Bookmans Recommends: Time Travel Books for Leap Day
Because it’s a leap year, this February we get an extra day to read. Leap Day may make time for more reading, but when we try to understand the phenomena of a leap year things get complicated.
TFOB Book Nerd Scenarios and Solutions | Bookmans
Tucson Festival of Books is right around the corner and we are SO EXCITED! Huge authors will be there, awesome book talks will ensue, and Arizona’s spring weather will (most likely) warm festival activities and make being outside all day a true pleasure. As one…
TFOB Book Nerd Scenarios and Solutions | Bookmans
Tucson Festival of Books is right around the corner and we are SO EXCITED! Huge authors will be there, awesome book talks will ensue, and Arizona’s spring weather will (most likely) warm festival activities and make being outside all day a true pleasure. As one…
Remembering Harper Lee
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Harper Lee dies at 89.
Employee Recommends
The brilliant part of loving to read and working in a large used bookstore is that our shelves aren’t limited by current publishing trends and each co-worker appreciates a different genre. When we recommend books to each other and to you, the suggestion isn’t based…
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…
Bookmans Recommends: Light On Life
Eastern Indian astrology has some similarities to western astrology and just as many differences. Jyotish was closed to the west for many years, primarily because to understand Indian astrology one must first understand the religious, psychological and physical spirit of India. In 1980 Robert Svoboda…
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…
Astronomy, Astrology and Linda Goodman
Astronomy and astrology have obvious connections. They both concern the existence and movement of stars and planets outside of Earth. The most important difference between them is how and why people study them. Astronomy is hard science, although ancient. Astronomy connected with astrology until the…
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…
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…
Childrens Books Spark Adult Miscues
Often writers embed tidbits for adults into their books for children. Kids may not understand the subtle adult humor underlying the text and pictures. At least we hope they don’t because often this humor is curiously suggestive. Not that we judge; they do give us…
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,…
Kids Books Say the Darnedest Things
By Dani, Event Liaison at Bookmans Speedway All kinds of unusual items arrive on the trade counter at Bookmans and some of them are kids books. During the book selection process for Bookmans Speedway’s weekly Story Time – Music Hour, I come across many a…
Book Review: Mark Twain’s Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health and Happiness
by Taylor Birkey Guest reviewer Taylor Birkey takes a look at one of today’s most popular subjects–Guy Guides. These are titles aimed, presumably, at making men more manly. We really shouldn’t judge. Any bookstore offers countless titles aimed at women, purportedly to help them be…
Book Review: Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health and Happiness
by Taylor Birkey Guest reviewer Taylor Birkey takes a look at one of today’s most popular subjects–Guy Guides. These are titles aimed, presumably, at making men more manly. We really shouldn’t judge. Any bookstore offers countless titles aimed at women, purportedly to help them be…
Regina’s Best Books of 2015
Bookmans Flagstaff Visual Merchandiser and mega reader, Regina Salmons, shares her fave fiction works of 2015. As a used bookstore, we specialize in what’s “New to You” (or us). Some of these books are not recently published but they still make Regina’s list of Best…
Regina's Best Books of 2015
Bookmans Flagstaff Visual Merchandiser and mega reader, Regina Salmons, shares her fave fiction works of 2015. As a used bookstore, we specialize in what’s “New to You” (or us). Some of these books are not recently published but they still make Regina’s list of Best…