Have you found "Earth's biggest bookstore" online?
http://www.amazon.com
over 1 million titles available
The search engine (keyword, subject, author, title) is arguably the best
resource on the net for nearly any book search. If a book is in print
today, you'll probably find it in amazon's catalog. Many can be shipped
in as little as 2-3 days.
Even if a title hasn't been published yet, you can use the free amazon
personal notification service to e-mail you whenever such titles become
available. Just construct a query for a book you'd like and an automated
search agent repeats your search daily - notifying you by e-mail with NEW
titles matching your search as soon as they appear in print. For
example, you could ask to be notified about new titles where:
the author(s) are like "prudhomme" and the subject words
include "cookery low-fat diet"
There are already two, incidentally.
Please take a look at this new resource, and send your comments directly
to me (or via the provided forms if you prefer). User comments drive our
development in many ways.
Thanks,
Tom Schonhoff