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Apr 25

Mark your calendars! View our upcoming events and book clubs! For more details, visit our website.

Events:
April 27: Indie Bookstore Day! 10 am-8 pm at Curious Iguana.

April 29: Author talk + signing from 7 pm-8 pm at C. Burr Artz Library.
Celebrate Sarah Adler's new book, Happy Medium, one day before release! Sarah will be in conversation with fellow author Laura Hankin. Plus, we'll have a real goat in attendance!

May 7: Author talk + signing from 6 pm-7 pm at Thurmont Regional Library.
Celebrate the release of Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol. Vera will discuss her new middle-grade graphic novel with fellow author Melinda Beatty.

Book Clubs:
May 8: New & Notable Virtual Book Club will have an exciting guest this month! Author Marissa Higgins will join the discussion of her book, A Good Happy Girl. Register on our website to receive a meeting link.

May 14: Tuesdays with Tea meets from 11 am-12 pm at ACNB Bank.
The book club pick for May is When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo.

May 15: Brevity Book Club meets from 7 pm-8 pm at Give Rise Studio. The book club pick for May is Daddy by Emma Cline.

May 29: Global Voices Book Club meets from 7 pm-8 pm at Grace United Church of Christ (room 3). The book club pick for May is Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan.

All book club participants receive 20% off book club titles, just mention the book club at checkout!

Apr 24

Three more days until Indie Bookstore Day! If you're one of the first 50 customers to spend $50 or more on 4/27, you'll get this year's indie bookstore tote for free! This tote will also be available for purchase. See you there! We open at 10 am. ✨📖

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#Downtownfrederick #frederickmd #getitdowntown #curiousiguana #bookstagram #bookish #bookstore #indiebookstore #bookworm #booklover #pubday #indiebookstoreday #thefutureisindie

Apr 23

It’s an exciting release day for Emily Henry fans! 📖💕
Swing by and browse new books! 🎉

Apr 20

Staff pick Saturday! 📖 Shelby (she/her) loved A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins. This novel is also the May selection for Shelby’s virtual book club, New & Notable! Visit our website for more details on how to register.

About the book:
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple, for readers of Kristen Arnett and Melissa Broder.

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#Downtownfrederick #frederickmd #getitdowntown #curiousiguana #bookstagram #bookish #bookstore #indiebookstore #bookworm #booklover #bookseller #bookrecs

Apr 19

The countdown begins! Our favorite day of the year is coming up in exactly eight days. Join us between 10 am-8 pm to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day on April 27! What is Independent Bookstore Day? A nationwide celebration of indie bookstores! ❤

Here's how we'll be celebrating:
-The first 50 customers who spend $50 or more will receive a free indie bookstore tote bag with purchase (find a sneak peek of this year's tote on one of the graphics of this post)!
-We’ll have a limited supply of freebies, a giveaway, IBD merchandise, and a fun wheel to spin at checkout for extra surprises (while supplies last).
-We are participating in the Nova Bookstore Crawl Passport Program so make sure to pick up your passport on IBD and see how many bookstores you can visit from April 27 - May 31 (earn prizes along the way)!

Apr 19

We are thrilled to announce that Elna has been selected as one of the 2024 James Patterson Bookstore Bonus recipients!

This bonus recognizes the hard work of booksellers nationwide! Elna chose to use this bonus to help fund our book drive for a local Title I school (the deadline to reach our goal is today)! As a former teacher, she knew she wanted to give back to her local community and share the joy of reading with others.

Join us in congratulating and thanking Elna for her infectious generosity! If you'd like to fund books for our book drive, click the link in our bio.

Don't forget to check out Patterson’s new book, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians.
@jamespattersonbooks

Apr 18

Here are the top 20 bestselling books from January—March! Our readers have the best taste!

Books featured:

1. House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
2. Mrs. Nash’s Ashes by Sarah Adler
3. The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care by Maybell Eequay
4. Fly with Me by Andi Burke
5. Trading Places by Emily Duvall
6. Bride by Ali Hazelwood
7. The Women by Kristin Hannah
8. The Scarlet Shedder: Dog Man #12 by Dav Pilkey
9. Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
10. That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming
11. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
12. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
13. Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban
14. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
15. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
16. Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
17. A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
18. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
19. Creative ACT by Rick Rubin
20. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Apr 17

We have exciting news! We will be participating in the Nova Bookstore Crawl Passport Program starting on Indie Bookstore Day!

