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The
Bookstore
475
N. Main St.
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Tel: (630) 469-2891
jane@justthebookstore.com
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Welcome
to The Bookstore!
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Welcome to the
online branch of The Bookstore, a small and friendly place for
book lovers located in the heart of historic downtown Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
We are delighted to be able to offer you access to many more books
than we could ever fit on our shelves, through a website!
Just use the search features at the top of this page to locate books
by keyword. Please note the Store Pick-Up option: order online and pick
your books up the next time you're in town. If you encounter any problems
with our site or have questions that need a human interface, please email
us at justbook475@yahoo.com,
or give us a call at 630-469-2891. Also, check out our new blog at http://justthebookstore.blogspot.com, for book reviews, bookstore events and book club news. We're interested in your feedback,
and hope you will continue to shop at The Smaller, Smarter Bookstore.
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EARLY SUMMER
HIGHLIGHTS at The Bookstore:
The Saint Francis High School Summer Reading Book Fair begins Tuesday, May 26th and runs through Tuesday,June 2nd. Purchase your summer reading books at The Bookstore and 10% of your purchase will go to SFHS. Book orders made by phone or e-mail within the time period will qualify too, as long as the books are purchased by June 15, 2009. Get started on your summer reading now! The first book test is July 1st. Click here to print out a Book Fair Coupon you will need to bring to The Bookstore.
Be sure to join us on Twitter.com! You can find us @justbooks (Margie) or @suejustbooks(Sue). If you purchase the current Twitter Book Club book, you will recieve a 10% discount at The Bookstore. The next Twitter Book Club pick is Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. Discussion is on June 15th under #tbc. Join us in the discussion or just sit back and read others' tweets! We are hosting three book signings at The Bookstore in May and June - see details below.
The Summer Reading Program is back! Available for readers of all ages. Register at The Bookstore and ask for a "Get Caught Reading Form" (also available by clicking here.) Read 10 age appropriate books, bring your form back to The Bookstore and receive a free paperback of your choice.
Announcing a new Book Club Summer Reading Challenge for Adults! Participants will be invited to an end of the summer wine and cheese party! First, buy Beowulf at the Beach by Jack Murninghan (paperback $15.00)-- an "erudite, witty, and fun-loving" field guide to 50 of the best classics; second, pick out a classic to read this summer, with or without your book club, and finally, keep your eyes open for the date of the party, where we hope to share stories about our reading challenges (without plot spoilers!)
Don't
miss! Anima- Young Singers of Greater Chicago Concert. This season, Anima presents the premiere of Living the Divine, a powerful new composition by Daniel Brewbaker, for ages 8 and up on Friday May 29th. Guest artists are Susanne Mentzer, renowned mezzo-soprano; Cynthia Yeh, principal percussionist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and William Buhr, acclaimed pianist. The texts for this newly commissioned work are taken from an anthology called Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West. Tickets to the concert, as well as copies of the book are available at The Bookstore.
Awards, Awards,
Awards! Yes! We have the new 2010 list of Rebecca Caudill nominees, and are filling our shelves with these wonderful books. Check out our selection
of the newest Rebecca Caudill titles for 4th to 8th grade readers.
Rebecca Caudill website: www.rcyrba.org/pdf/2010masterList.pdf
Title of Event: Dan Anderson Book Signing
When: Saturday, May 30 at 1pm
Location: The Bookstore
Description: Dan Anderson
will be at The Bookstore to sign copies of his book, 24 Tales of Murder, Mayhem, Infidelity, Pranks and Other Intriguing Tidbits of Glen Ellyn History. Amazing but true stories about our own village from the archives of the Glen Ellyn Historical Society! Did you know we once had a brothel on the corner of Riford and Crescent?
Title of Event: Charlene Ann Baumbich Book Signing
When: Saturday,June 6 at 1pm
Location: The Bookstore
Description: Our favorite local humorist, novelist and self-help author/public speaker Charlene Ann Baumbich will be at The Bookstore to sign copies of her newest book, Don't Miss Your Life! Charlene's latest book is the perfect combination of humor, wisdom and grace.
Title of Event: South Asian Author Night at the Glen Ellyn Public Library
When: Tuesday, June 9th at 7pm
Location: The Glen Ellyn Public Library, 400 Duane Street, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
Description: Please join us for an evening of discussion, book readings and signings with three notable South Asian authors from the lands that brought us Jhumpa Lahiri and Salman Rushdie. Featured authors include: Tania James, author of Atlas of Unknowns, an IndieNext pick for June, Minal Hajratwala,author of Leaving India,and Mary Anne Mohranraj,author of Bodies in Motion. For more information,go to our blog posting at http://justthebookstore.blogspot.com .
The Bookstore
tracks current book group selections and offers a 10% discount on those books, a great reason to shop locally!
Preschool
Storytimes
Tuesday and Friday, 10:30 AM, just drop in - all ages welcome.
Other Glen Ellyn book groups are reading:
Little Bee, Chris Cleave; People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks; The Commoner, John Burnham Schwartz; He's Just Not That Into You, Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo; Mr. Pip, Lloyd Jones; Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh; Broken For You, Stephanie Kallos; Grace Eventually, Anne Lamott; The All-True Travels & Advt. of Lidie Newton, Jane Smiley; I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb; Bringing Up Geeks, Marybeth Hicks
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Staff Paperback Pick of the Month
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The author of "Blood-Dark Track" delivers a mesmerizing novel about a man trying to make his way in an America of shattered hopes and values, and the unlikely occurrences that pull him back into an authentic, passionately engaged life.
ISBN: 9780307388773
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They were young, brilliant, and ambitious--Gilman and her friend Chloe set out to conquer the world. Instead, the world conquered them. The bestselling author's riveting new memoir is an astonishing, real-life story of hubris--and redemption--told with tremendous heart.
ISBN: 9780446578929
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On April 30, 1844, Henry David Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed 300 acres of the Concord woods. Against the background of Thoreau's fire, Pipkin's ambitious debut penetrates the mind of the young philosopher.
ISBN: 9780385528658
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From the author of the international bestseller "Incendiary" comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
ISBN: 9781416589631
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James's poignant, funny, blazingly original debut is a story about sisterhood, the tantalizing dream of America, and the secret histories and hilarious eccentricities of families everywhere.
ISBN: 9780307268907
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Baumbich explains the importance of slowing down, not taking things so seriously, enjoying blessings, and how to create a "memory portfolio" of special moments that are reminders of God's presence.
ISBN: 1416562990
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