January 23, 2012
Schuler Blog Reboot
First off, I’d like to apologize for our long down-time. Needless to say, the holiday season
This is All I want to do these days...
was busy at Schuler Books, and a post-rush recovery was necessary. 
At the moment, I am planning a reboot of the Schuler Blog to make it more exciting, more consistent and more Booktastic!
Thanks for your patience while we rework things – we’ll see you in a few weeks with a brand new blog!
December 5, 2011
Great Reads for Teens This Holiday Season
Buying gifts can be hard enough, but when you throw a teenager into the mix it can become even harder. So, to help relieve some of your gift-buying stress, I’ve compiled a few lists of books that will make great gifts for teens (or for any young adult literature lover) this holiday season.
December 2, 2011
IndieBound Launches Ebook App!
Shelf Awareness has published a short piece on the new IndieBound Reader for Android which will allow you to purchase eBooks from Schuler via your Android phone!
Check it out for info and links:
Customers who purchase e-books through independent booksellers now have a mobile 
option with the launch of IndieBound Reader for Android, which was developed by Bluefire Productions. The app, currently offered for devices using the Android operating system, will soon be available for iOS devices as well. It can be downloaded from the Android Market or IndieBound.org.
“With the release of IndieBound Reader, independent bookstores are taking another major step forward as players on the digital stage,” said Matt Supko, technology director for the American Booksellers Association. “A year after the launch of Google eBooks, indies have become a vital and fast-growing part of the e-book market, thanks to their creativity, marketing savvy, and knack for matching the customer with the best book for them-print or digital. The IndieBound Reader app gives independent bookstores a home on the most popular mobile devices, making it easier than ever for customers to shop local when they shop digital.”
November 29, 2011
Enter to win an iRiver eReader and $50 Gift Card!
Did you know that you can buy Google eBooks at schulerbooks.com? Google eBooks can be read on any popular dedicated eReader (except Kindle), on IPads, IPods, tablets, and smartphones, and on computers! And, you’ll find that the vast majority of our Google eBooks are sold at the exact same price you will find at any other eBook retailer.
Sign up to win an iRiver Story HD eReader and a $50 Gift Card by sending your name and phone number to schulerbookscontest@gmail.com or by visiting your local Schuler Books. The iRiver Story HD eReader is specifically configured to work well with Google eBooks, so you will have a seamless buying and reading experience when purchasing from schulerbooks.com.
The winner will be announced on December 19, just in time for Christmas!
November 23, 2011
Black Friday and Small Business Saturday at Schuler Books!
Tis the season to be shopping!
And you can do it at your local, independent bookstore — Schuler Books is your one-stop shop for books, movies, music, unique gifts and more! And if you’re indecisive you can give a Schuler gift card and let your loved one decide what they want!
Starting Friday we are celebrating Black Friday Weekend and Small Business Saturday with a 3-day sale of 50% off selected Simon & Schuster titles at all of our locations! We’re featuring a great group of titles, including bestsellers like the new Stephen King (11/22/63 – a revisionist history of the JFK assassination), Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible and Walter Isaacson’s bio of Steve Jobs; as well as great gift ideas like the beautiful new edition of The Iliad or the wondrous picture book The Man in the Moon by William Joyce!
November 18, 2011
National Book Award Winners for 2011
Well, we don’t have the awesome Michigan representation that we saw in last year’s list with Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule, but the National Book Award Winners have been announced. Who do you think should have won? I definitely think the Shine debacle cast a bit of a shadow on this year’s awards.
The 2011 National Book Award Winners Announced
The winners of the National Book Awards were announced last night, November 16, at the National Book Foundation’s 62nd National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
This year’s winners are:
Fiction
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA) — A September 2011 Indie Next Great Read
Nonfiction
Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W.W. Norton & Company)
Poetry
Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)
Young People’s Literature
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out and Back Again (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
November 1, 2011
Our first holiday gift recommendations.
We promise to help you out with your holiday shopping this year with lots of great recommendations, and here are our first two!
Need a little more darkness in your holidays? Then check out two new books about two very different men in black.
Love Darth Vader? Then you need to check out ‘Star Wars: The Complete Vader‘ by Ryder Windham and Peter Vilmur. Full of unreleased images and reproduced memorabilia, this book will tell you everything you need to know about this Dark Lord of the Sith, his story and the impact he’s had on society and culture.
Not a fan of evil? Shadowy vigilantes more up your (crime) alley? Pick up The Batman Files
by Matthew Manning. In the style of many ‘Vault’ books of the past, this book treats Batman as though he is real, with excerpts from Bruce Wayne’s journals, blueprints for various gadgets, and even childhood drawings. A must for any Batman fan (and now that ‘Arkham City’ has been released, there are a lot more of them out there), this beautiful book is an awesome keepsake.
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EDIT: 11 20 11 – HOLY RECALLS, BATMAN!
We’re sorry to have to report that the Batman Files book was recalled from everyone’s shelves. Hopefully we’ll get another printing in before Christmastime, but we’re not sure, yet.
However, as mentioned, there are all kinds of good Batman and DC books to check out in our stores. If you haven’t seen Noel, yet, you should totally grab a copy.
October 31, 2011
3rd Annual Zombie Night Better Than Ever!!!!!
So many thanks go out to all the people who attended our 3rd Annual Zombie Night at Schuler of Lansing last Thursday (especially those who brought food donations for the Greater Lansing Food Bank)! This was the biggest turnout we’ve had, with, by far, the best costumes we’ve seen.
With the lights dim in parts of the store, we weren’t able to get good pics of everything — we had a great time with ghost stories from Ghost Writers anthology author Elizabeth Kostova, Elizabeth Schmuhl and Keith Taylor, and the florescent blacklight twister board looked AMAZING — but check out the ones we did get, and click on this link for a news clip from Channel 6 News! 
End of the night group photo with the Shatner!
Winners of the kids' costume contest.
Adult costume contest winners.
Click thru for more great pictures!
October 26, 2011
Breaking Point, by Dana Haynes
They are the Crashers. When a plane goes down, the “Go Team” assembles from across the country to secure the wreckage, investigate the incident, and determine what happened, and what — or who — was to blame. It’s a tough job that can sometimes be hazardous and thankless, and requires a certain amount of emotional distance from the horrible event, itself.
But how do you do that when the Crashers, themselves, are in a crash?
When three of the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigators are involved in an accident in Montana, on their way to a conference, the personal and professional stakes are raised. The investigator in charge is a pig-headed egotist, his assistant is well-meaning but untried, and some of their best people have been sidelined by the wreck, or are elsewhere. But, as bad as the wreck and its investigation are, the Crashers have no way of knowing just how bad things are going to get.
