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Welcome to Skylight Books... located in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. You can order books from us 24/7 through this website (the database will show whether it is currently 'on our shelves.' If not in stock, we can usually get books within a week or so. Be sure to read our "Frequently Asked Questions" section on the left sidebar before ordering ).
We're on NPR's Marketplace Morning Report
Hear Kerry's commentary about expanding the bookstore on May 29, 2008's "Marketplace Morning Report" on NPR: Skylight on Marketplace Morning Report!
We are expanding to a new space next door!!
Help us give it a name! Prizes!
This summer we will open a lovely new storefront next door, where we will move our books on art, design, music, photography, film, theatre, fashion, architecture, graphic novels and magazines, which will also allow us to reorganize and expand some existing sections. Since we want to stop referring to it as 'the annex,' or Skylight Junior, we need your help. It will still be Skylight Books - followed by [something]. It has the same kind of high ceiling and skylight. I kind of think of it as an upstairs/ downstairs kind of thing (if we had an upstairs, anyway). So send your ideas for a name to: info@skylightbooks.com. Our favorite 3 names will get a $50 gift certificate!!
LUCY - R.I.P.
1996 - Nov 13, 2007.
Our beloved store cat Lucy is no longer with us. We thank you for the kind words about her -- she affected so many people in the 9+ years she lived at the store. She was a very loved cat.
(photo of Lucy by Dauna Whitehead, available on greeting cards at the store)
Visit our SKYLIGHT BOOKS WEB LOG (and leave your own comments). Click here!(A blog by our Skylight staff members.)
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1. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
2. 33 1/3 Master of Reality by John Darnielle
3. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown
4. Sad Animals by Adam Muese
5. The Boat by Nam Le
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"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect?
They are for nothing but to inspire."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)
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Author Birthday |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on this date in 1804.
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We have a full schedule of
author and community
events. Let us know if
you'd like a signed copy.Title of Event: BARBARA EHRENREICH
When: Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:30 PM
Location: Skylight Books
Description: This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation (Henry Holt & Co)
(photo by Sigrid Estrada)
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Informative titles on the importance of building and strengthening a vibrant local economy.
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by
Kingsolver, Barbara,
Kingsolver, Camille
“Tracing the food year,
Kingsolver—with her characteristic candor,
poetry, and grace—brings us meditations on
asparagus, turkeys, tomatoes, and mulch as she
and her family try to eat locally as much as they
can. This is a distinct hybrid of The Omnivore’s
Dilemma, Under the Tuscan Sun, and Walden.”
—Matt Plies, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR |
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