This is not an ordinary book: it's a BookCrossing book! BookCrossing books are world travelers - they like to have adventures and make new friends...and every once in a while they even write home to say what they've been doing.

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Trade paperback from the Jodo Mission bazaar; larger photo here.

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Fourth-quarter themes for Secretariat's 2018 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Release Challenge:

Week 40: fall colors (brown)
Week 42: turned backs
Week 48: embedded nouns in author name (char)
Week 51: H, J, M, and W (Jacquelyn)

Earlier 2018 themes:

1st quarter: Week 9: women on cover

Monday, December 31, 2018: left in the LFL. (Larger photo here.)

Released for Secretariat's 2018 NJABBIC challenge (week 52: 4th quarter re-do/anything goes) and DragonGoddess's Name challenge.

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I'm so glad you've found this book!

Please take a moment to make a journal entry and let this book's previous readers know that it's safe with you.

How and where did you find the book? What did you think of it? What are you going to do with it next?

It's now your book, for you to do with as you please: keep it, pass it to a friend, or maybe even leave it where someone else can find it!

If you've ever wondered where your books go after they leave your hands, join BookCrossing and you may find out: you'll be able to follow your books as new readers make journal entries - sometimes from surprisingly far-flung locations.

BookCrossing: making the whole world a library!