Bookstore Blogs
Below are the latest posts from blogs written by NCIBA members. Clicking on the title link will take you to the blog, while clicking on the link in the post will take you directly to that post.
The Classics I Forgot to Read Book Club
September 2010--Revolutionary Road by Tom
21 Aug 2010 at 4:51pm
by Richard Yates
Books Inc. Palo Alto
"Book Busters" Bake Sale For Haiti! by Books Inc. Palo Alto
16 Apr 2010 at 10:20pm
"Book Busters" is hosting a Bake Sale for Haiti! On Friday, May 7th, my gang of book busting club kids will be filling the store with lots of yummy treats like cupcakes, cookies & cakes to raise ...
Not Your Mother's Book Club
Finished with Mockingjay? by Literaticat
30 Aug 2010 at 9:50pm
CLOCKWORK ANGEL is here at last... this should be the next book on your list!
Magical Secrets
Art 40 Basel by Crown Point
1 Jul 2009 at 3:46pm
Two weeks ago, Valerie and I flew back from Basel, Switzerland where we spent twelve days at the Art Basel fair, where Crown Point had a booth. Crown Point Press has participated in fair for the pa...
Fig Garden Bookstore
DIRTY SEXY POLITICS BY Megan McCain by ??Naty??
1 Sep 2010 at 9:00am
In this witty, candid, and boisterous book, Meghan takes us deep behind the scenes of the campaign trail. She steals campaign signs in New Hampshire, tastes the nightlife in Nashville, and has a st...
Words on Books... and a few other things from time to time
Kwei Quartey and John Le Carre by Tony
26 Aug 2010 at 7:54pm
OMG as we like to write on the Intergoogle. Omigawd, it has been hot around here for what ? two days? Now we have the cooling fog, the ocean breezes, and we laugh at the people melting in their hut...
A Million Words
Review of Delirium by A Million Words
30 Aug 2010 at 5:03pm
Delirium
by Lauren Oliver
Young Adult science fiction
Pub date February 2011
I think it's a real shame that this book is coming out relatively close to MATCHED by Ally Condie. It's inevitable tha...
September 2010--Revolutionary Road by Tom
21 Aug 2010 at 4:51pm
by Richard Yates
"Book Busters" Bake Sale For Haiti! by Books Inc. Palo Alto
16 Apr 2010 at 10:20pm
"Book Busters" is hosting a Bake Sale for Haiti! On Friday, May 7th, my gang of book busting club kids will be filling the store with lots of yummy treats like cupcakes, cookies & cakes to raise ...
Finished with Mockingjay? by Literaticat
30 Aug 2010 at 9:50pm
CLOCKWORK ANGEL is here at last... this should be the next book on your list!
Art 40 Basel by Crown Point
1 Jul 2009 at 3:46pm
Two weeks ago, Valerie and I flew back from Basel, Switzerland where we spent twelve days at the Art Basel fair, where Crown Point had a booth. Crown Point Press has participated in fair for the pa...
DIRTY SEXY POLITICS BY Megan McCain by ??Naty??
1 Sep 2010 at 9:00am
In this witty, candid, and boisterous book, Meghan takes us deep behind the scenes of the campaign trail. She steals campaign signs in New Hampshire, tastes the nightlife in Nashville, and has a st...
Kwei Quartey and John Le Carre by Tony
26 Aug 2010 at 7:54pm
OMG as we like to write on the Intergoogle. Omigawd, it has been hot around here for what ? two days? Now we have the cooling fog, the ocean breezes, and we laugh at the people melting in their hut...
Review of Delirium by A Million Words
30 Aug 2010 at 5:03pm
Delirium
by Lauren Oliver
Young Adult science fiction
Pub date February 2011
I think it's a real shame that this book is coming out relatively close to MATCHED by Ally Condie. It's inevitable tha...
The Green Apple Core
Optics by Clark
1 Sep 2010 at 3:27pm
Hey there. If you happen to be the Green Apple customer who left six pairs of sunglasses and two pairs of reading glasses behind maybe about, oh I don't know, two and a half years ago, well we're s...
The Book Flap
Interview with Brad Herzog-Appearing at Kepler's TONIGHT! by Kepler's
30 Aug 2010 at 9:42am
Author Brad Herzog will be speaking at Kepler's tonight about his latest book, Turn Left at the Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
"Herzog's third travel memoir follows the highways c...
