The ThriftBooks Blog

By ThriftBooks Team • December 16, 2021

The holidays are all about family traditions. This holiday season, discover how you can begin a new holiday tradition with your favorite childhood books.

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By The ThriftBooks Book Club • December 14, 2021

What’s better than bringing your family together to engage in a book that everyone in the family can enjoy? This month we recommend The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, and have put together discussion questions to help get the family talking.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • December 09, 2021

Our holiday plans aren't only about gatherings and gifts. We're also looking forward to what we will be reading and watching during these festive times. We enlisted OnePoll to survey 2,000 Americans about their holiday entertainment activities. Here’s what we learned.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • December 06, 2021

Today marks eighty years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As we commemorate this dark day in our history, we reflect on its significance and impact. Here, we offer a roundup of twelve of the best historical accounts and novels surrounding the event and its lasting impact.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • December 05, 2021

If you're a puzzle lover, you may have noticed the recent surge of interest in Cain's Jawbone. The fiendishly difficult literary puzzle, first published in 1934, has only ever been solved by four people. The book has been trending since a popular TikTok user began posting about her attempts to solve the confounding whodunnit case. Here are some similar titles to consider for those who love a puzzle.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • December 02, 2021

Karen McManus captivated the rapt attention of millions of readers, young and old, with her One of Us is Lying series. Now you can grab her latest book, You'll Be the Death of Me, just released November 30. Read on for ten more riveting YA series you can get right now.

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By Ashly Moore Sheldon • December 01, 2021

Prolific middle grade author Dav Pilkey's newest series, Cat Kid Comic Club, is sure to inspire creativity in aspiring young comics. A series is a great way to get kids hooked on the experience of literary immersion. Here we highlight some of the more robust series that burgeoning booklovers won’t be able to put down.

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By Barbara Hagen • November 29, 2021

It's Giving Tuesday, or what we here at ThriftBooks call ThriftGiving! For this year's ThriftGiving Tuesday, all of us here at ThriftBooks are super excited to highlight Book Drive for Kids and support the amazing work they are doing in partnership with Race to Kindness (and for kids everywhere) by donating 1% of our net sales today, Tuesday November 30, directly to Book Drive for Kids.

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By Michael Teague • November 28, 2021

As VP of Operations at ThriftBooks, I'm not only responsible for making sure you get what you order promptly and in the condition you requested, I lead a team that has to source all that product as well. The holidays are upon us and I am approaching with a smile on my face, excited because I know that we have an incomparable assortment of products to offer you.

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By Barbara Hagen • November 24, 2021

As we prepare for Thanksgiving, I'd like to highlight the idea of Moments. Moments are those split seconds of time that happen and to which we often don't pay much attention. Moments are fleeting. They are very often overlooked. This Thanksgiving, as we gather with our loved ones, I would like to encourage us pause and take in the moments of the day.

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