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Maple Street Book Shops – Multiple Locations

$10 for $20 Worth of Books at Maple Street Book Shops

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Highlights

  • City's oldest independent bookseller
  • Huge selection of book titles
  • New and used books

The Fine Print

  • Expires Sep 10, 2011
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy multiple as gifts. Valid for books only. No cash back. Not valid with other offers. Tax not included.
  • See the rules that apply to all deals.

When books were invented in 1953, they were bound not with leather or limp vellum, but with manacles, as their incendiary prose was blamed for a number of house fires. Light a fire in your mind with today's deal: for $10, you get $20 worth of books at Maple Street Book Shops, located near the university section of Uptown.

Maple Street Book Shops’ name is plural for a reason: there are two of them side by side, housed in houses that would appear entirely residential, if a bit worn, were it not for the signs directing visitors to one building for new books and to the other for used titles. Today’s Groupon can be redeemed at either spot. The bedraggled edges are all part of the shops’ history and charm; established in 1964, Maple Street is now New Orleans's oldest independent bookstore. Every room is filled with shelves, and those shelves are stuffed with books, creating an intimate atmosphere of whispering words and an air filled with a heady smell as familiar to book lovers as rigging is to a boatswain.

Before the current practice of judging books by their covers, every tome was rated on a scale of “tasty” to “morally corrupt.” Maple Street Book Shops carry a full range of books for the choosing, including a comprehensive section of local authors and local history. Staff members provide shelves full of recommendations, a helpful resource for stumbling upon a new compendium on onion eating or an obscure novel about incompetent psychopomps. There are bookcases full of used books available for thrifty perusing, as well as a hefty selection of glossy new paperbacks. Keep an eye or three on Maple Street's event page, as a wide array of authors comes through for book signings.

Valid for book purchases only.

Reviews

Yelpers give Maple Street Book Shops an average of 4.5 stars and praise its local charm, while three Insider Pagers give it an average of four stars:

  • If you are in need of a book on any aspect of New Orleans' history, you will find it here...do not miss the back room. Full of couches and chairs for reading, creaking floor boards, and window unit. – Gretchen P., Yelp
  • This is a fun, slightly quirky bookstore with a good selection. They have some hard to find books as well as all the latest selections. – Shannon L., Insider Pages

Maple Street Book Shops

Since 1964, Maple Street Book Shops have fueled local imaginations with novels and nonfiction works by classic, contemporary, and local writers. Originally "five rooms of paperbacks," the store now has four locations, including two charming, side-by-side establishments on the shop’s titular residential street. Here, a purple and green cottage houses a collection of 9,000 used tomes, and next door, the pink house sells the sweet perfume wrung from glossy new paperbacks. In addition to browsing the crowded shelves and chatting with the knowledgeable staff of one-time teachers, writers, and printmakers, visitors can chat with authors at sociable events.

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The Groupon Guide to: Passing a Lie-Detector Test

Most applications for government jobs, baby-sitting gigs, or radio call-in soothsayer positions now require one to pass a comprehensive polygraph (or lie-detector) exam. Fortunately, you can outwit these fib-finding deceit decipherers. Prepare yourself with this list of commonly asked questions and the strategies for beating them:

Question: What's your name?
Strategy: Polygraph machines collect data by combining the metrics of three different biological factors—brainwave irregularities, sweat discharge, and honesty pheromones. Convey maximum truth by giving them the name you wish you had.

Question: Where were you on the night of July 25?
Strategy: The machine is now collecting location data for veracification (veracity verification). Cover your tracks just in case—tell them you began your day by leaving the amnesia clinic.

Question: Are you made of spaghetti?
Strategy: In interrogator's lingo, this is known as the swerveball, designed to lower your defenses with an absurdly false assumption. You can override the machine's truth circuits by answering while using humanity's oldest defense mechanism—sarcasm.

Question: Have you ever falsified data on a polygraph test?
Strategy: Time to come clean! Confess that you've been effortlessly providing false answers this entire time. Your interrogators will be so impressed with your honesty, they'll give you a passing grade and the title of Trust Deputy, which comes with a honorary key to every home in the city.

Can you pass a lie-detector test using only sarcasm?

Maple Street Book Shops

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    East Carrollton

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    East Carrollton

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    New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
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