Most years members of Whangarei's two Zonta clubs who collect and sort thousands of books before their huge annual sale find a personal treasure someone, sometime, meant to keep.
It's surprising what gets tucked into pages or between books on a shelf and accidentally handed over for the Great New Zealand Book Sale, says organiser Anne Richards.
This year someone might be missing their old copy of a Northern Advocate page of photos from the 1995 Kamo High School students' ball - which had a rather raunchy theme, Pillars of Love, styled on Greek and Roman classics.
According to the photos, the God and Goddess of the ball were Ben Webb and Karen Lowe.
"Somebody possibly meant to keep it," Ms Richards said.