Bookmans Grant's Most Requested Fiction of 2015
Our mystery heroes like Patterson, Evanovich, Grisham and Baldacci impressed us with their 2015 titles. Anthony Doerr with All the Light We Cannot See and Nicholas Sparks with See Me crushed it. Young adult fiction continued to bring out of this world reading to the…
What to Do with Unwanted Gifts | Bookmans
As we crawl out from under the menorah tree and begrudgingly start thinking about 2017, let us take a moment to figure out what to do with all those gifts that, although thoughtful and sweet, didn’t hit the mark. Sorry, but someone has to say…
What to Do with Unwanted Gifts | Bookmans
As we crawl out from under the menorah tree and begrudgingly start thinking about 2017, let us take a moment to figure out what to do with all those gifts that, although thoughtful and sweet, didn’t hit the mark. Sorry, but someone has to say…
Last Minute Gifts for Last Minute Giftees
Yipes! Christmas morning is almost here and you still haven’t finished your holiday shopping. You could go to the mall and elbow your way past the department store throngs in hopes of finding a sweater that isn’t too hideous. You could go to the drug…
Meet Community Rockstar Ethan Scher
Reflection and resolutions float like visions of sugarplums in our collective consciousness this time of year. It’s also a time to remember that our neighbors in need have needs all year-long. Arizona has countless movers and shakers who make the world a better place and…
Meet Craft Manager Miss Amy of Amyzing Crafts
If you attended a Bookmans Phoenix event in 2015, you met our lovely and talented Craft Manager Miss Amy. Along with her three children, Charles, Felicianna and Jakob, Amy brings creativity and imagination to life to us each week. Whether the theme is mermaids, outer…
Bookmans Recommends: Vintage Science Fiction
Everyone should experience an out of this world read at least once in their lifetime. Bookmans looks to a past that looked toward the future for the brain bending fun of it. Classic and vintage science fiction offers an entertaining look into the way the…
Freebie Fridays: Honey from Dried Grass by Cook and Rose
***This Freebie Friday Offer Is Complete and We Have a Winner.*** We had so much fun in November with Freebie Fridays, we decided to make it a more general year-around activity. We won’t have giveaways every Friday, but when we do you will benefit. This…
The Care and Feeding of Your Pet Accordion
Only a handful of trained accordion repair persons exist in the United States. Bookmans has two of them on board in our Musical Instrument Repair Shop. You can trust our highly qualified Musical Instrument Repair Department on the care and feeding of your pet accordian….
Gift Guide: Happy Classic Horror-days
Is holiday cheer creeping into the psyche of your classic horror film loving pal? Need something a bit, hmm, visceral? Bookmans offers alt-holiday entertainment with old-fashioned horror to brighten your spirits. Bookmans has a goretastic collection of cult classic horror films. These high-quality, restored films…
Bookmans Recommends: 8 Tales of the Apocalypse
Doomsday Fever has us in its grip. With shows like The Walking Dead and Doomsday Preppers, each with five or more seasons, we can’t get enough. How many times have you overheard friends strategizing about how to survive the zombie apocalypse? Underground bunkers are marketed…
Aleister’s Top 5 Board Books for 2015
As a used bookstore, Bookmans gets to throw away all notions of “new” in favor of “new to us” or just plain “good books”. This is the case for Aleister’s top five board books for 2015. Aleister just turned one, so pretty much everything is…
Aleister's Top 5 Board Books for 2015
As a used bookstore, Bookmans gets to throw away all notions of “new” in favor of “new to us” or just plain “good books”. This is the case for Aleister’s top five board books for 2015. Aleister just turned one, so pretty much everything is…
Gift Guide: Dreaming of a White Witch Christmas
Who’s the Whitest Witch of all? Stevie Nicks of course! Nicks has said on multiple occasions that she is not a witch, but she was so convincing in the Coven season of American Horror Story that we know she has a good sense of humor…
Final Fantasy VII Remake Official Trailer Released
By C’loni Bailey, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa Back in 2005 when the Final Fantasy VII sequel movie, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, was released, rabid Final Fantasy fans begged Square Enix to release a remake of the 1997 Playstation classic. Ten years later, Square…
Bookmans Recommends: The Poetry of Bill Shields
Written by Flavio, Bookmans Ina Customer Service Supervisor I seek literature that burns a hole in the core of my soul to inspire my writing. Anything that gives me that shiver up my spine is worth a read. Through my journey into the world of…
Gift Guide: Headbanging Ideas for Metal Fanatics
When the time comes to buy your favorite metalhead a gift, proceed with caution. You wouldn’t want to insult a headbanger with a Nickleback CD or a book of sheet music for The Sound of Music, although these make great gifts and your heavy metal…
Gift Guide: Song Books for Song Birds and Other Musical Gifts
Bookmans is chock-full of ideal gifts for your friends and family this holiday season. Everything from the rare and first editions for the book fiend, film classics for the Robert Osborne in your life or Goku figurines for your Dragon Ball Z loving little sis can be…
Gift Guide: What to Buy for Baby
It’s probably safe to assume someone you know has had a baby recently. ‘Tis the season to make sure they have their baby essentials covered. Bookmans can make it easier to shop for the perfect baby gifts. Additionally, we have everything a toddler could want….
Teen Fiction for the Young at Heart Reader
No task is more taxing than that of holiday shopping for bookish friends. If that book lover tends toward the John Green-loving, Ransom Riggs-reading, young-at-heart type reader who enjoys the latest in teen fiction, then you’ve got yourself a recipe for frustration. How do you…
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