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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We hope you all had a safe and happy 4th of July! Thanks to everyone who came to the First Annual Downtown Glen Ellyn Bookfest. I think everyone agreed it was absolutely amazing. If you missed it, be assured that plans are already underway for a second Bookfest in 2011! We hope you have a great month of July. We're busy getting ready for The Glen Ellyn JazzFest on Saturday, July 10th, as well as Sidewalk Sale Days on July 29, 30 and 31st, but in the meantime, we've got a lot of great new reading recommendations for you and your family.

Thank you for your support, Jane Stroh and Friends at The Bookstore

The Bookstore Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary This is a special year for The Bookstore. We'll be celebrating our 50th anniversary all year long. We hope you can join us for our various customer celebrations, author events and reader challenges.

Phyllis and Eugene Unterschuetz book signing, Tuesday, July 27th We are proud to have Glen Ellyn resident Phyllis Unterschuetz and her husband Eugene at the Bookstore where they will be signing copies of their book, Longing: Stories of Racial Healing. The collection contains personal accounts and observations of racial separation in our country, and how these separations can be healed.

Don't miss! Sidewalk Sale July 29, 30 and 31st Don't miss the incredible savings of 25 to 40% at The Bookstore during Sidewalk Sale Days, which starts on Thursday, July 29th and goes through Saturday the 31st. (9-8 on Thursday and Friday and 9-5 on Saturday.) However, The Bookstore will start our own inside sale on Tuesday, July 27th, so stop in for the first pick on some fabulous titles! Just a warning that Main Street will be closed on Thursday and Friday, in case you're need to dash in to pick up an order, and don't have time to park, walk and browse. Call ahead and we'll meet you at the corner if can!

Help Us Celebrate! The Bookstore's 50th Birthday Party: Thursday, August 19th 7pm All of our customers are invited to a birthday party on Thursday, August 19th at 7pm. Pleae join us for free cake and our personal thank you for your support over the years.

We are thrilled to share our celebration with all of the participants in our 50 Hour Team Readathon, a benefit that we hosted in honor of our 50th birthday for the Glen Ellyn Children's Resource Center. Readathon Prizes will be awarded to the participants that night, including: Most Voracious Reading Team, Most Voracious Reader, Most Team Spirit and Most Dollars Raised.

We couldn't find a better way to show our thanks to a wonderful community that has supported us for over 50 years. We're just glad to be able to give back to such a wonderful organization as the GECRC, our partner in promoting literacy in Glen Ellyn. Hope to see you there!

Kids Book Review Club and Young Writers Group Here's an idea for your summer bookworms! Just a reminder that The Bookstore has started a Kids and Teens Book Review Club! Children and teens can e-mail us or drop off their written book reviews. We have started a binder for the reviews, which is intended to be for kids' leisure bookstore browsing. Some of the reviews will be posted on our blog as well. Participants will receive an "official" membership card!

We also encouraging young writers to submit their poems, essays and short stories for display in another binder for The Bookstore's Young Writers Group. It will be available for leisure browsing in the Young Adult section of The Bookstore.

Summer Scavenger Hunt in Downtown Glen Ellyn Glen Ellyn children just seem to love the Downtown Alliance Summer Scavenger Hunts, ever since the first Harry Potter-themed scavenger hunt in 2007. This year, in honor of The Bookstore's 50th Anniversary, the bookish theme of the scavenger hunt is SEARCH THE STORY! Visit http://downtownglenellyn.com/?p=2252 for more information. The guide books will be available at The Bookstore and the Library. Grand prize: $100 downtown shopping certificate!

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:
Tinkers, Paul Harding; Secret Daughter, Shilpi Gowda; Innocent, Scot Turow; Little Bee, Chris Cleave; Into the Beautiful North, Luis Urrea; My Antonia, Willa Cather; Summer at Tiffany, Majorie Hart; Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner; Red Leather Diary, Lily Koppel; Friday Night Knitting Club, Kate Jacobs; Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese; Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.