Our Staff

The Staff at Village Square Booksellers want you to know that each of our customers is important to us.  We will be happy to help you make your selections for a book club, personal reading materials, or gifts. Our friendly staff have a wide variety of reading specialties. Be sure to browse our Staff Picks shelf.

We appreciate the fact that our customers in Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, Rockingham, Cambridgeport, Westminster, Westminster West, Grafton, Springfield, Putney, Athens, Townsend, & Chester, Vermont, and Walpole, North Walpole, Alstead, Acworth, Claremont, Charlestown,  & Westmoreland, New Hampshire and other surrounding communities have made a concerted effort to support their local independent bookstore since 1992. 

Thank you for your continued support.  Please stop in, call or email us with your suggestions.

• Pat  Fowler
• Alan Fowler
• Nancy Powers
• Jane (Mitzi) Hakey

Pat has been very active in the community- Past President of the Great Falls Regional Chamber of Commerce, she served on the board for  6 years & maintained their website for almost 4 years. She has been serving as co-chair of Rockingham Old Home Days for several years. Since 2000, she has organized the Our Town Front Porch Summer Entertainment Series, and is secretary of the civic organization.  Past President of the Friends of the Library, she still serves on the board. Pat is also a member of the Bellows Falls Woman's Club. 

Recently, Pat has become active on several school committees- Bellows Falls Union High School Community Relations Committee and the Literacy & Students with Disabilities Action Planning Committees.  She is on the Advisory Council to the Bellows Falls unit of the Boys & Girls Club and has been working with the Bellows Falls Middle School to obtain a 21 Century grant for after-school programming that will start in Sept 08.

Alan has served as Treasurer of the Chamber, the Jelly Bean Tree and Falls Area Community Television. He is a member of the Rockingham Planning Commission. Alan films the Rockingham School Board and the Bellows Falls & WNESU School Board meetings for FACT-TV. Alan is also a member of the American Legion.

Nancy is serving on several committees dealing with Restorative Justice.

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About Independents

School Orders

We work with local schools to order books for their courses.  20% discount, non-taxable.  Larger orders may be negotiable for a larger discount.

School Book Fairs

We started doing book fairs in our local schools during the 2006-2007 school year. From one day to one week, we will work with your staff to choose suitable materials for your book fairs. We are in the business of connecting children with books- we won't try to sell them cute pens or trendy posters!  Our Book Fair will offer a selection of books from our store's extensive Children & Young Adult Sections- Fiction, Fantasy, Art, Music, Mystery, Sports, Science & Nature.

A percentage of the profit can be used to purchase books in our store or will be donated to the school's PTA.

Personal Shopper Service

Do you need help choosing just the right book?  Let one of our staff members help you make your selection.

Give us a call at 802-463-9404, stop by the store, or email us.

Our staff will brainstorm with you to help you choose a perfect gift for someone on your gift list. What's their interests? Do you know any other books they've enjoyed?

We'll be happy to wrap your gift with our Free Gift Warp service, and will arrange for shipping if necessary.

Book Club Discounts

We're here to serve our area book clubs with discounts, a clean, well-lighted place, and more than a few amenities to make you all comfortable.

We offer book discounts for all book clubs who purchase their books from us and/ or choose to meet in our lounge. Decide on a name for your club (if you haven't already), and have a representative from your club come in and let us know your club's name, and which book (and how many) you'll need us to order for you for the month and the number of books to order. You can also email your orders to us or send us a long-term schedule. Just give us a list of the names of members and we'll hold their books behind the counter for pick-up. Oh--and we'll give you each 10% off your club purchases.

Hosting Your Book Club Gathering
We are delighted to host your book club gatherings in our cafe. We'll give you a cozy space to meet. With Green Mountain Coffee, Republic of tea collection, and various cold juices, we're here to take good care of you. Space is first come, first serve, so simply stop in to schedule a time. 

Mail order - shipments within the United States only

Mail orders: our book distributor offers a new Direct-to-home service- we can have any book shipped directly from their warehouse to you or have a book gift-wrapped and sent.  They charge .65 each item plus shipping costs (depends on method) and gift wrap is 1.25.  This is the quickest way we can get a book delivered.

Mail orders of on-hand items: if you need a package shipped as a gift, we'll be glad to provide our free gift wrap service & send it out for you. 

Fed Ex Shipping for U.S. shipments: your shipping time will be 3 to 7 business days, depending on where you want us to ship the books. This means your gift's total delivery time for in-stock items will be 1 day (availability) + 3 to 7 days (shipping time). So you can expect to have your gift arrive at it's destination 4 to 8 days after you place your order.  For Next Day Air shipping, the items will ship within 24 hours and arrive on the following business day--two business days total. Please also keep in mind that there are no weekend pickups in Bellows Falls, Vermont and that the UPS driver comes to the hardware store (the shipping service we use) store mid-day.  For really urgent shipments, we can manage to track the driver down in the village as he makes his rounds...

We are estimating the Fed Ex shipping costs to be :

Standard:    $5.50 

2nd Day:    $8.99 

Next Day:    $12.99 

Please note: If our shipping costs are less, your costs will be too.  Shipping is not a profit-center for Village Square Booksellers. 

Media Mail (US Postal Service) :  billed at actual costs

We accept American Express, Visa, Master Card, Discover & Diner's Club credit cards.

We utilize a Paypal shopping cart for online purchases & also accept payments through Paypal. 

Please note that we do not ship outside the US & Canada and do not accept orders for multiple copies of books to be shipped overseas or to out-of-state locations without prior approval.  All purchases by credit card are subject to approval by banking authorization.

Our bookstore is located in the historic district of Bellows Falls, Vermont

Parking in front in the Square or at the Waypoint Center (office of the Great Falls Chamber of Commerce) Lot. To park at the Waypoint Center lot, bear right & go down Canal Street, then turn right.

The front desk of our spacious interior

THE MARCH OF THE LITERATI     copyright 4-28-02  Audrey Boerum Their bookstore was moving! About 40 volunteers, customers left their cozy homes and weekend chores to brave the sleet-slick, rainy day downtown in the village square. One could almost hear the books sigh with relief as carts and box-filled arms snaked their way from the little store where there was barely room to browse or maneuver, into the spacious warm and welcoming quarters. In the background, drills hummed, saws buzzed, tunes played and everyone sang to the tunes of "Vinnie the Vet", "Ezra Veitch" and other snappy CD's. It was like an old New England barn raising - IT WAS THE MARCH OF THE LITTERATI... The Village Square Booksellers were moving! There were youths from town, a few notables and officials, members of the Chamber, local business folk, a nurse, a teacher, a lawyer, a waitress, a postal carrier, B and B owners, a psychologist, an artist, an engineer, a librarian, a reporter - and more All took part in this big community event - Their bookstore was moving Everyone knew everyone else. Breakfast goodies and gallons of coffee melted the early birds. Later, a lunch appeared for all. Yawning bookshelves filled, markers were readjusted Biographies next to History, Travel next to New Age, and so on Displays assembled, Cartons and boxes of books found their way to empty shelves in the cavernous store. A sense of possession was the spirit of the day with the cry of, "Barnes and Noble, eat your heart out!"