Stephanie Meyers Twilight Series

Hello all of you Stephanie Meyers readers. Whats up with you not bringing back those novels? Do you know how many people are asking for them? We have people waiting for them. These are the 2008 Harry Potter's. Everyone wants to read them, and no one is giving them up. Please, when you finish them, return them to Annies in Waltham. We will find them good homes.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!

I just want to wish everyone out there a happy new year. The economy can't get much worse, and we have "hope" coming 1/20/09. We are still in business, and doing well thanks to all of you. Thank you for supporting our business. Please let me know if you are looking for a particular book and we will try to find it for you. Its good to get back to basics and read to escape. Escape, escape, escape!

LAST MINUTE IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS

I would like to give everyone the gift of "Time" this year for Christmas. We never have enough of it and so many of you are so deserving of it. That's a tall order for Santa to fill. I would like to make some of your gift giving easier this year. I am now offering from now until Christmas our beautiful Hidden Secrets book covers at a special price so that now you can please two people on your gift list. Buy one at $11.99 and recieve the second one 1/2 off ($6.00). All are in mass market size. We have many attractive designs to choose from. Come in and take a look.
We also have Gift Certificates, and many one of a kind items of jewelry, scarves, and knickknacks. All are reasonably priced.
If you know a book lover and want to give the perfect gift, come in and buy them some books. All of our stock is in excellent condition, and in this economy, your book lover will not care if you bought used. Just think! You can buy them twice the amount of books for the same price.

Christmas Gifts and Stocking Stuffers

With Christmas right around the corner, Santa's elves working furiously to make those stocking stuffers, inexpensive gifts, etc. for your loved ones, Annie's Book Stop in Waltham is your GIFT CENTRAL LOCATION. We have beaded bookmarks, beaded key chains, coil bracelets, necklaces, thumb rings, bookmarks, scarves which are crocheted by myself, both winter and fun fur, novelty beaded Christmas earrings which are so unique you will want 5 pairs for you, and 10 pairs for gifts. Inexpensive? Yes!!! Did you ever think you could get your reading fix, and shop for friends at the same store? Please stop in and see what else you can buy for less money than anywhere else. And don't forget... when you can't seem to make that final decision----Gift Certificates in any denomination you choose. Let them make the final decision

Early Christmas Shoppers Alert

If you are looking for a great Christmas present for your book lover, we have a special deal for the whole month of November for you. When you spend $20.00 cash at our store in Waltham, you will be entitled to select a Hidden Secrets bookcover at 10% off. Currently our bookcovers sell for $11.99, well below what you can purchase them for from the manufacturer. We also have several other gift items that are well within your tight budgets in this poor economy. So hurry in and start saving.

The attractive covers protect your reading privacy, which lets you enjoy your book without listening to someone make comments or tell you about it.
The soft foam lining makes book holding easier. This feature is especially popular among readers with multiple sclerosis, arthritis, or other conditions that make holdling a book difficult.
Each cover has a hook & loop closure to keep your book closed while in your handbag or briefcase. No more mangled book pages when you are commuting or traveling, and the colorful ribbon bookmark even keeps your place.
The covers protect your book from water splashes and wet hands, which makes them perfect for when you are by the pool, at the beach, or boating.
The wide variety of patterns combined with the modest price makes these covers the perfect gift for anyone who loves to read, no matter what their reading interests.

Hidden Secrets Book Covers

We are an official distributor of Hidden Secrets Book Covers. These are a wonderful gift for yourself or others. They are foam lined, complete with a ribbon to hold your place, and guard against other people seeing what you are reading. They make your reading material soft to the touch, protect your books from spills, and other damage, and you don't lose your place with the attached ribbon. We sell them for $11.99, mass market size. We will also do special orders for the premium size ($9.99) and the trade size. Come in and inquire.

FINAL SALE!!!!! Good News, Bad News

We are having a sale on Trade Size Nora Roberts books. This will be a final sale, non-returnable set of two books by Nora for the unbelievable price of $6.00!!!! These are specially selected, wrapped with pink ribbon. That is well below the price of a single mass market size. Hurry in and get yours before they are all gone. That's the good news, now the bad news.

As of September 25, 2008, we will no longer accept Nora Roberts Trade Size books for credit, hence the sale, however we still accept her mass market size if our stock needs them. In addition, we no longer take in trade size Anthologies.

Just a note on the trade size paperbacks and the problems they can create for us. Our store was designed for mass market paperbacks, all of our bookshelves were designed to hold mass market size paperbacks, and we really are doing our best to accomodate the best of the trade size, but please understand that we are just a small store with not a lot of room for everything. Even these new size premium paperbacks, the ones that are a little larger, and cost $9.99 retail have a hard time fitting on our shelves.

Please come in and browse around our store. We have many gift items, one of a kind, fun fur scarves, beaded earrings, beaded bracelets, beaded necklaces, beaded keychains, beaded bookmarks, other bookmarks, book lights, and many other gift items. You never know what you might find at Annie's in Waltham.

