Independent Bookstore Day News & More!

Saturday, April 27, 2019

We know it's only March but Independent Bookstore Day is fast approaching and we can't contain our excitement for this year's celebration. We have many bibliophile ideas in the works so stay tuned! In the meantime, you can show off your indie love with one of these totes. They're extra special because you can only find them at independent bookstores and once they're gone, they're gone for good!

We have all the limited edition items that will be for sale on Independent Bookstore Day listed on our website for your viewing pleasure but, like previous years, we can't sell them until April 27th and they're not available online or at big-box stores. Check out what we have coming!

All 2019 calendars are half-off while supplies last!

St. Piran's Day is coming!

Saturday, March 9th from 9:30 - 11:00 at the Grass Valley City Hall Parking Lot

The Cornish, once the world’s preeminent hard-rock miners, came from their homeland of Cornwall, England with the know-how to tap the deep veins when gold in quartz was discovered near Grass Valley. St. Piran is to Cornwall what St. Patrick is to Ireland. In history, he brought Christianity to the Celtic land in the 5th century. In legend, he outwitted menacing giants and taught the Cornish to refine tin. The Cornish flag, a white cross on a black field, is called “St. Piran’s flag.”

St. Piran’s Day begins with the bell and call of the Town Crier and raising of the U.S. and Cornish flags. The Grass Valley Male Voice Choir will lead singing of the “Star Spangled Banner” and “Trelawny,” the national anthem of Cornwall. Following that there will be the Pasty Olympics and a pasty baking competition

Bring a home-baked pasty to the judging table by 9:15 to enter the pasty bake-off. Tess’ Kitchen Store will award $50 gift certificates for the “Best Overall” and “Best Traditional” pasty. Coffee and snacks will be available for purchase at a Cornish gift fair, also in the parking lot at South Auburn and Main streets.

March New Releases

Click on any title to pre-order it through our website! Why pre-order?

Run Away

by Harlan Coben

Coben, internationally best-selling author and a specialist in the domestic thriller, signals the dilemma facing his financial-analyst hero in the title: his daughter is a runaway, and, to find her, he must confront all the entanglements and perils of a runaway's life. Coben, once again, shows a well-constructed, lucky life blown open by fate.

$29.00 Coming March 19

The American Agent

by Jacqueline Winspeare

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines," investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.

$27.99 Coming March 26

The Longevity Paradox

by Steven R. Gundry

The Longevity Paradox offers a fresh perspective on an existential question: how can we live a long life and grow old while still enjoying the physical and mental qualities of being young? Dr. Gundry shows us that it's possible to thrive as we age, and the power to do it lies in our own hands

$28.99 Coming March 19

Horizon

by Barry Lopez

From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped an extraordinary life.

$30.00 Coming March 19

The Daisy Jones & The Six

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The making of a legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

$27.00 Coming March 5

The School for Good and Evil #5

by Soman Chainani

As the past comes back to haunt the present, secrets long buried will be unearthed and enemies reawakened. Now the students of the School for Good and Evil must find a way to restore Tedros to the throne before their stories--and the future of the Endless Woods--are rewritten... forever.

$17.99 Coming March 5

Because

by Mo Willems

Willems departs from his usual comic fare in this ode to the many people that inspire and contribute to the creation of art in young people.

$17.99 Coming March 5

What Makes a Hero

by Pamela Bobowicz

Introduce the young reader in your life to the inimitable, expectation-destroying, glass ceiling-shattering, world-saving female super heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Captain Marvel and Shuri to Gamora, Black Widow, Nebula, and more, in this beautifully-illustrated picture book aimed at the young reader set.

$12.99 Coming March 5