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WE DELIVER!!!
Too Busy To Stop By The Store During Business Hours...?

Don't Feel Like Fighting The Traffic...?

No Transportation...?

But Still Need A Book?

Dreamalot Books offers a delivery service easy to use. Simply make out a wish list. Call the store or email through the website to place you order. We'll deliver every available book on your list. Local orders over $25 get free delivery. Delivery fees depending upon location apply to all other orders. For more information call Dreamalot Books at 572-4188.

Also Available For Pick-Up Service If You're Cleaning Out Your Garage Or Attic Bookshelves. Call 24 Hours In Advance To Arrange Pick-Up Time. Regular Trade Service Fees Apply.



WHAT'S NEW IN THE BOOK WORLD!?!

This is a list of a few of the upcoming books.
Availability times in retail stores will vary.

Clive Cussler *** The Pharoah's Secret

Alice Hoffman *** The Marriage of Opposites

Linda Fairstein *** Devil's Bridge

James Patterson *** I Funny TV
Robots Go Wild

Anne Perry *** A Christmas Escape

Janet Evanovich *** Tricky Twenty-Two

Michael Connelly *** The Crossing

Allison Brennan *** No Good Deed

Philippa Gregory *** The Taming of the Queen

Kresley Cole *** Sweet Ruin

Lisa Jackson *** After She's Gone

William W. Johnstone *** Preacher's Bloodbath

Ben Bova *** Mercury and Prometheus
Death Wave

Stephanie Laurens *** The Lady's Command

Vince Flynn *** The Survivor

Kay Hooper *** Fear The Dark

Tess Gerritsen *** Playing With Fire

Christine Feehan *** Wild Cat

John Sandford *** Saturn Run

Lynn Kurland *** Stars In Your Eyes

Lora Leigh *** Nauti Seductress

Lori Foster *** Give It Up

Tracie Peterson *** Love Everlasting

Stuart Woods *** Foreign Affairs

Gregory Maguire *** After Alice

Diana Palmer *** Invictus
Wyoming Rugged

Maya Banks *** A Contract Engagement
Darkest Before Dawn

Faye Kellerman *** The Theory of Death

Debbie Macomber *** Silver Linings

Maryjanice Davidson *** Undead and Unforgiven

J. R. Ward *** Blood Kiss

V. C. Andrews *** Bittersweet Dreams

Kristan Higgins *** Anything For You

Emily March *** Heartsong Cottage

Stephen King *** The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Danielle Steel *** Precious Gifts

Robin Cook *** Host

Richard Paul Evans *** If Only
The Mistletoe Inn

Lorraine Heath *** Falling Into Bed With A Duke

John Connolly *** Night Music

Elizabeth George *** A Banquet of Consequences

Katie MacAlister *** Dragon Storm

David Drake *** Air and Darkness

Terry Pratchett *** Judgment Day

Peter Robinson *** In The Dark Places

Lisa Scottoline *** Corrupted

Jayne Ann Krentz *** Secret Sisters

Umberto Eco *** Numero Zero

Susan Krinard *** Battlestorm

Nora Roberts *** Stars of Fortune

Jenna Kernan *** Shadow Wolf

Jaci Burton *** Make Me Stay

Karen Robards *** The Last Time I Saw Her

Mercedes Lackey *** Crucible
Closer To The Heart



Be Kind To Your Books. Don't Leave Them In Hot Vehicles To Fry.



Quotes on Books and Reading

"When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?"

~~~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) ~~~

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."

~~~ Chinese Proverb ~~~

"An ordinary man can... suround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy."

~~~ Augustine Birrell ~~~

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

~~~ Stephen King ~~~

"Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes."

~~~ Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, "The Two Races of Men", 1822 ~~~

"Never judge a book by its movie."

~~~ J. W. Eagan ~~~

"A house without books is like a room without windows."

~~~ Heinrich Mann ~~~

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get provocation and privacy."

~~~ Edward P. Morgan ~~~

"A good book should leave you ... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."

~~~ William Styron, interview, Writers At Work, 1958 ~~~

"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."

~~~ William Hazlitt ~~~

"My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter."

~~~ Thomas Helm ~~~

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

~~~ Oscar Wilde ~~~

"Lord! When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book."

~~~ Christopher Morley ~~~

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."

~~~ Abraham Lincoln ~~~

"The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television."

~~~ Andrew Ross ~~~

"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."

~~~ Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu, Pensees Diverses ~~~

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."

~~~ James Russell Lowell ~~~

"The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them."

~~~ Samuel Butler ~~~


Must Know Definitions
bib·li·o·phile  also bib·li·o·phil or bib·li·oph·i·list n.
1. A lover of books.
2. A collector of books.
bib li·oph i·lism n.
bib li·oph i·lis tic adj.

lex·o·phile n.
1. A lover of words.
2. One who derives pleasure from various use of words, who appreciates the nuances surrounding different words, and who is alert to synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homonyms, often using them for effect, sometimes in humor.




Gift Certificates Available

Want to give a favorite someone a book but not sure what they've read. Dreamalot Books offers gift certificates in $5 increments that can be used for books. movies, music or other giftables. Our gift certificates make a great present for the reader in your life without risking getting them a book they've already read. Available all year round.

 

FREE DREAMALOT BOOKS
HOMESCHOOL LENDING LIBRARY!!!

There are no fees to use the lending library. Just fill out an information sheet and get a card. At present we have material available for all grade levels in a variety of subjects. Availability of material depends on donations and may vary depending on usage. Donations of books and curriculum for all grades to the library are welcome. Volunteers for helping to organize the lending library are also needed. We have so much material coming in that we're having a hard time keeping everything organized. Anyone with a little extra time please feel free to volunteer. The more than 50 families signed up to use the lending library will thank you.
For more information about the homeschool lending library please stop by the store, email, or call 572-4188.
Service is for local residents only.


Dreamalot Books
Read To Succeed Program

Students Bring In Your Gently Used Books For A Two-For-One Trade At Dreamalot Books, And Receive A $5.00 Gift Certificate For Your Teacher!


The Read To Succeed Program is designed to encourage our kids to read as well as help provide teachers with much needed books for their classrooms. No money is required to participate in the program. Simply have your students bring in books they've already read or outgrown to Dreamalot Books. Students will be given a two-for-one store credit towards other used books. In addition to getting books they haven't already read, the student will also receive a five-dollar gift certificate to Dreamalot Books for their teacher. This may not sound like a lot, but keep in mind the majority of children and teen books at Dreamalot Books sell for fifty cents or less. A five dollar gift certificate could get you up to ten chapter books or as many as fifteen younger childrens' books. The gift certificates have no expiration date and may be used at any time for any purchase made at Dreamalot Books. Please note no change will be given and no other discounts apply when using a gift certificate. Dreamalot Books would also like to remind all teachers that teachers normally get a 10% discount on any cash purchase. Budget cutbacks have hurt everyone lately. The Read To Succeed Program is one small way that the entire community can aid in providing our children with the resources needed to give them the education they deserve.