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 stephen king carrie hc hardcover bce book club edition 1974 doubleday $27.77 Time Remaining: 26d 3h 33m Buy It Now for only: $27.77 |
 Limited Editions Club 4 Volumes Brecht Singer Cowley Wilder plus one book $76.09 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 18h 48m |
 DUTCH TREAT CLUB YEAR BOOK 1962 ILLUSTRATED $13.50 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 17h 47m |
 Vintage 1967 The Terrible Pictures Healey Novel Club Crime First Ed HC Book DJ $9.99 Time Remaining: 1h 8m |
 Sierra Club book THE DARK RANGE naturalist night $5.95 Time Remaining: 28d 15h 57m Buy It Now for only: $5.95 |
 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 1st Book Club Ed w Capote Photo $13.50 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 1h 8m |
 Vintage 50s Tooth Nail Ballinger Novel Crime Club First Ed HC Book DJ Murder $9.99 Time Remaining: 1h 18m |
 THE BLACK OBELISK ERICH MARIA REMARQUE HUTCHINSONS UNIVERSAL BOOK CLUB 1959 $11.05 Time Remaining: 29d 14h 55m Buy It Now for only: $11.05 |
 GOLDFINGER IAN FLEMING JAMES BOND NOVEL 007 HB DJ 1959 1ST BOOK CLUB ED $15.80 Time Remaining: 14h 51m |
 ANTIQUE VINTAGE LIBRARY HERITAGE CLUB 279 TITLES CLASSICS 304 BOOKS $3,850.00 Time Remaining: 3h 26m Buy It Now for only: $4,250.00 |
 Vintage 1968 Voice From The Grave Disney Crime Club First Edition HC Book DJ $9.99 Time Remaining: 1h 43m |
 Appointment In Samarra John OHara Book of the Month Club Beautiful book $10.00 Time Remaining: 17d 12h 15m Buy It Now for only: $10.00 |
 Antique 50s Girl From Mimosa Club Leslie Ford Mystery First Edition HC Book DJ $9.99 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 1h 58m |
 Lot of 5 Classic Club Books by Walter J Black Inc Roslyn NY $3.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 3h 42m |
 Collected Works Abraham Lincoln Roy Basler 8 Vol Set Index Book Club Edition $89.95 Time Remaining: 29d 6h 21m Buy It Now for only: $89.95 |
 Freedom Road by Howard Fast 1st 1st HC signed NY Book Find Club 1944 $9.95 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 2d 1h 17m |
 GROLIER CLUB FIFTY FIVE BOOKS PRINTED BEOFRE 1525 PAUL MELLON 1968 PRINTERS $25.00 Time Remaining: 1d 21h 16m |
 SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE KURT VONNEGUT 1969 BOOK CLUB EDITION $29.99 Time Remaining: 1d 22h 27m |
 The Screaming Mimi by Fredric BrownRare Collectible 1949 Book Club Edition $11.99 Time Remaining: 13d 21h 8m Buy It Now for only: $11.99 |
 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 HB Book Club Edition w Dust Cover Nice $49.99 Time Remaining: 4d 21h 43m Buy It Now for only: $59.99 |
 1984 THINNER book novel Richard Bachman aka Stephen King Book Club Edition $19.99 Time Remaining: 13h 12m |
 Jassy by Norah Lofts 1945 Book Club Edition $3.00 Time Remaining: 4d 1h 20m Buy It Now for only: $3.00 |
 1954 AKC AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB THE COMPLETE DOG Book Illustrated CANINE CARE BOOK $22.00 Time Remaining: 3h 21m |
 Jassy1945 Book club edition with a War Bonds ad at the rear of the jacket $7.07 Time Remaining: 1d 1h 3m |
 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger Vintage Book Club Edition $10.99 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 1h 8m |
 MOONRAKER Ian Fleming Book Club Edition $7.00 Time Remaining: 26d 6h 38m Buy It Now for only: $7.00 |
