Labor Day Weekend

We will be open abbreviated hours on Labor Day, from 10am - 6pm.

Please note, we will not be buying used books Saturday, September 4th through Tuesday, September 7th.

Greetings!

Welcome to our store! We now have most of our in-store inventory listed online here. Please note that this inventory is not up-top-the-minute, so it's always a good idea to call ahead to make sure that the book you want is still there, especially if the number on hand is just one or two copies. If we don't have it in stock, then you can special order it here, usually for 20% off the cover price.

New Arrivals 8/31/10

New books on our shelves this week.

Freedom (Hardcover)

$21.99
ISBN-13: 9780374158460
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 08/01/2010

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections comes a darkly comedic novel about family. Franzen's intensely realized characters struggle to learn how to live in an ever-confusing world--one with the temptations and burdens of liberty, the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire.


Body Work (Hardcover)

$21.50
ISBN-13: 9780399156748
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Putnam Adult, 08/01/2010

The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. Days later, the woman is shot outside the club and dies in V.I.'s arms. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.


Skippy Dies (Hardcover)

$22.25
ISBN-13: 9780865479432
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Faber & Faber, 08/01/2010

Why does Skippy, a 14-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Why Skippy dies and what happens next unravels a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined.


Aurorarama (Hardcover)

$20.75
ISBN-13: 9781935554134
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Melville House, 08/01/2010

A startling, seductive literary novel that entwines suspense, science fiction, adventure, romance and history into an intoxicating new genre.


Wolf Hall (Paperback)

$12.75
ISBN-13: 9780312429980
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Picador, 08/01/2010

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man, Thomas Cromwell, dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power. In inimitable style, Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage.


Precious (Paperback)

$11.99
ISBN-13: 9780812978377
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 08/01/2010

A BOOKLIST TOP TEN DEBUT OF THE YEAR
It happens on a hot summer evening, while children with peeling sunburns roam the streets playing tag and cicadas hum in the trees. Sissy's ex-best friend goes missing while riding her bike in the park, and it casts a shadow on her family, who are already struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy. For nine-year-old Sissy, whose mother is not there when she's needed, whose father is angry, and whose older sister is focused on seducing her high school teacher, desperate secrets seem to underlie everything. As the summer grows hotter and the missing girl is never found, the sense of foreboding builds toward one violent night when everything will change forever for Sissy's family.


Angel Time (Mass Market Paperback)

$6.25
ISBN-13: 9781400078950
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anchor, 08/01/2010

Rice returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a tale of unceasing suspense set in times past--a metaphysical thriller about angels and assassins. This is the first book in the Songs of the Seraphim series.


$7.99
ISBN-13: 9781933633893
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Melville House Publishing, 08/01/2010

You Were Wrong (Paperback)

$10.99
ISBN-13: 9781608191871
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Bloomsbury USA, 08/01/2010

Karl Floor--friendless, orphaned, melancholy, living with his loudmouth stepfather and sleepwalking through his job as a high-school math teacher--returns home one day to discover his house being robbed by a beautiful stranger named Sylvia. Aware Karl is falling for her, Sylvia draws him into her mysterious world.


The Report (Paperback)

$11.99
ISBN-13: 9781555975654
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Graywolf Press, 08/01/2010

As Magistrate Laurence Dunne investigates the deaths of 173 people on the steps of a London Tube Station during World War II, he finds the truth to be precarious, even damaging. When he is forced to reflect on his report several decades later, he must consider whether the course he chose was the right one.


By Robert Coles, Trevor Hall (Editor), Vicki Kennedy (Editor)
$21.50
ISBN-13: 9781400062034
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House, 08/01/2010

In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostered by reflecting on the lives of others, through stories.


$18.99
ISBN-13: 9780307593290
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Knopf, 08/01/2010

A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future. Taylor expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 "New York Times" op-ed.


$11.99
ISBN-13: 9780345506511
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ballantine Books, 08/01/2010

From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters comes the real-life story of one woman's search for a cure to her family's escalating troubles, and the leap of faith that took her on a journey to an exotic place and a new state of mind.


$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307472861
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 08/01/2010

The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature--the most popular international novelist of the last 50 years. Now in paperback.


$23.95
ISBN-13: 9780786449026
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: McFarland & Company, 05/01/2010

This is a memoir of a diehard--a diehard fan who drove himself and his family half crazy to get to Cubs games that were 700 miles away from their home. Along the way Sullivan recounts the history of Cubs baseball, including events from the 1908 season, as well as reminiscences from other fans and stories of his own experience following a team that has gone a century without attaining that final win that would make them world champions.


$10.25
ISBN-13: 9780545060509
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scholastic Inc., 08/01/2010

Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history's greatest mysteries and their family's deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? Consumable.


The Time Machine (Paperback)

By H.G. Wells, Lewis Helfand (Adapted by), Rajesh Nagulakonda (Illustrator)
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9789380028262
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Campfire, 08/01/2010

A graphic novel retelling of the classic book, adapted for intermediate readers.


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