So... I got a bit ahead of myself...

(like that's never happened before).
My book list for my borders excursion was wayyyyy to short and not a single one of them was in stock....not one. Not to be dismayed I went into Town, yes , drastic measures, I know. See, the town Borders is more than twice the size of my local Borders ergo, they must have at least twice as many books. So, off I skipped to town.
In town they had exactly ZERO of the books I wanted ( still want, actually) to read. How is this possible? Do I have weird esoteric taste in kids books? Is there such a thing as weird and esoteric kids books? Hmmmm, don't answer that last question, it's rhetorical.
So what I wonder is, how do I get my sticky little hands on these books? And I don't want to buy them off amazon. I just want to read them, not buy them, remember. I doubt the local library has them- they are short staffed and budget cutting like crazy......