Libro.fm offers FREE audiobooks for shopping at local bookstores on Independent Bookstore Day  

Independent Bookstore Day launches social media campaign to celebrate indies and encourage customer engagement

Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, which are judged by teens • Notable Book in the Shelf Unbound Best Indies

“An engrossing fish-out-of-water storyline and irreverent comic wit.” — IndieReader

Finalist in the Benjamin Franklin Awards • Selected as one of 2021’s “Best STEM Books” by the National Science Teaching Association

“Students of the history of space exploration are in for a wild ride.”

—School Library Journal

Check out our new calendar. Members get free event listings.

April 24: Independent Bookstore Day

May 25-27: U.S. Book Show (register for the event)

May 3-9: Children's Book Week

May 12: Macmillan Fall Preview

June 8-9: Edelweiss BookFest (Register for $30 until April 1. Receive an additional $5 discount if you register by March 20 using the discount code "Bookfest Community")

August 21: Sign up for Bookstore Romance Day

April 15: Application deadline for BINC's higher education scholarships; apply here

Left Bank Books in St. Louis, MO, has announced plans to re-open to foot traffic on Independent Bookstore Day.

Flint Hills Books in Council Groves, KS has announced its grand opening on April 17. Last month, Watermark Books owner Sarah Bagby and Raven Book Store owner Danny Caine stopped by Flint Hills to welcome owner Jennifer Kassebaum to the indie bookselling world. We love this!

Swamp Fox Bookstore expands, launches Swamp Fox Kids in Marion, IA (via Shelf)

Wise Blood Booksellers on the move in Kansas City, MO (via Shelf)

Blue House Books in Kenosha, WI tipped us off to what might be an emerging trend in a recent Facebook post.

"We are so excited to jump in on this trend started by our bookselling friends at Bettie's Pages. On Wednesdays, we support indie bookstores.

I’m going to start building up my indie bookstore wardrobe and feature a fellow bookshop every Wednesday. This week: Read Between The Lynes in Woodstock, Illinois!"

To see Bettie Page's enviable indie bookstore T-shirt wardrobe--including shirts from our members Skylark Books and Raven Book Store--check out the hashtag #OnWednesdaysWeWearBookstoreShirts

"I'm returning to The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom, which has been sitting in my TBR for since it became a National Book Award Finalist. I'm in the middle of a big renovation of the kitchen in my own yellow house, which was built in 1905, so I'm enjoying thinking about the history of the spaces we live in and the lives of the people who inhabited them." —Carrie

"How to Mars is my perfect summer read—weird, quirky, hilarious, unsettling, and totally human. Five people are sent to Mars for a reality TV series. What unfolds are the most universal of human experiences, as experienced on Mars. I’m loving this book and rooting for these characters despite (because of?) their hang-ups, psychoses, and general human-ness." —Kate

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