Second Newsletter
Halloween favorites, staff recommendations, and a guide for shopping with Out West Books this Holiday Season! Welcome to our Second Newsletter!
Welcome to the Fall Book Season 2021, or as we like to call it, “Wasn’t LAST Year the Crazy One?”. With winter holidays fast approaching, the book industry is finding itself struggling to keep up with unprecedented disruption. Container and paper shortages, printing delays, loss of workers, pandemics and myriad of other mercury-in-retrograde situations are amounting to a perfect storm this holiday season. Please order ahead! November is the new December! As we enter the season, we can not promise that every book you search for will be available by December. The earlier you order, the better chance our store has of being able to find that perfect present for the one you love!
That being said, we have 10,000+ books in our store that could be a perfect match for you or somebody on your list! While we may not be able to track down the book that is out of print, get that older title that just went viral on TikTok or restock the newest hotness, what we can… and love to…. do is connect readers with that perfect book. It’s what we do. It’s why we get paid the big bucks! Ask our staff for their recommendations, and they’ll help you pick something that’s just right for you!
On to the Excitement!
With Halloween less than a week away, we wanted to show off all of our favorites! The books displayed in the picture are just the beginning! Across all genres, the shelves are filled to the brim with books containing vampires, werewolves, and other creepy crawlies! Get ready for your party with a Halloween cocktail on our recipe shelf, or find a book about covens in our fantasy section. How about a witchy rom-com? Out West has anything you could be looking for this week!
Our Staff’s Recent Favorites!
“Razorblade Tears is much more violent and graphic than what I usually read but the evolution of two dads, one black, one white, who join forces to solve and avenge the murders of their estranged sons who had married each other is unforgettable. While savage it is thought provoking and actually even a little heart warming. One of the top ten of my year right now!”
Didi
“Benjamin Alire Sáenz brings Ari and Dante back to life with a beautifully written novel that shows what it was like growing up queer and latino in a 1980’s El Paso, Texas. Ari and Dante are finding out what it means to grieve and grow, experience desire, and to chart their own worlds as they go. As stunning and poetic as the first book in the series!”
David
“Skunk and Badger are on a geology field trip (Important Rock Work! Camping!), when they get a little too up close and personal with a petrified dinosaur egg. Will their chicken friends, (who can speak dinosaur, by the way) save Skunk and Badger? Will Fisher, Badger’s cousin and thief, beat them to the treasure? I loved this book even more than the original!”
Marya
“Remember Maud from “An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good”? Well, here are her (life) stories. You’ll find out if she has been naughty all her life and if she also has a good side?!”
Christina
“Jack, the survivor from Peter Heller’s Book The River, is now a fly-fishing guide on the Taylor River. The owner of the Kingfisher Lodge, where Jack now works, is a mysterious multi-millionaire and the paying customers don’t really seem to be there for the world-class trout fishing. Hmmmm.
The owner of the lodge, and his “seven” corporation are suspiciously similar to the real-life “eleven-adventures” company that is buying up property in Gunnison County. Is life imitating fiction here or vice-versa? Either way, I was completely creeped out. Read this yourself and let’s talk.”
Marya