 Vintage 1920s THE KENNEL CLUB Stud Book 1927 1928 dog show field trials LONDON $9.99 Time Remaining: 4d 1h 18m |
 The Valley Of Decision Marcia Davenport Peoples Book Club Edition 1943 Wartime $24.99 Time Remaining: 1d 6h 14m |
 History Book Club 3 Books Francis Parkman Prize Edition THE AMERICANS $18.00 Time Remaining: 2d 20h 53m Buy It Now for only: $18.00 |
 THUNDERBIRD COUNTRY CLUB 50th ANNIVERSARY HISTORY BOOK 2002 $12.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 4d 6m |
 Stephen King The Stand Book Club Edition 1978 Very Good Condition $4.99 Time Remaining: 2d 13h 13m |
 The Graduate 1963 Hardcover 1st Book Club Edition BCE Charles Webb Vintage $2.99 Time Remaining: 17h 16m |
 IN COLD BLOOD 1965 BCE W ORIGINAL BOOK CLUB EDITION FLYER $10.99 Time Remaining: 9d 16h 59m Buy It Now for only: $10.99 |
 LOT American Girl Samanthas Paperdolls Book Unused Club Handbook $8.95 Time Remaining: 14h 11m |
 The Shining by Stephen King 1977 HC w dustjacket BCE Book Club Edition $5.00 Time Remaining: 2d 1h 37m Buy It Now for only: $8.00 |
 6 Vols DETECTIVE BOOK CLUB 18 stories Crane Gardner Masterson Vickers Eberhart $26.95 Time Remaining: 26d 2m Buy It Now for only: $26.95 |
 Vintage Book The Caxton Club Amos Wells 1902 $19.99 Time Remaining: 18h 39m |
 INDIA To Day R Palme Dutt HB 1940 1st Ed LEFT BOOK CLUB WW2 Communist COMMUNISM $4.35 Time Remaining: 19h 54m |
 The New Home Cook Book A Ladies Club 1922 Paperback $9.99 Time Remaining: 26d 3h 25m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 CONGRESSIONAL CLUB COOK BOOK 1970 $9.99 Time Remaining: 15h 37m |
 MY EAST WAS GORGEOUS IRA J MORRIS VINTAGE TRAVEL BOOK CLUB HB $3.15 Time Remaining: 13h 8m |
 1957 WE WERE THERE AT PEARL HARBOR Felix Sutton book club edition hardcover w dj $99.00 Time Remaining: 1d 20h 6m |
 The Rebellion of the Hanged B Traven Liberty Book Club Dustjacket VG VG $7.49 Time Remaining: 3d 15h 33m Buy It Now for only: $7.49 |
 4 Vintage Mickey Mouse Club Books DISNEY UNCLE REMUS DONALD DUCK JIMINY CRIC $0.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 4d 20h 19m |
 John Grisham A Time to Kill 1st book club edition Wynnewood Press 1989 VG DJ fr $2.99 Time Remaining: 3d 21h 24m |
 The Warm Feeling By Merle Miller Rare Book Club Edition 1968 $9.99 Time Remaining: 29d 6h 44m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 COUNTRY LAWYER BY PARTRIDGE 1939 NORTH HIGH BOOK CLUB $0.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 1h 45m |
 BULLITIN 1978 THE DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB ADVERTISING PAPER $9.99 Time Remaining: 4d 13h 44m |
 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins The Classics Book Club 1940 edition hardback $3.16 Time Remaining: 11h 32m |
 Report From Red China by Harrison Forman Book Club Find NY A Wartime Book 1945 $12.00 Time Remaining: 23d 19h 14m Buy It Now for only: $12.00 |
 Whitey and the Colt Killer Weekly Reader Childrens book Club intermediate Divi $3.00 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 18m |
 THE FOUNTAINHEAD Book Club Hardcover Edition AYN RAND 1968 $4.50 Time Remaining: 2d 23h 28m |
 13 YOUNG AMERICAN BOOK CLUB 1960s $25.00 Time Remaining: 17d 1h 48m Buy It Now for only: $25.00 |
 PEER GYNT BY HENRIK IBSEN PER KRONG HERITAGE CLUB ED 1985 MINT BOOK IN SLEEVE $25.75 Time Remaining: 1d 3h 40m |
