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Bookstore | Café | Library | Our online store ships across India 📚
7/1 Edward Road, Bangalore
Joined February 2019
We are so excited to announce something we've been planning for a while — the #ChampacaReadingChallenge 2024! 📚.This year, we have 24 prompts that aim to nudge us towards reading different voices and stories from across time, place and experiences! . Join us on this adventure!
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We’re thrilled to be opening a new bookstore in Goa! It’s a sweet little house – white walls, red-tiled roof, and lined with wooden bookshelves! . Join us on the 5th of November, at 6pm for an evening that celebrates all things Goa!. @rochelle_dsilva
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We love our leafy, verdant, book-filled home in Bangalore 🌿 If you’re in the city, why not drop by this weekend? We’re open from 10:30 am to 6:00 pm. Champaca is the perfect spot for a quiet afternoon — browse our shelves, and take home a book haul! 📚.
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Champaca turns one this weekend 🎈 Thank you to everyone who came by this past year, and has been a part of our community 💚 Come over, buy a book, and grab a slice of birthday cake 🎂 Physical distancing, masks, and sanitizer mandatory! Or visit us online
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Blossoms Book House has been a space for joy for book lovers in Bangalore for, can you believe it, twenty whole years! And we have always loved every minute we have spent there 😊 A very happy anniversary to our fellow indie bookstore @blossombookhous 💚.
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We're reading fiction and prose by contemporary Indian women writers. Give us recommendations! What should we read next?
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Every Tuesday, we watch the space come back to life after a restful Monday, and it fills us with awe and gratitude every time. It's been 5+ months since we started Champaca, and watched an idea transform, grow and take shape into the bookstore-cafe-library that you see today.
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Champaca is open Tuesday through Sunday 10:30 am – 6:00 pm for book browsing and pick-ups. This weekend spend some time in our 🌿 lush green space, browsing our shelves 📚 We are certain you’ll find some books you’ll love 😇 . Don’t forget to 😷🧴↔️
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We are thrilled to announce our opening weekend: 8 + 9 June! We’ve lined up have readings, conversations, and fun things to do! . Come. We would love to see you. (Do RSVP, so we know how many chairs to set out!)
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We shelved some of the books yesterday. It was lots of work but so much FUN! .Watch watch:
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Closing our doors makes it difficult for us to cover costs, rents, salaries and to bring good books and conversations to you. Support our community by buying a gift voucher from us — redeemable for one year on any books in the store, at a 10% discount
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We are so excited to announce something we've been planning for a while — the #ChampacaReadingChallenge 2023! 📚 This year too, we have 23 prompts that aim to nudge us towards reading different voices and stories from across time, place and experience.
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Join us on Saturday, 10th September, for an event with Yogesh Maitreya, the founder of Panther's Paw, on his work as a publisher, and the importance of Dalit-Bahujan voices in publishing. He will be in conversation with Vijeta Kumar! @YogeshMaitreya @rumlolarum
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Giveaway!💥💥.Win a copy of Cities and Canopies by @HariniNagendra & @MundoliSeema! To enter, reply to this tweet with a photo you shot of a beautiful or significant tree in Bangalore, name the location, & RT this tweet. A winner will be chosen at random. Closes 2/Jun/2019, 9 pm.
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We’re excited to announce our latest adventure — Champaca Book Subscription — a parcel of carefully curated books that we send you in the mail 💌📚 . The theme for this year is translations, and we’ll bring you new voices, cultures and experiences 💚
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We have rolling internships from this week. We pay, provide lunch, and also cover (public) transport costs. We need a minimum of a month’s commitment, willingness to put in odd hours occasionally, and do myriad tasks. Apply! And RT? Thank you!
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We are excited to announce the #ChampacaReadingChallenge for 2022 📚 A good bookshelf should hold stories from across time, place and experience. Let’s read together to discover new worlds, and read diverse! 🤩 All details here:
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"One thing is certain: we are going to continue working hard to preserve the essence of what we have created at Champaca in every way possible." Radhika wrote about Champaca's journey, our past, and our future for @scroll_in 💚
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We’ll know soon if this has all been worth it. Good night, and see you soon!
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Hello, folks! Champaca Bookstore (for adults), Library (for children), and Café (for everyone), will open in June 2019, on Edward Road, off Queens Road. Meanwhile, meet Chewie who is keeping us company while we set up.
