Our Holiday 2016 catalog is arriving in mailboxes any minute now, and among the amazing gifts packed into its pages you’ll find our Book a Month packages for the coming year! For those of you who aren’t familiar with Bas Bleu’s Book a Month program, the premise is simple: Treat your favorite bibliophile (who may be you!) to an entire year’s worth of terrific books, shipped either all at once or on a monthly basis throughout 2017.
For the second year, we’re offering not one, but three Book a Month packages. Our bestselling Bluestocking Book a Month package is an eclectic collection of top-notch fiction and nonfiction, while the Life Stories package is filled with fascinating biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. But this year we’re offering a twist on our Mysteries package! Yes, we’ve compiled another spine-tingling mixture of whodunits and thrillers…but we’re keeping their titles and authors secret until they arrive on your doorstep! After all, mystery mavens hate to have the surprise spoiled too early, right?
Each month of 2017 here at the Bluestocking Salon, we’ll offer discussion questions, interviews, or other supplemental information about that month’s Bluestocking Book a Month selection—for book clubs as well as thoughtful individual readers. It’s the ultimate literary gift that keeps giving all year round! Check out all the Bluestocking and Life Stories Book a Month titles below; you can hover your mouse over the cover image for a teaser, or click to read the full description on our website. And for the Mysteries package, we’re offering you teasers about each novel, to whet your appetite!
Please note: We can’t allow substitutions for any of the titles in each package, but all of the books from the Bluestocking and Life Stories packages are available for individual purchase, if you’d like to pick and choose for yourself. We will only be able to accept orders for ship-monthly Book a Month packages through December 25, 2016.
We won’t reveal the titles of the delightful cozies, classic whodunits, new literary thrillers, and modern ghost stories in this suspenseful package, but we will give you a few clues…
As always, happy reading, bluestockings!
Really disappointed that you are not revealing the Mystery titles in your new book-a-month club. I can make a guess with your clues, but I’d really rather know the exact titles.
Would you like for us to email you the list of titles?
I think this is a fun great idea!
Thanks, Karen!
I would love to see the mystery titles as well. Thanks!
Hi, Lynn! If you’d like a list of the titles, you can shoot our editors an email at editors@basbleu.com.
Is there any way you could consider offering your books digitally? Would love to give them to my daughter but she only listens to books while she walks to and from work.
Hi, Mary Anne! Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, we’re not able to offer audio versions of the Book a Month selections at this time.
Please email mystery titles to barbara15102@yahoo.com
Just sent an email your way!
Please email me the mystery titles barbara15102yahoo.com
You don’t mention price…that I could see…what is the cost?
Good morning, Marjorie. The prices of the three packages are different, based on the prices of the books they contain. You can see them all on our website. (http://www.basbleu.com/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi?action=CATEGORY&PATH=ZBAM6) By buying the package, you save 20% on the “a la carte” price of the books. However, the books from the Bluestocking and Life Stories packages are all available for individual purchase. Feel free to send any additional questions our way!
I really like the book titles in the two clubs that list them! I have a question about the Bluestocking Club listing: I already have Clementine, and was wondering if I could either substitute or subtract that book?
Great question, Brenda. Thanks for asking. We’d love to be able to accommodate your request; unfortunately, our inventory system doesn’t allow substitutions. Perhaps you have a friend who would enjoy receiving Clementine as a gift? We appreciate your understanding.
Quick question…when is each book mailed; for example, possibly end of the month for the month for the next month’s selection?
Great question, Brenda. Our shipping department sends out the books at the end of the previous month, aiming to have each month’s title in mailboxes on or around the first of the month. So the January book should arrive around January 1, maybe a little earlier, maybe a little later, depending on location/carrier.
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