All books at our Warehouse Clearance Sale Store are $0.99/lb.
Store closing June 15! The sale store will close on Father's Day, June 15. Prices may be reduced further in the last few days, so be sure to stop by for cheaper books than you will probably find anywhere anytime. Only at our warehouse clearance sale at 248 Clement.
Note: the annex and main store ARE NOT CLOSING.
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Philosophy Grows
Now that it's getting to be summer, many folks' thoughts turn towards hosting a backyard BBQ, cheering on the home nine at the ball yard, or working on that tan at Baker Beach; but if you're like us at Green Apple Books, summer is also the perfect time to examine humanity's role in the universe. And with our recently expanded philosophy section, there is no better place to placate existential angst than within Green Apple's walls!
That's right, sophists, Green Apple has created a philosophical inner sanctum in our Granny Smith Room, doubling our already extensive inventory of new philosophy titles. And thanks to the acquisition of a private library or two, our used philosophy section has increased by a full third. And we're not talking about highlighted paperbacks of Ecco Homo either, but rather many scarce works in hardcover (think 1st editions) by all the heavyweights: Wittgenstein, Hegel, Russell, Mandeville, etc. housed within their own custom-made rare book case. Plus, we've even added a comfy chair to sit in while you contemplate the fate of the masses.
Collections like this don't last long, so it would certainly be the smart move to come on by and check us out. With thousands of books processed daily, you just never know what you'll find on the used bookshelves at Green Apple.
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We have so many good new books right now it's amazing. It feels like a perfect storm of fresh arrivals in fiction and non-fiction, newly released in paperback and hardcover. We feel downright book-rich right now.
Aside from that, we are receiving fantastic fresh sale books from a recent buying trip, our Book of the Month is guaranteed to please, and we have two fun, saucy author events coming this month. Oh, and we've expanded our new and used philosophy sections a great deal, including some collectible tomes.
And after selling off over 100,000+ used books from our temporary warehouse clearance sale, we have about 20,000 left, which we're offering for $.99/pound. Yes, Books by the Pound. The prices can't be beat, and there are some good titles still left there. The sale store will close on or by June 15, so it's your last chance to stock up on cheap books. The annex and main store will remain open (with your continued support).
Thanks for reading and for all your support.
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New Book Releases!
Once again, the approach of summer brings riches galore to our display tables. With books by people named Rushdie, Vonnegut, Erdrich, Sedaris, Canin, Murakami, Saramago, Proulx, Palahniuk, Chabon, and so on, either recently shipped or coming very soon, there will be no shortage of great reads to take to Baker Beach if the sun happens to break through some weekend. And some of our Books of the Month are now in paper, like Out Stealing Horses and The Savage Detectives. But as usual, we have chosen a handful of books to feature that might otherwise get lost in the shadows of the aforementioned literary titans. HERE they are. This month's featured books include: a new novel set in SF's Chinatown; a book on why half the world is malnourished and the other half is obese; a book of wacky tattoos; a step-by-step guide to becoming an a%&hole; a cute Charley Harper book; a surf novel of merit; and a book celebrating the Giants' 50 years in San Francisco. Click here to see more about each book. |
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Fresh sale books
 We're constantly receiving new shipments of remainders: as-new books that cost even less than used copies! Here are a few new arrivals to tempt you into the store: one of our favorite novels of the last five years: Old School by Tobias Wolff; a three-volume gift edition of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, two Curious George collections in hardcover for only $4.98 each; a classy fold-out atlas of human anatomy; David Mitchell's accessible recent novel; and a funny book on trying to read an entire encyclopedia. See them all HERE. |
Book of the month!
On an almost monthly basis, we present to you a brand-new book that we're excited about. Really excited about. Here's our fifth of 2008, David Benioff's new novel City of Thieves. KPR explains:
"The novel starts with the construct of his investigations into his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad: how his then-17-year-old grandfather had come to kill two German soldiers with nothing but a knife, and what had led to the disappearance of his left index finger. The story that ensues is the literary beach read of the summer: the story of Lev Beniov, orphaned in the besieged city, and Kolya, Red Army deserter. Lev, the surly teenager fixated on his own virginity, and Kolya, the garrulous lady's man and lover of life (and one of the best fictional characters I've met in years). I don't even want to tell you what the MacGuffin is that sends them on their unlikely journey through and eventually out of the city, so brilliant and simple it is. But once they pair up, they face the horrors of a city where people have taken to eating the glue out of library books in their desperation for food, where bombs fall nightly, among many other horrors. Benioff makes this story funny, as well as horrifying, and heartbreaking, and at times almost unbearably tense." --KPR Signed copies available while they last.We guarantee this book 100%. You can buy it in the store or online ( HERE). |
Author Event #1: Alan Black/Kick the Balls
 Green Apple and the Edinburgh Castle team up again to celebrate the publication of Kick the Balls, a hilarious memoir of soccer, parenting, and Scotland. Perhaps these blurbs will tempt you to come lift a pint and enjoy a few laughs on Saturday night, June 21. "Alan
Black makes me laugh in a way no one else can. He's so brutally funny
that I worry a little. I think, 'Someone's feelings might be getting
hurt here,' but really I don't give a shit because I am laughing so
hard. Nothing gets by him, and that's a scary thought."--BETH LISICK, author of Helping Me Help Myself & Everybody into the Pool.
"You
might think you've heard the usual criticisms of modern parenting and
what kids are like because of it. You might occasionally long for the
good ole' days when kids played games without a parent there to cheer
and console. But not until you read Alan Black's savagely hilarious
Kick the Balls does it all come clear - not just how strange a time we
live in today, but how strange it was back then, too." --PO BRONSON, author of What Should I Do With My Life
Details: Alan Black reads from Kick the Balls: Saturday, June 21 at 8:00 p.m. at the Edinburgh Castle (a fine pub at 950 Geary @ Polk). |
Author Event #2:
Paul Neilan/Apathy
We have sold so many copies of this hilarious and twisted book that I almost feel like I don't need to tell you about it at all. ( Click here to read Nick's shelf-talker on this book if you're not already familiar with it). We're hosting the author at a bar on our block to celebrate his one-year anniversary of moving to San Francisco and the fact that we've sold over 350 copies of this book (paperback & hardcover combined). Really, it's a chance to meet this funny author, hear a little bit of the twisted comedy in Apathy, and drink a beer. Please join us. DETAILS: Paul Neilan. Thursday, June 26, 8:00 p.m. at the 540 Club, a fine watering hole just a few doors west of our music and fiction annex |
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