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  • Welcome/
  • About Us/
    • Our Philosophy
    • Our History
    • FAQ
  • Events/
    • New Events
    • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    • What Goes On Here . . . .
  • Merchandise/
    • Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator
    • Anarchism
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Audiobooks: Fiction
    • Audiobooks: Nonfiction
    • Audiobooks: Poetry and Drama
    • The Beat Generation
    • Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories
    • Books, New & Notable
    • Books: Children's New & Notable
    • Books in Original Languages or Translated from English
    • Boxed Notecards
    • Charles Bukowski
    • Cookbooks
    • Dance
    • Decomposition Books
    • Downton Abbey and its world
    • DVDs
    • Eric Sloane
    • French & Indian War
    • Games
    • Game of Thrones
    • Graphic Lit: DC and Marvel
    • Graphic Lit: Vintage and Independent
    • Harry Potter
    • Honey
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2017
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2018
    • Joan Didion
    • Local Authors Past & Present
    • Lovecraft and Howard
    • Marianne Moore and Her World
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Notebooks
    • Only at Whistlestop, including gift cards
    • Out of Print Clothing and Accessories
    • Out of Print Sizing Guide for T-Shirts
    • Outdoors/Nature
    • Pennsylvania Outdoors
    • Pennsylvania Plain People
    • Puppets and Toys
    • Puzzles
    • Scotland & the Scottish Diaspora
    • Signed Copies
    • Staff Picks
    • Summer Reading Books for Local Schools
    • Vikings
    • Vintage Radio
    • Wendell Berry
  • Our Staff/
    • Staff
    • Staff Picks
  • Location & Directions/
  • Blog/
  • Contact Us/
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WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP

Independent Bookseller since 1985.

Books, New & Notable

WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP

  • Welcome/
  • About Us/
    • Our Philosophy
    • Our History
    • FAQ
  • Events/
    • New Events
    • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    • What Goes On Here . . . .
  • Merchandise/
    • Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator
    • Anarchism
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Audiobooks: Fiction
    • Audiobooks: Nonfiction
    • Audiobooks: Poetry and Drama
    • The Beat Generation
    • Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories
    • Books, New & Notable
    • Books: Children's New & Notable
    • Books in Original Languages or Translated from English
    • Boxed Notecards
    • Charles Bukowski
    • Cookbooks
    • Dance
    • Decomposition Books
    • Downton Abbey and its world
    • DVDs
    • Eric Sloane
    • French & Indian War
    • Games
    • Game of Thrones
    • Graphic Lit: DC and Marvel
    • Graphic Lit: Vintage and Independent
    • Harry Potter
    • Honey
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2017
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2018
    • Joan Didion
    • Local Authors Past & Present
    • Lovecraft and Howard
    • Marianne Moore and Her World
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Notebooks
    • Only at Whistlestop, including gift cards
    • Out of Print Clothing and Accessories
    • Out of Print Sizing Guide for T-Shirts
    • Outdoors/Nature
    • Pennsylvania Outdoors
    • Pennsylvania Plain People
    • Puppets and Toys
    • Puzzles
    • Scotland & the Scottish Diaspora
    • Signed Copies
    • Staff Picks
    • Summer Reading Books for Local Schools
    • Vikings
    • Vintage Radio
    • Wendell Berry
  • Our Staff/
    • Staff
    • Staff Picks
  • Location & Directions/
  • Blog/
  • Contact Us/

Notable New Books & More

Here are some recent books in hardcover or in paperback for the first time or books that are featured in our blogposts, books that we think are important or interesting beyond all hype and promotion.  Being a multimedia store, we also note cds or dvds that we think are worthy of our customers' attention.

  • Library of America (1)
  • art (1)
  • audiobook (1)
  • ballet (1)
  • cookbook (1)
  • essays and reviews (1)
  • religion (1)
  • Young Adult (2)
  • photography (2)
  • CDs (3)
  • Science Fiction (3)
  • autobiography (3)
  • poetry (3)
  • children (4)
  • memoir (6)
  • signed copies (8)
  • essays (9)
  • fiction (14)
  • biography (17)
  • Fiction (24)
  • history (34)
  • New books (55)
  • nonfiction (58)
  • Books (73)
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  • New books/
  • nonfiction/
  • photography/
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  • Welcome/
  • About Us/
    • Our Philosophy
    • Our History
    • FAQ
  • Events/
    • New Events
    • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    • What Goes On Here . . . .
  • Merchandise/
    • Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator
    • Anarchism
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Audiobooks: Fiction
    • Audiobooks: Nonfiction
    • Audiobooks: Poetry and Drama
    • The Beat Generation
    • Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories
    • Books, New & Notable
    • Books: Children's New & Notable
    • Books in Original Languages or Translated from English
    • Boxed Notecards
    • Charles Bukowski
    • Cookbooks
    • Dance
    • Decomposition Books
    • Downton Abbey and its world
    • DVDs
    • Eric Sloane
    • French & Indian War
    • Games
    • Game of Thrones
    • Graphic Lit: DC and Marvel
    • Graphic Lit: Vintage and Independent
    • Harry Potter
    • Honey
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2017
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2018
    • Joan Didion
    • Local Authors Past & Present
    • Lovecraft and Howard
    • Marianne Moore and Her World
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Notebooks
    • Only at Whistlestop, including gift cards
    • Out of Print Clothing and Accessories
    • Out of Print Sizing Guide for T-Shirts
    • Outdoors/Nature
    • Pennsylvania Outdoors
    • Pennsylvania Plain People
    • Puppets and Toys
    • Puzzles
    • Scotland & the Scottish Diaspora
    • Signed Copies
    • Staff Picks
    • Summer Reading Books for Local Schools
    • Vikings
    • Vintage Radio
    • Wendell Berry
  • Our Staff/
    • Staff
    • Staff Picks
  • Location & Directions/
  • Blog/
  • Contact Us/

WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP

Whistlestop Bookshop is an independent bookseller in Carlisle PA.  Founded in 1985, Whistlestop sells new and secondhand books  in all categories and a wide variety of sidelines, from magazines to puzzles, literary t-shirts to cds and dvds, from totes to local honey.  Our mission is to get the right books in the right hands at the right time.

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Carlisle, PA 17013
(717) 243-4744

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