After that we went to half price book store to look for leisure reading materials - not successful but that's ok. 

If you're looking for books that the professionals use as reference go to the industry association websites and look at their education materials and book stores.

Swing by the LSU or McNeese book store and look for Principles of Real Estate, a college class on RE, it's an easy read.

You will find them in bookstores possibly, or on Amazon. 

I'm anxious to read this book as I've seen it recommended several places on this site an elsewhere...but I'm currently overseas and won't have easy access to a conventional or mail-order bookstore for the time being.  

Go to your local bookstore and camp out there.  

These days everyone you find in a bookstore is out to get a buck every way they can, so you can't screen everybody, Kiyosaki has 100 ways to get your cash, but his book changed my life.

No, go to the bookstore with a handtruck.

My third job pertains to helping manage a small independent bookstore that I'd like to invest and own someday. 

I came across Bigger Pockets, I’m on my second book from their bookstore now, it’s all I think about.I currently own a townhome on the island of Maui that we purchased early in 2019 for 460K under a “workforce housing” contract.