A Word About Trade Size Books

In January of 2008 we implemented a new credit policy for trade size books. These are the larger size books which run from $10.95 to $24.95 jacket price. We have limited space to shelve these larger books, and they receive a larger credit. So, in order to accomodate these books, when you return them, you must spend that credit on trade size books.
I tell people "If they are coming in, they must go out". A few years ago books came in paperback and hardcover. Now, the publishers first put them in hardcover, then trade size, then the new "premium" size then the regular size. What is a small used book store to do?
My shop was designed to hold only the regular size paperback books on the shelves, and we are doing our best to accomodate these other sizes. So please make a note for yourselves that when you return trade size books for credit you need to spend the credit you receive on the trade size books. You cannot spend that credit on regular size.
Annie's Book Stop in Waltham is the only Annie's which still allows you to spend all your credit on your visit. All of the other Annie's have adopted a policy of only being allowed to spend half your credit.
I hope that you will spread the word about Annie's in Waltham. Tell your book reading friends. We don't advertise, so word of mouth is the only way we can get new customers.

NO TAX DAY-YEAH!!! NO TAX DAY-YEAH!!!

This coming Saturday and Sunday August 16th and 17th we will be having another tax free weekend. That means an extra 5% that you will save on your reading material. Don't forget-at Annie's you already save 50% on books, so that's 55% for this weekend only!!!

When you visit us next time, please take a moment to look around at all the gift items we are offering. Since my last blog update of letting you know we have original beaded earrings, made by Joanne Salvato, we now have stretchy beaded bracelets, stretchy beaded anklet bracelets, stretchy thumb/toe rings, and stretchy beaded necklaces, these stretchy jewelry items are so simple to put on and take off. I personally love them, no clasps to fidget with. I will be adding more jewelry items in the coming months. We also have lotions, fun fur scarves (also handmade), bookmarks, discount earrings, and some one of a kind gift items. Don't forget all of the artwork is original, made by Joanne Salvato(owner) and for sale which hangs on our walls.

Strapped for cash? You need to shop Annie's!! We have discount bins for books,
.50 and 1.00, you can't beat that!

I just want to mention that if you are shopping for books in the supermarkets, I have noticed lately that there are a lot of reprinted older books for sale, you might think they are new, and you will be paying full price for them, when actually they are older books, and they are available at our shop for 1/2 price. So check the dates of publishing. You might have bought it new at the supermarket, but we already have it, and probably too many of them, and so won't accept it for trade in.

HERE'S A FEW BOOKS WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR

Some of you are wondering why in the world we don't take your books on any particular day, and I hope this clears it up. If we have about 10 copies of a certain title, we have a tendency to not want eleven, given that we are just a small store and have issues of storage. That being said, we do have several authors that people tend to buy over and over. Go figure! I won't list all of the authors and titles, but will just list a few for now. Also within these authors, there are titles that we don't need. OK Here we go:
David Baldacci - Camel Club, Christmas Train, Collectors, Hour Game, Saving Faith, Simple Truth, Total Control, Winner, Wish you Well, Simple Genius
Maeve Binchy - Copper Beech,Firefly Summer,London Transport, Quentins,Silver Wedding, This Year Will Be Different, Whitethorn Woods
Michael Connelly - Angels Flight(We have none), Black Ice(none), Black Echo,Concrete Blonde, Darkness More than Night, Echo Park, Last Coyote, Narrows, Overlook,Trunk Music, Void Moon
Nelson Demille - By the Rivers of Babylon, Cathedral,Charm School, Gold Coast, Lion's Game, Mayday, Talbot Odyssey, Wildfire
John Grisham - The Firm, and The Partner,Bleachers, Brethren, Skipping Christmas,Street Lawyer, Summons, Time to Kill, Innocent Man
James Patterson - currently our most popular author, 1st to Die, 2nd Chance, 5th Horseman, Black Friday, Cradle and All, Kiss the Girls, Maximum Ride(Schools out Forever), and Maximum Ride (Angel Experiment), Miracle on the 17th Green, Pop Goes the Weasel, Quickie, Season of the Machete, Thomas Berryman Number, Violets are Blue, 6th Target
Nora Roberts - #1 Romance Author, but we are overwhelmed with some titles. We do need: Black Rose, Blue Smoke, Born in Fire, Born in Ice, Born in Shame, Brazen Virtue, Captivated, Captive Star, Carolina Moon, Charmed and Enchanted, Chesapeake Blue, Considering Kate, Cordina's Crown Jewel, Dance Upon the Air, Daring to Dream, Enchanted, Engaging the Enemy, Entranced, Face the Fire, Finding the Dream, From the Heart, From this Day, Genuine Lies, The Gift, Going Home, Heart of the Sea, Heaven and Earth, Hidden Riches,Honest Illusions,Irish Hearts, Jewels of the Sun,Lawless, Less of a Stranger, MacGregor Grooms, MacGregors Rovert and Cybil, Montana Sky, Perfect Neighbor, Private Scandals, Public Secrets, The Reef,Rivers End, Secret Star, Skin Deep. Spellbound, Stanislaski Sisters, Sullivans Woman, Tears of the Moon, Untamed, The Villa, Winning Hand and of course the new ones, Blood Brothers, and the Hollow.
Stuart Woods - OMG! Where are all the older ones? Chiefs, Dark Harbor, Dead Eyes, Dead in the Water, Deep Lie Fresh Disasters, Grass Roots, Heat, Imperfect Strangers, LA Times, New York Dead, Orchid Beach,Palindrome, Run Before the Wind, Santa Fe Rules, Under the Lake, White Cargo, Short Straw, and the new one Shoot Him if He Runs.
Those are some of the authors we do save regularly because of their popularity, Also looking for Janet Evanovitch's One for the Money, and Two for the Dough, Hot Six.
We also would like you to search your bookshelves for your True Crime, and your biographies, in paperback only please. We have enough Ann Rule, but there are a lot more true crimes out there - Let's recycle!!