 1964 MEET GEORGE WASHINGTON Step Up Book CLUB ED $7.99 Time Remaining: 1d 20h 6m |
 Sword and Scalpel Slaughter 1957 Book Club Edition $8.50 Time Remaining: 2d 3h 12m |
 Behind The Curtain by John Gunther HC DJ Book Club Edition $14.95 Time Remaining: 29d 12h 47m Buy It Now for only: $14.95 |
 1967 FRENZY Arthur La Bern book club edition hardcover w dj $39.00 Time Remaining: 1d 16h 11m |
 HCDJ Stated 2nd Printing of Thomas McGuanes 1st Book THE SPORTING CLUB $49.95 Time Remaining: 21h 26m |
 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Book Club 1956 $13.99 Time Remaining: 3d 3h 38m Buy It Now for only: $13.99 |
 HIGHWOOD IL 1983 ETHNIC ITALIAN CLUB COOK BOOK MESCOLANDO IN GUSTO ITALIANO $9.95 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 5d 17h 45m |
 GONE WITH THE WIND BY MARGARET MITCHELL BOOK CLUB ED 1ST ED MCMXXXVI 1936 $45.00 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 22m Buy It Now for only: $50.00 |
 DETROIT MI 1946 ANTIQUE WOMANS CITY CLUB RECIPE BOOK COOKBOOK MICHIGAN RECIPES $14.95 Time Remaining: 1d 21h 12m |
 The Secret of Happiness Billy Graham 1955 Book club edition hardcover with DJ $10.00 Time Remaining: 25d 15h 25m Buy It Now for only: $10.00 |
 EAST FROM TUNIS RICHARD CARRINGTON VINTAGE TRAVEL BOOK CLUB HB $3.95 Time Remaining: 13h 9m |
 1932 Tested Sires of the Jersey Milk Cow Breed American Cattle Club Book Bull $2.25 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 2d 16h 44m |
 Toulouse Lautrec Henri Perruchot Marboro Book Club Ed DJ in rough condition $9.99 Time Remaining: 3d 13h 20m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 NURTURING NEIGHBORHOOD BROWNSVILLE BOYS CLUB SIGNED AUTOGRAPH GERALD SORIN BOOK $5.00 Time Remaining: 13h 51m Buy It Now for only: $7.00 |
 1958 Be Careful How You Live Ed Lacy Crime Club First Edition HC Book DJ Antique $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 3h 1m |
 King Stephen THE SHINING New York Doubleday 1977 Book Club Edition $115.00 Time Remaining: 9d 21h 44m Buy It Now for only: $115.00 |
 Book Club Hardcover in dust jacket Rex Stout And Be a Villain 985861 $4.79 Time Remaining: 2d 5h 40m |
 Vintage A Mickey Mouse Club Book Robin Hood 1955 D48 AEdition $14.99 Time Remaining: 3d 23h |
 1974 vintage GUIDE BOOK OF THE LONG TRAIN w FOLDOUT MAP green mountain club vt $14.95 Time Remaining: 1d 22h 3m |
 Airs Above The Ground Mary Stewart 1965 Book Club Editi $34.99 Time Remaining: 28d 14h 44m Buy It Now for only: $34.99 |
 THE GRAPES OF WRATH by JOHN STEINBECK BOOK CLUB EDITION 1939 HB DC $9.99 Time Remaining: 2d 8h 4m |
 Ultra Rare GOLF BOOK Bald Peak Club Colony New Hampshire NH c1925 Illustrated $499.99 Time Remaining: 5d 2h 3m |
 Dr Seuss The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins 1960s Book Club Edition Nice $18.99 Time Remaining: 15d 15h 5m Buy It Now for only: $18.99 |
 Hardcover Lee Thayer Five Bullets Detective Book Club 988413 $9.98 Time Remaining: 2d 5h 40m |
 Webelos Boy Scouts Book1967ClubBoysCampingGeologyArtSportdsman $3.75 Time Remaining: 2d 16h 45m |
 Rachel Caine signed paperback novel Bite Club Morganville Vampires Book Ten 10 $7.91 Time Remaining: 20h 44m |
 AUTOGRAPHED 500 HOME RUN CLUB BOOK AARON TO WILLIAMS $9.99 Time Remaining: 26d 15h 19m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 MURIEL RESNIK JACKSON The Garden Club SIGNED HC BOOK $9.99 Time Remaining: 1d 21h 18m |
