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Read Books features good quality used and new books in a wide variety
of categories. We also carry rare and collectible books, used audio
books and new and used music CD’s – all at very affordable
prices.
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classic literature, romance, history, arts, gay & lesbian, gender
studies, politics, pop culture, spirituality or children’s
books, we have these and many, many other categories. Our on-line
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Please check back often as we’ll be adding new titles soon.
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Directions:
Located just 2 miles from downtown!
Take I-20 East from downtown.
Take Moreland Ave. (South),
Exit #60-A.
Turn left on McPherson (first light) and right on Flat Shoals;
OR left on Glenwood (2nd light) and left on Flat Shoals.
Easy Parking
Plenty of FREE street parking available,
as well as free lots behind the store
and across the street.
Store Hours:
Sunday - 1:00
p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Monday - Closed
Tuesday - 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday - 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday - 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday - 11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Saturday - 11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Meet Kona
The Bookstore Cat
Meet our director of public relations, Kona the Cat. A rescue kitty,
she lives at the bookstore and greets our customers – usually
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Upcoming
Events
Thursday,
July 24th
Children's Storytime (Suggested Age 3-6)
Featured Selection: TBA
3:30 P.M.
Children (and parents, too) are invited to join us to hear a beloved children's story read aloud. Afterwards, join us for
juice and a tasty treat.
Thursday,
July 24th
Green 101:
Cleaning Green
7:30 P.M.
Glynnis, the Flower Lady, gives a lecture on cleaning with natural, nontoxic cleaners. She'll reference The Naturally Clean Home: Over 100 Safe and Easy Herbal Formulas for Nontoxic Cleaner by Karyn Siegel-Maier. Come learn how to clean green.
Bound To Be
Read Books is located at 481-B Flat Shoals Ave., next door to Traders
in East Atlanta Village. For more information about the lecture
series, call 404-522-0877.
Sunday,
July 27th
East Atlanta Village (EAV) Farmers Market Book Club
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (20% Off)
6:00 P.M.
We are excited about this
opportunity to expand the Farmer's Market beyond traditional boundaries.
We believe that the Market is more than just a good place to get
great groceries on Thursday evenings! We think you'll agree that
the Market is a resource that represents a new and different way
of living -- a way that values local food, local economies, healthy
lifestyles and better choices for ourselves and our world.
You are part of what may be the first ever Farmer's Market Book
Club in the country! Our idea is to read and discuss books that
illustrate the values of the Farmer's Market, that teach us something
about our world, our community and ourselves. It's a chance to read,
learn, share, meet new friends and have fun!
Our book club is open to all and free to join! We hope you'll invite
your family, friends and neighbors to join with us as we celebrate
community in an open, welcoming environment. Check out the details
below, add the dates to your calendar and happy reading!
Wednesday,
August 6th
Writing Group
7:00 P.M.
Our in-store
writing group is open to writers of all types. We meet on the first
Thursday of each month to read our work and to give and receive
feedback.
It's easy to
participate! Just bring five (5) copies of your poem, short story,
essay, novel, screenplay, play, children's story, or other written
work to share. We'll read and offer constructive comments on everyone's
work.
For more information,
contact us at (404) 522-0877 or jef@boundtobereadbooks.com.
 
Thursday, August 7th
Author Event with Karen Abbott (Discussion & Book Signing)
Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott
7:00 P.M.
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh “butterflies” awaited their arrival. Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight of Prince Henry of Prussia and recited poetry for Theodore Dreiser. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot’s earnings and kept a “whipper” on staff to mete out discipline, the Everleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an honest physician, and even tutored in the literature of Balzac.
Not everyone appreciated the sisters’ attempts to elevate the industry. Rival Levee madams hatched numerous schemes to ruin the Everleighs, including an attempt to frame them for the death of department store heir Marshall Field, Jr. But the sisters’ most daunting foes were the Progressive Era reformers, who sent the entire country into a frenzy with lurid tales of “white slavery”——the allegedly rampant practice of kidnapping young girls and forcing them into brothels. This furor shaped America’s sexual culture and had repercussions all the way to the White House, including the formation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
With a cast of characters that includes Jack Johnson, John Barrymore, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., William Howard Taft, “Hinky Dink” Kenna, and Al Capone, Sin in the Second City is Karen Abbott’s colorful, nuanced portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters, their world-famous Club, and the perennial clash between our nation’s hedonistic impulses and Puritanical roots. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, Sin in the Second City offers a vivid snapshot of America’s journey from Victorian-era propriety to twentieth-century modernity.
“Delicious… Abbott describes the Levee’s characters in such detail that it’s easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.”
—— New York Times Book Review
“With gleaming prose and authoritative knowledge Abbott elucidates one of the most colorful periods in American history, and the result reads like the very best fiction. Sex, opulence, murder — What's not to love?”
—— Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants
“A detailed and intimate portrait of the Ritz of brothels, the famed Everleigh Club of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Sisters Minna and Ada attracted the elites of the world to such glamorous chambers as the Room of 1,000 Mirrors, complete with a reflective floor. And isn’t Minna’s advice to her resident prostitutes worthy advice for us all: “Give, but give interestingly and with mystery.”’
—— Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City
About the Author
Karen Abbott worked as a journalist on the staffs of Philadelphia magazine and Philadelphia Weekly, and has written for Salon.com and other publications. A native of Philadelphia, she now lives with her husband in Atlanta, where she’s at work on her next book. Visit her online at www.sininthesecondcity.com.
