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Top Ten Reasons to Buy Books from WBW
Word from Weller's
August 2017  
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From Catherine Weller
From Tony Weller
August Events

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Every Tuesday
10-11 am
Bookish breakfast at Coffee Connection in Trolley Square





























Wed, August 9 & 23
6-8 pm
Craft Circle meets every second and fourth Wednesday of every month






























Friday, August 25
6:30-9 pm
Refreshments, conversation, and special deals.
Collectors' Chat at 7:15 with Catherine Weller, who will present her New Book Buyer's perspective on Rare Books.































From Catherine Weller
August is our anniversary month. Weller Book Works was founded in 1929 as Zion's Bookstore by Gustave Weller. Rather than unspool the whole megillah of our origin story, I decided to give you instead a Top Ten list of reasons to buy books - many books - from Weller Book Works. That way our story, the story of WBW and you dear reader, will continue for many years to come.

Top Ten Reasons to Buy Books from Weller Book Works:

10: You really should get out of your house once in a while. People who don't become hermits.

9: Our shelves contain the quirky, the strange, and the funny. At Weller Book Works you'll find books on our shelves that won't be recommended by a knowledge-based system at an online store.

8: Our music is also diverse and surprising. You can groove down the aisles or pretend to sing opera in the religion section.

7: We have books for any budget. Need to spend less than $2.00? We've got books to fit that bill. Looking for a special treasure in the five figure range? We've got those as well.

6: You really like taking pictures in our store and we love to be the back drop for your moments, whether special or fun.
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5: We believe in and protect your right to privacy. We won't share or sell your data for marketing purposes. We won't market to you in ways you have not asked us to. And we protect reader privacy and confidentiality.

4: It will make you feel smart. You'll look smart, too.

3: The Books & Bridges events. Mary Roach. David Sedaris. Bruce Campbell. The Minimalists. Dan Wells. Christopher Husberg. Play readings. Presentations by independently published authors. Lit Knit. Breakfast Club. You get the idea.

2: Our well-read booksellers have a plethora of recommendations of books on a number of topics. They like to talk about their reading too.

1: We need your money. It isn't cheap to operate a bricks and mortar store staffed by living people who pay rent and eat food. We want to keep selling you books for another 88 years but if we are to do that, you have to buy books from us this year.
From Tony Weller 

Jonathan Safran Foer has won praise and reader's affection for his novels, from his 2002 Everything is Illuminated through last year's Here I Am. His writing is marvelous. He made waves with his 2009 food exposé Eating Animals. In 2011 he published Tree of Codes which is unlike his previous books or many books ever made. It was only made in paperback and we understand that there was only one "printer" on earth who was willing to take this job. Foer has a thing about Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jewish writer and artist killed by Nazi during World War II. A collection of his stories was posthumously published under the title Street of Crocodiles. Why am I writing this? Because Schulz's Street of Crocodiles was carefully cut page by page by Foer to create Tree of Codes. Really you need to see this to understand. This is the kind of book that causes dorks like me to make digital book jokes. Ours is a 2nd printing with previous owner's name on first page. $100

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August Events 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 7 PM
Books & Bridges event: Jared Hickman will present on the myth-making of race, religion and slavery from his new book Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atantic Slavery.  Jared Hickman studies and teaches on the nexus of Americanity, modernity, and globality and its attendant utopian and millenarian projects.
 
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 6:30 PM
Novelist and indie theater veteran Randy Ross will discuss his new comedy novel, God Bless Cambodia, and read and perform scenes from the book. The novel is a picaresque comedy about a never-married hypochondriac who takes a trip around the world hoping to change his luck with love. It's an unflinching look at how men feel about sex, love, marriage, and massage parlors.
 
THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 7 PM
When eighteen-year-old William Shakespeare meets twenty-six-year-old Anne Hathaway, he is a frustrated apprentice in his father's leather shop. Though he seems to fall in love with every new girl he meets, and despite his best friend, Hamnet Sadler's advice, Anne's free spirit intrigues him.  Helen Burton is an educator, and author. Shakespeare's True Love is her first novel.
 
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 3 PM
We Olive and Weller Book Works are excited to announce the next round of the Books and Cooks Culinary Competition!  In honor of the summer, our next competition will be GRILLED GOODIES!  Are you the grillmaster on your block? Does summer mean charcoal briquettes and slabs of rib-eye to you? Or maybe you are one of those people who like to grill pineapple and watermelon. Either way, this competition is for you! All grilled foods are eligible! As we do not have grills on site, you will need to bring your grilled treats already prepared, and ready to eat. We will be holding this round of competition on the patio at We Olive . Registration starts at 2:30, with the judging beginning at 3.
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