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>I had a neat thing happen 2 weekends ago. I was in a 'Chapters' (Indigo/Chapters is the main bookstore chain in Canada), and I was heading over to the Mystery shelves.

Are these shelves that keep changing position, or you never know what's on 'em or something?

>I don't usually, but that day I stopped in the general fiction section.

This one for made-up stories about senior army officers?

>I wanted to see if there was anything new by Robert Goddard. Anyway, I stopped and looked at the shelf in front of me, and I was in the Ds not the Gs. A book happened to catch my eye because it had an interesting cover and an interesting title - "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters" . It was the same size as a hardcover, but had a soft cover. It didn't look like a 'Trade' edition though. It looked exactly like a hardcover, but with a softer cover. Inside it said "Hardcover: Canada $35.00" which I though was a lot for a book that wasn't really a hardcover. I checked their computer, and found that they had one hardcover edition ($35.00) and while the Trade was available, they had none in the store. Taking another look at the cover, I noticed at the
>bottom it said, "Pre-Release reading copy". Since I thought they weren't allowed to sell those, I figured I'd point it out to one of the workers, so I called to a woman who was stocking a shelf. She didn't hear me, but a guy behind me asked if he could help. He turned out to be the store manager. I showed him the book, and he looked at it and said that someone must have shelved it by accident. He said they weren't allowed to sell them. Then he said, "Well, you found it, it's yours." He went to the cash, got a bag for it and just handed it to me. I have no idea if it's any good yet, but I'll get to it soon.
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>Serendipity. I had no intention of looking at anything in the Ds in General Fiction.

Perhaps you HAD found a mystery shelf after all!