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New overstock books available in the PBS Market!

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Remember that you can use a credit to make the discount on these bargain books even greater. Available in The Market right now, these great books:

No Time for Goodbye :: Linwood Barclay

No Time for Goodbye :: Linwood Barclay The house was deathly quiet. That was the first sign that something was terribly wrong. Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke that morning to find herself alone. Her family—mother, father, and brother—had vanished without a word, without a note, without a trace. Twenty-five years later, Cynthia is still looking for answers. Now she is about to learn the devastating truth….  See other Thrillers currently available in the Market.

Retail Price: $22.00

Purchase this NEW Hardcover for $6.49 (save 70%) or $3.09+1 credit (save 85%) from PBS Market

On Chesil Beach :: Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach :: Ian McEwan.  It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart.  A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.. Browse other General Fiction books currently available in the Market.

Retail Price: $22.00

Purchase this NEW Hardcover for $6.49 (save 70%) or $3.09+1 credit (save 85%) from PBS Market

The Amateur Gourmet: How to Shop, Chop, and Table Hop Like a Pro (Almost) The Amateur Gourmet: How to Shop, Chop, and Table Hop Like a Pro (Almost) :: Adam D. Roberts As a self-taught chef and creator of The Amateur Gourmet website, Adam Roberts knows the challenges you face in bringing fresh, creative homemade meals to the table.   As he shows in this exciting new book, the effort is worth it and good eating doesn’t have to be difficult. From how to chop an onion to how to cook a seven-course meal, Roberts shares the skills you need to impress your parents, woo a date, and create sophisticated dishes with everyday ease.  See more books about Cooking, Food and Wine currently available in the Market.

Retail Price: $25.00

Purchase this NEW Hardcover for $6.49 (save 74%) or $3.09+1 credit (save 87%) from PBS Market

Escape by Carolyn Jessop Escape :: Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer.  The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom.  No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children and $20 to her name…   See more Biographies and Memoirs, currently available in the Market.

Retail Price: $24.95

Purchase this NEW Hardcover for $7.49 (save 69%) or $4.09+1 credit (save 83%) from PBS Market

The Penny (Large Print) :: Deborah Bedford, Joyce Meyer The Penny (Large Print) :: Deborah Bedford, Joyce Meyer.  Set in St. Louis in the racial hotbed of the mid-1950s, the story’s protagonist is the abused adolescent, Jenny Blake. “All my life has been shaped by other people’s hands. Daddy slapping me, Mama never hugging me, Jean pointing a finger of criticism at me.” When Jenny picks up a penny in the street, she sets off a chain of events that change her life forever.   See the Large Print selections available in the Market now.

Retail Price: $23.99

Purchase this NEW Hardcover for $6.99 (save 70%) or $3.59+1 credit (save 85%) from PBS Market

PBS News: Story Time with Soldiers, Author Pages, PBS Market,

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

We are really amazed and proud at the response to the  Story Time with Soldiers drive! You all really stepped up to provide books for the United Through Reading military donation program that provides pre-deployment DVDs of soldiers reading storybooks to their children.  We hit our goals for donated money and credits, and we heard the most heartwarming responses from you…

“The idea of deployed service personnel reading to their children warms even the coldest heart. I love these programs. It’s little enough to donate 10 credits to keep the program running. Good job, team. Keep up these outreach programs.” – Betty A.

“I just wanted to say how wonderful it is that PBS is supporting a program like Story Time with Soldiers!

My brother-in-law is currently on his 3rd deployment to Iraq, leaving behind my sister and 2 small boys, ages 4 & 1. Before he left, he had my sister video tape him reading books to the boys. Those boys have watched that video just about every day since he left 6 months ago. And when he came home for his 2-week mid-deployment leave, those boys had no trouble bonding with their dad because they had seen him reading to them every single day since he left. Even though my sister and brother-in-law did their video on their own, this is still my personal proof that this is a very important program.

Thanks to PBS for supporting our troops AND their families!!” – Yvonne G.

Thanks, Betty and Yvonne!  We too love this program, and we’re so touched at how you all have reached out to these families.  You can read more about the program here.  Thanks again for giving!

We’ve spruced up the author bibliography pages. If you click the author name on any listing you will now see the book images of the currently-available books by that author, and every book version is shown.  It used to be just a list, but members wanted more detail.  We hope this helps you keep up with your favorite author, or stock up on an author you just discovered.

Shopaholics take note! Love browsing the PBS Market ? Hate it when you get interrupted and your cart is empty when you log back in?  Now your cart will remember the items you have added, even if you log out; they’ll be waiting for you when you come back.   If you haven’t visited the PBS Market lately, be sure to stop by – new books are added every hour.

