Spotlight On Sound at Bookmans Mesa
What first comes to mind when you think of the Mesa/Tempe area? Tempe Town Lake? Are we a university town or known for our art fairs? Did live music pop into your head? Well, it should! Tempe has a long history as a musical hub,…
Book Review: The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
A spiritual journey is assumed to be large undertaking, possibly involving a shaved head and extended periods of silent meditation. In his 1982 book The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff explains to the contrary that a spiritual path can be traveled even in our most…
Ticket Tuesdays — Arizona Renaissance Festival
Hear ye, hear ye, gallant knights and fair maidens! Pirates and peasants converge on the magical anachronism of Arizona Renaissance Festival and Artisan Marketplace. Full of whimsical and delightful surprises, it’s an experience that can’t be matched in this century. The Arizona Renaissance Festival is…
Arts and Crafts Open the Imagination
Spring in Arizona is perfect for getting out of the house to find artistic inspiration! Awaken your budding artist with Bookmans this March. Each store hosts crafty events and creative activities, sure to enliven your springtime. From local artist fairs to fairytale Cinderella celebrations, our event…
Seeking Focus Group Participants
We want to hear from you. Bookmans Entertainment Exchange seeks customers for a focus group about our stores. You love Bookmans, or maybe you don’t. Time to tell us why. Please complete the form below to apply for our Focus Group. Participants will be compensated…
6 Reasons We Love to Read
By now it’s well known we celebrate Love of Reading month. We made lists of our top selling, best loved and “wish you’d read it” books. Beyond recommended reading lists, the fundamental reason why we love to read hasn’t yet been addressed. Sure, the fact…
Pokémon for All with Zoe Bossiere
A staple of the Bookmans Grant community is our Pokémon MeetUp. Every Sunday for the past two years, people gather in our community room to battle and discuss everything Pokémon related. Anyone walking by the meeting room knows that it is still going strong. The…
Rare Handy Mandy Available
Bookmans Speedway debuted a special rare book collection during Love of Reading month that took us all back to our childhood. The collection of children’s books by Ruth Plumly Thompson with illustrations by Jno R. Neill is founded on and continues the famous Oz stories…
Bookmans Recommends: Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
Whether it is a picture book featuring a caboose named Katie or spooky chapter books ala R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series, everyone has a story that introduced us to the thousand lives lived in the worlds of books. It may not be our favorite novel now….
Explore Arizona in Books
Bookmans has many and varied loves with the deepest of soft spots for Arizona and all its troubles and trappings. We are a complex state geographically, politically and socially. We can’t think of a better way to embrace Love of Reading month than to explore…
Book Review: Skeleton Crew by Deborah Halber
Reviewed by Darcy Short As Deborah Halber points out in her new book The Skeleton Crew, America has a shocking number of unidentified human remains sitting in storage in morgues. It is difficult for police to connect bodies to identities when clothes and wallets have…
Top 10 Books We Wish Customers Would Request
The country may be focused on Love of Reading this month, but for Bookmans peeps it’s ALWAYS Love of Reading time. We recently posted our customers’ most requested titles, all of which are excellent requests. Working among books all day, every day, we are entrenched…
Megan’s Love of Reading Book Recommendations
By Megan Maiden, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa By some act of voodoo and happenstance, I managed to read several books for Love of Reading month. Being a mom to two kids and several animals, I don’t know how this happened! I won’t question the…
Megan's Love of Reading Book Recommendations
By Megan Maiden, Assistant Manager at Bookmans Mesa By some act of voodoo and happenstance, I managed to read several books for Love of Reading month. Being a mom to two kids and several animals, I don’t know how this happened! I won’t question the…
Ticket Tuesdays — Zap Mama and Antibalas
**CONTEST CLOSED**Collaborating for the first time on tour, Marie Daulne’s international polyphonic vocal group Zap Mama and America’s premier Afrobeat band Antibalas come together to create a melange of contemporary Afro music. This epic concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 24 in…
Ticket Tuesdays — Rock Bottom Remainders
***CONTEST CLOSED*** We purchased an extra set of tickets to the Tucson Festival of Books’ Rock Bottom Remainders Concert – A benefit for literacy and are passing them along to a Bookmans.com reader. You do not want to miss this group of award-winning authors who…
Global Divestment Day
The 13th of February typically means buying candy hearts and preparing declarations of love and devotion for that special someone in your life. While we enjoy seeing blissful couples come together to show their appreciation for one another, February 13 also marks a different kind…
#28DaysofBlackCosplay
By C’loni Bailey, EEC Manager for Bookmans Mesa In recognition of Black History month, #28DaysofBlackCosplay is trending in the Twitterverse as well as on Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram. We immensely enjoy seeing pictures of everyone’s favorite Black cosplayers each day. Initiated by prolific cosplayer Chaka…
10 Ways to Get Your Children Reading
Reading readiness is one of the most valuable parts of a child’s development. With the influx of electronic attention grabbers this isn’t as easy a process as it may have once been. Whether your children are beginning their reading journey or they’ve already launched, your…
Bookmans Top 10 Best Sellers
To help customers celebrate their love of reading, we polled our employees to create a list of Bookmans Top 10 Best Sellers for this year. These books have already made a big impact in 2015 or continue to ride their best-selling tide. These books are…
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