Barnes & Noble

Very friendly and honest staff. Well organized with a better selection than almost every other Barnes & Noble in the area. A+ selection of vinyl records that anyone can easily find something to fit their personal tastes. My new first Barnes & Noble stop.

This location is very similar to Easton in terms of size and available product. The only ding against it is the fact that it is out at Polaris and I don’t enjoy going out there that much due to the size and traffic. The store itself is massive and has a ton of product everywhere. The layout appears to be very close to the same as Easton which makes it nice if you are looking for something specific.
The staff here was very friendly and quick to help locate a specific product including calling other stores in the area and helping to place an item on hold for pickup. This store was pretty busy but it is to be expected based on the location.
If I happen to be in the area already, I am sure I will come and browse again. The only thing I would change if I could would be to have it actually attached to the mall rather than being part of the outdoor mall section.

Like most brick-​and-​morter stores these days, the prices are too high. I like to look around this store, check the price on Amazon, and add it to my wish list to check reviews later. It is a good place to physically hold the books, and look for gifts, but you are always going to pay $ 2 – 5 more than if you would buy it online. I would suggest looking at places like Half Price Books, rather than this place. It really is just a pretty store, that is a ripoff.

What’s not to love about a book store that offers coffee, pastries and a goos book! This B&N bookstore is clean and well organized. You shouldn’t have a problem finding your favorite book or a new author!
Lots of «after holiday» sales going on!

Great place to meander and relax!
There are many times I go to this place to just relax and waste away time. There is an entire mall here, but most of the time, there is no need to leave this store.
There is a nice little coffee shop in here which serves Starbucks coffee. The last time I bought something from there, they were still not accepting Starbucks cards for payment, so that is very aggravating. However, if you have a B&N membership, make sure to use it to get 10% off here too. Some of the baristas will not mention it.
It is very rare that they move the books around, so going to my favorite genre is easy to accomplish. There are multiple computers around to help you find any book you seek. I like just wandering through the area and being surprised when I find something interesting.
The staff has always been fantastic! I went in looking for a very specific calendar for 2015 and one of the staff went from aisle to aisle trying to find it right along with me. When we couldn’t find it in the aisles, she looked online, and found they didn’t have it. I appreciate a staff member taking their time to assist someone in this manner.
When I see the checkout line getting longer, I always see a staff member come up front to open another register.
Definitely a great place to spend time!

This was a nice place to go have some tea and light refreshments, browse/​purchase and read books etc. on a nice Sunday or Saturday morning or afternoon. I am a member so I like getting a nice discount on my purchases. Unfortunately, this has changed since people started to bring their dogs to the café and bookstore. There are enough dog parks etc. to take your dog in the area that the bookstore and café should not be one of those places. Again, unfortunately the employees there are too scarred to tell people to remove their dogs so the rest of us have to find elsewhere to go for our purchases and refreshments! Employees are nice but they need to correct customers who are out of line. If this was just once ok but this has been several visits that this has occurred. I wish the management would put up appropriate signs and train employees not to be scared of customers who are clearly not doing the right thing. As a side these are not service dogs although now days everybody acts like their dog is a service animal sheesh!(

The only reason Polaris is worth my time. I like the café here even if it is packed every time I come here. The store is laid out pretty well and it is a relaxing place to shop. I think I like Easton’s a little better but this one works pretty well. The upstairs is large and a good place to walk around and get lost in the stacks of books. Great location too.

Wasn’t sure if I wrote a review on the right Barnes and Noble but this place is a great place to find games, books, magazines, cards, stationary and more!

Not much to say here. Tons of books, great staff, good service, and a SBUX coffee nook to please the studious (with free wifi). Can’t go wrong.

Barnes and Noble used to be my most favorite place in the whole wide world, especially this location. I may be a little biased… I used to work here. I helped open this store, and when I say that, I mean when they moved from across the street to this newer location, the place was completely empty and we put it together. I helped put shelves together and unpack all the boxes for signing and help shelve every single book getting ready for this place to open. Even though it was hard work, it was magical. It also happens to be where I met and fell in love with my boyfriend, so for that I will always be grateful. I quit because I needed a job making more money, not because I hated working here. But since I’ve quit, I’ve seen the bookstore change so much. Now, much of the space is filled with toys, games, electronics, and other gifts and gadgets that have no place in a bookstore. That makes me so sad, but I know times are changing. I wish they’d go back to the old model and turn it back into a place where I could come get an awesome cup of Starbucks, shop around for hours for the perfect book or three, and then sit and read my purchases in the most comfy of the comfy chairs. Even though it’s changed, this place will always, always be like a second home to me.

