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05-05-2004, 09:55 PM
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I'm excited! Guess what I found for $5 tonight?
Oh, never mind guessing. I want to tell you. For $5, I bought:
The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman
A Carribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie (I think I'm very near now having a complete set--if only I knew where all the volumes were...)
The Great Brain at the Academy by John Fitzgerald
Summer of the Swans* by Betsy Byars
Figgs and Phantoms* by Ellen Raskin
Nightbirds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken (I loved this book as a kid and then completely forgot about it. I can't wait to reread it as all I can remember is that it is quirky and scary. I read it at my godsister's goat farm.)
Trixe Belden #17
Just So STories by Ruyard Kipling
My Brother Sam is Dead* James and Chris Gibben
Thimble Summer* by Elizabeth Enright
Witch of Blackbird Pond* by Elizabeth George Speare
Dragon's Gate* by (er, I forgot and its in the other room)
Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
A Pokemon chapter book (my son's choice)
and a cassette tape of the soundtrack to Dick Tracy
And then I was out of cash or I would have picked up the Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Blessing (by Anna Quindlen) and the two-book set of The Secrets fo the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Altar Girls. Those were $1 and $1.50.
Er, wasn't I supposed to be reading East of Eden?
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05-05-2004, 10:05 PM
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Wowsa!!! |
05-05-2004, 11:35 PM
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That's great!
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05-06-2004, 12:08 AM
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:thumbs:
Boy, you got me beat on deals!
So what's with the starred ones?
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05-06-2004, 07:59 AM
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Not me! The library around the corner from my house has a quarterly 'friends' sale where on Saturdays (the last day) you can buy as many books as will fit in a paper sack for $4. It's obnoxious and wonderful. I find myself tossing in things that I may or may not read but that might look interesting...
Plus, when my husband's uncle died he gave all his books to my sister-in-law. They were generally crap, so she traded them in to a local used book store. I've got like 100 credits STILL left for discounted books. Last time, I got 8 books for like 7 dollars... Not as good as $4 or $5, but still!
Congrats on the find! As you can tell I'm a huge fan of finding cheap, good books!
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05-06-2004, 10:46 AM
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Wow, that's quite a haul. And you helped save some trees too. :thumbs: |
05-06-2004, 02:45 PM
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Oops! I forgot to put in what the * meant. Those are all Newbery-award or honor books. It's something I've been hunting lately.
Our library has a used books sale every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Children's books (of which young adult novels count) are .25 each, paperbacks are .50, hardcovers are $1. Generally. There always have a really long shelf of free books and then some books that come straight from the library and are first editions that cost more.
Have I mentioned how much I love our library? This is the same library that doesn't charge overdue fees and lets you check books out for a month at a time. The really new and popular books are "rental" books and you pay $1 per week.
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