Tucson's greenest food truck has teamed up with Bookmans to satisfy your sweet tooth. Bookmans founder and CEO Bob Oldfather along with Kristel and Dominic Johnson of Isabella's Ice Cream are committed to the electric car movement and to environmentally sound practices. Isabella's Ice Cream, known for their classic 1920s Model T ice cream trucks, can be found parked at Bookmans Grant every night from 5 to 10 p.m. and from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends.

* By guest blogger I Heart Monster

See, we know that a lot of adults read teen fiction (young adult or YA). And we think that even more adults should read YA. The problem is that a lot of our peers snicker and look down their nose at us when we talk about a book we've read that was meant for teens. My grandma gives me the look when she thinks I could be doing something better with my time. My coworkers used to give me the look when I snuck my Meg Cabot book out during my lunch break. My doctors give me the look every time they check out the cover of the book I'm reading when they finally walk into the exam room. Sometimes the look is paired with the eye roll and the insinuation that I'm so immature. Sometimes it's paired with the dismissive smirk. And sometimes it's followed-up with the even more severe you-are-such-an-idiot look. Know the look? Young At ♥ is a book club for you.

It's his birthday! Not a celebration of the day he was born, but rather the day he became part of the Bookmans family. Five lucky years ago, Joe Gonzalez joined our ranks and has greatly contributed to making our electronics department what it is today. He's seen some crazy stuff (mostly caused by him), kept us updated on the strange and unusual and never fails to be a team player. We love our Joe (formerly Joe2) and hope that you've had or will get the pleasure of chatting with him one day in the Donkey Kong corner of our store.

It's June. At Bookmans that means music, oh yeah! The Dusty Buskers are a trio of local music makers making, as a fan put it, "a crowd-pleasin', string-teasin', nipple-squeezin' good time." Old-timey/Celtic Revival and Nontraditional Traditional Music, the Dusty Buskers are made of Uncle Fiddlin' Phoenix (vocals, fiddle, moustache), Dusty Squirrelfisher (vocals, harmonica, guitar, mandolin, sideburns) and Reverend Rudy Cortese (banjo, lightwork). They formed in 2006 and have been going strong ever since. They will grace Bookmans Speedway with their sweet sounds once again at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 16.

Put down your chalk and shine your apples teachers because Fair for Educators is here. The fair is from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19 in the Sunnyside High School gymnasium. This seven year running event has been put on by the Office of the Pima County Superintendent and showcases the resources of over 100 businesses, local organizations and non-profits. The event is open to classroom teachers, administrators, counselors, librarians, para professionals, after school providers and home schoolers and free as long as you register.

Every day when Tavis (T.J.) Maiden wakes up, he eats his bacon, drinks his coffee and draws comics. Not only is T.J. the most awesome Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa and celebrating ten years with us, he is an all-around talented dude. Those amazing web-comics you see pop up in our blogs on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, "The Konamis", yes, those are his. Inspired by every day life experiences as a dad, T.J. also created the humorous web-comic Stranger Danger. When we ask T.J. what his three favorite things were, he finds it difficult to list just three. We did learn that his top three are old-school cartooning, playing music and creativity.

Imagine being a music fanatic and sifting through towers of CDs and vinyl all day long. Or imagine yourself on a mission in a Bookmans and passing the forest that is our music section with hundreds of rows of artists and bands calling your name and screaming "Pick me! Pick me!" It's a rough job and we get to do it.

It's Music Month in these parts so we chased a few of our staff members at Bookmans Phoenix around while they shelved and asked what their summer music lists consist of. Here's what they say:

Celebrating music month with local music makers Finding Solace! "We hope to use our music as a tool to find ourselves, and be at peace with what this world gives us," says the band who aims for honesty in their music. Join us from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 30 at Bookmans Speedway as we welcome Finding Solace!

Influenced by such sounds as Taking Back Sunday, Danger Radio, A Day to Remember and We are the Ocean, Finding Solace has translated their experiences in life through their instruments into a sound all their own. The band is made up of Shay Ramirez on acoustic guitar and Vocals, Haley Roughton on acoustic guitar and vocals and Zac Harris playing bass, synth and piano.

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