Grassroots Books Weekly Announcement

Sales, specials, events . . . oh my!

Our weekly announcement is full of information regarding not only fresh in stock items, but customer wish lists as well as upcoming events.

By subscribing to this newsletter, you will receive it weekly along with occassional updates regarding our massive book sales. We always love to hear from our customers so if there is anything you would like to see featured in our newsletters drop us an email and let us know.



The Essential Guide To … 

Healthy Healing Foods: Use the Power of Fresh, Nutritious Food to Boost Your Health and Well-Being

List price $16.95 ~ our price $2.99 ~ 82% savings

Overcoming Obsessive Love: Break Free of Unhealthy Bonds and Open the Way to True Love

List price $16.95 ~ our price $1.99 ~ 88% savings

Baby’s First Year: The Most Current Thinking and Advice on Year-One Milestones, Care, and Concerns

List price $16.95 ~ our price $2.99 ~ 82% savings


The Complete Idiot’s Guide To …

String Theory: Take Your Understanding of Physics Into a Whole New Dimension!

List price $18.95 ~ our price $1.99 ~ 89% savings

Getting Government Jobs: The Make-It-Easier Resource to Finding a Federal Job

List price $16.95 ~ our price $2.99 ~ 82% savings

Recovering From Identity Theft: Take Back Your Identity and Restore Your Good Name

List price $16.95 ~ our price $1.99 ~ 88% savings

And many more titles starting as low as 99¢!


Young Adult 

The Spell Book of Listen Taylor

Twelve-year-old Listen Taylor learns a great deal from the eccentric and secretive Zing family as she fumbles her way through a new school, problems with old friends, and a spell book she finds soon after she and her father move in with Marbie Zing. (BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18.0)

List price $16.99 ~ our price 99¢ ~ 94% savings

Jellicoe Road

Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high-school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia. (BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 12.0)

List price $18.89 ~ our price $1.99 ~ 89% savings

Warp Speed

Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly feared. (BL: 4.0 - AR Pts: 8.0)

List price $16.99 ~ our price $9.99 ~ 41% savings


Audiobooks 99¢ Specials

Mama Rock’s Rules: Ten Lessons for Raising a Houseful of Successful Children (Foreward by Chris Rock)

List price $29.95 ~ our price 99¢ ~ 96% savings

Jim Nantz, Always By My Side: A Father’s Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other

List price $29.95 ~ our price 99¢ ~ 96% savings

See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work

List price $24.98 ~ our price 99¢ ~ 96% savings


May Events
Select DVDs

Wednesday, May 9 ~ 99¢  

Thursday, May 10 ~ 49¢  

Religion

Friday, May 11 ~  99¢ (unstickered)

Kids Books (up to grade level 6)

Saturday, May 12 ~  49¢ (unstickered, limit 20 until 6pm)

Mother’s Day

Sunday, May 13 ~ FREE book for moms and their kids (unstickered, kids: up to grade level 6)

CDs

Monday, May 14 ~ 49¢  

Tuesday, May 15 ~ 29¢  

Vinyl

Wednesday, May 16 ~ $1.99

Thursday, May 17 ~ 99¢  

Friday, May 18 ~ 49¢  

Saturday, May 19 ~ 25¢ 

Biographies and Memoirs 

Sunday, May 20 ~ 99¢ (unstickered)

VHS

Monday, May 21 ~ 29¢

Educators Day

Tuesday, May 22 ~ FREE unstickered book with staff ID

(for tutors and WCSD volunteers too!)

Warehouse Sale 

(warehouse items only: books, movies & music)

Wednesday-Sunday, May 23 – May 28

6000+ books—fiction, non-fiction, kids—all 99¢

~ $4.99 Bag Sale ~

Sunday, May 27 (9am-8pm) & Monday, May 28 (9am-5pm) ~ Fill grocery-size bags for $4.99 each (no limit)

After the final day of the bag sale on Monday, May 28 from 5-7pm: free books for teachers, also librarians, nonprofits, and quasi-nonprofits. No limit. Leftovers only. Usually more than 3,000 to choose from.

History 

Tuesday, May 29 ~ Buy 2, Get 1 FREE (equal or lesser value)

Science Fiction and Fantasy Paperbacks

Wednesday, May 30 ~ 99¢ (unstickered)

Romance

Thursday, May 31 ~  49¢ (unstickered)


Upcoming Warehouse / $4.99 Bag Sales

2012 Sale Dates* – All items 99¢   

Wednesday-Monday, May 23 – 28**

Wednesday-Sunday, June 20 – 24

Wednesday-Sunday, July 18 – 22

Wednesday-Sunday, August 15 – 19

Wednesday-Sunday, September 12 – 16

Sale wrap-up on last day: $4.99 Bag Sale, 9am-5pm

*dates subject to change

**two-day bag sale Sunday & Monday, May 27-28


Still need to nab some Burning Man tickets? We have partnered with Friends of Black Rock to sell raffle tickets for their fundraising event on May 26-27. Prizes include two Burning Man tickets! Raffle tickets are $20 each and are available here at Grassroots.


Spring Cleaning? Get Cash for Clutter

Don’t forget that in addition to selling used books, we also buy books—along with DVDs, CDs, vinyl records, and VHS—for cash. We buy every day. No need to make an appointment. First come, first serve. We’ll help you unload your books from your car.


