Mostly Books North Manchester

Mostly Books North Manchester Used book Emporium and gift shop. Great novels written prior to 1953. Science fiction. Science. Biographies. Comics. Travel. Art. Politics. Religion. Poetry. Music. Humor.

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09/08/2026

Literary lore: September 13, 1876 Sherwood Anderson - novelist, poet, and short story writer (Winesburg, Ohio) - is born in Camden, Ohio. F. Scott Fitzgerald will characterize him as "the possessor of a brilliant and almost inimitable prose style, and of scarcely any ideas at all."

08/11/2026

Literary lore: August 27, 1660. Because of John Milton's attacks on King Charles II, books written by the poet are burned in London.

07/07/2026

Literary lore: July 29, 1869 Novelist Booth Tarkington is born in Indianapolis, Ind. He will win the Pulitzer Prize twice: for "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams".

06/10/2026

Literary lore: June 20, 1905 Playwright (The Little Foxes) and memoirist (Pentimento) Lillian Hellman is born in New Orleans. Her advice to fledgling writers: "Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped."

05/02/2026

Literary lore: May 22, 1885 Victor Hugo dies, aged 83, in Paris. He is mourned as a national hero and buried in the Pantheon.

04/12/2026

Literary lore: April 28, 1926 (Nelle) Harper Lee is born in Monroeville, Ala. She will model the boy Dill in her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" after her childhood next-door neighbor Truman Capote.

03/17/2026

Literary yore: March 23, 1857 Cookery expert Fannie Farmer is born in Boston, Mass. In 1896 she edits The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, which will run into 21 editions before her death in 1915.

New Arrivals!! (The bookmarks are hand made for us by a very talented artist - J. McVay!) Come take a look!!
02/09/2026

New Arrivals!! (The bookmarks are hand made for us by a very talented artist - J. McVay!) Come take a look!!

02/09/2026

Literary lore: February 3, 1907 James A. Michener is born in New York City. His "Tales of the South Pacific" will win the Pulitzer Prize in 1947.

01/20/2026

We are celebrating tomorrow, January 20, 30 years of Mostly Books! We thank everyone for their support. We will have coffee and cookies. Come in out of the cold and say hi!

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111 E. Main Street
North Manchester, IN
46962

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Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm

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