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We are thrilled to bits to be hosting Roxane Gay @rgay for an online conversation with our own Kavya Murthy on June 20. Sign up for the event and buy her books 📚 on our online store receive a discount code for tickets 🎟️
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We're starting a secret book tradition at Champaca!. Every week, we're going to wrap up a few of our team member's favorite books with a short description about it / why we recommend reading it. If something calls out to you, pick it up, and let the book take you by surprise.
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🎈 Champaca turns two 🎈 . Without you, our community, we couldn’t have made it this far. From our small team, Radhika, Nirica @niricat, Kavya, Thejaswi @ThejaswiShivan1 and Pooja @anexasajoop — a big thank you 💚. Celebrate with us, and buy books 📚 from
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1/2 Starting a Children's Library at Champaca has been our dream, as much as the bookstore and cafe has. Books have been a pleasure, an escape, a companion in lonely places, a guide and a journey since childhood, and we wish to share this joy of reading.
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Book recommendations 📚 for you from our shelves focused on caste. Let’s read them, and keep learning. Find the books on our online store and have them delivered straight to your home.
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From our bookshelves, we bring you a selection of fiction 📚 by women authors from India, written originally in Assamese, Malayalam, Urdu, Marathi, Bengali and Hindi, which are available as English translations We hope you’ll pick them up 💚
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We are now a month old! Thank you to readers, friends, regulars, well-wishers and coffee-drinkers for coming by and making our space so lively and fun. We look forward to spending more time with you.
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✨Happy Diwali from all of us at Champaca! Wish you plenty of enlightening books in your life. ✨
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It's been a busy, challenging time of non-stop fun at Champaca. Shelving books, meeting all of you, watching our champaca tree make new leaves, and building our little team. Here’s a glimpse of the store just before we opened.
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Thank you for visiting, Arpitha 💚.
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The news of Westland’s closure is heartbreaking 💔 We send our good wishes to the team—from editors to marketing folks, everyone was warm, kind & deeply invested in books. Readers, we have a selection of Westland books you must explore. Our favourites ⬇️.
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Come on Sunday (January 12) morning to hear @MaLawdy and @gautambhatia88 introduce the Indian #Constitution and law making at Rangsthala, MG Road Metro Station. This is a free event, where all are welcome.
An introduction to the Indian #Constitution & law making.Sun, Jan 12 2020. 10:30am.Rangasthala, MG Road Metro Station.Malavika Prasad & Gautam Bhatia.@malawdy @gautambhatia88 .Hosted by @ChampacaBooks, Archives @NCBS_Bangalore & Centre for IT & Public Policy @IIITB_official
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Moar books and moar shelving and moar books and moar shelving and moar books and moar shelving and moar books and moar shelving and moar books and (you get the idea). It’s been a day of such delight, discovery (and aching backs).
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Author @rkarnad come by and sign his book, The Farthest Field, which won the @WindhamCampbell prize this year. Thanks for coming by, Raghu!
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Come work with us at Champaca!. We are offering a paid, full-time, six-day-a-week internship, for three months. Find more details, and apply at
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Are you a small business wondering how to show your appreciation to your team? We can help 😇 . Get curated 🎁 gift boxes, per your budget, with. 📚 personalised books.🍫 chocolates.☕ tea, coffee and energy bars.📔 @TaraBooks stationery. Email us at 💌 hello[at]champaca[dot]in
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Champaca is hosting Roxane Gay @rgay for an online conversation on June 20, and you are all invited 💚 . Buy her fantastic books 📚 from to get a discount code for the tickets 🎟️
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The bookshelves are up on our bookwall! And the long table where you can sit by yourself (or with a book, or a friend, or a cup of coffee, or ALL three), is nearly ready.
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The story of 73-year-old P.V. Chinnathambi, tea vendor, sports club organiser and librarian, who started a library in Edamalakudi, a remote village in Kerala.