Visit any participating bookstore on April 27 and receive a Bookstore Crawl Passport at checkout. See how many bookstores you can visit beginning April 27 - May 31. Receive a stamp on your passport at checkout and receive the following prizes at each milestone:

1. Visit 4 Indie Bookstores = Win one ARC (advanced reader copy)
2. Visit 8 Indie Bookstores = Win one ARC and one tote
3. Visit 10 Indie Bookstores = Win one ARC, one tote, & be entered to win the grand prize raffle by turning in your passport with ten stamps to any participating bookstore on or before June 2.

Special thanks to Birch Tree Books and Middleburg Books for organizing and creating this bookstore crawl!

@bardsalley @birchtreebookstore @fontsbooks @hoorayforbooks @middleburg.books
@hundredacrebooks @oldtownbooks
@scrawlbooks @spelledinkshop @openbookwarrenton @onemorepagebooks @wordplaywv

Apr 16

New releases are here! Swing by and browse. 📖

Apr 15

Help us give 500 books to a local Title I school! We have four more days to reach our goal! We want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has purchased books so far. Currently, we have raised enough funds for 389 books! Help us get 111 more by purchasing one book, five books, ten books, or thirty books (an entire classroom) on our website! We will receive these orders and bring the books to the school on the day of the presentation! Ready to give? Click the link in our bio.

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#Downtownfrederick #frederickmd #getitdowntown #curiousiguana #bookstagram #bookish #bookstore #indiebookstore #bookworm #booklover #bookdrive #picturebook

Apr 15

Happy Monday (and Tax Day)! Swing by today at get 15% off your purchase of $15 or more (in-store only)! Open till 6 pm.

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Apr 13

Staff pick Saturday! 📖 Cydney (she/they) highly recommends First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (if you haven't read it already)! Swing by and grab a copy. Open till 8 pm today!

About the book:
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist. “This fast-paced read has everything you could want in a thriller: secret identities, a mysterious boss and a cat & mouse game that kept me guessing the whole way through.”—Reese Witherspoon

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Apr 12

You made it to Friday! Treat yourself to a new book (you deserve it)! 📖🎉 Open till 8 pm.

Chalkboard designs by @poor_robin

Apr 9

Happy Tuesday! Swing by and browse the latest releases. 📖 Open till 6 pm today!

Apr 6

Today is the day! Bring your little ones (and their favorite plushie) to Dancing Bear Toys at 11 am for an interactive story time with author/illustrator Ashley Belote! Ashley will read her new picture book Don’t Wash Winston, a heartwarming and funny story about a child who is scared to wash their beloved bear. Following story time, kids will be invited to use our “plushie wash station” and complete a craft. 📖🐻

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

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#Downtownfrederick #frederickmd #getitdowntown #curiousiguana #bookstagram #bookish #bookstore #indiebookstore #bookworm #booklover #picturebook #storytime

Apr 5

What book are you currently reading to escape the real world!? 📖

Also, follow us on TikTok if you don’t already! 💕

Apr 3

Sign up for New & Notable Virtual Book Club on our website and join us for the next virtual book club meeting on Wednesday, April 10, at 7 pm! Shelby (she/her) has picked out all book club picks for the remaining months of 2024, so be sure to check out the list on our website!

Apr 2

It’s your favorite day of the week (and ours) 😉. 📖✨
New books are here and ready for you! Open till 6 pm.

Mar 30

We now carry Manga! Sam (she/her) and Cydney (she/they) are super excited to share their favorites with you. Swing by and check out our selection!

Mar 29

Here are eleven fiction titles we recommend reading for the Trans Rights Readathon! Today is *technically* the last day of the readathon, but we encourage you to continue reading books with trans-rep and by trans authors year-round!

The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. Learn more and find extensive book rec lists here: @transrightsreadathon

Books featured:

📖 Really Cute People by Markus Harwood-Jones

📖 The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

📖 Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly

📖 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

📖 Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

📖 For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes

📖 Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

📖 Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender

📖 Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

📖 The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

📖 Bellies by Nicola Dinan

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