free books: mainstream fiction

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ETA: the crossed-out titles have been claimed. Thanks! I'll continue to update as needed.

Hi, folks! Good novels looking for a good home (I just don't have room for them anymore). Let me know if you are interested in any/all. Thanks!
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First Hubby (Roy Blount)

The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
The Catch Trap (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
The Darkover Concordance (Walter Breen)
and more than a dozen of Bradley’s Darkover novels

The Alienist (Caleb Carr)
The Angel of Darkness (Caleb Carr)

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)

To Serve Them All My Days (Delderfield)

The Queen’s Gambit (historical fiction about Katherine Parr)

about a dozen novels by Graham Greene

The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales

The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)

Captains Courageous (Kipling)

The Complete Yes Minister

Gone with the Wind

Doctor Zhivago

Night (Elie Wiesel)

And a whole bunch of books that are either minor works of J.R.R. Tolkien, or books written about him and/or his books. Preference to those would take all—there are about a dozen of these. Fun for fans of all ages.

Somerville Winter Farmers' Market ends this Saturday. Cambridge market continues through April

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The final Somerville Winter Farmers' Market of the season will be this Saturday, March 26, from 9:30 am to 2 pm at the Armory.

The Cambridge Winter Farmers' Market will continue each Saturday through April 30, from 10 am to 2pm at the Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callender Street.

The outdoor Union Square Farmers' Market will start on Saturday, May 14, from 9 am to 1 pm.

The Davis Square farmers' market will open on Wednesday, May 18, according to e-mail I received from the market manager. It runs each Wednesday from noon to 6 pm, until the day before Thanksgiving.

I don't yet know when the Assembly Row market will start, but last year they began the first Sunday in June.

"Somerville News Weekly" doesn't understand Jewish holidays

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This week's print edition of The Somerville News Weekly, a local alleged newspaper, has Happy Easter & Happy Passover as its main above-the-fold headline. Nobody there bothered to learn that Passover starts a month later than Easter this year, on the evening of April 22.

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