway consist of:
- Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry, being published 27/7/17.
- The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan.
- The Girl Who Climbed Everest by Bonita Norris, being published 13/7/17.
- Evening Primrose by Kopano Matlwa, being published 27/7/17.
Conditions of Entry:
- Follow my blog (if you don’t already).
- Reblog this post.
- Comment the book title you’re looking forward to reading most!
The closing date for this giveaway is the 11th of August 2017, so you have four weeks from today to apply. The winner will be chosen at random and the giveaway is open to anyone as I am happy to post the four books worldwide. Good Luck!
To celebrate me reaching 30k on my book blog, I decided to host this giveaway as a thank you to all my followers who helped me get here! These hardback books have all kindly been sent to me by the publishers, most of which are new to shelves this month! The books in the giveaway consist of:
- Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry, being published 27/7/17.
- The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan.
- The Girl Who Climbed Everest by Bonita Norris, being published 13/7/17.
- Evening Primrose by Kopano Matlwa, being published 27/7/17.
Conditions of Entry:
- Follow my blog (if you don’t already).
- Reblog this post.
- Comment the book title you’re looking forward to reading most!
The closing date for this giveaway is the 11th of August 2017, so you have four weeks from today to apply. The winner will be chosen at random and the giveaway is open to anyone as I am happy to post the four books worldwide. Good Luck!
I just wanted to let you all know that I’m doing a FREE BOOK PROMOTION for The Island of Dr. Bell, running from 1/20/17 - 1/23/17. If you’re interested in taking advantage of it, please visit the book’s Amazon listing by clicking HERE.
As always, if you do happen to take advantage of the FREE BOOK PROMOTION, please leave a rating or review. They help me out immeasurably. Thanks, and happy reading!
A few people have messaged me asking for my master list of working pdfs. This is what I have and its not super organized but it is in alphabetic order for what its worth. Anyways, they’re all free so please please please save them, download them, print them and most importantly READ THEM if you come across any that strike your fancy. Also, I’m not saying that every single one of these books are completely amazing, but either way, they’re here for you to make your own value judgements on.
Yes! Finally my new novel is coming out on 26th May! Sexy millionaire, haunting secrets, love, betrayal, it’s got quite a lot of hot and haunting goings on this book!
More info is on my website www.amhelen.com You can get the story for a very, very, sexy low price for its release, check out Amazon and Kobo.
How are you? I mean that sincerely, how are you? I don’t think any of us would have dreamed a few months back that we’d be living through a pandemic, which would slam the brakes on our lives so hard they’d be smoke coming off them. And then it happened. And everything screamed to a halt.
I was working on my new dark paranormal romance series The F Tales before the virus. The series merges fairytales and fables, myths and magic, the supernatural and the sexy, potent legends and powerful love … with some twists.
So, I was happily working away and then … COVID!
But as writing is a bit of a solitary vocation, and I still had electricity, it was okay. So I finished the first novel, sent it to the editor …
Always go with your gut …
Then that something set in … a wobble of faith. Had I written the novel I wanted to write? But it was in the editor’s hands, so I waited. And then it came back, only for my editor to have the exact same reservations as me. Moral of the tale—always, always, always, go with your gut about the stories you write.
Now granted, it’s been a bit of a weird time. I’ve had three relatives in and out of hospital, and to be honest, walking around those places in a mask and gloves when there is barely anyone in them but those fantastic doctors and nurses risking their own health every day, was very spooky. The town centre was empty. No people. It was like being in the movie 28 Days Later (without the zombies).
So maybe I wasn’t working on all thrusters, but I took a breath, thought about it, and decided my gut was right all along.
The Fun Bit.
I want readers to go on a journey with my characters and explore, watch a new relationship blossom, despite the kinks and kerbs it may hit to get there. That’s the fun bit, right?
The first novel in the new series is coming next year, which is a completely different one than the one I intended, but you will be the first to see the cover, the book trailer, and read the first chapters: I promise.
In the meantime, I want you to take care, stay healthy and happy, have a fantastic New Year, and let’s hope Covid runs back to whatever bat cave it may have been living in before this and stays there, permanently. Roll on 2021.
He’s done that a couple times too many, and the last one really didn’t stick.
Rami has been a vampire for a little more than a year, and things aren’t great. They aren’t really anything. Rami’s existence is solitary. Empty. Unfulfilled. And he can’t be sure why, or how to fix it, because no one has explained to him how to be a vampire. His brief stint at a facility or people–well, former people–like him resulted in Rami biting and nearly killing his caretaker, Sage. His time there, in his memory, is nothing but a stretch of terror, hunger, confusion, and violence.
