03/30/2020

Destination Books Suspends Operations at Freedom Farmer's Market

Destination_Freedom_SignAlthough the Freedom Farmer's Market at the Carter Center remains open for the time being ( they are controlling crowds to maintain social distancing), Destination Books will not be there on Saturday, April 4th.  Books about gardening, the environment and sustainability are important and we enjoyed conversing with people about books, but it is better to be safe and allow those selling and purchasing fresh produce the space they need.

We hope  to be back later this year. You can still view a host of books on these topics at Chelsea Green Publishing  and you can order from the employee-owned publisher directly. (We will continue carrying their books in the future.)

Yes, we'll miss being there just like we are already missing the baseball season. A Cubs "emotional support" blanket will just have to suffice.

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03/02/2020

Destination: Books at Freedom Farmer's Market

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Destination: Books will be at the Freedom Farmer's Market at the Carter Center in Atlanta on Saturday, March 7th and Saturday, April 4th, selling books from Chelsea Green Publishing, which publishes a cornucopia (a word I use sparingly) of books on "the politics and the practice of sustainability." The pop-up booth will be feature books on organic gardening, vermiculture (worms), edible landscaping and grassroots activism. Destination: Books will also have a few used books on related topics such as alternative transportation. 

The Farmer's Market hours are from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

 

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12/14/2019

Destination: Books at Alibris

Alibris_190x112Destination: Books has an online portal on Alibris at destination.alibrisstore.com. Books that have been recently added are listed on this site's sidebar.  Because of the COVID-19 virus we are currently suspending processing orders. 

A complete list of offerings with further commentary can be found here. 

 

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12/12/2019

Destination: Books Defined

Bookshops-Carrion    Destination: Books is a  pop-up booth based in Atlanta that reflects the interests of its proprietor-moderator, Murray Browne, who is the author of The Book Shopper: A Life in Review and Down & Outbound: A Mass Transit Satire. Destination Books specializes in history,  travel writing,  organic gardening - sustainability, and books about books.

Murray lives in Decatur, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. He maintains blogs based on his two books  The Book Shopper blog and the Down & Outbound blog. Destination Books is dedicated the idea that books can take you to many places in many different ways.

To contact Destination: Books, send an email to murray.browne905 AT gmail.com. Our first pop-up was at the 2019 Decatur Book Festival, see details below.

To buy books online from Destination: Books visit our store on Alibris at destination.alibrisstore.com 

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09/01/2019

Destination Books Booth Debut

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A very good looking and colorful booth with an eclectic blend of books and magazines made its debut at the 2019 Georgia Book and Paper Fair at the Labor Day Decatur Book Festival.  Thanks to the many who helped make it possible: Denise Casey, Bonnie Poore, Barb Shirkey, Mark Burrell, Paul Dry, Jim Adams and the Georgia Antiquarian Book Association.

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06/29/2019

Destination: Books at Decatur Book Festival on Labor Day Weekend

Destination: Books will have a booth at the Georgia Book and Paper Fair during the Decatur Book Festival on August 31st and September 1st. The Fair is located in the air-conditioned Ebster Recreation Center. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday. You can walk to the Ebster Center from the main festival or drive as there is plenty of  parking. There are 20+ vendors, so it's like going to used and collectible books superstore. 

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Books for Sale

  • Remediation: Understanding New Media
    Written for media junkies, this trade paperback (including color photographs) from MIT Press makes the argument that new media borrows quite a bit from old media. ($4) plus shipping.
  • The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher
    Taschen GMBH publishers celebrated its 25th anniversary by reissuing these 76 M.C. Escher prints in a single book in 2008. Did you forget to save the posters from your dorm room in the 1970s? Now you can relive that decor for only $6 (plus shipping) while playing music of J.S. Bach.
  • The Arts and Crafts Movement
    This hardback with dust jacket from Chartwell Books (1995) looks at this movement through the lens of architecture, glass, ceramics, metalwork. Lots and lots of color photographs. The Arts and Crafts movement grew from those who "deplore the ugliness of mass-produced goods made from cheap materials on the assembly line." Don't we all? ($6) plus shipping. ISBN 0-7858-0456-0 SOLD
  • Edward Hopper and the American Imagination
    A hardback collection of fiction and poetry from writers who have found inspiration in Hopper's work. Includes works by Paul Auster, Ann Beattie, Tess Gallagher, Walter Mosley, Leonard Michaels, and James Salter. W.W. Norton ($6) plus shipping. SOLD
  • Down & Outbound: A Mass Transit Satire by Murray Browne
    This episodic work of fiction was designed specifically for mass transit riders ($11) plus shipping.
  • McLuhan on the Nature of Media: Essays, 1952-1978
    Edited and compiled by Richard Cavell, this collection of essays (in hardback) is perfect for McLuhan junkies ($20). ISBN 978-1-58423-582-8
  • Seurat by Richard Thomson
    Although this 1985 Phaidon Press Limited edition is in softcover has 225 illustrations with 60 in color on fine stock paper. ($10) + shipping. ISBN 0714826758
  • Songbook by Nick Hornby (signed)
    This is a 2002 first edition of Nick Hornby's brief essays about the music he loves. Includes the accompanying CD ($50) plus S & H. The book is signed by Hornby and inscribed as well.
  • Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (signed)
    This 2010 paperback is signed by the author.($15) Plus shipping
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