NEW STUFF!!!

Ok. Here's the deal. I have found a new outlet for all my frustrations and you are able to cash in on it. We now have original designed beaded earrings, made by guess who? Me. They are really unique and very pretty. Drop earrings, beaded, each one an original. They will keep on being created, and we also offer other earrings at a super discount price. We have patriotic earrings, and Flag pins. all at super prices. All this and the whole store is full of exciting books for you to read all summer!!! Don't forget we are still offering a 20% discount on all Nora Roberts Trade size books in addition to our usual 1/2 off until the end of June. Who knows what I will put on sale for July?

Rewards for Our Best Customers!!!!!

Some of you are really taking advantage of our reward program for our Best of the Best Customers!!! Maybe you haven't heard of it yet. Some of you will never get there but lots of you are continuing to get your Gift Certificates for $20.00. Here's how it works: Every time you spend $25.00 cash or charge in our store in Waltham, you get a Loyalty card, and a special stamp. When you fill the card with stamps you receive a complimentary Gift Certificate for $20.00 which you can use for anything we sell in the store. This reward program has no expiration date, so you can join in at any time. For all of you who are using our reward program THANK YOU!!!!! To all the rest of you, please continue shopping with us, we appreciate your business.

Steeple Hill Inspirational Romance

Hello Annies's fans. If you are a regular you will be able to cash in on this months special. From now until the end of May, you will recieve an additional 10% off of "Steeple Hill" Inspirational Romance titles. Wonderful romances which will inspire you. just mention our blog advertisement and enjoy your 10% off. What can I say about the rest of you who don't sign in regularly? I guess you are missing out on additional savings on something you might buy anyway. The weather is crappy. Should we really have to put the heat on in May????? I am waiting for the good weather to be able to sit outside and read a book in the sun without being blown away by northeast winds. How about you?

Mother's Day Special

If you are a regular to our blog you will be able to take advantage of the special we are running from 5/4/08 to 5/11/08 on our www.Hiddensecretscovers.com For this week only, for Mother's Day, take an additional $1.00 off each bookcover you purchase. You never know what I am going to offer at an additional discount if you don't check the blog regularly. Happy Mother's Day

New York Times Bestsellers

We have now created a section for the New York Times Bestsellers list in the store for Mass Market, Trade Size, and Trade Size non-fiction. You can view our list in the store, plus we have markers in the bestsellers books on our spinners. Just another way for us to help our loyal customers select whats hot. Please come in and check out our selection, or just come in to browse. #1 for May 4,2008 in trade size is the Memory Keepers Daughter. We have several copies on hand as of today. As always our prices are half off the cover price. www.nytimes.com

Last Chance for Nora Roberts Trade Size Discount

OK you guys. You have only 11 days left to get your extra savings on the Nora Roberts trade size paperbacks. These are $14.95 books, which are normally only $7.49 at Annies, but with the March special we take an additional 20% off. That means you get it for $5.99. We have the MacGregors, The Quinn's, Truly Madly Manhatten, Dangerous, Mysterious, Side by Side and several others to choose from. Just 11 days left!!!!!!
We will be open Friday and Saturday, but will be closed for the Easter Holiday, Sunday March 23. Our normal hours resume next week.
Also don't forget our partnership with Island Yarn Company (right next door to us) visit them on line at http://www.islandyarncompany.com/ for this month. You can receive a $2.00 coupon for any book in our store by purchasing their special of the month.

Partnership with Island Yarn for March

Great news for all of you knitters and readers. For March, when you buy yarn for the special March project from Island Yarn Company, right next door to Annies Books, you will receive a coupon for $2.00 off any book at Annies for the month of March. So can everyone please come down and buy yarn, and then come next door to get your books? What a deal!! To check out the pattern of the month, which is a great tote bag to hold all your books check :www.islandyarncompany.com

Are we sick of winter yet?

Yeah it was another cold day, starting out with dusting off the car with the latest arrival of snow. More snow coming tomorrow night. Its just revolting now. But we have a lot of great books just waiting to be read. I am having a special sale for the month of March. We just so happen to have a lot of Nora Roberts in the trade size format. This month I will take off an additional 20%. This will apply to trade size only. Hope you will come in and check out our selection.