Welcome to
The Book Worm
    


VISIT US AT:
4451 Marietta St
Powder Springs, GA 30127
(770) 439-2029

Monday - Saturday - 10:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday - Closed

E-mail us:  shopthebookworm@aol.com

Please take a glance at the calendar below for all the great daily specials!
 
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Lots of news in Book Worm Land!

Please take a careful look at the calendar this month as we are making lots of changes in order to make The Book Worm an even better place to shop! We actually will be closing for a few days while we install a new way of checking out, storing your customer trade in credit & having a new inventory system.  We are having a PRE-inventory sale that will help us make our transition go easier and if you are not on our mailing list, you want to be now because Book Worm members get extra savings so go to the bottom of the page to save even more each month!

Good News for Powder Springs, we are bringing back the Farmer's Market and it will be at a time that may work much better for everyone. Starting Thursday, May 15th and each Thursday thereafter throughout the summer, we will having a Farmer's Market downtown and will be staying open late as well. The time will be 4:00pm to 8:00pm and there will be a good selection of local growers, fresh produce and baked goods, plants and more! We hope to be having live entertainment and also a sampling of food possibly so please stop by and visit all the town merchants and check out the locals!

Speaking of locals, we are having another book signing of a metro Atlanta author who is premiering his new book!
Come in and have your First Edition signed for this new novel from 4pm-8pm on May 15th!

SHOP LOCAL at your independent stores in YOUR local town. Keep your money where your house in. Downtown Powder Springs hosts a nice selection of shops: Don't forget to use your local Florist, Buy LOCAL art from 7 different LOCAL artists at our Bookstore. Also you can find local art gallery owner Ann Cockerill, know for her Smrya Covered Bridge painting, at The Powder Springs Flower & Gift shop. Trade in your gently used women's and children's clothes and get great savings at Hand Me Ups consignment shop. Visit  our two adorable shops to find great antiques and reproduction home furnishing and other great finds at The Country Store of Seven Springs and Re-find. Ready for a great tea experience? Try the Tea Room of Seven Springs for a delightful lunch with friends and loved ones when you have time to relax and don't forget to wander through their giftshop as well!  Ginny Lou's Creations is a great stop to round out your day to purchase a nice gift or make your own at their ceramic shop. With hair salons, dentists, attorneys, wedding shops, accountants and massage therapy offices all in a few block area, why go anywhere else?

New books everywhere in the store. Stop by and see what's new.
Check out the calendar for awesome savings and the sale everyone has been waiting for and asking for!
If you have signed up to be on our email list, you will receive a special offer from us in your email soon!


We still are on a book diet but are now taking in fiction and children's books, just on a smaller scale.

Your non-fiction books in the following sections are  welcome:
Music, Entertainment, Gardening, Religion, History, Arts, Crafts and Do-it-Yourself, Cookbooks, True Crime,
CURRENT Travel (2006 and newer), Automotive and some Sports, Health & Fitness and New Age Books.
DVD's and CD's still welcome also.


Please be patient with us while we continue to make some changes to the building and restructure the store to make it easier to shop.  Your patronage & support is much  appreciated.



Book signings

Thursday May 15th, 4pm - 8pm

We bring you Karl Lenker with his debut novel: Final Trumpet!
For a preview go to TaleWindsPress.com
Check out the poster here

Karl writes about things that matter – things that are relevant in today’s world.
His novels have depth and emotion – pathos, the Greeks called it.

The centerpiece of Final Trumpet is the magnificent African elephant, their lives, their world
and their struggle to survive mankind’s greed and arrogance.

GENRE
Final Trumpet is an ACTION-ADVENTURE novel with all the intricate plotting of a Clive Cussler or James Patterson book. It's a TECHNO-THRILLER with all the simplified technical description of your favorite Tom Clancy novel. Plus, women will enjoy the unlikely, unconventional and risky ROMANCE which develops.

INFORMATIVE / ENLIGHTENING
The best works of fiction teach readers something new without imitating textbooks.
By the time readers reach the epilogue, they will have learned a great deal about elephants, A-10s, snipers, the CIA and its TOP SECRET satellite imagery program, east Africa, U.S. military air operations, helicopters and aviation in general.



