|Home| |Contact Us| |What's New| |Directions To Us| |Shop Now| |Events| |New Books in Stock| |What is Bluestocking?| |Friends of Bluestocking|	| What's New | Dawn's back! You may remember her working here on weekend mornings around six years ago with her dog Sheba. We are so pleased to have her join our bluestocking team again and hope you will welcome her back. Our team of Mary, Dawn, Kris and Tom are pleased to keep the tradition alive with your participation over the past 11 years and into the future. Our 2011 CALENDARS are in! It's never too early to know the correct date, and Pomegranate is a company which provides it in an especially nice format. We have a great selection of wall calendars, and a couple mini-wall choices for mini-walls, too. You'll find Maxfield Parrish, Emily Carr, Man Ray, as well as Van Gogh, Georgia O'Keefe and Escher. Also represented: Arts & Crafts and Frank Lloyd Wright, Fairies and Dragons, Paris and the beauty of outer Space, as seen from the Hubble Telescope. We have GROOVY NEW MAGNETS in stock, including the kooky cats and dogs from I Can Haz Cheeseburger webviral fame. If you're not familiar with these adorable and snarky personalities, you're in for a treat. Additionally, heavy-hitters Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut and Frida Kahlo are back by popular demand. These magnets are just right for your mom's fridge or your colleague's file cabinet. Or YOUR fridge and file cabinet! OMG! Get techy with it! - Join our fan page on Facebook: Bluestocking Books - Twitter @blusoxsd - For best service please use our old fashioned email or telephone. info[AT]bluestockingbooks.com (619)296-1424 BookSense The BookSense program has become Indie Bound! Log on and link to your favorite independent businesses. Handy for finding places with character when traveling! Check it out at http://www.indiebound.org/ New Books in Stock Brand spanking NEW BOOKS IN STOCK are now listed on our site, and if you don't see what you are looking for please send an inquiry - we can usually get what you would like in our weekly orders. Used Books You can also search our USED BOOK OFFERINGS If you see something you like, feel free to call or email and have us set it aside for direct pick-up (and save up to 30%!) or we can ship directly to you. What's TRUE: Economy, Environment & Community are three very important words to us at Bluestocking Books! - Spend $100 at a local business and $68 of that stays in your community. Spend the same $100 at a national chain, and your community only sees $43. - Local businesses create higher-paying jobs for our neighbors. - More of your taxes are reinvested in your community--where they belong. - Buying local means less packaging, less transportation, and a smaller carbon footprint. - Shopping in a local business district means less infrastructure, less maintenance, and more money to beautify your community. - Local retailers are your friends and neighbors-support them and they’ll support you. - Local businesses donate to charities at more than twice the rate of national chains. - More independents means more choice, more diversity, and a truly unique community. We cannot simply love our friendly little shops and bookstores, we must also purchase things in them. Money does not make the world go around: it creates stability by paying employees, landlords & vendors. Now is the time to stand up and make sure that corporations don't become the only mirror that reflect our society. What's Getting OLD Our favorite independent businesses closing! We have lost a LOT of comrades in the book trade as well as restaurants, stationers, clothing & shoe stores in the last few years. ARG! Comments from these colleagues reveal that "people aren't coming in as often", or are "shopping online more." If you are going to be one of those people that will be mad or cry if/when Bluestocking Books ever has to close or move, we ask that you please get on our email list (or Bluestocking Books Facebook fan page) and be informed instead of unpleasantly surprised. Until then we will send brief, cheerful accounts of specials and hours changes; perhaps a quote or book review. If we ever have to make any Big Change, this is how we will notify and ask our community for help. We don't expect anything to happen, but we don't have total control over it. As my last client just spontaneously said, "If we lose our local bookstores, we mess a lot of things up. I need the aesthetic to be able to come in and be surrounded by books." What's OLD This street address has held a bookshop for over 48 years. Many of our customers remember Otento Books, Robert & Barbara Gelink, and Joe & crew of Joseph Tabler Books. This hundred year old building seems to love books. Our Bluestocking dream team of Kris, Dawn, Mary & Tom strive to be as organized as a big chain but with the eclectic quality only used bookstores have - small but mighty in scope and personality. We love to hear big sighs of relaxed contentment from clients. The contentment of reading has been going on for centuries. The sublime pleasure power connection gift realization fascination knowledge inspiration laughter compassion that a book can convey sets it apart from a mere object. It takes your brain for a walk. That's why we think it's so important to attempt to keep an old bookshop around. Give somebody a fresh perspective & set up a great conversation by giving them your favorite book or magazine. Their hearts and minds will thank you! Back to Top	Call: 1.619.296.1424 Join Our Email List! Email: