Bookstores akin to Wonderland Books, pictured right here, are celebrating Unbiased Bookstore Day on Saturday. Photograph by Leila Garner.
Unbiased Bookstore Day is on Saturday, April 25, and the DC space is teeming with indie shops providing offers, giveaways, and extra. Native outlets are additionally coming collectively for bookstore crawls. In DC and Maryland, cease by six of the 29 participating spots for a prize. Northern Virginia has a passport program highlighting 18 bookshops, and rewards embody a tote bag or an advance copy of a ebook, relying on what number of stops you hit. Past the crawls, right here’s how bookstores are celebrating the page-turning vacation.
Bards Alley
110 Church St., NW, Vienna
This bookstore in Vienna is internet hosting a morning “audio stroll”—a mile-long group stroll the place everybody listens to audiobooks—a ebook signing with Wine for Roses writer Emily O’Malley Liu, and a dialog between authors Vincent Tirado and Andrew Joseph White about You Ought to Have Been Nicer to My Mother, Tirado’s newest horror title (registration required). Grasp on the surface patio all through the day for puzzles and refreshments. A golden ticket shall be hidden inside the shop, and the finder will obtain 12 credit to audiobook platform Libro.fm.
Big Planet Comics
1524 U St., NW; 7939 Norfolk Ave., Bethesda; 426 Maple Ave., E, Vienna
All areas can have reductions for comedian lovers, together with a 60 percent discount on objects with stickers by way of Might 2.
Bold Fork Books
3064 Mt Nice St., NW
Retaining in theme with its inventory, Mt. Nice’s cookbook store is celebrating with foods and drinks for buy. Matcha and low drinks from Find_ begin at 10 AM, and the meals lineup options Manifest Bread at 10:30 AM, Happy Ice Cream at 1 PM , and Each Peach Market at 4 PM. Free short-term tattoos will even be accessible.
East City Bookshop
645 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
The Capitol Hill bookstore is providing flash gross sales all through the day in addition to a free ebook with purchases over $50. Audiobook lovers will can search for a golden ticket that unlocks a yr of listening on Libro.fm.
Fonts Books & Gifts
6262 Previous Dominion Dr., McLean
Spin the wheel for a prize with each buy, and discover particular editions of books akin to The Secret Historical past of Fantasy. Along with a Libro.fm golden ticket hidden within the retailer, attempt to uncover all of the sloths for one more reward.
Kramers
1517 Connecticut Ave., NW
This Dupont Circle bookstore and cafe is hiding a golden ticket within the store. The finder’s reward is 20 % off their buy. A free “blind date with a ebook” (the place a ebook is wrapped to cover the title and writer, and readers can solely see an outline) will even be accessible to prospects who spend over $75.
Laurel Leaf
6919 Laurel Ave., Takoma Park
This women-owned used bookstore, which additionally sells vegetation and classic items, can have a 40 percent discount for patrons who play on the in-store ukulele or carry out a poem from reminiscence.
Little District Books
631 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
Clients who spend a minimum of one $25 at DC’s queer bookstore can spin a wheel to win a prize. There’s additionally an in-store scavenger hunt for a Libro.fm golden ticket.
Loyalty Bookstore
4203 ninth St., NW
Head to the Petworth store for a sidewalk sale. Clients who make a purchase order over $25 will obtain a free “blind date with a ebook,” and purchases over $100 will include a swag bag. Reductions are doubled for members, and when you donate a ebook, you’ll be able to enter a raffle to win a six-month subscription field.
Mahogany Books
121 American Wy., Oxon Hill
The bookshop is holding a celebration from 12 PM to five PM with music by DJ Dr. Deep Crates and a ebook signing with “Da Brat” DuPart and Jesseca “Judy” Harris-Dupart, authors of The Way Love Goes: A Guide to Building a ‘Beaurtiful’ and Everlasting Relationship. You can too unlock a yr of Libro.fm audiobooks by discovering the golden ticket.
Old Town Books
130 S Royal St., Alexandria
This indie bookshop shall be internet hosting a full day of programming, together with a meet and greet with image ebook characters Frog and Toad, a book signing with romance authors Charis Michaels and Alexandra Vasti, and an audiobook walk at 5 PM, the place you’ll be able to stroll and hearken to books. Spin a wheel for prizes, discover a Libro.fm golden ticket, and obtain a tote bag when you spend a minimum of $75.
One More Page
2200 N Westmoreland St., Arlington
The hybrid ebook, wine, and low store is internet hosting a scavenger hunt for a golden and silver ticket. The prize for locating the golden ticket is 12 audiobook credit, and the silver ticket-holder will get to pick out a shock from a cart of rewards. Free books shall be accessible exterior.
People’s Books
7014 Westmoreland Ave., Takoma Park
Swing by this Takoma Park bookstore without spending a dime stickers and extra and attempt to discover a Libro.fm golden ticket.
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW; 1324 4th St., NE; 610 Water St., SW
All three areas are promoting particular inventory for the vacation, and the mini print merchandising machines on the Union Market and Northwest DC areas can have an unique Inciardi print. The Northwest DC store can have face portray from 10 AM to 2 PM. Seek for audiobook golden tickets at each location.
Scrawl Books
11911 Freedom Dr., Reston
Writer Lexi Vangsnes is holding a narrative time for her kids’s ebook Wildspeak at 11 AM, and Reston authors Alexandra Campbell and Ava Smigliani shall be signing books at 3 PM. Look out for the golden ticket to unlock a yr of audiobook credit.
Second Story Books
200 P St., NW
Bookstore crawlers who make the Dupont Circle store their sixth cease will get a free pin and ebook from the sidewalk sale.
Solid State Books
600 H St., NE; 1809 14th St., NW
Seek for golden tickets at each areas to win 12 audiobook credit, and each buy comes with a “blind date with a ebook.” The H Avenue location additionally has a prize wheel.
Wonderland Books
7920 Norfolk Ave., Bethesda
The Bethesda bookstore is internet hosting a raffle with prizes donated by neighborhood outlets and eating places, akin to reward playing cards for Bethesda Chocolates and Mexican restaurant Gringos & Mariachis. Make a purchase order and choose a free ebook from a choice of copies.
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Samantha is an Editorial Fellow on the Washingtonian and a senior at American College, learning Political Science and Girls’s, Gender, and Sexualities Research. She lives in Washington, D.C.
