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Kid's Weekly Special: a tour of the National Gallery

This week's Kid's Special is a unique book in which the ghosts of artists in the National Gallery are roaming at night and alterting each other's paintings. A unique split-page format allows kids to search for the source of the alterations and to keep track of which ghostly artists are most active. Save 20% on This Week's Special for Kids, get free shipping and help your kids to get a foundation in great art.

Interactive Holiday Gift Guide ready to go

The Interactive version of our Holiday Gift Guide is ready to make your holiday shopping easy. Following this link will take you to a version of our Holiday Catalog where you can order books, games, puzzles and more right from the page.

If you prefer to download the Gift Guide in its printed form, see the next article.

Holiday Gift Guide ready for download

Our Holiday Gift Guide is availble on the website for download. Just like the regular MLB News, the Holiday Gift Guide is available in a PDF format which you can download and, if you like, print.

Please take a look at our Holiday Gift Guide to see the wonderful assortment of puzzles, games, mugs and other gift ideas (even books) that we've got for you. As always, we urge you to shop early to avoid the disappointment of out of stock items.

Save up to $20 on tickets to Lee Child's lecture on Dec. 6

Lee Child, author of the best-selling Jack Reacher novels will be in Pittsburgh on Monday, December 6 at the Drue Heinz Lectures.

In cooperation with the lecture series we're happy to make available to our customers a discount of $10 each on up to two tickets to that evening's lecture. All you need to do to qualify is buy one of Lee's current books: Worth Dying For or 61 Hours from us.

If you've already purchased the book from us you can still get your discount, just use your sales receipt or call us if you can't find it.

Here's how it works:

  1. Buy a copy of either of Lee's two current books: Worth Dying For or 61 Hours from us. Keep your receipt.
  2. Call the Lecture Series office at 412-622-8866 between 10 and 4, Monday through Friday. You'll need a credit card for your ticket purchase along with the receipt number from the bookstore.
  3. You'll get up to two tickets, best seats available, at a $15 price, a savings of $10 per seat.
  4. Tickets can be mailed, time permitting, or held at Will Call.

If you've already purchased either of these books from us you can still get the discount. Use the number on your sales receipt or call us at 412-828-4877 and we'll look up your sale and give you the number to use.

New Arrivals

New Arrivals this week reflect the early December book arrivals with the bulk of these like to begin appearing next week.

We have received the unsigned Tom Clancy book, Dead or Alive, which won't go on sale until Tuesday. Our signed copies are expected at that time.

New books arrive every day. Check our New Arrivals page often for everything new at MLB.

Signed first editions

What's on the website now

Here's what you can find at www.mysterylovers.com:

A milestone on our Facebook page

We've broken the 900 fan barrier on our Facebook page.

Come visit us at facebook.com/mysterylovers where you can join the 901 folks who are already our fans.

More events...

I know you don't want to hear it but holiday shopping has begun--get your list ready before things start to run out.
Richard, Mary Alice and the MLB Staff

Did we mention that we won a Raven Award?

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