I really like this particular B&N. It’s got a big city feel to it with its larger size and two floors of stuff. I can’t put mu finger on why, but it just seems more cosmopolitan than the one at Easton, though that’s a decent B&N too.
I really like the way the store in Polaris is laid out. It’s also in the perfect spot to kill some time while you’re waiting an hour and a half to get a table at The Pub (which is pretty normal).

It’s a nice B&N with a cozy café and some chairs upstairs. I really liked this lay out until I went to the one in Easton.

This is an excellent bookstore.
This Barnes and Noble location used to be smaller and used to be located across the street in a strip mall. It was moved about two years ago to the Polaris Fashion Place’s new outdoor mall area.
The bookstore has a lot, and is really helpful. With two floors, the store has an excellent array of books as well as magazines, movies, and music. It also has a Starbucks café located inside the bookstore with free WiFi.
The prices can be kinda steep, but many other bookstores have equally high prices and don’t have the huge selection that this Barnes and Noble does.
It also has a large discount books section.
The store also has a nice children’s book section and several reading areas set up around the store.
I go here pretty often to purchase books when they first come out. I’ve also ordered books from other B&N locations at this store.
The store has very kind and helpful workers and the Starbucks has equally kind workers. It’s a great B&N location and you can find an awful lot here.

I visited this Barnes & Noble on a Saturday and the place was bustling. The layout is striking, as you can see straight up past the second level. The place is huge and the variety is great. It also seemed like a nice hangout spot as the café was full of people. The workers are also friendly and helpful.

Nicely laid out and large enough to have a good selection. The upstairs is particularly nice, with several sections of seating available and fabulous natural lighting during the day. Staff is helpful and the computer terminals are also nice for quickly looking up and locating a book.
The café is a Starbucks so is alright for drinks but nothing special for treats and lousy for meals. The café is smaller than I’d like and feels crowded just from the tables and chairs, let alone once it fills up with people.

Spacious book store. Starbucks. Helpful employees (most of the time) and if not, little computer kiosks to look up books. My only complaint is the sales people when you first walk in the door to sell me the Nook, even though I just want a simple paperback book. A lot of selection and free shipping if you want to purchase online. Great support for teachers and also a new education section.

After spending an awkward few hours at the Polaris Mall food court attempting to study but instead overhearing commentary on the perversity, attire, and general carriage of the passersby, I headed over to the Barnes and Noble café to see if it was a more conducive atmosphere.
One thing that immediately struck me was the extensive amount of seating, and the high ratio of accessible outlets. There are at least twenty small round tables, with a couple of larger ones near the front, and nearly all except a center row of four have the potential to be reached by a laptop’s power cord. Also, unlike the Easton BN, the wireless here seems to be much more reliable (just wait, when I try to post this review, the connection will drop out).
This location seems to have a higher population of middle-​aged and older patrons, as opposed to others which have a decidedly younger — and noisier — feel. However, this may be due to the fact that it is a Friday evening, and only old people and losers like me who study alone on Friday nights are at Barnes and Noble. Regardless, it is a fairly sedate and study-​friendly environment. I’ll have to come again to see if this holds true on weekends. If so, this may become a favourite study spot.
Incidentally, there are a couple of grandmotherly looking ladies looking at «Twilight» magazines and pointing out Edward, Jacob, Bella, and other characters to the not-​particularly-​interested husband of one of them.

This place has everything and I mean everything. If you’re on a time constraint and don’t have time to budget shop, head here. There’s a B&N everywhere these days so it really shouldn’t put you out much to locate one.
I am not impressed with prices but as an avid bargain shopper it is pretty much a given that I’d rather hit Half Price Books before a chain like B&N. However, that said, I can’t think of another place that proudly features The Twinkies Cookbook, can you? For someone who does NOT ENJOY cooking this made me laugh so hard I had to get it. I have also just successfully whipped up the Twinkie Surprise and have suddenly gained newfound respect from my friends.
Thanks B&N for the unexpected inspiration.
Craving Twinkies now? Do it.
Ingredients
* 8 – 10 Ho Hos snack cakes (or 8 – 10 Hostess Twinkies)
* 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
* 4 cups milk
* 2 (3 ½ ounce) packages instant pudding mix (flavors of your choice «or» mix them up)
* 1 (12 ounce) container Cool Whip, thawed
* 2 – 3 cups fresh berries (like strawberries with the hohos or blueberries with the twinkies) (optional)
Directions
1. Split cakes and line 13×9 pan with them cream side up. Blend cream cheese with milk then blend in pudding mixes.
Pour over cakes.
If you opt to add berries, layer them now evenly over the pudding mixture.
Spread cool whip over the top.
IF desired sprinkle with chocolate curls, sprinkles or nuts.
Chill until serving time.
Try twinkies with lemon pudding or butterscotch, or Ho-​Hos with french vanilla pudding and those new flavored cool whips like strawberry or chocolate.