Free used book for everyone

Every year, we give everyone a chance to select a free used book*. Choose from 10,000+ used/unstickered books. Print this paragraph. Good for for each kid and adult in your group. Please pass this on to your friends…word of mouth is our #1 source of new customers.

*Limit one per person in 2012 from any promotion.


Wish List ~ new requests this last week 

These items remain on the list for one month, unless otherwise specified.

We take requests from customers! There are over 4,000 people on our email list, and very often, someone is happy to bring in your requested items. Come in and either make a wish or grant a wish—ask at the counter.

New Requests – Adult:

  • Beekeeping
  • Braids (hairstyle) – any
  • Brooks, Geraldine – Year of Wonders
  • Butler, Blake – any
  • Butler, Judith – any
  • Cheesemaking – any
  • Child, Julia – Mastering the Art of French Cooking
  • Container Gardening – any
  • Cutrone, Kelly – If You Have to Cry, Go Outside
  • Damasio, Antonio – any (except Descartes Error)
  • Danielewski, Mark – House of Leaves
  • De Beauvoir, Simone – any (except The Second Sex)
  • Derrida, Jacques – any
  • Dibdin, Michael – Rat King
  • Dyer, Dr. Wayne – 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace
  • Feldman, David – Do Penguins Have Knees?
  • Fleck, Becky – Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches For Creative Layouts (#1)
  • Foucalt, Michael – any
  • GED study guides (any)
  • Haskins, Frederic – Presidents and Their Wives
  • Hillenbrand, Laura – Unbroken
  • Homes, Chet – The Ultimate Sales Machine
  • Jameson, Fredric – any
  • Jepson, Duncan – All the Flowers in Shanghai
  • Karpyshyn, Drew – Rule of Two (Star Wars: Darth Bane, Book 2)
  • Kessler, David – The End of Overeating
  • Kimmel, Michael – The Guy’s Guide to Feminism
  • King, Ross – Brunelleschi’s Dome
  • King, Stephen – The Waste Lands (Dark Tower #3)
  • King, Stephen – Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower #4)
  • King, Stephen – Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower #5)
  • King, Stephen – Song of Susannah (Dark Tower #6)
  • King, Stephen – The Dark Tower (Dark Tower #7)
  • King, Stephen – The Wind Through the Keyhole
  • Lacan, Jacques – any
  • Lawson, Jenny – Let’s Pretend this Never Happened
  • Lewis, C.S. – Mere Christianity
  • Lyotard, Jean – Francois – any
  • Macomber, Debbie – Heart of Texas #2 & 3
  • Mansbach, Adam – Go The F**k to Sleep
  • Maupin, Armistead – Tales of the City
  • Mediterranean Diet – any
  • Michener, James – Iberia
  • Mitchell, David – Cloud Atlas
  • Moore, Christopher – any
  • Osho – Meditation for Medication
  • Outlook 2007 – any
  • Pilcher Jeffrey – Que Vivan Los Tamales
  • Pohlman, Susan – Halfway to Each Other
  • Rippentrop, Betsy – Complete Idiot’s Guide to Chakras
  • Ruhlman, Michael – The French Laundry Cookbook
  • Sandoz, Mari – Crazy Horse
  • Showalter, Gena – The Darkest Seduction
  • Thompson, Flora – Lark Rise to Candleford
  • Thompson, Hunter S. – The Rum Diary
  • Zizek, Slavoj – any

New Requests – Kids:
  • Brewer, Heather – Vladimir Todd: 10th Grade Bleeds
  • Buchanan, Andrea – The Daring Book for Girls
  • Campbell, Julie – Trixie Beldon (any)
  • Dr. Seuss – Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
  • Herge – Tintin
  • Paratore, Coleen Murtagh – Cupid Chronicles
  • Smith, Alexandar Gordon – Solitary: Escape from Furnace 2
  • Thaler, Mike – Black Lagoon Chapter Book

New Requests – DVDs:
  • Alice In Wonderland (cartoon)
  • Charlotte’s Webb (cartoon)
  • Drop Dead Fred
  • Far Away
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • A Good Year
  • Grandmas Boy
  • Hancock
  • The Illusionist
  • The Last Emperor
  • Lord of the Flies
  • The Neverending Story
  • The Neverending Story II
  • Pirates of the Caribbean
  • The Princess Bride
  • Real Steel
  • Rudy
  • Shrek 3
  • Star Trek V: Final Frontier
  • The Verdict
  • Wolverine

Grassroots Books seeks:
  • 100+ bankers boxes (or similar size, ongoing basis)
  • Security mirrors
  • Folding tables
  • Liftgate for our truck, able to lift 1500-lb pallet of books


Grassroots Books

Used & New Book Store

660 E. Grove St. Reno

Open 7 days a week:  9am – 8pm

775-828-2665 (828-BOOK)

Wallet-Friendly Prices

Paperbacks $1.99

Hardcovers $2.99

Kids books (up to grade level 6) 99¢

Audiobooks on CD $4.99

DVDs $3.99 or 3 for $9.99

CDs & VHS 99¢

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We pay cash for books, DVDs, DVD box sets, CDs, VHS, vinyl,

and games such as Wii/PS3.

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We can order brand new books at 20% off list price!

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Most new books are 50-90% off list price.

www.grassrootsbooks.com