Roundabout Books
Independent Bookstore Day at Roundabout Books!
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldIt’s almost time for Independent Bookstore Day, and we hope you’ll come by ours! On Saturday, April 27th, we'll be serving complimentary tea from Camellia-Sinensis (the best tea in the world!), and our vinyl logo-stickers and bumper-stickers will also be free for those stopping in. We'll also have a Roundabout Books T-shirt raffle! And as always we'll have thousands of great new, used, and vintage books to browse. We carry excellent, thoughtfully-selected books in all genres. Most of our used books are under $10, and our used children's books are under $5! If you are a bookstore T-shirt collector, we have just refreshed our sizes and colors in the shirts we introduced last November. Come enjoy our cozy wood-stove while the season still allows it, or if it's a warm day, have a seat on our patio or lawn and enjoy the sun. Independent Bookstore Day Details: --Saturday, April 27th at Roundabout Books, 85 Pierce Street, Greenfield MA --Complimentary Tea --Complimentary Stickers --T-shirt raffle --New, Used, Vintage, and Children's Books on two fully-accessible levels --Cash, Checks and Credit Cards Accepted --Parking is in our upper lot or on the street. Please be respectful of neighbors' driveways if you park on…
May Media Sale CD, DVD, Records & Book Bins at Roundabout Books
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldIn what has become our regular pattern, we'll open up our lower level for the sale the weekend of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of May with tables of CDs, DVDs, and Vinyl records for $2 on Friday and $1 all day Saturday and Sunday; as well as bins of 50 cent books throughout the sale. The collection of CDs and DVDs seems to me particularly rich with interesting material this time. You never know what you'll find! The books, CDs, DVDs will be all fresh since last sale. The vinyl will be a combination of fresh material and material that we decided to retain from the end of the last sale for one last look! $1 SALE: Saturday, May 4th - Sunday, May 5th, 10am - 6pm $2 PRESALE DAY: Friday, May 3rd, 10am - 6pm $1 DVDs and DVD sets $1 CDs and CD sets $1 Vinyl Records Thousands of CDs and DVDs, all fresh inventory ~8 large bins of 50 cent books --50 cent books will be the same price throughout the sale The sale will be on the lower level, but our main bookstore is open now, too! Browse new, used, vintage, and children's books in…
June Media Sale at Roundabout Books
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldCDs, DVDs, Vinyl Records & Book Bins May 31st - June 2nd Hello Everyone! The big June media sale is ready, and in fact we are starting up with the $2 day on the last day of May! The sale will have some of everything again, CDs, DVDs, Vinyl Records, and Books. We had requests for more DVDs so I've worked hard to pull together DVDs from all of our sources, and I think this should be a much fuller collection. The vinyl won't be as plentiful as last time, but it will be all fresh, so I hope you'll find something that you would like to take home! CDs, DVDs, and Vinyl records for $2 on Friday and $1 all day Saturday and Sunday; as well as bins of 50 cent books throughout the sale. Both stores--Roundabout Books and Boswell's Books are open daily through the summer and we are filling them with hundreds of fresh books every week. We'd love to have you over. Thank you and see you soon! $1 SALE: Saturday, June 1st - Sunday, June 2nd, 10am - 6pm $2 PRESALE DAY: Friday, May 31st, 10am - 6pm $1 DVDs and DVD sets $1 CDs…
CD, DVD & Book Bin Sale! 🌻 July 5th – 7th
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldWe're ready with another big sale! It isn't so far away! Take in the pretty fireworks and enjoy some watermelon for Independence Day and then we'll be here if you'd enjoy a visit! It is always so hard to characterize what all we will have, but I know that the 50 cent book bins are as plentiful as I remember ever seeing them. We're estimating 8 bins, but it easily could be more! I don't have vinyl at the moment, so I've just posted for CDs and DVDs, but all around it looks like a great load and excellent browsing. We continue to see new folks in the bookstore, too, so I want to be sure to say again that we are open again, enthusiastically, every day of the week and weekend, 10am - 6pm. Even if your main interest is in bargain browsing at our monthly sale, feel free to come up see the shop! It's a great pleasure to share our work and the building's history. $1 SALE: Saturday, July 6th - Sunday, July 7th, 10am - 6pm $2 PRESALE DAY: Friday, July 5th, 10am - 6pm $1 DVDs and DVD sets $1 CDs and CD sets Thousands…
Media Sale: August 2nd-4th!
