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FROM: "Vivian Mortensen" <[removed]@park-ridge.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/17/05, 10:35 AM

A patron asked if we would purchase five Donna Leon mysteries that were not published in the US. Is anyone familiar with these titles and why they were not published here? The titles are:
DEATH OF FAITH
FATAL REMEDIES
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
SEA OF TROUBLES
WILFUL BEHAVIOR

Has anyone purchased books from the UK? How hard is it? It is expensive? Is there a particular jobber or bookstore you use?...I feel a little like Helen Hanff!

Vivian Mortensen
Park Ridge Public Library

FROM: Barbara Olsen <[removed]@augusta.k12.va.us>
REC'D: 1/17/05, 3:07 PM

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:34:04 -0600, you wrote:
All of Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti mysteries are well worth purchasing
(to say nothing of reading). Leon has lived and worked in Europe for
several decades and is quite popular there, I've read. If you're
unfamiliar with her work, the NY Times had a long and favorable
article about her in the last year or so. I don't know why the US
publishing industry hasn't done all her works. Some are available
here on tape or CD but not in book form.

You don't need to purchase books from the UK to acquire most of her
works. I've used Alibris to purchase UK published books, and I expect
other used book dealers have them, too. I know Amazon has many in
their used book option. Good luck!
>A patron asked if we would purchase five Donna Leon mysteries that were not published in the US. Is anyone familiar with these titles and why they were not published here? The titles are:
>DEATH OF FAITH
>FATAL REMEDIES
>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
>SEA OF TROUBLES
>WILFUL BEHAVIOR
>
>Has anyone purchased books from the UK? How hard is it? It is expensive? Is there a particular jobber or bookstore you use?...I feel a little like Helen Hanff!
>
>Vivian Mortensen
>Park Ridge Public Library
>......................................................................
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FROM: Lisa Davis-Craig <[removed]@cantonpl.org>
REC'D: 1/17/05, 4:35 PM

I have had good luck purchasing UK/Commonwealth published books online at
the Canadian arm of Amazon (amazon.ca). I think it is a bit cheaper to
get them from Canada rather than Great Britain (at least in the shipping).

I have used Amazon for the library purchases that I make because it is
easiest for our ordering process. For my own UK books that I can't get in
the US, I tend to use Indigo/Chapters (www.indigo.chapters.ca) (Since I
live in the Detroit area, I also can drive over to Windsor to make
purchases, but not everyone has this luxury.)

Lisa Davis-Craig
Canton Public Library
>
> Has anyone purchased books from the UK? How hard is it? It is
> expensive? Is there a particular jobber or bookstore you use?...I feel
> a little like Helen Hanff!
>
> Vivian Mortensen
> Park Ridge Public Library
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org

FROM: "Marianne Kranz" <[removed]@main.morris.org>
REC'D: 1/18/05, 8:09 AM

Donna Leon's books are available in paperback. I have most of them.
Marianne Kranz

> A patron asked if we would purchase five Donna Leon mysteries that were
> not published in the US. Is anyone familiar with these titles and why they
> were not published here? The titles are:
> DEATH OF FAITH
> FATAL REMEDIES
> FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
> SEA OF TROUBLES
> WILFUL BEHAVIOR
>
> Has anyone purchased books from the UK? How hard is it? It is expensive?
> Is there a particular jobber or bookstore you use?...I feel a little like
> Helen Hanff!
>
> Vivian Mortensen
> Park Ridge Public Library
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org
>
>

Marianne Kranz
Reference librarian
Morris County Library
30 East Hanover Ave.
Whippany, NJ 07981

FROM: "Vivian Mortensen" <[removed]@park-ridge.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/18/05, 12:32 PM

Thanks everyone for the information. I keep learning new things all the time! I never knew about the "other Amazons". I saw the books in Amazon UK yesterday and now I'll look in Amazon Canada. Thanks for the help.

Vivian Mortensen
Reader Services
Park Ridge Public Library
Park Ridge, IL

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Davis-Craig [[removed]@cantonpl.org]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 4:30 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Donna Leon Mysteries

I have had good luck purchasing UK/Commonwealth published books online at
the Canadian arm of Amazon (amazon.ca). I think it is a bit cheaper to
get them from Canada rather than Great Britain (at least in the shipping).

I have used Amazon for the library purchases that I make because it is
easiest for our ordering process. For my own UK books that I can't get in
the US, I tend to use Indigo/Chapters (www.indigo.chapters.ca) (Since I
live in the Detroit area, I also can drive over to Windsor to make
purchases, but not everyone has this luxury.)

Lisa Davis-Craig
Canton Public Library
>
> Has anyone purchased books from the UK? How hard is it? It is
> expensive? Is there a particular jobber or bookstore you use?...I feel
> a little like Helen Hanff!
>
> Vivian Mortensen
> Park Ridge Public Library
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org

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