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20% Off All Used Books This Labor Day Weekend

 

Correction to our September newsletter: The Bay Bridge will NOT be closed this weekend.  


Thanks, Kate

We so appreciated author Kate DiCamillo’s acceptance speech for "Most Engaging Author” earlier this year, that we thought we’d share with you what can make a bookseller misty-eyed: 

   

When I was in second grade, I fell in love with Abraham Lincoln.

 

The Clermont Elementary School library had a series of books called Notable Young Americans. And in this way, through these books, I met George Washington and Helen Keller, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart and Booker T. Washington.

 

I met them and I liked them.

 

But it wasn’t until Abraham Lincoln that I fell in love.

 

Something about his story (the poverty, the death of his mother, his love of words and books) resonated with me, moved me. I came home from school and told my mother everything that I had learned about the young Abraham Lincoln. I told her that I wanted to learn more. 

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500 Books in the home

 

A new study from University of Nevada finds that a library of 500 books in the home can further a child’s education as much as 3.2 years. [Read more on the study here]. In this digital information age, the value of the physical book just increased— and we couldn’t be happier. We’ve always been fond of books.

One hundred books 
 Pictured: One hundred books

An ordinary day in the life of Pegasus...

Renovations inside and out

 

 Here's the new interior at our Downtown store--with more to come

Doesn't it make you want to read a book?

 

 Our new floor at Pegasus Books Downtown--the first of several remodeling projects to happen this summer at our three stores.

Just call us "passion-forward"

Our friend, Tom Montan of Copperfield's Books in Sonoma County, has stated what we've been feeling about bookselling for some time: We do what we're passionate about, and let the e-books fall where they may. Read his cogent comments (and our inner thoughts) at Shelf Awareness

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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