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Famous Letters: Messages & Thoughts That Shaped Our World
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Intent Upon Reading: A Critical Appraisal of Modern Fiction for Children
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At Preloved Book Shop we rescue second-hand books, ready to re-home via our online book store with a new forever family...

Today's secondhand additions span fantasy, technol

Today's secondhand additions span fantasy, technology, history, and more:"The Wind's Twelve Quarters" by Ursula K. Le Guin – $7
"New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future" by James Bridle – $9
"The Deed of Paksenarrion" by Elizabeth Moon – $12
"Men Without Women" by Haruki Murakami – $8
"Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah" by Tim Mackintosh-Smith – $10
"The New Case for Gold" by James Rickards – $9
"Let Me Tell You What I Mean" by Joan Didion – $14
"Speaking In Tongues" by Tom Tilley – $10
"Dictionary for Dreamers" by Tom Chetwynd – $7
"Dead Ringer" by Lisa Scottoline – $7Find these and thousands more rescued books waiting for their next forever-reader at prelovedbookshop.com.au#UrsulaLeGuin #HarukiMurakami #ElizabethMoon #JoanDidion #JamesBridle #TomTilley #LisaScottoline #TimMackintoshSmith #JamesRickards #TomChetwynd #PrelovedBooks #SecondhandBooks

Today's rescued reads include strategy, literature

Today's rescued reads include strategy, literature, history, and science fiction - books to challenge the mind and spark the imagination:"The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession" by David Grann - $9
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu - $8
"The Worlds of Anne McCaffrey" by Anne McCaffrey - $20
"Othello" by William Shakespeare - $6
"One Thousand Chestnut Trees" by Mira Stout - $8
"John Steinbeck Bestsellers" by John Steinbeck - $30
"The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" by Steven Pinker - $12
"The Beginning and the End" by Nicolas Berdyaev - $8
"The Serrano Connection" by Elizabeth Moon - $12
"British Canals: An Illustrated History" by Charles Hadfield - $12Browse through these titles and give a secondhand book another chance to be read at prelovedbookshop.com.au#BritishCanals #SciFi #Philosophy #Literature #HistoryBooks #PrelovedBooks #SecondhandBooks #TrueCrime #SunTzu #AnneMcCaffrey #WilliamShakespeare #MiraStout #JohnSteinbeck #ElizabethMoon #SerranoLegacy

We've recently rescued a complete set of the Phili

We've recently rescued a complete set of the Philip Pullman trilogy, #HisDarkMaterials
Follow Lyra and Will through parallel worlds filled with armoured bears, witches, and the mysteries of Dust in this award-winning fantasy adventure.✨ Northern Lights by Philip Pullman - $9
✨ The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman - $9
✨ The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman - $9If you've ever wanted to own this series, you can buy the entire trilogy for under $30 at PLB: https://prelovedbookshop.com.au/authors/philip-pullman/#PhilipPullman #NorthernLights #TheSubtleKnife #TheAmberSpyglass #FantasyBooks #YAReads #Daemon #ParallelWorlds

Franky Pierson has the perfect life—on the surfa

Franky Pierson has the perfect life—on the surface.
But her alter ego, Freaky Green Eyes, knows the truth.
Something is very wrong, and if Franky doesn’t listen, the consequences could be devastating.Own Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates today for $7 at PLB: https://prelovedbookshop.com.au/book/freaky-green-eyes/#JoyceCarolOates #FreakyGreenEyes #YAThriller #YAReads #PrelovedBookshop #SecondhandBooks

What if Elizabeth Macarthur secretly wrote a scand

What if Elizabeth Macarthur secretly wrote a scandalous memoir? What if the past wasn’t as polite as history tells us?Kate Grenville masterfully reimagines colonial Australia through the eyes of a woman navigating power, marriage, and deception. Blurring fact and fiction, this novel challenges the stories we believe too easily.A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville in available in hard cover today for $15: https://prelovedbookshop.com.au/book/a-room-made-of-leaves/#KateGrenville #ARoomMadeOfLeaves #AustralianHistory #HistoricalFiction #WomenInHistory #ColonialAustralia #PrelovedBookshop #SecondhandBooks

Today's rescued reads cover topics ranging from hi

Today's rescued reads cover topics ranging from historical battles and lost civilisations to visionary sci-fi and literary classics.Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys – $8
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce – $25
Teaching Thinking by Robert Fisher – $9
Somme by Lyn Macdonald – $20
Moonfall by Jack McDevitt – $9
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson – $7
On Basilisk Station by David Weber – $9
Melba: A Biography by John Hetherington – $25
Heart of the Mirage by Glenda Larke – $9
The Loss of El Dorado by VS Naipaul – $8Browse the shelves today at prelovedbookshop.com.au!#PrelovedBookshop #SecondhandBooks #JeanRhys #JackMcDevitt #MarilynneRobinson #DavidWeber #GlendaLarke #VSNaipaul #NonFiction #NellieMelba #VanDiemensLand #Somme #ElDorado #HonorHarrington #MirageMakers

Here are today's freshly rescued new-old reads fro

Here are today's freshly rescued new-old reads from Preloved Book Shop:"Shiva 3000" by Jan Lars Jensen – $9
"Tyrant's Blood" by Fiona McIntosh – $9
"The Six Value Medals" by Edward de Bono – $7
"The Awakening of Europe" by Philippe Wolff – $5
"The Estate" by Isaac Bashevis Singer – $8
"Cold Case" by Faye Kellerman – $10
"The Eureka Stockade" by Raffaello Carboni – $8
"The Appeal" by Janice Hallett – $10
"Did God Have a Wife?" by William G. Dever – $15
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In a near future teetering on disaster, catastroph $In a near future teetering on disaster, catastrophe has become the ultimate form of entertainment.Follow Max Galleon, a filmmaker with a fractured memory, as he navigates a world where memories can be outsourced, death is reversible, and reality itself is in question. As Pitcairn Island sinks and humanity’s grip on meaning unravels, this thought-provoking novel asks: if nothing is real, can anything truly matter?The Island Will Sink by Briohny Doyle is available for $9 at PLB: https://prelovedbookshop.com.au/book/the-island-will-sink/#BriohnyDoyle #DystopianFiction #SpeculativeFiction #ClimateChangeFiction #SecondhandBooks #PrelovedBookshop$

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