Then on Halloween, the one night of the year Rami doesn’t have to worry so much about hiding who–well, what–he is, he stumbles into a little shop and there he is. Sage. Who doesn’t remember Rami at all, so everything should be fine. Except Sage is a witch who knows about secret, magical doors to secret, magical raves full of things that go bump in the night and the humans who want to be near them. Sage’s memory isn’t quite as wiped as everyone thought. His free will isnt quite his own. He also isn’t as delicate as he seems. And he’s not interested in staying away from Rami.
If you buy the paperback edition of Beverly Williams’ new-adult, science-fiction thriller, romance Survival Kit’s Apocalypse, we will send you a free copy of the digital edition.
||| Publisher’s blurb ||| “The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s in America and was marked by an outpouring of African American art, music, theater and literature.
Drawing on African American texts, archives, unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book highlights both the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture such as W. E. B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright, and other writers such as Wallace Thurman, who have not received as much scholarly attention despite their significant contributions to the movement.”
|||Contents||| Acknowledgements
Introduction: Chapter One: Prologue: The Question of Manhood in the Booker T. Washington-W. E. B. Du Bois Debate Part 1: Alain Locke and the New Negro Chapter Two: Midwifery and Camaraderie: Alain Locke’s Tropes of Gender and Sexuality Chapter Three: Arts, War, and the Brave New Negro: Gendering the Black Aesthetic Part 2: Wallace Thurman and Niggerati Manor Chapter Four: Gangsters and Bootblacks, Rent Parties and Railroad Flats: Wallace Thurman’s Guide to the Black Bourgeoisie Chapter Five: Discontents of the Black Dandy Chapter Six: Epilogue: Richard Wright’s Interrogations of the New Negro Conclusion: Black Male Authorship, Sexuality, and the Transatlantic Connection
Gerzina has written a fascinating account of London blacks, focusing on the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Because of a paucity of sources from blacks themselves, Gerzina had to rely primarily on glimpses through white eyes, especially those of antislavery advocate Granville Sharp. Gerzina is quite adept at culling evidence of a rich, complex black life, with significant interaction (and intermarriage) with the white community.
Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Paupers and Princes: Repainting the Picture of Eighteenth-Century England 2. High Life below Stairs 3. What about Women? 4. Sharp and Mansfield: Slavery in the Courts 5. The Black Poor 6. The End of English Slavery Notes Bibliography Index
||| Summary ||| Afro Solo UK is the result of two years research of the African diaspora of Greater Manchester. Each life story is an act of remembrance, a celebration and in some cases a reconciliation. They provide a legacy and are a declaration that this community will never again be overlooked.
||| Contents ||| Part One: Foreword: Dr Hakim Adi Intro: SuAndi Life Stories
Part Two: From ‘Slavepool’ by Eugene Lange Aka Muhammad Khalil Afro Ville in conversation with Steve Cottier Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre and Education Trust Imperial War Museum North Mix-D Museum Remembering Africans of Manchester, Tutu Foundation Memorial Service Research Appendix Partners Information
||| Publisher’s Blurb||| This booklet about black history in Devonshire is short because the work is only just beginning, not because there is no evidence to uncover… To move towards a more accurate, inclusive view of history, we need to separate out the different elements, which have been ignored previously. The evidence is available. The history waits to be written. Black history is not only for black people. It is not only to be found in the history of big cities and ports. Looking at black history in Devon, and similar parts of Britain, helps us to understand the links between local, national and world history. There are stories about black people to be discovered in all walks of life and in all areas. I hope to show that there is more to discover and that we need this information to get a balanced view of our country, and our country’s past. This is the ‘missing part of our history’.
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Foreword by Sam Walker, Director, AMBH
1. Why black history in Devon 2. Black Romans in Devon? 3. Saint Maurice 4. Devon’s connection with the slave trade and slavery 5. Gravestones illustrating the links between Devon and black history 6. Black people and the sea; The London 7. The Swete Family in Modbury 8. Joe Green 9. Devon and the abolition of the slave trade 10. Compensation for slavery? 11. How to remember slavery and the slave trade? 12. Who is this man? 13. Olaudah Equiano 14. Moretonhampstead 15. Black soldiers and Devon 16. My Father, by Zena Burland 17. Jane, a black Devonian 18. How to take the study of black history forward 19. Conclusion - writing black history of the past and today
Resources for learning Notes for educators in schools, museums and libraries Notes on the text Picture sources and acknowledgements Photo credits Mapping the black presence in Devon
Book to accompany the 2012 exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe. It was the first exhibition to bring together a wide variety of works of art in diverse mediums that bear witness to the multiple aspects of the African presence in Europe in the Age of Exploration. The book includes European paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, books, and decorative objects, dating from around 1480 to around 1605, includes memorable images and riveting portraits of Africans, some of whose identities are known and others who remain anonymous.
