Our Sale Starts Today!
All this weekend (Friday, July 10th through Sunday, July 12th), Chaucer's is having its annual sale for Independence Day.
20% off everything in the store, except for magazines, newspapers, textbooks, and gift certificates.
Stock up on beach reads, get started on your summer reading lists, or take home the coffee-table book you've had your eye on all year!
For more information, please call the store (805.682.6787) or email us at info@chaucersbooks.com.
4th of July Schedule
Just to let you know, we'll be closed on Saturday, July 4th.
We'll be open as usual on Sunday, July 5th (9am to 6pm).
Have a great weekend, everyone!
P.S. Our annual Independence Day Sale will be next weekend—Friday, July 10th through Sunday, July 12th. Don't miss the chance to save 20% on your summer reading!
Weekend Top 5: Must-Read New Novels
When it came time to go in search of this week's Friday Top 5, we knew immediately that we must seek out Kathryn & Kerry in order to discover which of the endless number of new novels are worth reading.
This week, our fiction gurus Kathryn and Kerry tell us which new novels they think everyone really ought to read as soon as possible.
The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton
Kate Morton is an Australian author who writes so beautifully that we've been known to fight over who gets to choose her books on our monthly list of staff favorites.
In The Forgotten Garden, a young woman discovers that her beloved grandmother had a secret past—as a child, she was found abandoned on a ship from England to Australia, with no memory of her past and only a suitcase and a book of illustrated fairy tales to hint at her origins.
We won't spoil the book by telling you more, but we will say that fans of Morton's earlier novel, The House at Riverton or Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale will love The Forgotten Garden.
Weekend Top 5: Best New Young Adult Fiction
Our children's department (located in what used to be the shop next door to Chaucer's) has its own dedicated staff: Lana, Blanca, Rose, and sometimes Jordan and Summers.
When you spend so much time around books for young people, you can't help but become a bit of an expert...
This week, Lana, our teen & young adult literature expert, has listed the very best of the new teen fiction for us.
The Reformed Vampire Support Groupby Catherine Jinks
Think vampires are romantic, sexy, and powerful? Vampires are dead. And unless they want to end up staked, they must stop fanging people, admit their addiction, and join a support group.
A refreshing, funny antidote to our secret, guilty enjoyment of intense, doomed romance-y, vampire-themed bestsellers.
Saturday Top 5 from the Mystery Ladies
Here in the store, we each have pet sections to keep up, so each of us becomes an expert in some particular genre.
Because of this, we all know that mystery fans should be referred to Barbara or Marenda for recommendations—thus, we've dubbed them The Mystery Ladies, and asked them to come up with a list of their favorite new additions to the mystery & suspense aisles.
Top 5 New Mystery & Suspense Novels
Grave Goods, by Ariana Franklin.
Ariana Franklin's third book in the Mistress of the Art of Death series takes us to medieval England. Very gothic, with a great sleuth: Adelia Aguilar, who acts as the 12th-century version of a forensics expert.
First in this series was Mistress of the Art of Death, followed by The Serpent's Tale.
When ordering from Chaucer's Books online, please remember that not all books listed on our website are currently on the shelves at our store.
In general, if a book on the website is listed as "available," it's either in stock or we can get it for you within a few days.
When in doubt, please give us a call at (805) 682-6787, or email us at info@chaucersbooks.com. We're always happy to help!
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