Book Club Update


The Book Club is returning  on June 10th and we will be reading Richard Russo's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Empire Falls. The meeting will be at the bookstore at 7pm.  Please email or call to reserve your spot.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America’s most compelling and compassionate storytellers.

Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it’s Janine, Miles’ soon-to-be ex-wife, who’s taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it’s the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town–and seems to believe that “everything” includes Miles himself. In Empire Falls Richard Russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace.

About the Author

Richard Russo lives in coastal Maine with his wife and their two daughters. He has written five novels: Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody’s Fool, Straight Man and Empire Falls, and a collection of short stories, The Whore's Child




Local Artists Welcome at The Book Worm!

Throughout the year we have local talent stop by with their books, cds, artwork, handmade items etc.
Please support them by " buying local" so check them out in the store as well as visiting their websites.
If you know a talented artist, musician, or author, please refer them to our store to see if there is a spot for them.

Here are a few locals below:

Rhonda Walton - www.rhondawaltonfolkart.com
Laura Weiss - www.soundsweiss.com
Diane Z Shore - www.dianezshore.com
Lauretta Hammond - www.thecrackerqueen.com
Michael Cowl Gordon - www.georgiacat.com
Nicholas Alan - www.nicholasalan.com
Del Baroni - www.delbaroni.com
Brandon D - www.myspace.com/artofbrandond
Raven Hart - www.ravenhartbooks.com


www.nicholasalan.com
www.delbaroni.com

4:45pm
Big Raffle drawing

Any changes will be noted on our  website for authors and times!

We have so many activities going on downtown this month. Please stop in for a community flyer of our upcoming events!


We enjoyed the movie in the parking lot on Powder Springs Day  when "They Went That-a-way and That-a-away" starring Tim Conway was shown. It was filmed right here in front of the store on Marietta Street over 25 years ago. We did sell out of the movies we had on hand but have some more on the way. Reserve your copy with a phone call or email.

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Fall Family Night on October 21st, it was a great success! 
Check out some photos from the event:





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Store Policies

 OUR BOOKS are arranged according to fiction category or non-fiction subject matter. All fiction is filed alphabetically by the authors last name within each category. All merchandise is 50% of the cover price UNLESS  it is marked otherwise.

         WE ACCEPT most  paperback and hardback books, college and home schooling text books, study guides, work books if they are deemed sellable, videos & DVDs in original boxes unless it was a rental copy,  and, CDs if they have no scratches and are in a unbroken jewel case with original artwork.

          WE DO NOT ACCEPT comic books, Readers Digest condensed fiction,  USED study guides, work books, lab manuals, ADULT books or videos, previously-issued school  texts, computer software, video games, magazines and journals, incomplete book sets, older Harlequin or Harlequin Presents,  books in poor condition or any item we believe we cannot sell. 

          TRADING: Store credit is issued for items you wish to trade with us.  These slips are kept on file in the store and have NO expiration date.  Once you accept the credit slip for your merchandise that credit cannot be changed and merchandise becomes store property. If your credit exceeds the amount of your purchase it will stay on file with us for future purchases, no cash will be given as change.

   YOU MAY use your store credit for any item in the store with the exception comic books and items marked "SP" or "Special Purchase" .
       
LIMITS on incoming items: If you bring in more than we can process at the incoming desk in a reasonable  amount of time, we will ask you to leave them as a  large order and pick up later in the day or the next day.  

       SELLING: You may be able to get  store credit for the items that meet our resale guidelines or a smaller percentage in cash.  The trade  percentages are a percentage of our intended selling price for each item. You can generally expect up to 35% of the selling price for most items and cash value, when offered, is up to 25% of that credit. We buy until one hour before close each night.
The amount we offer for merchandise, in cash or credit, is NOT  negotiable. Prices and policies are subject to change any time







Save Mother Earth  by recycling your "stuff" instead of throwing it away.
I am a big supporter of The Freecycle Network™ , which is made up of 4,142 groups with 3,969,000 members across the globe.
 It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.
It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.
Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer, which is one of the things I am most active in.
Membership is free.

 
This news piece was on Channel 2  recently and was filmed at our bookstore.


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