Sentences with phrase «began shelving books»

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It's been 13 years since the first Harry Potter book landed on store shelves and provoked some Christian conservatives to begin voicing opposition to J.K. Rowling's world of wizardry.

When I wasn't shelving books, I began learning the law.

Most of them get so determined that they make sure they have removed every volume within reach from the shelf and when their energy has been fully spent making sure the shelf area within their reach is empty of books, they will then sit down to begin ripping the pages off your precious volumes.

But Gardner was wrong by half in his prognostications: «The current flurry of discussion about Velikovsky and Hubbard will soon subside, and their books will begin to gather dust on library shelves.»

One afternoon, to explain why social psychology became so obsessed with human errors and why that obsession may itself be in error, Krueger began pulling books off his shelves, offering a trip through the history of this science.

The Wedding Book took about five years from the beginning to getting it on the shelves.

With off - the - shelf shootout and showdown scenes that differ from any other over-the-top action fare only in their gloomy lighting, «The Punisher» can't begin to measure up to the popcorn vengeance of Mel Gibson's Payback or the moody, provocative, primal reprisal of Steven Soderbergh's The Limey In fact, even the cheap, cheesy 1989 B - movie adaptation of the same Marvel comic book (with dramatically lumbering Dolph Lungren in the title role) was more entertainingly bad than this picture.

Each time you add books to your shelves, you see other users who have read the same books, and you can begin to network with them online to have discussions, share book reviews, and make or receive recommendations.

That's when school districts will slowly transition in digital materials and books will begin to disappear from shelves.

Yes, we can return any of these that we don't sell — but having books on your shelf that - won't - sell is a very, very poor use of linear shelf space, of which there's too little to begin with.

I am beginning to take books to the local places that accept such donations because I have far too many and no room for more shelves.

(There's toys scattered across the floor and a shelf of books over the bed, as the princess lies on her back and idly tosses a baseball into the air — and the horse begins eating her curtains!)

Books began to vanish from the library's shelves; the history of the world was disappearing before her and the reasons for this occurrence were shrouded in mystery.

I get excited when a book I've been waiting for hits the shelves so can't begin to imagine how exciting & special holding a book you created must feel.