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12 North Market Street,

Frederick, MD 21701

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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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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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

Mar 29

Help us give 500 books to a local Title I school!

Adam Rubin (author of Dragons Love Tacos) and Liniers are coming to Frederick on Thursday, May 2!

Adam Rubin and Liniers will visit a local Title I school in Frederick during the day. For most of these students, this event will be their first opportunity to meet phenomenal picture book creators! Receiving a signed copy of their book will make the experience even more memorable…but many students cannot afford to purchase a book.

That is why we would like to give a free signed copy of The Truth About the Couch by Adam Rubin and Liniers to every student who attends their presentation at the Title I school. But we need your help…

Our goal is to give away 500 books purchased by generous individuals and businesses in our community! Can we count on your support? We are committed to funding a portion of books to help reach our goal, and we encourage others to purchase single or multiple copies through our website between now and April 19.

To help us reach our goal, you can purchase 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 the day of the presentation! Ready to give? Click the link in our bio!

Thank you for your support!

Mar 28

Here are nine nonfiction titles we recommend reading for the Trans Rights Readathon!

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:

📖Transgender History by Susan Stryker

📖Whipping Girl by Julia Serano

📖A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

📖The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye

📖Tar Hollow Trans by Stacy Jane Grover

📖The Out Side compiled by The Kao, Min Christensen, and David Daneman

📖Rainbow History Class by Hannah McElhinney

📖Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays

📖Trans Bodies, Trans Selves edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth

Mar 26

A fabulous stack of new releases are here! 📖 Swing by and browse. Open till 6 pm.

Mar 23

Staff pick Saturday! 📖 Lauren (she/her) recommends Thunder Song by Sasha LaPointe. Swing by and browse. We are open till 8 pm today!

About the book:
The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the United States today.

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Mar 22

This week's chalkboards were too good not to share! Also, let's all start doing Easter book hunts instead of egg hunts. 📖

Designed by @poor_robin

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Mar 21

Last night we had our first meeting for Brevity Book Club! It’s safe to say, we couldn’t have chosen a cozier spot than @giverisestudio (they even had tea)! Thank you for joining us to discuss Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, led by bookseller Sarah Grace (she/her). The next meeting for Brevity Book Club will take place on April 17 at @giverisestudio and the book selection is Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz. View our website to learn more about other book clubs, including how to start one of your own! 📖

Mar 20

Some of our favorite picture books, flap books, and board books for Spring + Easter! 🐣 🌼🌷📖

Books featured:

📖 My Little Lamb by Hannah Eliot, Jennifer A. Bell (Illustrated by)

📖 Teeny Tiny Bunny by Rachel Matson, Joey Chou (Illustrated by)

📖 Bugblock by Christopher Franceschelli, Peski Studio (Illustrated by)

📖 Easter Bunny, Where Are You? by Jeffrey Burton, Juliana Motzko (Illustrated by)

📖 Ten Little Rabbits by Maurice Sendak, Maurice Sendak (Illustrated by)

📖 Little Chunkies: Animals in the Forest by DK

📖 Ten Little Easter Eggs by Amanda Sobotka

📖 A Place for Rain by Michelle Schaub, Blanca Gómez (Illustrated by)

📖 Rain by Cynthia Rylant, Lisa Congdon (Illustrated by)

📖 Uni the Unicorn: Easter Bunny Helper by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

📖 Bear Finds Eggs by Karma Wilson, Jane Chapman (Illustrated by)

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