Thank you, so much!
Thank you to everyone who came out and showed your support for independent bookstores like ours. This years Bookstore Day was our best one yet! We're already dreaming up ways to make the next one even better, but if you have any ideas we'd love to hear them. Also, remember to tag us in your #bookstoreday posts so we can share them!
Win tickets to see Tolkien at Sierra Theaters on May 7
One premiere to rule them all! Get ready for "TOLKIEN: Live from The Montclair Film Festival with Stephen Colbert," an extraordinary one-night event where you will be among the first to see the new feature film TOLKIEN together with an exclusive live simulcast Q&A with stars Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins and director Dome Karukoski, moderated by Tolkien super-fan Stephen Colbert.

Your favorite bookstore is partnering with Sierra Theaters to bring you this chance to win two tickets to the Tolkien premier! All you have to do is enter your name in our drawing at the store. One winner will be chosen May 4 and must be able to pick up the tickets in person.
Keep your young one reading with our Magical Reads Summer Reading Program! In this age of distraction we're hoping to inspire readers at a young age so that their love of reading continues to grow with them.

We'll have the program ready to launch towards the end of May but basically what you can expect is a four-week program featuring beginning chapters books and supplemental assets that bring the stories to life for you and your child!
Mother's Day is May 12
We have lots of great Mother's Day titles for the reading woman in your life!
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
LIMITED SIGNED EDITIONS!
Educated
by Tara Westover
The Moment of Lift
by Melinda Gates
Lost Roses
by Martha Hall Kelly
Daisy Jones and the Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Women Rowing North
by Mary Pipher
Pre-order deals!
Pre-ordering books through indies like us earns you extra goodies you can't find elsewhere. Check out these recent pre-order promos!
May New Releases
Click on any title to pre-order it through our website! Why pre-order?
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
by Jared Diamond - $35.00 Coming May 7

In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse , Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises.
The Dreamt Land
by Mark Arax - $30.00 Coming May 21

From a family of Central Valley farmers, Arax is a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land , he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, that is straining to keep up with California’s relentless growth.
by Tommy Orange - $16.00 Coming May 7

Tommy Orange’s shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.
by Celeste Ng - $17.00 Coming May 7

Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
by David McCullough - $30.00 Coming May 7

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.
by Ben Brooks - $16.99 Coming May 7

This book offers extraordinary true stories of amazing people who broke the mold and changed the world for the better. The resulting message? Be yourself, and your dreams might come true.
by Dan Santat and Mo Willems - $9.99 Coming May 7

Hog is careful. Harold is not. Harold cannot help smiling. Hog can. Hog worries so that Harold does not have to.
Harold and Hog are best friends. But can Harold and Hog's friendship survive a game of pretending to be Elephant & Piggie? Find out in this new adventure from Mo Willems and Dan Santat!
May Staff Picks
Llama Destroys the World
by Jonathan Stutzman
Angie's Pick
Red Sister
by Mark Lawrence
Duncan's Pick
Daisy Jones & The Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Emilee's Pick
Delicious Metropolis: The Desserts & Urban Scenes of Wayne Thiebaud
by Carolyn Burke
Karen's Pick
The Sentence is Death
by Anthony Horowitz
Kit's Pick
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
Mikala's Pick
The Curse in the Candlelight -
Scarlet & Ivy #5
by Sophie Cleverly
Sunny's Pick
Vanlife Diaries: Finding Freedom in the Open Road
Tyrra's Pick
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