P.V. Chinnathambi runs one of the loneliest #libraries in the forested wilderness of #Kerala’s Idukki district. Its 160-#books —all #classics— are regularly borrowed, read, & returned by poor, Muthavan #Adivasis. #WorldBookDay @PSainath_org
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A very merry Christmas to all of you from the entire team at Champaca! 🌟 Your support for our women-run independent bookstore is the best gift we could ask for this year. Thank you 💚. Drop by our store today for some festive book-shopping, or browse on
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Our first #ChampacaBookSubscription parcels 💌 have started shipping! Thank you to everyone who subscribed — we're looking forward to reading along with you 💚 . And if you haven't signed up yet, we've opened signups for the next months of the subscription
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This ✨ festive season ✨ we are celebrating with gift boxes! We’ve worked hard to curate perfect 📚 mini collections, no matter what your reading bent. Each gift box comes with thoughtful selection of books, and goodies like chocolates and bookmarks
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We're delighted to let you know that this Sunday (22nd May), from 4pm onwards, Madhuri Vijay will be at Champaca signing copies of her book, The Far Field!💚 . Drop into our store this weekend to say hi, and get yourself a signed copy!💌
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Meet our cookie angel and founder Radhika, distributing cookies for the the bonus round winners. 🍪
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📢 We're hiring! We're looking for someone to handle digital marketing and communications. Be part of a small team, and learn the day-to-day of running an indie bookstore 📚 Find all the details and apply here:
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Have you been up the book ladder to explore books awaiting you on the top racks? Not yet? Come along, then!
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A is for Ajrak: The A to Z of Block Printing by illustrator and writer Nina Sabnani is our first book in a 26-day journey to discover some of our favorite books from Champaca's Library.
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On Ambedkar’s birthday, read Champaca’s list of recommendations for #DalitHistoryMonth — books that moved us, we think are essential for you to read too + publishers you ought to know about
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Shelving these translations from across the country yesterday, we realised once again what an extraordinary richness of ideas and experiences regional language literature has to offer. Each is a treasure—do ask us for recommendations, we’d love to share our favourites with you.
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On this #InternationalBookGivingDay, spend an afternoon at Champaca, lose yourself in our bookshelves, and pick up a book for a loved one 💚
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This is beautiful! Thank you so much 💚.
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Peter Colaco’s Bangalore is one of the best chronicles of the Garden City. The nostalgic little book contains loosely connected essays and interesting anecdotes about Bangalore, complemented beautifully with Paul Fernandes' watercolour sketches. #RecommendedReading #Bangalore
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Hey Bangalore, have you subscribed your little ones to our children’s library yet? 🤓 . Here’s the membership structure, for those who’ve been asking.
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Spooky 👻 book recommendations — horror, crime and mystery — for you, just in time for Halloween 🎃 .
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In the house right now! @nirupa_rao signing Pillars of Life, her breathtaking illustrated book on the trees of the Western Ghats. Very few copies available — come take them away today!
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It is the first day of a brand new year, and from everyone at Champaca, a happy new year! Why not start 2020 with a visit to your favourite independent bookstore? We are open today from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.
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For #PrideMonth, we’ve selected a special list of books 🏳️🌈📚 — memoirs, theory and fiction, coming-of-age novels and translations — for you to read. Learn more about these books and find them in our online store
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📢 The wait is finally over — we’re so thrilled to introduce you to the theme for #ChampacaBookSubscription, year two: ✨ TRAVEL ✨ and its many forms 📢. Learn more about our theme and subscription, and sign up today ➡️
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Come. Browse. Buy. Then sit down, order a scrumptious sandwich and read your new book.
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If you enjoy Shakespeare, come find these gorgeous editions of Shakespeare classics, illustrated by @kevinjaystanton, at the bookstore. We loved reading about his experience of working on these books
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A big congratulations to all the nominees of the The Hindu Prize 2019 Come to Champaca today to hear @gautambhatia88 speak about about his nominated book “The Transformative Constitution.”
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Many of us are wondering what makes us Indian — our affinity to our homeland through its people and places, or our documented proof? We've curated a selection of books that explore these, and similar, questions — books about our histories, land, and people. Come, read, learn.
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Manu Pillai will be at the store this afternoon, signing his new book. Come by and say 👋.
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This ✨ festive season ✨ we want to help you build your own personal library filled with books you love. To do that, we’ve curated a selection of our favourite titles from @WestlandBooks. Choose four books 📚 from it and get one of them free of cost 💚
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From fiction to sociology, and all the way to YA, you don’t want to miss our small curation of titles 📚 about the Andaman and Nicobar islands Thank you Pankaj Sekhsaria @pankajsekh for your suggestions, which helped us put this collection together! 😇
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Discover some remarkable science fiction from India and South Asia this #ScienceFictionDay ⬇️
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Recommended Reading: Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich is a collection of interviews-turned-monologues with survivors of the Chernobyl disaster.
