The Bookworm & BW Gifts LLC

From all of us at The Bookworm & BW Gifts, Merry Christmas to all of our cherished customers. Be safe, be smart and safe travels!

STOCKING STUFFERS! And don’t forget we have gift certificates... any amount!

Back in stock and SIGNED!! Get yours now! Call to reserve a signed copy... 652-6554 PERFECT gift for that baseball fan in your life.

Guess who we caught shopping in East Aurora today? East Aurora Mayor Pete Mercurio and Aurora Town Supervisor Jim Bach! And, with only two weeks left before Ch...ristmas, they both have a special message for you: Shop Local, Shop Smart, Shop Safe The retail shops in East Aurora are OPEN and most restaurants are offering takeout meals! All safety measures are being taken masks must be worn as well as social distancing and capacity limits are being observed. Don’t have time to shop? Remember the Chamber offers gift certificates that can be used at more than 75 local businesses! You can order them online www.eanycc.com - from the comfort of your own home or stop in the Chamber (652 Main St. in East Aurora) Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.! #shoplocal #shopsmart #shopsafe #maskup #weareopen #takeout #goodeats #geacc #chambermembers #wearesmallbusinesswny #manymembersonechamber #manyinterestsonepurpose

Essential oil diffusers in stock ( essential oils too!!) Open Holiday Hours Monday - Friday 10-8, Saturday 9-4, Sunday 12-4

Happening in 50 minutes!! What an awesome gift for the Baseball Fan in your life. Give us a call to have a copy signed and held for you. 716-652-6554

Getting in the Holiday Spirit watching Carolcade 2020 on WBBZ TV | Buffalo's Buzz

New Year, New You!! Have a look, we can order these titles in discounted 15% off list price.!! 716-652-6554 https://www.flipsnack.com//pa-ibco-dcat-new/full-view.html

Please Consider donating to The ROC at this event to help 3 different orgnaizations. https://fb.me/e/88R8AWOFS

New Diamond Dotz just in!!! See one you like? FYI we only have single ones of the styles.... #diamonddotz. #diamondpainting #funtimes

Missing Carolcade this year? Fear not! The Greater East Aurora Chamber of Commerce has you covered!!

Yesterday, at my Bookworm & BW Gifts, I sold a book to a blind man. Before you laugh at the absurdity of that statement, let me share a story. When I first beg...an my author's career, there was a woman who promoted my work everytime I was published....whether in a Chicken Soup Anthology, or in a book with my name below the title. At the time that woman, Sandy Starks, was the Interpretive Programming Director at Forest Lawn, which gives you some idea of the creative power of this woman-- being hired to produce entertaining presentations at a cemetery! Anyway, when my second book, Crown Hill, was published I set up presentations and signings throughout Western New York and across the United States. Thankfully most were successful. However, there were those signings where two attendees were the total number filling the room. One day I bemoaned that fact to Sandy. In response she shared some wisdom from the indefatiguable Kitty Turgeon, of Roycroft reknown. It seems Kitty and Sandy partnered in the early days of working to convince our community of the importance of restoring The Roycroft Campus. Part of their mission was speaking to any group willing to listen about this historical treasure tucked away in East Aurora's quaint village. Sandy explained that, for all the rewards of their work, the process was demanding and at times exhausting, especially when only a small number of people attended their presentations. She then told of one particular night when only four people were in their audience. Frustrated by the small number, Sandy pointedly asked Kitty, "What in the world are we doing. No one is even showing up for these presentations,"....or something along those lines. Kitty's response was classic. "It's not important the number of people who show up. It's that those who show up are the ones meant to hear what we have to say." I have hung on to those words through more than a few "lightly" attended presentations and signings, including yesterday. While the store was full and people stop to chat and purchase my books, when it came time to read from my newest book, Money or Love, there was exactly ONE person in attendance....and that was my next door neighbor! Undaunted, I asked if she would like to hear the Money or Love reading I had selected. She kindly said, "Of course!" And so I began. For the next ten minutes, I read aloud a portion of a chapter that is set on Christmas Day. It's about family, Christmas gifts, unbreakable bonds of love, and the traditions that weave us together. I started slowly and rather softly. Yet within a page, I was fully engaged with the book's characters to whom I had given life. Soon I was reading in character, giving each person's voice a suitable tone and timbre. I was completely absorbed in the process. When I finished the reading, my neighbor gushed and said she couldn't wait to buy the book, whenever it's published. And just as Kitty had suggested, at that moment, that one person was all that mattered....until I heard a voice coming out from behind a nearby bookcase. "That was wonderful." As I looked toward the voice, a gentleman appeared from behind the shelves of books. It was a man who had stopped to visit with me earlier. We had enjoyed a most remarkable conversation about books and their impact on reader's lives, and it began with his statement that he has macular degeneration. He is unable to see more than light or dark. He continued that it had been a gradual loss of sight that started years ago, but not before he was able to read 200 books, a number of which he was most proud. These days he continues his reading love affair through the wonder of audio books. As the man used his cane to carefully move from the bookcase to my signing table, he further praised my work, saying that he enjoyed hearing the excerpt and looked forward to reading my books. He then asked if I would sign the one he was holding in his hands. I sat stunned as he extended a copy of my third book, Heart & Soul. I told him I would gladly inscribe it, but as I did my writer's curiosity got the better of me. "How will you read this?" I asked directly. His answer is one that will forever be etched on my writer's heart. "I will hire someone to read it to me." I sold a book to a blind man yesterday...one of only two people who heard my presentation. It just may be the most memorable sale of my author's career. #heartandsoul

