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World Book Night!

That's right Prince Books is hosting
 
World Book Night 2013!
 
 
How it works

Each year, 30 books are chosen by an independent panel of librarians and booksellers. The authors of the books waive their royalties and the publishers agree to pay the costs of producing the specially-printed World Book Night U.S. editions. Bookstores and libraries sign up to be community host locations for the volunteer book givers. 

Givers pick up their books in the week before World Book Night.  On April 23rd, they give their books to those who don’t regularly read and/or people who don’t normally have access to printed books, for reasons of means or access.   

Sign up by January 23, 2013




Have fun and we look forward to seeing all our World Book Night givers in April!
 
 
 

Thanks for Shopping Indie Sale

 

 November 24th is Small Business Saturday and Prince Books invites you to celebrate with a very special sale.

 

For two days only enjoy 20% off select Indie Pick Best Selling titles!

 

Sale takes place Saturday, November 24th and Sunday, November 25th

 

Featured titles include: 

- This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen

- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

- The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

And many more!

 

 A complete list can be found here

 

Thanks for Shopping Indie! 

 


Don't forget about the promotion sponsered by American Express for Small Business Saturday!

American Express is getting behind local businesses again this year with their Small Business Saturday campaign. It works like this – American Express card holders can get a one-time $25 statement credit from AmEx if they enroll their AmEx card here and then make a purchase of $25 or more at Prince Books on Saturday, November 24th.

 

 

 

Congratulations Tim Seibles!

Prince Books sends a well deserved Congratulations to Norfolks very own Tim Seibles for being named Finalist for the National Book Award!

 

 He is being considered for the National Book Award for his book of Poetry Fast Animal . Tim Seibles is one of America's foremost African-American poets who threads the journey from youthful innocence to the whittled-hard awareness of adulthood. Along the way it immerses the reader in palpable moments -- the importance of remembering, the complexity of race, and the meaning of true wakefulness. 

 

 

 

 

Tim Seibles has published six books of poetry: Hammerlock, Ten Miles an Hour, Kerosene, Hurdy-Gurdy, Body Moves and Buffalo Head Solos. Seibles' poetry focuses on the alienation of non-whites in America. He examines a world that is dominated by an uneven control of power, and yet in his work, Seibles dares to hope in reconciliation, freedom, and connection. For his work he has received the following grants and awards: the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and an Open Voice Award from the National Writers' Voice Project. Seibles teaches with the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University in Norfolk.  

 

 

The Conclusion to the Great Waldo Scavenger Hunt

Thank you to all participants in the Where's Waldo Scavenger Hunt, and congratulations to All Raffle Winners! 

A special congratulations to our first place winner Lucy who won the grand prize of a complete set of Where's Waldo books!

 

Special thanks to all the great local stores in Downtown Norfolk who made this event possible.  While the scavenger hunt maybe over you can still check out these fantastic norfolk businesses and support your community by shopping local!

Prince Books
109 E. Main Street

Bean There Coffeehouse
223 E. City Hall Ave. #101

Borjo Coffeehouse
4416 Monarch Way

Hi Ho Silver
316 W. 21st St.

Local Heroes
1905 Colonial Avenue

Chrysler Museum Gift Shop
245 West Olney Road

Norfolk Stationery Co. 
103 Granby Street
 
Cure Coffeehouse and Brasserie
503 Botetourt Street

Harbor Gallery
1508 Colley Ave.

East Coast Bicycles
1910 Colley Ave.

The Sassy Sunflower
345 Granby Street

Provisions
1703 Colley Ave.

Mystic Mermaid
308 West 21st Street 

Garden Gazebo
729 West 21st Street

Welton's Seafood Market- Ghent
110 East 17th Street

McCormack & Puryear Jewelers 
331 West 21st Street

White Rabbitt
334 West 21st Street

The Wild Hare
2112 DeBree Avenue 

Decorum Furniture
301 W. 21st Street

Taste Unlimited
6464 Hampton Blvd. 
 
 
Thanks again and we hope to see you all soon! 

 

Signed First Editions of Senator Marco Rubio's "An American Son" Available

 
 Few politicians have risen to national prominence as quickly as Marco Rubio. At age forty-one he's the subject of widespread interest and speculation. But he has never before told the full story of his unlikely journey, with all the twists and turns that made him an American son.
 
Available now for a limited time, signed first editions of Senator Marco Rubio's memoir An American Son! The book is available in both English and Spanish language editions
 
 We also have some limited remaining quantities of the signed first editions of the Orange Prize-winning The Song of Achilles and Atlantic Fever by Virginian-Pilot reporter Joe Jackson!
 
 
 

Signed Copies of Earl Swift's New Book: The Big Roads

Available now at Prince Books are autographed copies of The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways by local author Earl Swift.

 

Earl Swift is a Virginia-based journalist and has been a Fulbright fellow, PEN finalist and five-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, and has earned a reputation for powerful narrative and scrupulous reporting. His previous books include The Tangierman's Lament, Journey on the James, and Where They Lay. Swift writes for the Virginia-Pilot and lives in Norfolk.

 

A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape--the U.S. interstate highway system changed the face of a continent. The Big Roads charts the creation of these landmark American roads. From the millionaire speed demon who organized the first primitive network of cross-country motor roads, to the cadre of largely forgotten engineers who conceived of the interstates and how they'd work--years before Dwight Eisenhower knew the plans existed--to the protests that erupted when the concrete juggernaut reached the cities--and thousands of people unwilling to be uprooted in the name of progress--The Big Roads follows a winding, fascinating route through twentieth-century American life.  

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