Have you noticed the quirky displays around the stores? One current favorite at Bookmans Grant is, “Have You RED Any Good Books Lately?” It includes books with covers done in the color red. Bookmans Grant also has a “Survivors” display with post-apocalyptic titles as well…
In some ways, we could have predicted success in the Tucson Weekly’s 2015 Best of Tucson awards. Our stores reflect the communities in which we operate. Tucson is awesome, your bring your awesome stuff to trade and you elevate our cred by hanging out with…
Reviewed by by Robert Fisher, Book Department at Bookmans Grant Zen In the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams has long been a favorite of mine. Hyams’ philosophy is less about technique and more about philosophy, quite a bit of which is useful even if one…
“The belief in evil and the belief that evil can be cast out.” From these two strands of faith, author William Peter Blatty weaves a frightening, explicit and realistic tale of an innocent young girl inhabited by a malevolent entity. The Exorcist endures as a…
Reviewed by Flavio Collins, Cashier Supervisor at Bookmans Ina Most people’s perceptions of Westerns skew in a narrow canyon between John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. Television shows like Bonanza introduce the West as an idyllic place. Yes, yes, we all live in Arizona. We’ve all…
This October marks not only the annual event for mass candy consumption known as Halloween but also the theatrical release of the long awaited Goosebumps. Starring Jack Black as the fictional version of Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine, Goosebumps tells the tale of what would happen…
Whoever said diamonds are a girl’s best friend never had a dog. Never was there ever a more faithful companion than that of a canine. Loving, loyal and able to give the best snuggles known to man, a dog is everyone’s best friend. Henri, short…
Nothing in our wardrobe feels better than our smarty pants. Geeking out is as natural to us as breathing and it makes perfect “science” that our geekery would attract other geeks. Our nonfiction sections have become more popular than ever across every age group. One…
School’s out, summer is here and it’s darn hot out there — but not at your local Bookmans. We love learning new things, we have only one season and it’s called awesome, and we keep the air nice and cool. We have done this long…
When you work at Bookmans you face temptation every minute of the day. The seemingly endless supply of desirable items threatens our ability to purchase only what we can comfortably fit on our shelves. Consequently, we put on blinders when we work the trade counter….
We love things old and new. That’s why we buy, sell, trade things like vinyl and VHS tapes. We fill our shelves with items that can’t be found at your everyday department store. We geek out over limited edition. We swoon at the sight of…
To read or not to read? Such unfairness exists in classic literature. Like Hamlet’s query, this one begs the knowledge of whether the pain of reading a classic is greater than the pain of never having read the classics. The summer prior to my freshman…
No book has caused more controversy since its publication than American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. If you’ve seen the movie, your insides have surely coiled in revolt from Patrick Bateman’s violent and outlandish murders; and the book is only worse. So extreme were a…
Bookmans peeps are known to go gaga for a book or two. After all, books are how we got our start. Before founder Bob Oldfather developed the stores to become the mothership of all things entertainment, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange was just Bookmans, but with an apostrophe…
Bookmans peeps are known to go gaga for a book or two. After all, books are how we got our start. Before founder Bob Oldfather developed the stores to become the mothership of all things entertainment, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange was just Bookmans, but with an apostrophe…
Taking a cue from the fashion mags on our shelves, Bookmans Speedway generated a Dos and Don’ts of Bookmans list. The most important Dos are to express yourself, have fun and love what you love. Getting past the cumbayah crap, let’s look at the other…
Taking a cue from the fashion mags on our shelves, Bookmans Speedway generated a Dos and Don’ts of Bookmans list. The most important Dos are to express yourself, have fun and love what you love. Getting past the cumbayah crap, let’s look at the other…
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…
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….
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…