After 4 years on Main Street, we have moved! Our new home is located at 611-A South Washington, in the former Lavender House B&B. Our neighbors are The Nest Restaurant and Aunt Violet's Morning Glory B&B. South Washington intersects East Main Street at the Nimitz Museum, just up the street from the old store. Farther south, Washington turns into Hwy 87 South to San Antonio.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Newsletter
Rather Sweet
October 15th,
4:00 to 7:00
Rebecca
Rather will be here signing her fabulous new cookbook, Pastry Queen Parties: Entertaining Friends and Family, Texas Style. WE will
be THE first store to have her signing her new book! If you can’t make it to
the signing, Rebecca can sign one (or a bunch) and we will hold it for you, or
ship it to you. Pre-order by calling us at (830) 997-1535 or e-mail info@berkmanbooks.com.
Ummmm, can’t wait.
Book Marketing
Workshop
October 22nd,
6:30 – 8:00
Local
author and expert book seller George Arnold will be here for a workshop for
writers who want to be published and published authors who want to sell more of
their books.Seating is limited to 15
and there is a $30.00 registration fee.George’s book BestSeller:
Must-Read Author’s Guide to Successfully Selling Your Books is
included.Call the store to register
(997-1535) or e-mail info@berkmanbooks.com
Wine
and Cheese Night
The next
one will be November 5th, 7:00 - 9:00
Special Orders Are
Baaaaack!
We will
finally be able to order those books you want. We will place orders every
Tuesday and they should arrive every Friday. That means the cut off for taking
orders will be Monday at noon to get your book by that Friday. Of course, we
will work with you if there are special circumstances.
Generally Hangin’
In
We cannot
thank you enough for hanging in there with us during this crummy economic
episode. Rumors of recovery keep whistling by and we keep reaching for them.
Let’s hope the talking heads (newscasters and politicians) know what they are
talking about. We hope the best for everyone; it has been tight for all. Our
recovery would mean a return to our former self with new releases, full shelves
and the happy register ding. What's that bumper sticker? 'Visualize Book Mania'?
Remember
the Frequent Buyer program, too. For every $100.00 you spend, you get a $15.00
Gift Certificate. If you have not been in for a while, come back and see us,
soon! Let’s hang in together.
New Arrivals
Hope Dies Last by Studs Terkel signed, 2003
Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. We have a
stack of 1920’s and ‘30s, some first editions, too many to list on the
newsletter. I’ll send you a list of titles if you are interested, or go to the
blog to see the stack.
Forgive My Grief - A Critical Review
of the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President John F.
Kennedy by Penn
Jones Jr., vol 1,,signes first ed., 1966
Hope Dies Last by Studs Terkel, signed, 2003
Diary of a Writer by Dovstoievsky, 2 vols., 1949
Fabre’s Book of Insects by Mrs. Rodolf Stawell, illustrated
by E. J. Detmold, revised ed., 1935
Alfred Striglitz Photographs and
Writings by Sarah
Greenaugh and Juan Hamilton, first ed., 1983
Ireland by Ludwig Bieler, first ed., 1963
The Iliad of Homer translated by Richard Lattimore,
first ed., 1962
Nothing Fancy by Diana Kennedy, 2 vols., 1949
The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, first ed., 1979
The Glorious Nosebleed by Edward Gorey, signed second
printing, 1974
“I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!”
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