Green Apple's April newsletter

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April 2008
In This Issue
$2.98 or less sale!
New Book Releases
Fresh Sale Books
Event #1: Bob Calhoun
Event #2: Noir at the Bar
Book of the Month
Our Warehouse Clearance Sale must end soon: all used books there are now $2.98 or less

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We're nearing the end of our Warehouse Clearance Sale.  So to quickly sell off the last 30,000 books, we've made all used books just $2.98 or less.

We are still adding fresh books daily, too, so the store is doubtlessly different from your last visit.

All used hardcovers: $2.98

All used paperbacks: $1.49

And discounts will increase quickly and frequently, so check back often for even better deals!

Fresh books.  Basement Prices.  Only at our warehouse clearance sale at
248 Clement. 

Note: the annex and main store ARE NOT CLOSING

  Please call us if we can help you with anything, and help spread the word about Green Apple by forwarding this to any friends who may enjoy it.  Thanks again for reading.
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Greetings!

I've probably said this before, but our Warehouse Clearance Sale Store is really nearing its end (the main store and annex are NOT closing!). Starting this Friday (April 18), at our Sale Store only, all used books will be $2.98 or less: all hardcovers (even art books!) will be $2.98, and all paperbacks will be $1.49.  Other items will be marked down as well, like CDs, audio books, novelties, and more. 

If you haven't checked out the clearance sale store (just two blocks from our main store) in a while, we urge you to give it another look.  We are still putting out fresh used books, so the selection has evolved greatly over the last few months.  And the store is much better organized than it was even a few months ago, so it's easier to focus on your areas of interest.  And at these prices, how can any book-lover not at least drop by for a browse before they're all gone?

If you're not in the mood for bargain hunting, we'll tempt you herein with some interesting new book releases.  We also present our Book of the Month, a book that we so passionately love that we guarantee it 100%: if you don't like it, we'll give you your money back.  And we also present a few newly arrived selections on our remainder tables.

Plus, we have two fabulous author events in the next few weeks to note.  And we have a few signed copies of Jhumpa Lahiri's new short story collection Unaccustomed Earth (first-come/first-served, in-store only).

Thanks for reading and for all your support.

New Book Releases
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Each month, we tell you about a handful of interesting new book releases.  HERE are a few of the most promising: a steamy new novel about Southern debs, a book on synesthesia, a memoir of Chinese food, an account by a man who swam the entire Amazon (candirus and all!), a baseball novel, and a WWII novel.  See more about these books HERE.

 
Fresh sale books!
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Is this economy pinching your wallet, too?  Here are some newly arrived bargain books of high quality and low price.  Remainders are Green Apple's best deals (aside from the freakishly cheap Warehouse Clearance Sale store, of course): as-new books at prices even cheaper than used books. 

Recent arrivals include: two non-fiction bestsellers by Malcolm Gladwell, two Olivia books for kids, a modern-day Of Mice and Men, a Michael Chabon novel, tales of dishwashing, and Babar's guide to art.  See them all HERE.
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Author Event #1:
Bob Calhoun

This Saturday, April 19, we're co-hosting author Bob Calhoun at the Endinburgh Castle.  His book--Beer, Blood, and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling--is just wacky good fun. 

Incredibly Strange Wrestling was the bastard offspring of post-punk garage rock and masked Mexican lucha libre. Fielding a cast of crazed characters with names like El Homo Loco, Macho Sasquatcho and El Pollo Diablo, the show lived up to its name. Christians fought lions, Ku Klux Klowns squared off against Hasidic Jews and Bigfoots and bears mauled hapless hippies in some of the most surreal grappling bouts ever staged. And if that wasn't enough, cult bands such as NOFX, The Dickies and The Donnas provided the raucous rock and roll in between the highflying mayhem.

ISW emerged from the back alleys and seedy clubs of San Francisco's South of Market scene to headline the historic Fillmore and barnstorm North America on the Van's Warped Tour. At the height of its popularity, Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong and Metallica's James Hetfield could be seen tossing tortillas (which the promoters supplied) at ringside with the rest of the hell heads, boozehounds and tattooed party girls that made up ISW's rabid following.

Bob Calhoun broke into ISW as an untrained grappler and rose through the ranks to become one of the creative forces behind the subversive carnival. In his new memoir, Beer, Blood & Cornmeal, Calhoun delves into the ISW's organized insanity with all of the dark humor that it deserves. It's a story of urban misfits risking their necks for local celebrity in one of America's most famous cities all told against the backdrop of the dot com boom and bust and an increasingly corporate entertainment industry.

Beer, Blood & Cornmeal takes the highest tier of the music industry and sends it on a collision course with the lowest rung of the professional wrestling ladder. The threat of real violence is always lurking at the fringes of the fake fights as shows end in riots and wrestlers disturbingly become their squared circle alter egos.

Details: Saturday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Edinburgh Castle (a fine pub at 950 Geary St.at Polk)

Author Event #2: Noir at the Bar

resurrectionistGreen Apple and the 540 Club team up again for another round of 'Noir at the Bar' on Tuesday, April 29, when we welcome Jack O'Connell, author of the sensational new novel, The Resurrectionist

Drawing comparisons to such literary heavy-weights as Pynchon, Joyce, Kafka and Hammett, The Resurrectionist made James Ellroy exclaim, "...a brilliantly tuned, mesmerizing labyrinth as only a master artist could draw it - (it) will jazz you, floor you, grab you, shake you, and leave you hung out to dry."  Zoinks!!!

So come on down to the 540 Club (just a few doors down from Green Apple at 540 Clement Street), raise a glass to a wonderful talent, and help celebrate his dazzling new novel.  Grab a copy, have it signed, and then taunt your friends that couldn't make it!

Details: Tuesday, April 29 from 6:30-8:00PM at
The 540 Club (540 Clement between 6th and 7th Aves.)
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Book of the month!

On an almost regular basis, we present to you a brand-new book that we're excited about. Really excited about.  Here's our third of 2008, Siri Hustvedt's lovely new novel The Sorrows of an American.  Nick explains:

"When I was a third of the way through my advance copy of The Sorrows of an American, I misplaced it. It was a couple of weeks later and parts of the book had been playing through my mind when I finally found my copy. It is strange to say, but relief is the only word to describe the feeling that came over me. Siri Hustvedt (Paul Auster's wife) has created a wonderfully touching novel laced with her father's journal writings. This is an effortless and beautiful novel about family and memory, about love, loss, and pain."--NPB

We guarantee this book 100% (and discount it 20% to further entice you to trust us).  You can buy it in the store or online (HERE).