Timed-release Newsletter: Sending this NewsWire puts a strain on our servers, which can slow down the site.  We are trying something new this month – the Newsletter will go out slowly over several days.  So if you hear that someone else hasn’t gotten her Newsletter and you have, just reassure her that hers is on the way.  We hope this takes the load off the servers so that the site will continue to run smoothly even while a Newsletter is going out.

New Overstock Books available in the PBS Market!

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

NEW overstock books are added to the Market every hour, so don’t forget to check often.  Remember that you can use a credit to make the discount on these bargain books even greater!  Available in The Market right now, these sure-to-be-new-favorites:

John: A Novel In the tradition of Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent,  this is a stunning, lyrical reimagining of John the Apostle in the final years of his life, by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Four Letters of Love. Niall Williams’s extraordinary and masterful novel reveals a universally appealing message of hope and love. See other historical fiction offerings currently available in the Market.

Retail Price: $24.95

Purchase this NEW Hardcover for $6.49 (save 73%) or $3.09+1 credit (save 87%) from PBS Market

Tethered After surviving the car accident that killed Clara Marsh’s free-spirited mother, she was raised by a grandmother who beat her with a brush and tore out her hair. When Clara finally escapes her grandmother’s clutches, she enrolls in mortuary school and lands a job at a New England funeral home. She finds herself drawn to the cold case of “Precious Doe,” an unidentified teen found murdered in the nearby woods… Browse other Teen books currently available in the Market.

Retail Price: $24.00

Purchase this NEW Hardcover for $5.99 (save 75%) or $2.59+1 credit (save 89%) from PBS Market


Don’t Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World’s Greatest Chefs Over forty of the world’s greatest chefs relate outrageous true tales from their kitchens. From hiring a blind line cook to flooding the room with meringue to being terrorized by a French owl, these behind-the-scenes accounts are as wildly entertaining as they are revealing.   See more books about Cooking, Food and Wine currently available in the Market.

Retail Price: $24.95

Purchase this NEW Hardcover for $5.99 (save 75%) or $2.59+1 credit (save 89%) from PBS Market

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.  “I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever…”   So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm during the depths of the Great Depression.   See more Biographies and Memoirs, currently available in the Market.

Retail Price: $22.00

Purchase this NEW Hardcover for $5.99 (save 72%) or $2.59+1 credit (save 88%) from PBS Market

The Blue Zone (Large Print). Kate Raab’s life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her family . . . until her family’s placement in the Witness Protection Program. In a flash, everything Kate can count on is gone….   See the Large Print selections available in the Market now.

Retail Price: $25.95

Purchase this NEW Paperback for $5.99 (save 76%) or $2.59+1 credit (save 90%) from PBS Market

Dear Members

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb… If you’ve been snowed in and are going stir crazy waiting for spring, we recommend taking a mental vacation, with a great read.  A good book can absorb you and make the cares of the outside world fall away.  No need to put on winter gear to go bookshopping, of course – your next great read is no farther away than the PBS Market.

We’re really pleased by the feedback we have gotten from members since opening the Market, which offers NEW overstock books at discount prices.  Members especially love the ability to use a credit for each book, to reduce the prices even lower.  You can find the Market under the Search option in the grey menu bar at the top of any page on the site, you can see Market books during your regular book searches, and you can also browse Market books on your Member Homepage by clicking the “New Books for Purchase” link below the lower sliding display.  There is also one Wish Listed book currently available in the Market at the top of your homepage, which changes every hour.  Take a few minutes to browse the Market, and remember that each purchase supports PBS and helps keep membership free.

On a sad note, a very dear member of the club has left us – LeAnne Grant (Gracious-Granny) passed on peacefully after an illness.  Many of you knew her, had received books from her, or had been helped by her in her Tour Guide role here in the club. She was a truly kind and lovely person and she will be sorely missed.  Working with her daughter, we have set up a School Book Donation campaign in LeAnne’s memory.  It seemed a fitting tribute to one who touched so many lives, and to whom books and reading were so important. We hope that all of you will visit the donation page to leave your comments about LeAnne, which we will share with the family.
We also hope that everyone will hug a loved one a little extra hard today, or tell someone how much he or she means to you.  The few seconds you take to say “I love you” to your parent, partner, child or friend are never wasted.

Take care,
Richard and the PaperBackSwap Team

Dear Librarian; PBS Market,

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Dear Librarian-  Wow!  I am so psyched by the PBS Market.  Do you have any tips on how to find out quickly if any of the books on my Wish List are in the Market right now?  – Shopping in Cheyenne

Dear Shy,

Sure!  There are three really easy, quick ways to find out if any of your Wish List books are being offered in the Market:

  1. On the Browse page, under the “Welcome back!” message, is a link to “New Bargain Books” – if any of your Wish List books are in the Market, there will be a link in parentheses, next to the “New Bargain Books” link.   This will take you to a list of your Wish List books currently for sale in the market.
  2. On the Market page, if there are any of your WIsh List books currently available, a link will appear above the Search options to take you to the list of Wish List books that you can purchase from the Market.
  3. If you go to your Wish List and choose “Market books” from the dropdown menu next to ReSort, your Wish List will display any books in the Market at the top of the list.

