Blue Whale Books

06/01/2025

IT'S JUNE!!! Summer's here! Time to put on those Hawaiian shirts, grab your surf board, and...most important...stock up on beach reads. You want 'em, we got 'em. You get a 5% discount if you show up in a shirt with woody station wagons on it.

05/28/2025

THANK YOU!!

We've been nominated for C-Ville Weekly's Best Independent Bookstore. Vote early, vote often!

03/13/2025

OPENING LATE ON THURSDAY 3/13

We will be opening at 1:00pm today because the carpets are being cleaned. We'll see you in the afternoon when we're nice and spiffy.

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03/12/2025

HEY, IT'S NO LONGER COLD.

Time to shift to summer hours:
Monday - 10am to 9pm
Tuesday - 10am to 9pm
Wednesday - 10am to 9pm
Thursday - 10am to 9pm
Friday - 10am to 10pm
Saturday - 10am to 10pm
Sunday - 10am to 9pm

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01/08/2025

HEY, IT'S COLD.

Time to shift to winter hours:
Monday - 10am to 5pm
Tuesday - 10am to 5pm
Wednesday - 10am to 8pm
Thursday - 10am to 8pm
Friday - 10am to 9pm
Saturday - 10am to 9pm
Sunday - 10am to 8pm

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12/23/2024

HOLIDAY HOURS

Closed on Christmas Day. Sorry.
Open on New Year's Day, regular hours. Yay!!
As for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, we are open AT LEAST until 5:00pm. Beyond that, who knows? Maybe we'll hang around and soak up the cozy ambiance of a warm bookstore on a cold winter's night. On the other hand, maybe the call of the egg nog will be too strong. Maybe we'll have last minute shopping of our own to do. Or maybe Grumpy Santa will drive us out into the winter storm. Anything can happen. So you should probably call before you come. Cheers!

11/27/2024

CLOSED for Thanksgiving...
..so the staff can stuff their gobs with Gobbles. Back to regular hours on Friday.

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11/24/2024

THE TOTAL PACKAGE!!

Stop in and get a jump on your holiday shopping. We have everything you need for the book lovers in your life: t-shirts, tote bags, gift certificates...
..oh, and books.

If there are non-book lovers in your life, relax! Whatever they love, we probably have an antique print of it. And don't forget our maps!

10/05/2024

CLOSED UNTIL 2:00 PM

We will be closed Saturday, Oct. 5th until 2:00 p.m. while the staff is off larking about.

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09/09/2024

09/06/2024

IT'S FOLIO FOOL'S DAY!!

Five shelves of books from the Folio Society just landed in New Arrivals. These beauties look like new. They include poetry, fiction, classics, medieval studies, history, and drama...including the complete works of Shakespeare. While they look smashing and stunning on our shelves, wouldn't they look smashinger and stunninger on yours?

08/24/2024

THE POWER OF A GOOD BOOK!

The would-be thief became distracted after picking up a book about Greek mythology on a bedside table.