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Welcome, book lover! Books With A Past is an independent bookstore with two locations in Howard County, Maryland. The original store (the “mothership,” if you will) is located in western Howard County, just off I-70 in Glenwood. Our second store opened recently in historic Savage Mill. We offer a variety of genres, as well as literary-themed gifts, for your perusal. You are welcome to come in and browse, though of course we hope you will fall in love with some of our book or gift offerings and decide to give them a good home.
Books With A Past was opened in 1996 by Marvin and Mary Alice Schaefer. Over the first few years, the Schaefers expanded from a small 1400-square-foot store with 7,000 volumes to 4,200 square feet and 100,000 volumes. In December 2009, the Schaefers sold Books With A Past, name and all, to Erin Matthews. Since then, we’ve slightly downsized the original store and opened the second location. Erin is an avid reader who has wanted to own a bookstore since she was 15. She is grateful to the Schaefers and to the local community who have made this dream possible.
The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979
Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell
$29.99
The Dolphin
Robert Lowell, Saskia Hamilton
$9.99
The Sound of Many Waters
Robert Manuel Trindade
$2.99
The Changing Light at Sandover
James Merrill, J. D. McClatchy
$19.99
Galahad and I Thought of Daisy
Edmund Wilson
$7.99
Frolic and Detour
Paul Muldoon
$11.99
Until the Lions
Karthika Nair
$15.99
Love Poems
Editors of Canterbury Classics
$4.99
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Amit Chaudhuri
$9.99
Stories, Poems, and Songs from the Heart of an Old Farmer
Don Cooper
$3.99
Wilfred Owen
Dominic Hibberd
$8.99
Beauty and Bands
Henrietta Wisbey
$3.99
Night Thoughts
Edmund Wilson
$7.99
Oblivion Banjo
Charles Wright
$29.99
Heed the Hollow
Malcolm Tariq
$9.99
Unfolding Journey
Catherine Weeks
$3.99
The Pocket Haiku
Sam Hamill
$7.99
Khooni Vaisakhi: A Poem from the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, 1919, in Urdu Script
Nanak Singh, Navdeep Suri
$0.69
The Poetry Remedy
William Sieghart
$10.99
Love Poems for People with Children
John Kenney
$8.99
Arias
Sharon Olds
$13.99
Awakened Cosmos
David Hinton
$11.99
The Prophet and Other Tales
Kahlil Gibran
$4.99
Where to Begin
Cleo Wade
$11.99
A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost
Robert Frost, Kenneth C. Mondschein
$7.99
Encyclopedia of a Broken Heart
Jon Lupin, The Poetry Bandit
$9.99
The Salt in His Kiss
Alfa
$9.99
Telescope
Michael Heller
$9.99
Terminator
Richard Kenney
$14.99
Validate Me: A life of code-dependency
Charly Cox
$1.99