June 2007
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Dear School Teachers and Curriculum Leaders,

As the school year is coming to a close,  BookSwap would like to thank you for having us as your new and used, textbook and novel supplier. We wish you a safe and fantastic summer and look forward to serving you again in the new school  year. 

In the meantime, are you busy cleaning out your storage room? BookSwap offers cash and credit for NEW or USED novels, textbooks and teachers'  manuals.  Contact us right away and we can have a representative do an inventory assessment!

Remember, get money for those unused books...  
Book buy, book sell,  BOOKSWAP.


Short Story Writing Contest - the Results are in!

BookSwap appreciates all of the Ontario teachers who encouraged their students to enter our Short Story Writing Contest.  The response was amazing, and our panel of judges took great pleasure in reading each entry.  We would like to congratulate our winners:

Grades 9/10 
Grand Prize - Jocelyn Hannusch
Hammarskjold High School, Thunder Bay, ON


Grades 11/12  
Grand Prize - Lisa Schaffner
Catholic Central High School, London, ON

Top Participating School 

Iroquois Ridge High School, Oakville, ON
($100.00 BookSwap Certificate Recipient)

Next school year, we will be running another writing contest and hope even more  of Ontario's High School students will participate.  Each winner will receive a prize package valued up to $300.00, plus the school with the most participants will be rewarded with a $100.00 BookSwap certificate to use towards English Books.   


order NOW for FALL

Are you organizing next year's budget?  Get your textbook ordering out of the way and be worry free!

  • New and Reconditioned Books 20-75% OFF

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Do You Have This Book?  

BookSwap is currently buying USED copies of:

Transformations: Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction and Drama 
Author: Barry Duncan
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harcourt Canada
ISBN: 0774701684

Send us an email if you have some to sell!


On Special at BookSwap 

 

Early September: An Anthology of Short Stories
Editor: James A. MacNeill
Publisher: Nelson Canada
ISBN:
0176007490
New Price: $31.78 

Used Price: $18.00 (43% savings)

 


Summer Reading Picks - Adult Fiction

The Red Tent
Author: Anita Diamant
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HB Fenn
ISBN: 0312195516
Discount Price: $16.45 NEW

Description: A novel set in Biblical times about Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah.

 

The Birth House
Author: Ami McKay

Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0676977731
Discount Price: $16.50 NEW

Description:  As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, Dora Rare is drawn to Miss Babineau, a midwife with a gift for healing. Dora becomes Miss B.’s apprentice, and together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labours and breech births.

 

Suite Française
Author: Irene Nemirovksy
Format: Hardcover 
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0676977707
Discount Price: $26.20 NEW

Description: An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation - recently discovered and published 64 years after the author's death in Auschwitz.

 

Long Way Down 
Author: Nick Hornby
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead
ISBN: 1594481938
Discount Price: $13.87 NEW

Description: Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line.

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