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Lynchburg’s Oldest Bookstore & Finest Toy Store. est. 1976

George and Sylvia Givens, a frustrated teacher and a game-for-anything wife and mother, opened Boonshire Books in 1976 in an old gas station on Boonsboro road. After clearing away the fumes and cobwebs and covering up the oil stains with remnant carpeting, they began a legacy that has since gone through many incarnations.

 

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Givens Books New Books DepartmentGivens Books is Lynchburg's largest and oldest independant bookstore. If we don't have what you are looking for in our store, you may ORDER HERE from our online partner and have books delivered to your door. Or, you may have us order books for you, in which case you can pick up you order at the store and eliminate shipping charges. We can get most titles within 2-3 days. That's faster than anyone in town or online! We have over 1.2 million titles available for order.

We give volume discounts up to 20% to businesses, schools and organizations. This is for multiple books per title orders, and purchases that are over $200.

 

 

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READ OF THE MONTH

 

Beautyland

 

Marie-Helene Bertino

 

 

 

"[A] remarkable funny-sad novel...Astonishing."

Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review

 

Even as a child, Adina Giorno knows that she is different. She is from a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine allows her to report back on the oddities of Earthlings. For years, she makes a life for herself among humans and dispatches transmissions on the terrors and wonders of their existence. Then a friend urges Adina to share her messages with the world. Is there a chance she is not alone? Tender, joyful, and startlingly original, Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland is a novel about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth, and a story for anyone who has ever felt not quite at home in this world.

 
 
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Givens Books & Little Dickens
Address:
2236 Lakeside Drive
Lynchburg, VA 24501
USA
Phone: 434-385-5027

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