Pelican Bookstore

Did you check out all the weddings on 12/12/12!!!  Some lucky people out there.  Lots of happiness to them all!!

Lots of happy shoppers this week!! If you want a special book we will gladly order them for you, however they need to be ordered by Tuesday the 18th.  Christmas cards go on sale at 40% off on Monday the 17th.  Come in and see us this week!

On Tuesday, December 4th, join us for our Christmas Stroll! Shop and eat locally at participating stores (Including Pelican Bookstore) and receive discounts and win prizes, all while benefitting local animal rescue groups and animal causes that affect our community! All participating businesses will discount purchases 10% on December 4th, so do your Christmas shopping for a good cause!

• Shoppers will be encouraged to visit up to 24 participating businesses on Tuesday December 4th from 10am-5pm.
• Begin your day with breakfast at Castaway Grill or lunch at Fibber McGee’s with a free non-alcoholic drink at each!
• Each business will stamp appropriate space on the shopper’s list
• No purchase is necessary
• Participating businesses will discount purchases 10% on Dec. 4th
• Each Business has donated a door prize for a drawing at Sharky’s
• Shoppers & Friends are invited to join us for dinner & a complimentary glass of wine (as long as it lasts) as Sharky’s on OIB at 6pm.

Turn in your business list by 6:15 at Sharky’s to be eligible for drawings. Shopper’s name will be entered 1 time for each business they visited.

Door Prize Winners Must Be Present To Win!

See Website for details & complete list of participating businesses.
www.paws-ability.org

We hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and get to spend some wonderful time with family and friends! We can’t believe how fast the year has gone by. Christmas will be here before we know it, so it’s time to break out the shopping lists.

The election is over, time to think about doing some Christmas shopping! Come to Pelican, we’ve got some great ideas for everyone on your list! Puzzles, books, cards, unique gifts, cookbooks, and so much more! We’re glad to help you cross people off your list!

The latest in the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King has gone into paper. “The Wind Through the Key Hole” We have that!!   Clive Cussler has released a new Dirk Pitt novel called “Poseidon’s Arrow” His books are always an adventure.
One of or favorite authors Barbara Kingsolver has written “Flight Behavior”.  Hope it as good as her other…we’ll let you know.  Now that the elections over…Let’s read!

We seem to have some tropical weather coming our way.  We think it will brush the coast and head north.  Hope all our friends are safe from T.S. Sandy in the coming days.

Grab a good book and cuddle up and weather the storm!

Good rainy day reads always mean the classics, or one of your old favorites.  Maybe Moby Dick orThe Old Man and the Sea.  For me I’ll take Jane Eyre or Caddie Woodlawn. But most importantly, be safe!!!

Hilary Mantel has won the Man Booker Prize for “Bring Up the Bodies” a sequel to “Wolf Hall” which won the same prize back in 2009.  We have those! Out this week is “The Panther” by DeMille and next week Grisham releases “The Racketeer.”

Christmas books are starting to fill our shelves, Robyn Carr, Karen Kingsbury and Debbie Macomber to name just a few….and yes those Christmas cards are out, too!

Again this year we will be a drop off point for The Literacy Council’s books for Christmas.  They will take new and gently used books for children to age 18 and large print books for the folks who need them.  Please share your love of books and help others enjoy a great read. Halloween’s around the corner, stop in for a card or a special Halloween book for the kids or Vampires and Witches for the teens!!!

The upcoming Sunset@Sunset is this weekend!  We are proud to be a sponsor and have several tables set up for our local authors.  If you want to meet some terrific winters or pick up some pointers stop by and pick their brains. They’ll be in the shade under the trees.  If you have time walk over to the bookstore and see what’s new!!

Out this week!  Bill O’Reilly releases his new book “Killing Kennedy” following his very successful “Killing Lincoln”. James Patterson’s “NYPD Red” is out this coming week. John Sandford has a new Virgil Flowers out this week called “Mad River, and Dennis LeHane has relleased “Live By Night”

And of course Rowlings “Casual Vacancy” is on our shelves.

It’s a gorgeous time of year at Sunset Beach! The weather is cooling off just slightly and you’ve practically got the beaches to yourself!

But one of the best parts about this area in the fall is the festivals! We’ve got the Sunset at Sunset Festival, the Oyster Festival and the Festival by the Sea, all right here! Here’s the information on these great festivals!

Sunset at Sunset:

Saturday, Oct. 6 2012 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the 6th Annual Sunset at Sunset Festival at Sunset Beach, NC. Sunset at Sunset begins at 10:00 near the Ingram Planetarium. Last year over 4,000 people attended! The 2012 Sunset at Sunset event will be fabulous! New vendors, new events, great music and tons of fun for everyone are in the plans.

NC Oyster Festival:

October 20-21, 2012 will mark the 32nd Annual North Carolina Oyster Festival offering a fun mixture of new activities and old favorites that are certain to entertain the entire family! People come from far and wide to visit the Oyster Festival, a favorite festival to anyone who has been.

The coastal waters of Brunswick County provide an abundance of the marine mollusks each year bringing over 30,000 people to Ocean Isle Beach to celebrate the tasty treat.

The North Carolina Oyster Festival will feature live entertainment, arts and crafts, vendors, festival food, NC Oyster Festival Road Race, NC Oyster Festival Tennis Tournament, Surf Contest, a girl’s Beauty Pageant, a kid’s areas, the Oyster Shucking Championship, and an Oyster Stew Cook-off. Admission is only $5 for adults and free for children under the age of 8. The festival goes from 9am to 6pm on Saturday and from 9am to 5pm on Sunday.

Festival By the Sea:

The Festival by the Sea is a two-day event to be held October 27th & 28th, 2012. The Holden Beach Merchants Association hosts the very popular “NC Festival by the Sea.” This is the only day of the year that you can walk across the Holden Beach bridge and each year several hundred take that high altitude stroll to stake out the perfect spot to view the parade.

The festival kicks off with a parade down the Holden Beach causeway. This is the only day of the year that you can walk across the Holden Beach bridge and each year several hundred take that high altitude stroll to stake out the perfect spot to view the parade.

Arts and Crafts vendors are open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Sat. and 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on Sun. You’ll want to plan to be onsite for at least a couple of meals and a snack or two, just to sample a tiny portion of the food on hand.