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We can’t get enough of this dust jacket from Contract Null & Void by Joe Gores. This first edition was published in 1996.
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How To Eat Better For Less Money by James A. Beard and Sam Aaron was published in 1954. I bet there’s no recipe for avocado toast in this book!
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Nancy Mitford was an English novelist, she is best remembered for her novels about upper-class life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies.
Have you read any of her work? We just love these reissued copies published by Penguin in 2015.
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First edition of the author’s first book.
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher In the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with “cynical adolescent.” Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he’s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists.
It begins, “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.”.
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A Dell Murder Mystery. Classic 1940s vintage cover art of the phantom of the opera playing the keyboard.
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This week we continue to spotlight neighborhood book exchanges across our city, here is one situated at the entrance to a children’s play park.
“You’re never too old, too wacky, to wild, to pick up a book and read to a child” - Dr. Seuss
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Another magical neighbourhood book exchange in Victoria, BC, Canada.
“Books are a uniquely portable magic” - Stephen King
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Rhyme Stew by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
A collection of irreverent rhymes featuring characters from fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes - as you’ve never seen them before.
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