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  • 10% Discount for Students and Seniors on Tuesdays!
  • Daily 10% Discount for any Katrina Volunteer! Thanks for all your hard work!
  • Daily 10% Discount for any teacher or faculty member!
  • Stop by and stock up on science, history/current events, and biographies. All are 20% off during the entire month of July!!
    2 days ago
  • 2 days left of our June sale! 20 percent off poetry, health, psychology, and Eastern religion.
    4 days ago
  • Looking for a good beach read? We have lots of good fiction on sale at 40 percent off!
    8 days ago

STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS

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Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans – by Dan Baum

Originating in a heralded series of "New Yorker" articles, "Nine Lives" explores New Orleans through the lives of nine characters over 40 years, bracketed by two epic hurricanes. It brings back to life the doomed city, its wondrous subcultures, and the rich and colorful lives that played themselves out within…

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The Moviegoer – by Walker Percy

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached…

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A Confederacy of Dunces – by John Kennedy Toole

Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Wednesday, June 3rd, at 3:00 pm, Michelle Bell will tell stories for pre-schoolers at Maple Street Children’s Book Shop.

    June 3rd, 2009

  • Great Moments in New Orleans History – The Funniest History Lesson You’ve ever had!

    Based on actual events, Great Moments…

    June 27th, 2009

  • Carolyn Haines will be at Maple Street, July 15 @ 2:00 to sign her latest book, “Greedy Bones.”

    Publishers…

    July 15th, 2009

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