MEGA USED BOOK SALE!!!
We are currently overrun with used books so we have decided to extend our used book sale until we can clear out some inventory. We have 3 bag sizes priced at $5, $10, and $15. Fill the bag with whatever used books you can! No limit! Help us clear the shelves for some new inventory.
Chicago’s Printers Row LitFest
Saturday June 12th and Sunday June 13th Old Towne Books & Tea will be in downtown Chicago at the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row LitFest. Stop by tables 176 & 178 from 10am to 6pm each day and say hi. We will have an assortment of books available for purchase as well as fun group of authors to meet and get to sign your purchases. Below we have listed out the book signing schedule. If you purchase copies of Thomas Riley by Nick Valentino or Avalon Revisited by O.M. Grey and you will be entered to win Steampunk Goggles provide by our friends at PH Factor (http://www.phfactor.ws/). Bring a new or gently used book to donate to our library drive and be entered to win an autographed copy of either The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker or The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber. Hope to see you all at this great literary event!
Saturday June 12th Signing Schedule
10am to 12pm – Andrea Jones, Sylvia Shults, and Peter Von Brown
12pm to 2pm – Larry Santoro, Nick Valentino, and John O’Donnell
2pm to 4pm – Andrea Jones, Sylvia Shults, and Brian Omara-Croft
4pm to 6pm – Robert Goldsborough, Norm Cowie, and Jenny Turner
Sunday June 13th Signing Schedule
10am to 12pm – Andrea Jones, Sylvia Shults, and Peter Von Brown
12pm to 2pm – John Everson & the Dark Arts Crew (Mort Castle, Bill Breedlove, and others)
2pm to 4pm – Andrea Jones, Sylvia Shults, and Larry Santoro
4pm to 6pm – Nick Valentino, Pam Ripling, Cindy Rodriguez
Enter to win these prizes!!! (See details above)
Operation Paperback Drop Off Location
We have partnered with the Kendall Weekly Times and Operation Paperback and will be a Drop Off Location for the cause.
Operation Paperback collects gently used books and sends them to American troops deployed overseas. Since 1999, we have shipped over 1.1 million books to locations around the globe.
Many of our troops are serving far from home and living in facilities that provide few of the comforts of home. At the end of the duty day, the opportunity to escape into a good book is welcomed. Every week we receive thanks from troops who are glad to be appreciated and remembered.
Our service members make sacrifices every day for our country. It takes so little to let them know that we appreciate what they are doing for us. When you donate to Operation Paperback, you will let our troops know that you support them, and you have not forgotten them.
Operation Paperback is a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of Pennsylvania. As a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, your donations to our organization are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
For more information about Operation Paperback visit their website at http://www.operationpaperback.org/
Book Donation Wish List from the Sugar Grove Library
As part of National Library Week Old Towne Books & Tea will be collecting book and monetary donations for the Sugar Grove and Big Rock libraries. Both libraries currently do not have the funding necessary to purchase books for their respective library. Old Towne Books & Tea’s mission is to help promote literacy in our local and national communities. With this goal in mind we feel that it is a perfect time to begin collecting books. Our first scheduled book collection day with be Saturday April 13, 2010. Books will be collected either at the Oswego Lady’s Shop Day being held at the Oswego American Legion Hall on Washington St from 11am to 4pm or in store or during our Local Author Book Signing from 2pm to 6pm. Books will also be collected daily but persons donating books will be eligible to win prizes during our schedule donation events. Any one who purchase a book from our store to donate to the book donation drive will receive 10% off their total in-store purchase. Any author wishing to donate a copy or two of their book will be added to our “Supporting Authors List” which will be forwarded to our local newspapers for publication. Thank you and please help support this excellent cause. Below is the link to the list of requested books from the Sugar Grove Library.
Easter Hours
We are open today from 10am to 3pm, open saturday normal hours, and we will be closed on Sunday in observation of the Easter Holiday. Sorry for any inconvenience.
