Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Outdoor Sidewalk Sale/ Garden Courtyard
We have been receiving a lot of a really good used books. Our customers are always commenting on our unique and interesting book selection in the store. Well, we would like to return the compliment.If these books that we have been buying back from our customers are any indication of your taste in books or your collections then we have some of the coolest customers in the city...Anyways, we ran out of room in the store so on sunny days you can now find a great selection of used (and some discounted new books)on display on tables on our sidewalk. take a stroll through Tremont and browse our great used book selection on the cool shade of our front yard.If you need a break from strolling around the neighborhood come on in and grab a glass of wine,coffee,tea,etc and sit down and relax on our Garden Courtyard.We have recently finished planting our flowers and it really turned out nice.It's a great place to read a book and enjoy the Cleveland summer.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Why Are All These Articles Posted On The Visible Voice Books Blog?
We have been asked a few times why we continue to put links to magazine articles on our blog. Three reasons: 1) almost all of these articles were originally printed in magazines that we carry at the store. So it’s a good way of illustrating some of the interesting topics that the magazines we sell cover. 2) It gives us an opportunity to turn some of our customers onto some very good reporting. Once you have read some of these articles we urge you to hunt down some of the other work by these writers 3) If you look at the articles we have chosen to place on our blog, they are full of information that you are not going to find in our local media and focus on very important topic’s we as a country are currently facing. These articles are a small public service that we feel responsible for continuing.Below are three very current articles about the challenges facing the United States as we try to determine the best path of disengaging our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan:
Syria Calling:
The Obama Administration’s chance to engage in a Middle East peace. By Seymour M. Hersh
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/06/090406fa_fact_hersh
The Gathering Storm: Nir Rosen’s article that recently appeared in The National regarding the disintegrating situation in Iraq.
On the sixth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to American forces in 2003, Nir Rosen finds that Iraqis are safer but hardly safe, sectarian tensions have been submerged but not eliminated, refugees are unwilling to risk a return to their homes, and almost everyone expects the worst after US troops withdraw.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090410/REVIEW/910535938
Sunni Iraqis Fear a Bloodbath of Reprisal after Possible U.S. Exit
By Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. Posted April 14, 2009.
As American troops prepare to leave, the Sunni who changed from insurgents to US allies over the last two years are fearful for their future.
http://www.alternet.org/story/136476/sunni_iraqis_fear_a_bloodbath_of_reprisal_after_possible_u.s._exit/