The best place to look for used books at Abebooks Nearly everyone knows of AbeBooks, the best website in the world to look for used books, if they don't they will soon learn. There are a few things you have to learn to make your searches more effective. Go to my help use find used books … Read more
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online secondhand book dealers
online secondhand book dealers catalogues Browse through the online book catalogue at Lake Macquarie Secondhand Books, one of Australia's largest online secondhand book dealers. We have thousands of used and rare books, our packing and postage is second to none. We combine postage we also … Read more
Books buying from friends & family
Buying books from friends Buying books from friends can sometimes be fraught with danger, as my old man would always tell me. Never work for relatives, I'm not sure why he told me this, maybe it was when he was in the Army he used to send his money home to his mother, but after his discharge, … Read more
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Tagged : auto mobile books, books, family, Friends, motorcycle books
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finding new people & used books in Morisset
Everyday I talk to someone that's traveled from abroad to live in our area, whether it be the United Kingdom or the United States, China, Europe, India and Malaysia. Why we even have people moving in from all suburbs of Sydney and dozens of other places around Australia. I guess that means that … Read more
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stupid ideas aren’t uncommon in Newcastle
Hunter Street Newcastle Some decisions made for the betterment of the citizens of Newcastle & surrounding locations amaze me, truly they are astonishing in their stupidity. The absolute best one is the Mall in Hunter St Newcastle. From the first day that it opened it has seen the demise … Read more
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Tagged : Adamstown, Argenton, Belmont, book finding, Bookshop characters, Broadmeadow, Cojones, Fassifern, Lake Macquarie, local histories, New York, Newcastle, Paris, Railway, Toronto, used books, Yarrawonga Park
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Dinosaur Days
Poems by Frank Hauser Illustrated by Peter MacKarell … Read more
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Tagged : dinosaur, ozzbooks, poetry, rare book, used book
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Pigs is Pigs
The first book that I noticed today was the little book called Pigs is Pigs and other favorites by Ellis Parker Butler … Read more
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Tagged : K8's pick, used books
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December 2010 a short story & a fast year
Seeing this is the second last day of 2010 & many funny things happen , why not list some down now before they are consigned to back of my brain to along with millions of other boring details, but fun memories of the people I meet and the things that happen at the Gateway Estate Bookshop. … Read more
People their stories & what makes them tick.
Hardly a day goes past that I don't meet someone that wants to write a book or has written a book. I would say that in the main they are very serious but usually after a short conversation you know who's serious who isn't, I'm always surprised at how candid they are telling details of their books … Read more
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Tagged : Authors, breast cancer, cancer, fatal disease, Lynn McCudden, self help, used books, Wake Up Call
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Book Review The Tribes Triumphant: Return Journey to the Middle East
by Charles Glass HarperPerennial; London; 2007; 472pp This book is very hard work but worth the trouble. The reader must wander with the author from Aqaba to Beirut via Jerusalem, Haifa, Gaza, Petra, Jaffa, Damascus and Beersheva, all the while wondering why we are bothering to … Read more
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Tagged : author, book review, Charles Glass, Dreyfus affair, Hamas, history, Israel, Jewish, lebensraum, Leon Uris, merchant of Venice, Middle East, Muslim, semitism
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