You might be surprised what you can find in an old used book. Used and rare booksellers discover countless objects inside books as they sort and catalog books for resale. According to the huge online bookseller AbeBooks.com, they've found a host of strange and exciting objects in used books, including forty $1,000 bills, a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card, a marriage certificate from 1879, a baby's tooth, a diamond ring, social security cards, credit card receipts, shopping lists, business cards, postcards, a World War II US ration book (with stamps remaining), World War II discharge papers, a pair of scissors, a valid driver's license, a cockroach (dead), and a strip of bacon.

Adam Tobin, owner of Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, New York, has created a display inside his bookstore dedicated to objects discovered in books. The most valuable item discovered by Adam is a letter written by CS Lewis, author of the Narnia series. Tobin said,

It's a motley assortment. We've been doing it for about two years since opening the store. The display quickly took over the back wall and now it's spreading to other places, and there's a backlog of stuff that we haven't put up yet. There are postcards, shopping lists, and concert tickets but my favorites are the cryptic notes. They are often deeply personal and can be very moving.

None of these interesting objects can compare to what can be discovered in God's Word. Within that Book a person can find hope, guidance, purpose for living, peace, heaven, and eternal riches.