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
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
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