Earn Bookmans Credit with the Free Metropia App
Metropia, Inc. has teamed up with Bookmans to reward commuters for driving a better city with the Metropia app, for single trips and casual carpooling. Ok, that needs some explaining. Picture this: the weekend is finally here and you’ve got your handy to-do list of…
Bookmans Attends Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival
Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival (FMFF) kicked off this past week and Bookmans attended the party. Highlighting nonfiction films, The Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival offers a “cultural alternative to the mainstream commercial film experience and to celebrate, promote, nurture and teach non-fiction filmmaking.” A 4-day event…
Radical Children’s Books
Children’s picture books offer much to love: beautiful illustrations, magical beings and tales of adventure and friendship. These books warm our hearts and fuel our imaginations but a growing body of books for young readers expose their minds to radical ideas. We’ve had our first…
Radical Children's Books
Children’s picture books offer much to love: beautiful illustrations, magical beings and tales of adventure and friendship. These books warm our hearts and fuel our imaginations but a growing body of books for young readers expose their minds to radical ideas. We’ve had our first…
Freebie Fridays: Fall Out Boy
**CONTEST CLOSED**Pop punk rockers unite! This Valentine’s Day weekend, forget flowers and candy. Win a pair of tickets to attend a killer line up of alt-rock heroes. Fall Out Boy comes to Phoenix with Awolnation and PVRIS, a must-see show. This epic concert takes place…
Bookmans Recommends: Yo-Kai Watch
By Alex Dittrich, Bookmans Grant Electronics Department The Yo-Kai Watch franchise is fresh to America’s shores from Japan. Some people regard it as kinda like Pokémon, but it’s far from it. In the game, protagonists Nate and Katie (Keita and Fumika in the Japanese version),…
Magic Tree House Books Hit the Big Screen
If you are in your thirties or younger, chances are you have memories of the one of the most cherished and recognizable children’s book series world-wide, the “Magic Tree House” books. Fans of the series will soon transport like Jack and Annie from the pages to…
Bookmans Recommends: Five Creatively Romantic Albums
February is known for Love of Reading, Mardi Gras, winter weather, African American history, St. Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day. It’s also Creative Romance Month. We recommend engaging with what you love–be it books, sweethearts or, as we suggest today, romantic albums. The weather may…
Behind The Trade Counter: Hello Amy!
Meet Amy Crandell! Amy is the Book Department Supervisor at Bookmans Phoenix. Her sparkling personality, kind attitude and dedicated work ethic continue to inspire the Bookmans team. Amy started as a cashier in 2012 and quickly moved into the Books Department. A book lover with…
Let’s Celebrate Our Love of Reading
Calling all literary cupids! We understand the late night inability to put that novel down, the struggle to find eyeglasses on a nightstand piled high with non-fiction gems and the classic dilemma of reading entire bookshelves and still jonesin’ for more. If these profiles sound…
Let's Celebrate Our Love of Reading
Calling all literary cupids! We understand the late night inability to put that novel down, the struggle to find eyeglasses on a nightstand piled high with non-fiction gems and the classic dilemma of reading entire bookshelves and still jonesin’ for more. If these profiles sound…
Freebie Friday: Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival VIP Passes
As part of a community-wide celebration of the environment, outdoors and film, Bookmans sponsors the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival taking place February 11 through the 14. We are excited just to attend the event. Showing our support through sponsorship is icing! The Flagstaff Mountain Film…
Movie Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
By Kaitlin Hooker Set to release on February 5, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies creates a compelling, female-empowered twist on the classic love story by Jane Austen. Star Lily James of Downton Abbey and Cinderella portrays our heroine, trained both in Chinese martial arts and traditional English…
ESP Giveaway Winner
By Kaitlin Hooker, Bookmans Editorial Assistant Intern and UofA Student Geek power triumphed in our ESP Lemon Drop Guitar Giveaway! A guitar player since age 13, Sam Garner says he emitted a fanboy squeal when he learned he is our ESP Giveaway winner. “I knew…
Ticket Tuesdays — Brew Bowl
***CONTEST CLOSED*** This contest has ended but tickets may still be available. Ticket information included at end of post. Bedroxx Bowling gears up for Brew Bowl, an interactive craft beer sampling event, at noon this Sunday, January 31. The event, hosted by Dogfish Head Craft…
Remembering Alan Rickman
The news on British actor and director Alan Rickman‘s passing from cancer at age 69 left me devastated. It’s strange how even if you never met, a person can still occupy a personal place in your heart. It is beyond saddening to ponder the thought…
One Teeny Critique about The Force Awakens
By Caity, Event Liaison at Bookmans Flagstaff (Take it up with her.) Okay. Deep breath. Maybe enough time has passed that everyone who cares has seen the latest chapter in Star Wars universe? In case you are one of the 10 people who have not witnessed…
Bookmans Recommends: Five Bookish Podcasts and One More
You’d think that we get enough book chat over our trade counter, but we can talk books 24 hours a day. Sometimes, when we have no one to talk about books with, we have to make do with the next best thing–bookish podcasts. All the…
Ticket Tuesdays — The Dillinger Speakeasy
***CONTEST CLOSED*** Notorious Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger lives large at 7 p.m. on Friday, January 22 at the annual Dillinger Speakeasy. The event, held at historic Hotel Congress where Dillinger was first captured, includes whiskey tastings, burlesque performances, cigar samplings and live entertainment to envy the 1920s….
Most Anticipated Everything of 2016
Plans and projections for 2016 are filled to the brim with movies, music, video games and books we can’t wait to get our hands on. From the Zoolander sequel to Assassins Creed, from the LCD Soundsystem reunion to Legend of Zelda for the Wii U,…
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