Why are we celebrating independent bookstores?
Independent bookstores are not just stores, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. We are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. We are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent.
In a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads, bookstores are not a dying anachronism. We are living, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact, there are more of us this year than there were last year. And we are at your service!
Due to Covid-19, this years festivities are going to look a little different. Long gone are the days of sipping free mimosas with your friends while browsing our shelves. Milling about our tables full of indie exclusive items; bumping shoulders with someone reaching for the same autographed book as yourself is a thing of the past.
Since we're limiting the number of people in the store and many people are still self-isolating IBD exclusive items will be for sale on our website. This is a first in IBD history! Check your email later this month for our official Bookstore Day newsletter.
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By Isabel Wilkerson- 32.00 - Hardcover - Coming August 4
Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day.
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By Kate Reed Perry - 26.00 - Hardcover - Coming August 4
An inventive and breathtaking exploration of a woman finding her voice in the wake of trauma, True Story is part psychological thriller, part fever dream, and part timely comment on sexual assault, power, and the very nature of truth. Ingeniously constructed and full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the final pages, it marks the debut of a singular and daring new voice in fiction.
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By Jon Meacham - 30.00 - Hardcover - Coming August 25
John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by police and state troopers, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis, Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama tenant farmer was inspired by the Bible and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., to put his life on the line in the service of what Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.” An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present
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By Christina Baker Kline - 27.99 - Hardcover - Coming August 25
In the 1840s, the ominously named Medea leaves Great Britain with a boatload of convicts destined for the penal colony of Tasmania. Among them is Evangeline, a naïve governess jailed at Newgate after being left pregnant by her employer's son, who survives the journey with the help of gifted midwife and herbalist Hazel. Once they arrive, Mathinna, orphaned daughter of a Lowreenne chief and among the cruelly relocated Aboriginal people, adds her voice to this chorus celebrating female friendship in adversity.
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By Helen MacDonald - 27.00 - Hardcover- Coming August 25
MacDonald writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. By one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us.
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By Akwaeke Emezi - 27.00 - Hardcover - Coming August 4
One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Propulsively readable, teeming with unforgettable characters, The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations—a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader.
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By Dav Pilkey - 12.99 - Hardcover - Coming September 1
The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree? Dav Pilkey's wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all ages and explores universally positive themes, including empathy, kindness, persistence, and the importance of doing good.
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By Jeff Kinney - 14.99 - Hardcover - Coming August 4
From the imagination of Rowley Jefferson comes an adventure of epic proportions. Join Roland and his best friend, Garg the Barbarian, as they leave the safety of their village and embark on a quest to save Roland’s mom from the White Warlock. Will our heroes survive? Find out in Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure!
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After Squidnight
Angie's Pick
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Or stop by & shop at:
107 Mill Street
Grass Valley, CA. 95945
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