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Towel Day

05/25/2010 9:00 am
05/25/2010 8:00 pm

In honor of the late author, Douglas Adams, May 25th has been declared Towel Day. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their love for the books and the author. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams' death on May 11, 2001. The towel is a reference to Adams' popular science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Don't PanicDo you know where your towel is?
If not, DON'T PANIC! You don't have to be caught without this important travel item. Run in to KBB today to pick up your emergency towel (while supplies last). You never know when your life may depend on it.

The original quote that referenced the greatness of towels is found in Chapter 3 of Adams' work The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough."

Towel Day - Don't Panic

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Mass Market Paperback)

By Douglas Adams
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780345391803
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Published: Del Rey, 9/1995
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THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

"IRRESISTIBLE!" -The Boston Globe
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!
"[A] WHIMSICAL ODYSSEY...Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy."
--Publishers Weekly

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Mass Market Paperback)

By Douglas Adams
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780345391810
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Published: Del Rey, 9/1995
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RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE

In the sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent joins his longtime friend Ford Prefect; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed former president of the galaxy; and Trillian, a sexy refugee, on a hilarious search for the current ruler of the universe.

Life, the Universe and Everything (Mass Market Paperback)

By Douglas Adams
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780345391827
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Published: Del Rey, 9/1995
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LIFE, UNIVERSE & EVERYTHING 3

The third installment of the zany Hitchhiker series finds Arthur Dent, reluctant space and time traveler, and his wacky entourage on a mission to prevent the destruction of the universe by killer robots.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Mass Market Paperback)

By Douglas Adams
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780345391834
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Published: Del Rey, 3/1999
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 SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FIS

The fourth madcap successor to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy finds Arthur Dent and a giant robot aboard a UFO, headed for a distant star surrounded by souvenir booths to investigate something fishy.

Mostly Harmless (Mass Market Paperback)

By Douglas Adams
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780345418777
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Published: Del Rey, 2/2000
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 MOSTLEY HARMLESS

In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves her remote home planet on the edge of the universe to set out on a crossgalactic odyssey in search of her ancestors' native planet.

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Mass Market Paperback)

By Douglas Adams
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780345455291
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Published: Del Rey, 5/2005
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SALMON OF DOUBT

On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacy - which includes seven novels and three co-authored works of nonfiction - Douglas left us something more. The book you are about to enjoy was rescued from his four computers, culled from an archive of chapters from his long-awaited novel-in-progress, as well as his short stories, speeches, articles, interviews, and letters.

 

And Another Thing... (Hardcover)

By Eoin Colfer
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9781401323585
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Published: Hyperion, 10/2009
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AND ANOTHER THING

Working with the blessing of Douglas Adams's widow, the author of the Artemis Fowl series offers a seventh installment of the popular series that has gained legions of fans through its blend of science fiction, fantasy, humor and absurdity. 

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