TheBookBind
Birthmarked by Caragh O'Brien by Bookgeek
31 Aug 2010 at 8:03pm
Caragh O'Brien's future world is arid and harsh, where some live inside a walled community and some outside. Gaia is 16, a trainee midwife who we see deliver her first baby by herself and then take...
Well-Read Donkey
Belle Yang: My Life, My Family, My Graphic Memoir in Snapshots by msbelleyang@gmail.com (Belle Yang)
7 Jul 2010 at 12:52pm
I will be at Kepler's at 7:30 P.M. July 8th talking about the process of making a graphic novel. Please join me.
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A drawing from 1967, the first year of my family's arrival in America. I l...
LOGOS BOOKS & RECORDS
News This Week (August 28th) by Janina
28 Aug 2010 at 10:23pm
New recordings from Bob Dylan will be released. President Obama is seen leaving a bookstore with a galley of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. J. M. Barrie maybe related to two mummified infants found in...
Northtownbooks
Sanae, Senryu Poet: Her Life in 5-7-5 by Northtown Books
26 Aug 2010 at 4:12pm
Friday August 27th at 7 pm, Northtown Books welcome Amy and Aiko Uyeki to Northtown Books to read and sign their new book 'Sanae, Senryu Poet: Her Life in 5-7-5'.
Shizue Harada came to the United...
Booky Kids
Summer Hand Sales by BookyG
23 Jul 2010 at 8:55am
Hand selling is a bookseller term for when we direct customers to a particular title that we like. In truth it is done automatically, when you work in a bookstore, you like books, and if a customer...
Cheri's Blog
Fabulous Author?s Event, September 3, 2010 by watershedbookco
12 Aug 2010 at 4:14pm
Mary McMillan, past poet laureate of Lake County, poet, and marriage and family therapist will host a mini workshop in conjunction with a celebration of her newest book, Get Inside Your Relationsh...
Optics by Clark
1 Sep 2010 at 3:27pm
Hey there. If you happen to be the Green Apple customer who left six pairs of sunglasses and two pairs of reading glasses behind maybe about, oh I don't know, two and a half years ago, well we're s...
Interview with Brad Herzog-Appearing at Kepler's TONIGHT! by Kepler's
30 Aug 2010 at 9:42am
Author Brad Herzog will be speaking at Kepler's tonight about his latest book, Turn Left at the Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
"Herzog's third travel memoir follows the highways c...
Birthmarked by Caragh O'Brien by Bookgeek
31 Aug 2010 at 8:03pm
Caragh O'Brien's future world is arid and harsh, where some live inside a walled community and some outside. Gaia is 16, a trainee midwife who we see deliver her first baby by herself and then take...
Belle Yang: My Life, My Family, My Graphic Memoir in Snapshots by msbelleyang@gmail.com (Belle Yang)
7 Jul 2010 at 12:52pm
I will be at Kepler's at 7:30 P.M. July 8th talking about the process of making a graphic novel. Please join me.
***********
A drawing from 1967, the first year of my family's arrival in America. I l...
News This Week (August 28th) by Janina
28 Aug 2010 at 10:23pm
New recordings from Bob Dylan will be released. President Obama is seen leaving a bookstore with a galley of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. J. M. Barrie maybe related to two mummified infants found in...
Sanae, Senryu Poet: Her Life in 5-7-5 by Northtown Books
26 Aug 2010 at 4:12pm
Friday August 27th at 7 pm, Northtown Books welcome Amy and Aiko Uyeki to Northtown Books to read and sign their new book 'Sanae, Senryu Poet: Her Life in 5-7-5'.
Shizue Harada came to the United...
Summer Hand Sales by BookyG
23 Jul 2010 at 8:55am
Hand selling is a bookseller term for when we direct customers to a particular title that we like. In truth it is done automatically, when you work in a bookstore, you like books, and if a customer...
Fabulous Author?s Event, September 3, 2010 by watershedbookco
12 Aug 2010 at 4:14pm
Mary McMillan, past poet laureate of Lake County, poet, and marriage and family therapist will host a mini workshop in conjunction with a celebration of her newest book, Get Inside Your Relationsh...