We hope this helps you find your next great read!

Dear Librarian – The Market is great, and I do plan to get books there, but I hope PaperBackSwap will keep on SWAPPING.  Isn’t that the main point of the club? I love PaperBackSwap!  Are things going to change?  – Stalwart swapper in Springfield

Dear Springy,

Not at all!  PaperBackSwap is dedicated to bookswapping, and the Market is just a great way to get more wished-for books to our members, while supporting the club and keeping membership free.  Every purchase will help defray the cost of running the club, so we can all keep on swapping!


The Mathematics of LoveMy Nerdy ValentineThe Nerd Who Loved MeA Time to LoveBye Bye LoveMust Love DogsSomewhere in HeavenLoveBark When You Love MeAdoredThey Did it With LoveLove Kills

Books of Love

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Zing!  Went the strings of my heart! Try one of these love-themed books, available in The PBS Market right now:

Things I Want My  Daughters to Know


Things I Want My Daughters to Know How powerful is a mother’s love…  When Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware that they’ll be facing the trials and triumphs of life without her at their side. This heartfelt novel by bestselling author Elizabeth Noble celebrates the glorious, endless possibilities of life.  See other general fiction offerings currently available in the Market.


Psyche  in a Dress

Psyche in a Dress The Goddess of Love…. A Young Adult book with mature themes, this is a contemporary retelling of the myths of Psyche, Echo, Eurydice and Persephone, weaving them together to create one story about love and the human soul.  For mature teens or adults, written in Francesca Lia Block’s hauntingly lyrical prose.  Browse other Young Adult books currently available in the Market.


A Killer's Kiss

A Killer’s Kiss (Large Print) Dangerous Love. Once upon a time, Victor was engaged to a woman named Julia. She was beautiful and elegant and Victor always assumed she’d burn him, and she did. Now she’s back…her husband has been murdered, her fingerprints are all over the crime scene, and $1.7 million in cash is missing.  Suddenly, Victor Carl is no longer fighting to rekindle a lost love. He’s fighting to save his life.  See other Large Print selections currently available in the Market.
The Island of Eternal Love

The Island of Eternal Love Mythical love.... Alone in a city that haunts her, far from her family, her history, and the island she left behind, Cecelia seeks refuge in a mysterious old woman’s fascinating tale…the saga of three families from far-flung pieces of the world forms a story of legendary, unbreakable love. As Cecelia falls under the story’s heady sway, she discovers the source of the visions that plague her, and a link to the past she cannot shake.. See other books in the Psychological Suspense category, available in the Market.
The Love Spell

The Love Spell : An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening Magic love... This is the true story of a love spell that worked. Ivy League lawyer Phyllis Curott has a super-charged career, but one thing is missing: love. She casts a spell  and her dream lover soon arrives…  This wise and erotic memoir is a story that will speak to every woman who has dreamed of her Prince Charming.  See more memoirs available in the Market now.

Dear Members; Introducing PBS Market – NEW overstock books at bargain prices

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

We are really happy about what we got for you for St. Valentine’s Day this year! It’s a very special addition to the site: the PBS Market. The Market offers NEW overstock books at bargain prices – many of the books are on your Wish Lists right now!
The Market is not like any bookstore you’ve ever been to – we’ve integrated it with your PaperBackSwap account so you can

  • Opt to use a Book Credit for each book purchase to lower the cost of that book even further
  • See at a glance if any of your Wish List books are currently available in the Market
  • Sort your Wish and Reminder Lists to show books available in the Market at the top of the list
  • Use the Buy from PBS Market button wherever it appears on any listing on the site, to buy a book from the Market
  • Support PBS with every purchase you make

Get books for your friends and family, and really share the love! Encourage them to shop the Market too – every purchase supports the club and helps to keep it free. Books are mailed to any valid USPS address. The shipping is Media Mail (in our testing so far the transit times have been quick), and you can save greatly on shipping and handling by ordering more than one book in a shipment.
You can find the Market under the Search option in the grey menu bar at the top of any page on the site, you can see Market books during your regular book searches, and you can also browse Market books on your Member Homepage by clicking the “New Books for Purchase” link below the lower sliding display.
Head to the Market to browse the selection (over 8000 titles)! New books are added every hour, so check back often. Please note – supplies of some books are limited, so if you see a book you want, you might be wise to grab it. You can read more about the Market in the Help Center.

We hope you’ll love this new feature and the newest way to support the club!

Happy reading to you, your friends and your family,
Richard
and the PaperBackSwap Team