We have Jen Stanonis ‘s children's weather book in! Written by local meteorologist Jen Stanonis and Illustrated by local artist Bill Blenk

Happy to have been a small part of the day! Congratulations!!!!!

Copies arrived and copies are gone!! Will post when Amanda brings more! Spook-Eats

Meet & Greet with Media Personality John Zach author of The Day the Buffalo River Burned; The Incredible Story of Stanley P. Spisiak - Saturday October 24th from 11am-1pm. ALSO enter to win a copy of Zach's highly sought after book from 1986 The Train Man!! See our website https://eabookworm.com/events%2Fworkshops for more information.

This Saturday we welcome 2 authors: Thomas Rosenthal and Michelle Wnek Meet the Author Thomas Rosenthal Saturday October 17th 11am-1pm... Author of Bloodletting and Germs: Bloodletting and Germs tells three stories. One of Dr. Allen and his wife Millicent, a second about East Aurora, and a third about medicine’s enlightenment through the nineteenth century with over 400 sources connected in a fact based historical novel. Heading west, new medical college graduate Jabez Allen MD becomes embroiled in the care of a dying child and attached to a village in New York's western frontier only to have competing doctors in the local medical society rebuff his license application. He conceals his medical practice by opening the first drugstore in rural New York and marries a village socialite who is his bookish equal and an activist for the rights of fugitive slaves. Together they share and grow through a lifetime of caring. Consumption, anthrax, cholera, the Civil War, melancholia pandemics, germs, and an intemperate society challenge his acumen during a time when science transforms medical practice. Death, spiritualists and quacks test his sympathies. Administering to the poor and wealthy alike, including the daughter of a U.S. president, Dr. Allen never abandons the motto painted on his first office window, No Cure, No Pay. Dr. Jabez Allen’s drugstore opened in 1834 and still serves the village of East Aurora, NY. Based on actual events, Bloodletting and Germs is the memoir Dr. Allen might have written. Author Michelle Wnek Saturday October 17th 1pm-3pm Author of God Can Heal Your Trauma Trauma affects many people. Trauma includes (but is not limited to0 war, rape, child abuse, and anything that threatens an individual's life and well-being. When the effects of trauma interfere with one's life, it's time to do something about it. God Can Heal Your Trauma explores clinical and Christian trauma therapies, and some testimonies. The book also explores the effects of trauma, some psychiatrics disorders related to trauma, and the types of trauma therapies. YES! Healing IS possible!!

We like to have fun here at The Bookworm & BW Gifts.

STOCK UP SALE!!! Starting Saturday September 19th ALL pre-read books BUY 3 , GET 2 FREE!! *store credit can be used!!!! STOCK UP SALE

Kid sized masks just in time for back to school!!!

We want to give a great big shout out to new customers who have shown us so much love in the last weeks and months. We have had so many new customers come in to have a look around, and more importantly than a sale, express their concern and support for our small business. In light of all that is happening in this world there is still more good than bad. We need to be reminded of this often and we have been by our loyal regulars and first timers who have come in recently. THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS......PLEASE KNOW WE FEEL THE LOVE AND IT DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED!!

Dog Man fans start howling!! Grime and Punishment release date 9/1/20 Pre-order your copy now!! 716-652-6554