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February Special
All Month:
20% off
all Romance and Sex books!
Don't miss out on our other specials! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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Share The Love Of Reading With Your Valentine!
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Proclaim your love for that special someone with a dedicated bookshelf or fireplace tile for all to see in the store! And what's sweeter for your sweetheart than an Open Books gift card or membership? Come in today and ask us about these lovely opportunities!
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Can't Get To The Store?
Snowed in? Out of town? Looking for a great read and a great cause? Shop Open Books' more than 8,000 listings on Amazon! The books are different, but the goal is just as great: all your purchases will still go to help support our literacy programs.
www.open-books.org/amazon
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 | Puppet Show Storytime at Open Books!
February 27
1 pm
FREE |
 Lizzy's on Board! Congratulations to the fabulous and vivacious Lizzy, who has now joined us as our Bookstore Coordinator. The next time you're in, make sure to wish her well...and ask her about llamas. She's our resident expert! |
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 Readers Recommend... There's nothing better than discovering a new book from a friend. So share your finds with our community of readers and find out what they're loving!
Next time you're in the store, look for these cards peeking out of the tops of some of our visitors' favorites...and ask for a blank card at the desk so you can leave a recommendation too.
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We shouldn't teach great books;
we should teach a love of reading.
- B.F. Skinner
Dear Open Books Friends,
When you come to the Open Books store, you will often hear us gush about the books we love (in fact, scroll down and you'll see how we're showcasing the books we adore!). We believe wholeheartedly in sharing our love of reading and our experiences with great books, and we hope that by sharing our fondness for all things literary and literacy-related, we're making our store a heartwarming place to shop.
Furthermore, it is the love you've shown us through your purchases and donations that has allowed us to encourage and nurture the love of reading in so many others!
Stop in this month to enhance your reading relationship by finding that next great book or simply by showing your loved ones what the joy of reading can do for others.
Kevin Elliott
Bookstore Manager
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It's time for our semi-annual Open Boxes sale, where we offer more than 10,000 fiction, nonfiction, and children's books at unbelievable prices. The books are cheap, they'll be refreshed constantly through the weekend, and -- most importantly -- your purchases directly support our literacy programs!
Open Boxes Book Sale
Saturday and Sunday
March 5-6
10 am - 3 pm
213 W. Institute
Suite 207
Softcovers $2
Children's Books $2
Hardcovers $3
Box Full Of Books $30
FREE
Want to get first dibs?
Open Books members
get early admission on Saturday from 8-10am!
Not a member yet? Don't fret!
We'll be selling memberships at the door.
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Books We LOVE
Open Books staff, interns, and volunteers have recommended the books they love the very most, all in order to help you find the perfect gift for your loved ones or yourself! You can find these books displayed throughout the store with pink, red, or silver bookmarks in them. Come check them out!
Here are just a few of the books we're enamored with:
Tracey loves Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
David loves The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Natalie loves The Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Jim loves Against the Grain by Richard Manning
Colleen loves My Antonia by Willa Cather
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Out of the Box: Kooky Books
Every day at the Open Books store, we receive hundreds of wonderful books to put on our shelves. All of these books are fantastic, and some are just plain wacky! Most recently, these fabulous titles made their way out of the box and into our hearts:
The People's Almanac Presents: The Book of Predictions
by David Wallechinsky and Amy and Irving Wallace
Published in 1981, it informs us that in 2000, all of the Persian Gulf Countries will run out of oil (this is surely going to happen soon!) and that in 2010, solar satellites will cancel out the day/night cycle, and communities will regulate their own sun flow. Wow!
Mind Control
by Melvin Berger
Have you given any thought to mind control methodologies? If you're interested in cult conversion, hypnosis, prefrontal lobotomies, brainwashing, and/or electric shock treatment, well then, you're out of your mind.
Stay tuned and visit our blog for more Out of the Box fun!
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Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that operates an extraordinary bookstore, provides community programs, and mobilizes passionate volunteers to promote literacy in Chicago and beyond. We enhance lives through reading, writing, and the STORED-UP power of used books.
Our award-winining bookstore, which holds over 50,000 donated books for sale to help support our programs, is conveniently located at
213 W. Institute Pl. in River North,
1 block north of the Chicago/Franklin Brown/Purple stop,
and is open Monday - Saturday from 10am - 7pm
and Sunday from 12noon - 6pm.
Learn more about it at
http://www.open-books.org/store !
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