Green Apple Books is practically giving away books, people. Actually, the ongoing Warehouse Clearance Sale is coming to an end. All used books are now $2.98 or less. That’s a dollar less than a gallon of gas. A more on-point comparison: $2.98 is just a few cents over half of the five dollar penalty for bringing a book back to the library eons late. Which means it’s probably cheaper to buy it at Green Apple, because really, despite all your good intentions, how often do you take a library book back on time? All paperbacks are $1.49. Where: 248 Clement, just down the street from the Green Apple storefront.

Green Apple’s book of the month, by the way, is Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American. The Green Apple promise for their book of the month: “We guarantee this book 100% (and discount it 20% to further entice you to trust us).”

Oh, and one more thing I wouldn’t know if I didn’t subscribe to the Green Apple newsletter: Richard Bausch, author of The Last Good Time; Good Evening, Mr. and Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea; In the Night Season; and other works of fiction has a new novel out, Peace, which involves three soldiers on a snowy night during WWII. I’m a big fan of Bausch, whose stories and novels are marked by quiet intensity admirable subtlety.