Ok, here's what happened. I went to Barnes and Noble.com (bn.com) to look up all the books that had been written by Elizabeth Berg. While I was looking at the list I noticed that a HARDCOVER edition of one of her recent books was on sale for 2.99! Well, I couldn't pass that up so I put it in my cart and started perusing the other 6,500 books that were on sale because it said if I spent more than 25.00 the shipping was free. So...after numerous "add to cart"s I have a shelf full of new books, mostly hardcover (this one was paperback so it was 1.00 more...can someone please explain that to me??) in my collection. I usually don't shop at the big stores but this was too much to resist. The most amazing part was how many were fairly new bestsellers...
That being said I am really looking forward to reading Seabiscuit.

Left on common bookshelf in cafe.