 LIEUTENTANT HORNBLOWER by CSFORESTER 1952 BOOK CLUB EDITION $5.99 Time Remaining: 2d 1h 30m |
 THE BOOK CLUB OF THE 1936 GERMANS IN AMERICA DEUTSCHER BUCHER $8.99 Time Remaining: 27d 2h 18m Buy It Now for only: $8.99 |
 SIGNED SZYK THE BOOK OF JOB LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1946 No1274 1950 $119.99 Time Remaining: 5d 1h 29m |
 Ernest Hemingway Old Man and the Sea Book Club Edition W $15.00 Time Remaining: 2d 39m |
 JOHNNY CASH MAN IN BLACK by JOHNNY CASH 1975 BOOK CLUB EDITION $14.99 Time Remaining: 1d 2h 35m |
 Phil Stong Blizzard a novel 1955 Book Club Edition $4.29 Time Remaining: 8d 17h 12m Buy It Now for only: $4.29 |
 NANCY DREW BCE 26 THE CLUE OF THE LEANING CHIMNEY BOOK CLUB EDITION 1962 KEENE $12.88 Time Remaining: 2d 2h 43m |
 Edwin Brother John Wilkes Booth Player Club Barrymore Actor RARE 1st ED BIO BOOK $9.95 Time Remaining: 4d 26m |
 ERNIE PYLE HERE IS YOUR WAR PEOPLES BOOK CLUB EDITION 1944 $7.99 Time Remaining: 26d 16h 24m Buy It Now for only: $7.99 |
 The Fifteenth Pelican by Tere Rios The Flying Nun 1965 HCwDJ Book Club Edition $29.00 Time Remaining: 3d 19h 53m Buy It Now for only: $32.00 |
 DOCTOR FAUSTUS by THOMAS MANN 1948 Book Of The Month Club $6.99 Time Remaining: 2d 54m |
 ETHNIC RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CLUBS COOK BOOK LENTEN CHRISTMAS EASTER RECIPES + MORE $9.95 Time Remaining: 4d 21h 39m |
 1965 THE GREEN BERETS BOOK BY ROBIN MOORE BOOK CLUB EDITION I 5651 $21.00 Time Remaining: 21d 15h 9m Buy It Now for only: $21.00 |
 1984 THINNER book novel Richard Bachman aka Stephen King Book Club Edition $19.99 Time Remaining: 4d 16h 45m |
 The National Picture Book Keith Sutton 1954 The National Book Club Fabulous $7.99 Time Remaining: 2d 20h 48m |
 1960 To Kill A Mockingbird FIRST BOOK CLUB ED W DUSTJACKET $120.00 Time Remaining: 5d 2h Buy It Now for only: $120.00 |
 THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT by SLOAN WILSON 1955 BOOK CLUB EDITION $6.99 Time Remaining: 2d 1h 8m |
 TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis 1st Book Club Edition 1968 Very Fine Condition $45.00 Time Remaining: 3d 1h 30m Buy It Now for only: $65.00 |
Book Club
Four Reasons to Join a Book Club
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Introductory Offer
Introductory offer is probably the most effective means of attracting new members that most book clubs employ. Typically, a prospective member is offered a number of books for a symbolic price - for example, 5 or 6 books for 99¢ is the most common type of IO, featured by the majority of book-of-the-month type of clubs, which account for a large percentage of the book club market.
Sounds too good to be true, is most people's initial reaction upon meeting with such an offer for the first time. But is it? Well, the answer is both yes and no. The offer is real, you do actually get half a dozen or so hard-bound bestsellers of your choice for practically nothing, but: what is not advertised in big bold letters is that you still have to pay for shipping and handling charges, which typically come to about $15, and which, when added, deflate the magnificence of the deal to an extent. That said, 5 or 6 new hard-bound books of your choice for $3 apiece (or less), total, is not an offer you will find elsewhere and is still an excellent reason to join a book club.
