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Welcome
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Normals - New Spring & Summer Hours!!! Monday through Saturday 11-7pm Sundays 11 to 6pm "Google 'Baltimore used bookstore' and click 'I'm feeling lucky'. You will be. The first hit is Normal's Books & Records, one of the best used shops I've ever been to." - HTML Giant Check out our exciting maiden voyage into the over-trafficked world of the Blogosphere: Although we've reached the ripe age of 18, which in bookstore years is 70, we still maintain our shark-like edge, as evidenced by the following accolades: "Best One Stop Culture Hub" - Rolling Stone Magazine 2008 "Normal's is my favorite used book shop in town." Best Used Bookstore "Best Used Bookstore" "Best Hidden Treasure" "The gold standard" CITY PAPER GIVES "BEST VINYL STORE 2005" and "PEOPLES POLL - BEST USED BOOK STORE" * CITY PAPER GIVES "BEST USED BOOKSTORE" 2004!. Normal's Featured In Sun Paper Vinyl Resurgence Article, June 18th, 2007 |
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425
E. 31st
Street Our buying hours if you have treasures to sell are: Monday through Saturday, 12 to 5. We're always looking for Eastern and Western Philosophy, Artist's Monographs, Greek & Roman Classics, Hardboiled Fiction, Metaphysics and interesting and/or contemporary fiction by Robert Aickman, Paul and Jane Bowles, Bukowski, Beckett, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Charles Portis, Anna Kavan, Jonathan Lethem, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Kurt Vonnegut, Roberto Bolanos, Zora Neale Hurston, Jose Saramago etc. We're also always looking for sweet sweet vinyl. Especially punk, soul, electronic, psych, latin, african, contemporary and free jazz, experimental and Mrs. Miller. |
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We "garner & vend"
used & remaindered books, CDs,
LPs, 45s, new magazines, & small press, as well as hosting performances at the Red Room. |
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"A
Mysterious
Presence In Waverly" We aren't your usual anything, figuratively speaking. Probably the best way to experience us is to spend two or three days lurking in our store, dressed as a turk. An easier way is to read this. |
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"A
hotbed of...something."
Performance, publications, and Web linkery - it all starts here. Check out our Red Room performance space! Heaps of Normal's-related projects & publishing ("the Shattered Wig"), and links to the outside world that we want to plug...plus featured small press & unusual music. |
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SAMPLE QUOTE ...a taste of Normals |
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| Illustrations throughout are mainly by Dr. Al Ackerman, CASFC. |
