“It was a dark and stormy night...” begins one of the most ridiculed book openings of modern literature. Boy, am I glad I was able to buy other books at the Friends of the New Glarus Library’s book sale on Labor Day weekend last year. The other books looked better than that one.

You too, for a mere $1.00 per hard cover book, can buy several books this year that look intriguing. It’s easy on the budget, even if a some turn out to be duds. They will not guarantee there will be something as valuable as last year’s oversized set of Audubon books with all color plates, but there w...