Special Announcement: BookShop West Portal will be open Thanksgiving Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Big news here at Bookshop West Portal: We've launched a whole new bookshopwestportal.com - just in time for the holiday shopping season!
Now you can browse and shop online with us as well as in-store. We've got a library of hundreds of thousands of books and Google eBooks (yes, we sell eBooks! - see our tutorial here). Our eBooks will work on just about anything – iPads, iPhones, Nooks, Sony eReaders, and the list goes on (except for Kindles, which are, of course, proprietary). We also have a selection of our hand-picked gifts, games, toys and cards for your perusal.
Speaking of the holiday shopping season, I'd like to give you even more reason to check out the new site: Friday, November 25th ONLY, take 25% off your entire ONLINE order* - just type the phrase "BLACKFRIDAY" in the order comments box as you check out. It's a great time to finish off that Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Late Birthday shopping and save!
Need some ideas? Read about some of our great new titles, below.
Cheers and best wishes for the Holiday Season,
Sarah Langlais
bookshopwestportal.com
* does not apply to eBooks, gift cards or magazines. Discount is manually applied after order is processed by staff and will not appear automatically. Discount DOES NOT APPLY in-store and does not combine with other discounts (e.g., Buyer's Picks).
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Catherine the Great
by Robert K. Massie
The author of Nicolas and Alexandra and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Peter the Great returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography - the exceptional story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at age 14 and became one of the most remarkable, powerful and captivating women in history.
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
by Ian W. Toll
This latest from the author of Six Frigates - winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison and William E. Colby awards - is a thorough chronicle of one of the U.S. Navy's finest performances of WWII. A page-turning narrative of the months following the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor.
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Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
This big-hearted novel, which just won the National Book Award, is about familial love and community against all odds. A wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal and restrictive realities of rural poverty.
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The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach
At Westish College, a small school on the Lake Michigan shore, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.
Easily one of the best books of the year, The Art of Fielding is a triumph in every way. — Michael Koryta, author of The Ridge
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
by Susan Orlean
New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean, author of the bestselling The Orchid Thief, spent nearly ten years researching and reporting her most captivating book to date: the story of Hollywood's most famous canine, the history of the movies, and ideas about war, heroism, success, and the roles that animals play in our society.
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