We are splashing into summer with some big, beautiful news: beginning next month our bookstore will be renovating a large neighboring space, deepening our inventory, and expanding our literary, community, and event services to meet the incredible demand of our vibrant, supportive community. Stay tuned for details on how you'll be able to find more great books, hear more relevant voices, and enjoy thoughtful nourishment in one small, earnest, growing corner of Kalamazoo.

In the meantime school's out, and summer is sparkling. Here are a few special events and reading recs for warm days to come...

FREE Family Concert w Emily Arrow,  Sat. 7/8, 2pm

More Great Events on the Summer Horizon

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Wed. Jul 12, 6pm Telaina Eriksen Presents: UNCONDITIONAL at OutFront Kalamazoo, Co-Hosted by Bookbug

Fri. Jul 28, 4pm  Waldo Found Kalamazoo Celebration

Tue. Aug 1, 6pm, Michelle Kuo Presents: Reading with Patrick

Tue., Aug 15, 7pm Poets in Print: Bill Olsen presents TechnoRage

Thur. Aug 17, 6pm RAWK READS

Thur., Aug 24, Kristina Riggle Presents: Vivian in Red

Summer in Brittany and delight in the flavors, hopes and heart of Beginning Again with loved author Nina George and her Little French Bistro.

Explore the torment and focus of brilliant artist and modern dancer ISADORA Duncan, drowning in horrific grief at the loss of her two young children and then bending, falling, soaring in the hands of transcendent writer Amelia Gray.

Turn pages with the same desparate urgency of privileged vacationing friends determined to remain calm and then abandon all grace when children go missing--and discover their capacity to cope anew in Maile Meloy's Do Not Become Alarmed.

Art as sustenance in the most dire environmental, political and spiritual of circumstances is given fresh, necessary awareness via the lucid sentences and pacing of Lidia Yuknavitch's The Book of Joan.

Friendship, Depression, Celebrity, Haters, Fashion, Race, Weight. Yes Please, Gaburey Sibdie and This is Just My Face.

Stories, not memoir, but fresh, candid and true all the same. Follow loved writer Richard Russo on his poignant, poised Trajectory. You won't be disappointed.

Sherman Alexie has a way of forgiving and remembering the way only a true writer can. Join him in his vivid recollection and heartening appreciation of his complicated, troubled and fiercely (if not overtly) loving mother in You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.

Laugh lovingly along with Ranjara and Harit who long for connection in modern American surburbia, navigate immigrant/first-generation realities and sexual identity liberation with equal parts grace and clumsiness in No One Can Pronounce My Name.

"Girl Drama" and Graphic Novels have something important in common: many grown-ups balk at the legitimacy of their narratives. Thanks, Shannon Hale and Leuyen Pham for busting such foolishness by being (and creating) Real Friends.

A future war-torn wasteland in which greed, savvy, and size define the distribution of resources and young heroes are forced to chase down a madman. Hurrah for sci-fi gem Mortal Engines now back in print in lead-up to Peter Jackson's screen adaptation.

Jade understands the pieces of life that she's being encouraged to break free from: an impoverished neighborhood, restrictive social norms, racial biases; but also that these pieces have helped form her into the proud, talented artist she is and that being--not breaking--free is the only way to come of age in Piecing Me Together.

Laurel Snyder is having a prolific year, and as long as she keeps nailing voice and form for different age groups, we'll keep featuring her books in our newsletter. Put Charlie & Mouse next to Frog & Toad on your shelf. The dialogue between these two is playful, brilliant and profound--a new classic for ages 3-6.  

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