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Our little place was packed to the gills. We SO wish we could have seated everyone who wanted to be here! (Come, buy lots of books and help us grow into a bigger space 😊)
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We are now open — Tues to Sun, 11:00 am to 6:30 pm. Come by for shelves full of books 📚 and for our small selection of teas, coffees, cakes and savoury snacks ☕️🍰🥙. Please wear a mask 😷 when you visit, and use hand sanitisers we have to keep yourself and our staff safe 💚
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Join us for a discussion with author @ChinmayTumbe on his book India Moving: A History of Migration, a comprehensive account of India's human migrations across the centuries.
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At Champaca, we have a steadily growing collection of beautifully illustrated and heartwarming children's books. We recommend this series of ten wonderful books illustrated by K.G. Subramanyan, and published by @seagullbooks, that are essential reading for today's children!
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.".-Groucho Marx. Some Friday chuckles as our founder Radhika restocks the shelves with new books. Come climb the ladder and find the literary gems hidden in our highest shelves!.#lifeatchampaca
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This evening at Champaca café: food tasting, testing, and then inevitably, resting. (Head Chef’s clothes are her own and speak the full truth).
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We're a little bummed to announce that our store and cafe will remain closed next week from March 29th (Tuesday) to April 1st (Friday), owing to some urgent repairs we must make to keep our books safe from the rains 🌧
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We are super excited to host the first edition of our Lit Quiz, with quizmaster Berty Ashley! Berty promises a fun quiz that will cover all sorts of literature - from William Shakespeare to Enid Blyton, Tintin to Don Quixote. Register your team (max 3/team) at hello@champaca.in
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It’s heartwarming to see kids use our book ladder and hunt for books in the higher shelves :). Have you tried it yet?
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If you like science fiction, we think you’d like Ted Chiang’s latest short story collection. Through sci-fi tropes like parallel timelines & AI, Chiang explores a whole range of ideas-from free will to the nature of parenting. It’s a favourite of ours here at Champaca!
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Sunday morning, as we prepped for the ‘Cities and Canopies’ event, a young visitor sat herself on an author chair and read, oblivious to the activity around. Someday when she writes a book, perhaps we’ll launch it right here at Champaca.
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Last week, children, adults, child-adults, and little imps under the table, all painted leaves and strung them up at Champaca — making the prettiest mobiles ever!
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Monday night, as neighbourhood barn owl screeches from the roof. We spend Mondays resetting - reshelving, fixing bits and bobs, polishing the glasses, talking to the tree. So the only thing today needs, is YOU.
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One of our teammates stumbled upon these beautiful iLEAD Street Libraries in Kolkata, with a lovely assortment of books to pick from. An initiative by @iLEADIndia, the idea is to inculcate the habit of reading in people and make books accessible at every corner of the city. 1/2
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Champaca Bookstore invites you to a series of conversations around books of deep impact that speak to happenings and processes in contemporary Indian society. The first event in this series is a discussion on Hannah Arendt’s ‘Origins of Totalitarianism’. October 26th, 6.30pm
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The hurtle towards opening in June continues, with dust from the carpentry on our clothes, delicious smells from food tests wafting about, endless lists of books everywhere, and bewildered cats underfoot. The 4.30 pm coffee is just about keeping us sane.
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It's holiday season, and if you don't know what to gift your book-loving friends, we have the perfect present for you!. Come pick up a gift voucher from Champaca and allow them to choose something wonderful from our shelves 📚😊
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Join us for our very first online event today at 5:00 pm. Champaca’s Kavya Murthy will be joined by author Rohini Mohan to talk about writing as an act of hope during times of conflict
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Are you reading with the #ChampacaReadingChallenge? If you're looking for books to fill your list, look no further. We're adding all our recommendations to this thread!
We are excited to announce the #ChampacaReadingChallenge for 2022 📚 A good bookshelf should hold stories from across time, place and experience. Let’s read together to discover new worlds, and read diverse! 🤩 All details here:
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We recently came across this comic by @lwbean on how and why to support local independent bookstores like ours, and what it means to run a community bookstore, library and cafe. As Ross Gay puts it, “A good little bookstore…is a laboratory for our coming together.”
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Blurring the edge between fiction and non-fiction, this intensely, intimately revealed book is that rare example of exquisitely-written erotica. A Handbook for My Lover is on our shelves now.
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A reminder that TR Shankar Raman is reading from his book this evening at 530 pm! And here's some good books on trees and cross and hawks and dinosaurs 🌴🦓🦕
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We enjoyed this list of books for children even as we prepare for the launch of children's library. You'll find a list of @MichaelRosenYes favourites in here.
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Not doing much on a lazy Saturday? We're looking for a couple interns, who would like to help out with some of our administrative work, or with some graphic design. Apply here:
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