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Director’s Foreword Introduction - Joaneath Spicer The Lives of African Slaves and People of African Descent in Renaissance Europe - Kate Lowe European Perceptions of Blackness as Reflected in the Visual Arts - Joaneath Spicer “Leo Africanus” Presents Africa to Europeans - Natalie Zemon Davis Free Men and Women of African Ancestry in Renaissance Europe - Joaneath Spicer Visual Representations of an Elite: African Ambassadors and Rulers in Renaissance Europe - Kate Lowe Afterword - Ben Vinson III List of Lenders Checklist for the Exhibition Selected Secondary Sources Curator’s Acknowledgments Contributors Photography Credits
This lively, innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of Imperial Britain. This is the first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to live in twentieth-century Britain. Chapters discuss the influence of, amongst others, C.L.R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V.S. Naipaul.
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General editor’s introduction List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Crossing the seas - Bill Schwarz
1 What is a West Indian? - Catherine Hall 2 ‘To do something for the race’: Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples - David Killingray 3 A race outcast from an outcast class: Claude McKay’s experience and analysis of Britain - Winston James 4 Jean Rhys: West Indian intellectual - Helen Carr 5 Una Marson: feminism, anti-colonialism and a forgotten fight for freedom - Alison Donnell 6 George Padmore - Bill Schwarz 7 C. L. R. James: visions of history, visions of Britain Stephen Howe 8 George Lamming - Mary Chamberlain 9 ‘This is London calling the West Indies’: the BBC’s Caribbean Voices - Glyne Griffith 10 The Caribbean Artists Movement - Louis James 11 V. S. Naipaul - Sue Thomas
Afterword: The predicament of history - Bill Schwarz Index
The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation’s heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation’s colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.
This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on ‘Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research’ organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.
In order to improve access to this research, a complete copy of the text is free to download from the left hand side of this page.
Foreword List of contributors Acknowledgements Notes on measurements Introduction 1. Slave ownership and the British country house: the records of the Slave Compensation Commission as evidence - Nicholas Draper 2. Slavery and West Country houses - Madge Dresser 3. Rural retreats: Liverpool slave traders and their country houses - Jane Longmore 4. Lodges, garden houses and villas: the urban periphery in the early modern Atlantic world - Roger H Leech 5. Slavery’s heritage footprint: links between British country houses and St Vincent, 1814-34 - Simon D Smith 6. An open elite? Colonial commerce, the country house and the case of Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Normanton Hall - Nuala Zahedieh 7. Property, power and authority: the implicit and explicit slavery connections of Bolsover Castle and Brodsworth Hall in the 18th century - Sheryllynne Haggerty and Susanne Seymour 8. Atlantic slavery and classical culture at Marble Hill and Northington Grange - Laurence Brown 9. Slavery and the sublime: the Atlantic trade, landscape aesthetics and tourism - Victoria Perry 10. West Indian echoes: Dodington House, the Codrington family and the Caribbean heritage - Natalie Zacek 11. Contesting the political legacy of slavery in England’s country houses: a case study of Kenwood House and Osborne House - Caroline Bressey 12. Representing the East and West India links to the British country house: the London borough of Bexley and the wider heritage picture - Cliff Pereira 13. Reinterpretation: the representation of perspectives on slave trade history using creative media - Rob Mitchell and Shawn Sobers Notes Index
Humanity lives in the twilight zone between Day and Night, between the deathly heat of Day and the deadly chill of Night. But they aren’t alone; in Night live the Nightmares, and as humans push further into their territory, conflict ensues.
A princess waits at the top of a glass hill for one of her unwanted suitors to climb it and claim her hand in marriage… but instead she meets a young woman limping through the world in a pair of iron shoes.
Hester sells eggs at the night market to women who wish to escape their skins and become reptiles, free to roam the desert. Hester wants nothing more than to become a reptile herself, but none of the eggs she swallows ever give her the change she desires.
(TW: suicidal thoughts) Avi Cantor goes to school one day and finds these words written on the bathroom mirror: “Avi Cantor has six months to live.” Only… he’s never told the name “Avi” to anyone. “Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live” is an adorable romance between two trans boys, complete with witches and demons.
Andreas didn’t ask Finley before he bit him, and now Finley has a choice: turn or die. If he turns, he’ll be an unauthorized vampire, since he’s never applied for a permit and trans people are never granted one anyway… but even being a vampire is better than death.
A young man inherits a magical sword from his grandmother, who was once a legendary warrior. Within the sword are three spirits, who will train him to fight. Only, he doesn’t want to be a warrior or go have adventures, and his little farm still needs so much work. And somebody has to keep an eye on the goat!
Hey lovely witches! I wanted to share some of my PDF witchy books I have on my computer. I know it’s hard to find these books and not everyone has money to buy them or easy access. I hope I can help someone with this <3
Most of the books are on my google drive library, you can click on the link and then download if you’d like to.
