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Yesterday’s Books – Modesto

$10 for $20 Worth of New and Used Books, CDs, and DVDs (Up to 56% Off). Two Options Available.

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In a Nutshell

Floor-to-ceiling bookcases house more than 100,000 new, used, and out-of-print books, all categorized beside a collection of CDs and DVDs

The Fine Print

  • Expires Jun 5, 2013
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per visit. Valid only for option purchased. Must use promotional value in 1 visit. Valid only for books, DVDs, and CDs.
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A book can transport a reader’s imagination anywhere, from an ethereal elven world to a star base in the Andromeda galaxy to the very back of a calculus classroom. Expand your horizons with this Groupon.

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  • $10 for $20 worth of used and new books, CDs and DVDs
  • $20 for $45 worth of used and new books, CDs, and DVDs

A floor-to-ceiling stock of more than 100,000 new, used, and out-of-print hardcover and paperback books includes categories such as general fiction, for which guests can peruse previously owned titles conjured up by the likes of John Grisham, Nora Roberts, and Tom Clancy, all marked down at least half off the cover price ($8+). The bookstore extends to an array of other sections as well, such as children's books ($1.25+). Most of the shop’s general stock sells for no more than half the publisher's price.

Yesterday’s Books

Paula Gauthier loved working at Yesterday’s Books through high school and college so much that she ended up there, years later, as a manager. When the owners retired, she and her husband, Phillip, decided to buy the store and continue its more than three-decade run as a repository of new, used, rare, candy-coated, and out-of-print books. Today, the Gauthiers continually update a collection of more than 100,000 titles, all categorized into sections such as general fiction, classics, theology, and children's books stacked on floor-to-ceiling bookcases. They also stock eight always-unlocked display cases with rare books, such as a first edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin that would buckle the knees of any bibliophile, history buff, or person named Tom. Other collectibles range from a specially bound copy of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six to a signed volume by Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan and John Carter series.

The Gauthiers have also brought modern updates to the shop, such as replacing the paper-based store-credit system with an electronic one, which even gives members an online account to track available funds. Phillip observes that some regulars swap out up to 50 books per visit. In addition to book collections, the Gauthiers maintain a catalog of CDs, DVDs, and sheet music.

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The Groupon Guide to: Tricking Your Kids into Eating Vegetables

Kids don't want to eat vegetables because vegetables aren't fun. Make legumes laughably fun with these tips for preparing vegetables:

  • Put black beans on circular slices of potato to give your kids healthier "chocolate-chip cookies."

  • Cut corn off the cob and offer their picky palates some "rotten goblin teeth."

  • Mash yams and your young ones will be thrilled to eat "a very sick man's innards."

  • An avocado kind of looks like a hand grenade.

  • Remove the strings from celery. Kids will voluntarily eat celery if it's not strung like some kind of ridiculous violin.

Mom, can I have seconds of goblin teeth?

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    Modesto

    3457 McHenry Ave.
    Modesto, California 95350
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