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Welcome to The Avid Reader! |
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We are happy to have the opportunity to introduce you to our stores in Davis and Sacramento. Enjoy exploring The Avid Readers through our website! The Avid Reader in Davis has been in business over twenty years and holds awards for best bookstore, best customer service, and best independent retailer. The Avid Reader in Sacramento is located in the old Tower bookstore location and is the largest independent in the Central Valley. The store will celebrate its one year anniversary this April. The stores have local owners who are on-site daily. Alzada Knickerbocker is the owner in Davis. Stan Forbes and Alzada Knickerbocker are the owners in Sacramento. Services in both stores include overnight special ordering (with free shipping), direct to home shipping, and online ordering. Teachers receive a 20% discount for classroom orders. The Davis store also offers fast searches for used, difficult to obtain, and out of print books. Both stores host their own Bookclubs. The Davis bookclub meets on the fourth Monday of every month; the Sacramento bookclub on the fourth Wednesday of every month. Each is always open to new members. The book choice for that month is offered at 20% off for anyone interested in the title.
Both stores have significant children's book areas, the Children’s Book Loft in Davis and a central space in the Sacramento store. Each is a popular destination for young readers. Both stores are recognized for staffs that are fast, friendly and knowledgeable, extensive book selections including the best in print for the readers of Davis and Sacramento, in-store events, strong support of local authors, contributions to local organizations, and sponsorships of community programs. The two stores welcome opportunities to provide books for offsite events such as children's bookfairs, author programs, lectures, and conferences.
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Our stores offer book signings, author appearances and other special events. We also have Bookclubs which meet every month. Check out what we have scheduled this year. Title of Event: Into Thick Air by Jim Malusa
When: Saturday, July 12, 2008 7:30 PM
Location: The Avid Reader - Davis
Description: Pack your gear and grab your bike as we ride off on an adventure with Jim Malusa as he discusses his new book, Into Thick Air.
With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six-year series of "anti-expeditions" to the "anti-summits." His journeys took him to Lake Eyre in the arid heart of Australia, along Moses' route to the Dead Sea, and from Moscow to the Caspian Sea. He pedaled across the Andes to Patagonia, around tiny Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, and from Tucson to Death Valley. With a scientist's eye, he vividly observes local landscapes and creatures. As a lone man, he is overfed by grandmothers, courted by ladies of the night in Volgograd, invited into a mosque by Africa's most feared tribe, chased by sandstorms and hurricanes -- yet Malusa keeps riding. His reward: the deep silence of the world's great depressions. A large-hearted narrative of what happens when a friendly, perceptive American puts himself at the mercy of strange landscapes and their denizens, Into Thick Air presents one of the most talented new voices in contemporary travel writing.
For more information, please visit his website at http://www.IntoThickAir.com
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