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Selling used books at local markets
Cheap used books at the local markets Our bookshop always has lots of fantastic used books, and it no use keeping them on our shelves so we decided to do a few markets over the next couple of months. For you that means you can get a great value used book at a market near you. For our first … Read more
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Tagged : local markets, Maitland markets, used books
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Trains, Rails, Steam & Locomotives
Over the past month or two I have been listing train & rail books there are hundreds to go. It will take about another month or three to list them all. To wet you appetite I have taken a few pictures for you to browse in the meantime. Or if you don't like mine then take a look at some … Read more
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Tagged : locomotive, narrow gauge, steamtrain, train, world railways
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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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Can I Telemarketer where to go #$%^ you bet
I'm not sure about you but there isn't a day goes past when some telemarketing company wants to help me save money. But from today I have developed a new strategy. Its no more trading on the Aussie fair go mate & the manners from yesteryear. I don't care what June Daly Watkins or … Read more
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Tagged : bookshop, Do Not Call Register, Frank Thring, hawkers, Hydraulink, Ita Buttrose, June Daly Watkins, language, Oscar Wilde, Pest Control, Phone Companies, Sir Winston Churchill, Solar Power, telemarketing
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Bookshops the past & new futures
Bad new travels fast in the bookworld On the radio today, the major topic was the news that Angus & Robertson and Borders are in the hands of administrators. You do not need to be a mind reader to know this was going to happen. Australia has forever been at the mercy of the big publishers from … Read more
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Tagged : book finding, book publishing, bookshops, centro, cheap books, harvey norman, kindle, Lake Macquarie Secondhand Books, marketown, ozzbooks, paper empires
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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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Old Treasures & Flip Books
Every day at Lake Macquarie Secondhand Books I'm asked to find different books for people today is the same, an inquiry came from a very nice voiced person called Karen. I have an old book that is precious to me, its an old book with pictures of my father in a format that is called a flip … Read more
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