Book Salvaging

So Alice, her mother, and I went out doing various important things. While we were out, though, we took a break to run into the nearest thrift store and rummage through the used books. $.99 for a hardcover book, $.39 for paperback. How could we not?

In the stacks of mostly romance novels, we eventually bought

The Hot Zone, hardcover, because Alice is obsessed with ebola

The First Wives Club, hardcover, because Alice likes the sex scenes

Some pop psychology book, written off as Alice doing research

Bech: A Book, because I wanted something for myself, damn it

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer book, because Alice is a geek

The World According to Garp, for Alice's mother

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, because historical fanfiction about famous coked-up detectives is terribly amusing

Hunt for Red October and Executive Orders, for Alice's father, the Clancy addict

and several shirts. I'd like to go to an actual used bookstore once the paycheck comes in. Alice once found The Road to Hel...