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldNext weekend we'll be ready for another big sale at Roundabout! This time we have a little of everything. We'll have actually quite a lot of CDs and DVDs, as well as some audio books, VHS, tapes, vinyl records, and, of course, books. As you know, we are delighted to have our main store open again now, and we are open daily at Roundabout with new, used, vintage, and children's books, 10am - 6pm. Check out our fully accessible upstairs levels when you visit, if you like! As of this moment, we have 48,182 books and items cataloged and organized in our main store (about double our collection when we opened in November 2023), and we are adding more books daily. For the big sale, we also open up our lower level--which we usually just use for book sorting--for shopping, and there we will have at least 10 gaylord bins of books, perhaps as many as 20 gaylords for this coming sale. The harvest is truly plentiful. If you enjoy sorting through vast quantities of books, as I do, it makes for a great weekend. As is our usual pattern, the books in gaylords will be 50 cents through the…
CD, DVD & Book Bin Sale! September 6th- 8th $2 Friday – $1 All Weekend
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldSeptember Media Sale CDs, DVDs & Book Bins September 6th- 8th Roundabout Hello Everyone! Our September sale is ready! $2 Friday; $1 over the weekend, in our classic pattern. The product is diverse and excellent, with more DVDs and books, but a substantial number of CDs, as well. Books in our bins will be 50 cents, even on Friday--priced to go home with you. All books, CDs, DVDs, everything are fresh since last sale. Labor History This Month I heard on the the radio that half of the country is traveling over the Labor Day Holiday weekend. Hopefully they are all coming here! (Western Mass is very nice.) We'll be open on the holiday at both stores. It is also a great time to take a look at our collection of books on the history (and continuing mission) of organized labor in the United States and beyond. One of our perennial favorites, which we have freshly in stock, is The Gritty Berkshires, which is both a people's history and a local history, a book recommended by our longtime trucking partner and literary friend, Don Wheeler. We also stock some titles that get to the interrelationship between the work of organizing…
October Media Sale at Roundabout Books
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldWe're ready for our big media sale! This one is shaping up to be a big storm of media. I just picked up a store closeout from the Berkshires, and with it received a voluminous collection of vinyl. We should have at least 50 boxes of vinyl records, including 3-4 full boxes of 45s. We will use our perennial and favorite pattern of selling all our CDs, DVDs, and Records for $2 each on Friday, and then reducing them to just $1 each starting on Saturday morning. Book bins will be 50 cents throughout the sale. It looks like we'll have a lot of bins, at least 10, but maybe as many as 20 gaylord bins to shop through. We'll sell our 45s at 50 cents through the sale, too, just like they were books, but they're 45s--what a deal! $1 SALE: Saturday, October 5th - Sunday, October 6th, 10am - 6pm $2 PRESALE DAY: Friday, October 4th, 10am - 6pm $1 DVDs and DVD sets $1 CDs and CD sets $1 Audiobooks $1 Vinyl Records 50 Cent 45s Thousands of CDs and DVDs, all fresh inventory Large collection of vinyl records from a store closeout--50 or so boxes ~10-20…
Vintage Book Sale at Roundabout Books
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldVintage Days, Greenfield's weekend-long festival featuring vintage events and shops, is on the horizon. Over the Vintage Days weekend (October 11-13), we'll be offering 20%-off all our books over 50 years old--which is all of our vintage book collection. The Greenfield Business Association and our fellow shop owners and community members have been adding to the event year after year, and naturally with our old shop and love of old books, we're happy to see it being cultivated and stewarded. We'd love to have you over during these beautiful fall days! As always, there will be $2 hot tea and $3 iced tea available, and you can enjoy our porch and lawn for sitting and picnicking. We hope to see you there!