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Savings
Taking advantage of the introductory offer described above will probably account for the majority of your savings as a book club member (depending on how long you decide to stay), but that is not to say that afterwards you are done with it. The savings, that is. On the contrary. All book clubs offer substantial discounts on publisher's prices for their members: these can be anywhere from 30% to 80%, sometimes even more.
But that's not all. To give their members even more reason to stay, book clubs regularly feature additional discounts and special deals: offers such as "buy two books and get a third for $1.99", or "make a purchase in January and get a free book in February" will come your way regularly. Omnibuses, encyclopedias, large print editions, these can also save you a lot of money, especially if you squeeze them into your introductory offer. Book clubs usually carry plenty of somewhat older (hard-bound) titles by many popular authors with prices like $7.99, or lower even: $4.99 is not such a rare a price tag, and even $2.99 can be seen on occasion.
Another way of saving money that some people use is by canceling and rejoining - thus effectively taking advantage of the introductory offer over and over. Although book clubs would, of course, prefer it by far that you stayed a member for a long time and buy many many books, and although they state that they "reserve the right to refuse memberships", if you cancel your membership and then decide to rejoin at a later date, they will usually take you back without a question. In fact, some time after canceling you will likely receive an e-mail inviting you to rejoin, and along with it a special online code to enter at the club web site and be privy to an even better deal than the standard introductory offer (less commitment books, for example).
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Editorial Recommendations and Insider's Scoops
Book club members receive a free Club Magazine on a regular basis (usually once every 3 weeks or so). Each issue of the Magazine features one or two Selections - new books chosen by the club's editors as the must-read of the moment - plus hundreds of other books to consider.
The Magazine offers real value. The publishing industry spews out hundreds of books each month, so the editors have to cut through a lot of titles to present you the ones you should consider. Becoming a Featured Selection, therefore, is no small feat. Only the best, a crème de la crème, make it to that status. Moreover, the Selections these days are accommodated to your personal taste, based on your previous purchases and declared interests. In short, the Magazine provides a great way to keep current with the happenings in the literary world, find out about the latest titles from your favorite authors, or discover some fresh new talent. Many people actually keep memberships in different book clubs mainly for this reason: to receive recommendations on what's hot.
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Selection of Reading Material
At first glance, this seems like one area where large online book retailers with their almost infinite selection of books - new or used - hold a significant advantage over book clubs. However, that actually depends on what your reading preferences are. If you are into latest bestsellers - fiction or non-fiction - then it's likely one of the bestseller book clubs will cater to your needs perfectly, and at a lower cost. If you have a special interest, such as cooking; personal growth and spiritual development; history; home decoration; or you might be into romance books or mysteries or science fiction, or any of dozens of special interests that have a book club dedicated to it, then joining a book club is not a bad idea also. As mentioned above, book clubs employ editors who are experts on their given subject and will separate the wheat from the chaff for you saving you both time and money.
Another thing is, book clubs print their own editions and will often have some unique proposals for their members: hardbound books (sometimes long out of print) that were originally available only in soft cover; exclusive omnibuses containing several volumes in a single binding. Bestseller book clubs carry entire backlists by such popular authors as Stephen King, Danielle Steel, John Grisham etc. An added attraction is, most of these books aren't available in book stores - not the hardcover versions, anyway - and, what's more, they often go for bargain prices ($7.99 or so).
Finally, it's worth mentioning that most of the book-of-the-month type of clubs today are joined under a single roof by one company. The significance of this for you, a potential member, is this: by joining one of the book clubs you gain access to each and every book carried by other sibling clubs (over 70,000 books), all with the same discounts and other benefits. Certainly a nice added bonus.
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Hi I want to start a book club for african american teens?
I want to start a book Club for teen girls, we will meet at least 1-2 times a week and read 5 books for the end of the report period. Our first book will be step to this by nikki carter, if you have any tips on how to run it, or on some great books for us, that Will help so much, thanks
First, I would hold it at a public library in your town. Have each member read a chapter a week, and then discuss what they liked, what they didn't, and how they would change it for about 10 minutes. I'd say limit your meetings to about 20 minutes, because talking about a book shouldn't take too long. And always bring some refreshments while talking about it.
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