For readers like you and me, summertime in Wisconsin is the season of used book sales . . . and Marge and I hit our fair share. Look what we came away with from the Friends of Barrett Memorial Library’s sale on a Saturday morning at Williams Bay:

Bedtime Stories for Dogs – you read that right – by Leigh Ann Jasheway, Andrews & McMeel, 1996
My Losing Season by Pat Conroy, Doubleday, 2002
A Native Son’s Return: 1945-1988 by William L. Shirer, Little Brown, 1990
Ring of Truth by Nancy Pickard, Pocket Books, 2001
Legacies by Janet Dailey, Little Brown, 1995
About the Author by John Colapinto, HarperCollins, 2001
No Graves as Yet by Anne Perry, Ballantine, 2003
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard, Viking, 1996
To the Last Man by Jeff Saheera, Ballantine, 2004
Mimosa Grove by Dianah McCall, Mira, 2004
The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy, Dell, 1998
Northern Lights by Nora Roberts, Jove, 2004
Four westerns by William W. Johnstone: Blackfoot Messiah, The Only Good Outlaw is a Dead Outlaw!, and Deadly Trail
And the treasure find: A Day in the Life of America . . . This last is a coffee table book, a book of pictures taken by 200 of the world’s best photojournalists on one day in the spring of 1986. I couldn’t afford this book at the time it came out and, even today, copies in primo condition go for $40 to $50. Used book sale price at Williams Bay? $1.

So what do you think of our haul?

What have you bought at a recent used book sale?

Tomorrow: Books by the truckload