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Literature Aisle Additions

August 12, 2010 / / 0 Comments

New Arrivals: American and English lit (some admittedly borderline): The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, very nice trade paper edition; The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon in trade paper; Night by Elie Wiesel, the new translation by his widow; True at First Light, by Ernest Hemingway in trade paper.

Also, a couple of Native American non-fiction volumes dating from the late-fifties in hardback, and some contemporary Sci-Fi-Fantasy including hardbacks by Jim Butcher and paperbacks by Raymond Feist.

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Too Hot to Cook? Read a Cookbook!

August 6, 2010 / / 0 Comments

Even if the grill has overheated in the summertime sun – you can recline under the fan or air conditioner and read up on those exciting meals you’ll prepare when it cools off again. Just in – used copies (sort of scarce…) of Joy of Cooking and the red and white plaid Better Homes cookbook. (Used to have this one myself.)

A large collection of alternative history fiction – Harry Turtledove – in mass market paperback, has just found a spot on the shelves, as have titles by Steve Berry, James Patterson, and others in suspense.

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Obscure but Commonly Requested

July 27, 2010 / / 0 Comments

Do you have a copy of…. I’m looking for a certain book… Can you look up your books in stock and tell me if you have… By phone and front door, these are regular questions. Surprisingly, a good many of the inquiries are about obscure or scarce titles. Someone Cry for the Children is an example. Another inquiry about it today. It’s been out of print for years. We had three copies before Christmas 2009 and sold them all. It’s not been back in stock since. The Mullendore Murder Trial is another one. It concerns an Oklahoma murder case in northeast Oklahoma’s Osage County. Hard to find, and not cheap. The odd part? When scarce books are in stock, they sell infrequently. Folks just wonder “Do you have it?” and that seems to be reassurance enough.

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