Thursday,
August 14th
Salon
Topic: Who is the Middle Class?
7:00 P.M.
A salon derives
its name from the drawing rooms where intellectuals would gather
during the Age of Enlightenment to iscuss literature, fine arts,
or philosophy. Modern day salons, however, are less stuffy and formal.
On the second Thursday of each month, Bound To Be Read Books owner,
Jeff McCord, invites anyone interested to join him in the lounge
area for a lively discussion of the monthly topic which salon members
chose the previous month. This is a free and open discussion, and
everyone is welcome to drop in and out.
Sunday,
August 17th
Scandalous Book Club
3:00 P.M.
Bound To Be Read
Books kicks off its Scandalous Book Club with pop culture classic
Valley of the Dolls (Grove Press, 1997, 448 pp., pbk, reg.
$14.00; sale $11.20)by Jacqueline Susann.
The Scandalous
Book Club meets quarterly to discuss the most controversial books
in publishing history, contrasting their relevance at the time they
were published to social values of today. We'll determine whether
these books still still stand the test of time, or have become nothing
more than campy trash from a bygone era.
Considered as
one of the most commercially successful novels of all time, Valley
of the Dolls was an instant success when it was first published
in 1966, eventually adapted into a film the following year. Having
sold 30-million copies since it's release, the book was the first
roman à clef by a female author to achieve this level of
sales in America.
Dolls: red or
black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed
straight-for Anne, Neely, and Jennifer, it doesn't matter, as long
as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three women become
best friends when they are young and struggling in New York City
and then climb to the top of the entertainment industry-only to
find that there is no place left to go but down-into the Valley
of the Dolls.
"Decades
ahead of its time . . . Mesmerizing . . . The equation of emotional
dependencies with drug addiction in one comprehensive personality
disorder is, if anything, more chic today than in Susann's time;
also prescient is the book's protofeminism."
-Mim Udovitch, The Village Voice Literary Supplement
"I couldn't
believe these weren't real girls because I know them. Maddeningly
sexy. I wish I had written it."
-Helen Gurley Brown
"Magnetic
. . . [Susann]'s a natural storyteller . . . Valley is the kind
of book that most of its readers cannot put down."
-Nora Ephron
"Jackie,
it seemed, understood by instinct that her readers were ready for
the raw side of love . . . for a franker sexuality and a tougher
kind of story-for romance with tears and oral sex."
-Michael Korda, The New Yorker
Jacqueline Susann
left her hometown of Philadelphia at eighteen and moved to New York,
where she won the Best Dressed Woman in Television Award four times.
But it was the success of her blockbusters Valley of the Dolls,
The Love Machine, and Once Is Not Enough that
transformed her into the Pucci-clad media superstar we remember
today. Jacqueline Susann was married to producer Irving Mansfield.
She died in 1974.
Thursday,
August 21st
Book Club
Sin in the Second City (Random House, 2008, 400
pp., pbk., reg. $15.00, sale $12.00) by Karen Abbott
7:00 P.M.
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh “butterflies” awaited their arrival. Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight of Prince Henry of Prussia and recited poetry for Theodore Dreiser. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot’s earnings and kept a “whipper” on staff to mete out discipline, the Everleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an honest physician, and even tutored in the literature of Balzac.
Not everyone appreciated the sisters’ attempts to elevate the industry. Rival Levee madams hatched numerous schemes to ruin the Everleighs, including an attempt to frame them for the death of department store heir Marshall Field, Jr. But the sisters’ most daunting foes were the Progressive Era reformers, who sent the entire country into a frenzy with lurid tales of “white slavery”——the allegedly rampant practice of kidnapping young girls and forcing them into brothels. This furor shaped America’s sexual culture and had repercussions all the way to the White House, including the formation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
With a cast of characters that includes Jack Johnson, John Barrymore, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., William Howard Taft, “Hinky Dink” Kenna, and Al Capone, Sin in the Second City is Karen Abbott’s colorful, nuanced portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters, their world-famous Club, and the perennial clash between our nation’s hedonistic impulses and Puritanical roots. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, Sin in the Second City offers a vivid snapshot of America’s journey from Victorian-era propriety to twentieth-century modernity.
“Delicious… Abbott describes the Levee’s characters in such detail that it’s easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.”
—— New York Times Book Review
“With gleaming prose and authoritative knowledge Abbott elucidates one of the most colorful periods in American history, and the result reads like the very best fiction. Sex, opulence, murder — What's not to love?”
—— Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants
“A detailed and intimate portrait of the Ritz of brothels, the famed Everleigh Club of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Sisters Minna and Ada attracted the elites of the world to such glamorous chambers as the Room of 1,000 Mirrors, complete with a reflective floor. And isn’t Minna’s advice to her resident prostitutes worthy advice for us all: “Give, but give interestingly and with mystery.”’
—— Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City
About the Author
Karen Abbott worked as a journalist on the staffs of Philadelphia magazine and Philadelphia Weekly, and has written for Salon.com and other publications. A native of Philadelphia, she now lives with her husband in Atlanta, where she’s at work on her next book. Visit her online at www.sininthesecondcity.com.
The book club meets on the third Thursday of every month at 7:00
p.m. No membership is required. This is a free event open to all.
Come join us! For more information, please call (404) 522-0877,
or email info@boundtobereadbooks.com. |