November CD, DVD, Vinyl Record & Book Bin Sale at Roundabout Books
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldNovember CD, DVD, Vinyl Record & Book Bin Sale $1 SALE: Saturday, November 2nd- Sunday, November 3rd, 10am - 6pm $2 PRESALE DAY: Friday, November 1st, 10am - 6pm $1 DVDs and DVD sets $1 CDs and CD sets $1 Audiobooks $1 Vinyl Records Thousands of CDs and DVDs ~10 large bins of 50 cent books --50 cent books will be the same price throughout the sale All CDs, DVDs, and books fresh since last sale Vinyl is about half fresh and half from the large vinyl collection in our last sale The sale will be on the lower level of our store, Roundabout Books, at 85 Pierce Street in Greenfield, MA. Our regular bookstore is open upstairs with two full levels of used, new, vintage, and children's books Parking is in our upper lot or on the street--please be respectful of neighbors' driveways if you park on the street Cash, Checks and Credit Cards Accepted
Tracy Grammer & Jim Henry + Holyoke Hummus
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldWe're so grateful to have Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry performing again at Roundabout this Sunday. They performed last year when we had just opened our new space on Pierce Street and it was truly a wonderful day for us. We'd be delighted to have you over again, too! All the details are below. We are far more settled into our new bookstore, too, so I'd love to show you around. Peace and well wishes to you all! Tracy Grammer & Jim Henry Concert at Roundabout Books Sunday, November 10th, 2024, 2pm 85 Pierce Street, Greenfield, MA $20 Suggested Donation Nationally-touring acoustic duo Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry will perform at Roundabout Books on Sunday, November 10th at 2pm. The concert will take place in our fully-accessible, third floor book room at our 85 Pierce Street location. Seating is unassigned, so feel free to come early. Holyoke Hummus will be selling their falafel, grape leaves, and all their excellent Middle Eastern-style foods from their food truck starting at lunchtime if you would like to plan to have lunch, too (and baklava perhaps). About the Musicians Called “one of the finest pure musicians in folkdom” by the Boston Globe, Tracy Grammer…
Small Business Saturday & Sunday at Roundabout Books: 10% Storewide Sale
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldNew, Used, Vintage & Children's Books Free hot tea from our any of our Camellia Sinensis teas Free Vinyl Stickers Enter a raffle for a free T-Shirt Each Day Free shipping anywhere in the U.S.A. Free gift wrapping A great time to shop locally! Saturday, November 30th- Sunday, December 1st I am delighted to be able to write to you about a suite of sale events that we have been planning for the upcoming weeks, and especially the days after Thanksgiving, when you may be planning shopping for the holidays. We are deeply grateful to have our bookstore on Pierce Street open this year--and open now for a year. It is a joy to be here and I feel a sense of certainty and conviction that your support is a gift that you personally have given to me and our staff. Thank you all truly! There are two things I'd like to highlight about our shopping experience as you consider what makes sense for you for holiday shopping. 1. Since we opened in 2012, we have always wanted to offer prices and service that earn your business on their own. We want you to shop locally and support us as…
December Media Sale: CDs, DVDs, Vinyl Records & Book Bins December 6th – 8th
Roundabout Books 85 Pierce Street, GreenfieldI'm happy to be able to host our monthly media sale this coming weekend, December 6th - 8th. We will have $2 CDs, DVDs, and Vinyl Records on Friday, and, as is our perennial pattern, reduce everything to $1 each Saturday morning at 10. We'd love to have you over! Books will be 50 cents through the whole sale, and it is a fresh and abundant load of books. As you know we don't always have vinyl. We'll have about 20 boxes at this sale, all fresh since the last sale. We also have good and voluminous collection of DVDs, all fresh. We'll have fewer CDs for this sale again, but the quality looks excellent to me at first blush. Our main bookstore is open, too! It was great to see so many folks over the big post-Thanksgiving shopping days. We are very happy for your support and we are happy to supply gifts in addition to our book collection, if you'd like to browse when you are at the shop: fine teas, olive oil, coffee, calendars, journals, T-shirts, and art supplies. We've also been aiming to increase our stock of the most in-demand new books, and, of course, we…