We are an online used-book dealer, selling mostly non-fiction titles at reasonable prices since 2001. Our main inventory categories are: art, business/investment, culinary, entertainers and spirituality. We strive to make our listings as informative and accurate as possible, but feel free to ask questions about any item in our inventory. Photo scans are gladly provided upon request.
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--- The KC "STIMULUS" : A 10 Percent Markdown ---
As an anti-recession move, KingChamp Books has reduced all prices on its own web site by 10 percent. This rewards customers who purchase KingChamp's inventory at http://www.kingchampbooks.com/ rather than through marketplaces that charge ever-rising commissions and shipping fees. Thank you for your loyalty.
And don't forget about our standard "REPEAT CUSTOMER DISCOUNT" -- buy a book here and then get $1 off every additional title purchased. Trade discounts are offered to bona fide book dealers and libraries.
SEARCHES
Please search or browse our inventory by using the search box on the lefthand side of this page or clicking on the browse-by-category link. Feel free to e-mail to confirm availability and reserve a title for 14 days. If you can't find what you need, please fill out our off-line search form and we will search our off-line inventory, other bookstores and book search services for you.
If we don't have the book you need, please try the independent booksellers listed on our Links page. Displayed below is a box that allows you to search the inventories of dozens of other small dealers simultaneously. They, like KingChamp Books, are affiliated with the Chrislands.com bookselling portal:
Shipping
U.S.: Media Mail rate $3 first book, $1 additional. Priority, $6.00 first book, $2 additional. Canada: Priority International $13 first book, $6 additional. International: International Priority, $14 and up each book. International First Class is available upon customer request, but in some cases, it may be more expensive than International Priority. NOTE: Despite U.S. Postal Service rate increases every year from 2006 through 2011, KingChamp Books continues to use its 2005 domestic shipping rates to keep your total price as low as possible. The 2007 increase eliminated surface rates for overseas shipping. KingChamp uses International Priority Mail envelopes whenever possible to provide the lowest rates possible.
NEW ARRIVALS
-- "Gay Children Grown Up," a scarce monograph by sociologist Joseph Harry, puncturing the once-common notion that effeminate boys are mentally ill. $99
-- Sixties Revisited -- 1968 arguably was America's most tumultuous year of the past half-century. Read a Media Studies Journal issue devoted to this pivotal year. $14. -- Valerie Hoffman horror novels -- scarce signed copies of "Vampire Royalty: The Rebellion" and its sequel, "Resurrection.
-- Jennifer Aniston fans: Stroll through her extensively renovated Balinese mansion in Beverly Hillswith a March 2010 back issue of Architectural Digest. $6
-- "Prayers for Johnathan," by Bridget Night. An ordinary mom makes a heart-wrenching discovery when she turns on her teenaged son's computer and finds e-mail to a gay man. Night relates how she slowly came to terms with her son's orientatation. Flat-signed.
-- "Fit to Print" by Marc Davidson. Scarce catalog of the newspaper poster collection formerly displayed at the Daytona Beach News-Journal. More than 200 plates, entertainingly annotated by Davidson, who helped his father purchase scores of French, Italian, British, German and American posters, mostly from the 1890-1930 period.
-- ATTENTION DAYTONA STATE STUDENTS: If you have enrolled in the "Art Appreciation" course, we have several used copies of the Mark Getlein texbook, "Gilbert's Living with Art." Prices range from $25 to $30, depending on condition and edition. E-mail us if you'd like details. Info@kingchampbooks.com.
-- ATTN PULP FICTION COLLECTORS -- Several signed copies of Hugh B. Cave novels and short-story anthologies have been added to our inventory, and more are coming. These are noteworthy association copies, inscribed to Cave's biographer, Audrey Parente of Ormond Beach, Fl. Check our Cave listings plus those for Theodore Roscoe and Judson Phillips.
-- 3 BOOKS ABOUT MAINE -- Maine-iacs will enjoy our new arrivals on Maine -- Helen Hamlin's "Nine Mile Bridge' about life in the Great North Woods; "Maine: A Guide Down East," the updated version of the WPA classic; and "White Pine and Blue Sea," a delightful anthology spanning three centuries of writing about Maine.
-- DAYTONA LORE -- If you hang around Daytona Beach, you might hear old-timers use the odd expression "Too much ain't enough." They're quoting the late John Carter, humorist and storyteller extraordinaire. His wonderful columns spun for the Daytona Beach News-Journal are collected in "The Jug-Eared Kid."
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SPECIAL EVENTS
A TRIP TO HELL (followed by A TRIP TO HEAVEN) -- Join us Monday, Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. for a lively interfaith discussion of "Love Wins!" the best-selling book by Pastor Rob Bell. This controversial book, recently featured on NPR's "All Things Considered as a highlight of 2011, challenges our traditional notions of Heaven and Hell. Some pastors have welcomed it. Others have condemned it as heretical. This discussion kicks off the monthly God Gab discussion series sponsored by New Church Family in Daytona Beach. We'll look at Hell on Jan. 30, and return a week later, Feb. 6, for a session on Heaven. Anyone is welcome to attend. You don't have to be a member of this church or any church.The event is atNew Church Family, Copytronics Bldg., 815 Beville Road, Daytona Beach. More information: 386-576-6671
SUNDAYS 10 a.m. -- NEW CHURCH FAMILY, a congregation affiliated with International Christian Community Churches based in Asheville, N.C. (http://www.intlccc.org/), holds worship services in Daytona Beach at the Copytronics Building, 815 Beville Road, Unit B, with the Rev. Beau McDaniels preaching. Visitors of all faiths, races and orientations are welcome; dress is very casual and refreshments are excellent. NCF benefits from books sold in our "Church Benefit" category. The church also offers a continuing "Book Giveaway" -- books and magazines donated by KingChamp Books and others are offered free of charge. Donations to the church are appreciated. More information is available at http://www.newchurchfamily.org/. Also check Facebook for our Youth Outreach page, labeled "The Porch of Daytona."
