Independent Bookstore Day 2020:
Saturday, August 29 – ALL DAY LONG!
Exclusive Merch & Virtual Event Schedule
Browse through exclusive IBD swag on sale
only on Saturday, August 29!

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VIRTUAL EVENT SCHEDULE:
Click to watch bestselling author V.E. Schwab & World Series-winning pitcher Sean Doolittle talk books, baseball & quarantine fashion.
YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT YOUR DESTINATION WITH AMOR TOWLES
Sat., Aug. 29 @ 1pm (PT)
Explore the very near future with Amor Towles as he reads from the exclusive, SIGNED Bookstore Day edition of his story “You Have Arrived at Your Destination.”
WRITING THE WEST WITH REYNA GRANDE, RISHI REDD & LAUREN FRANCIS-SHARMA
Sat., Aug. 29 @ 2pm (PT)
Join authors Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us), Rishi Reddi (Passage West) and Lauren Francis-Sharma (Book of the Little Axe) as they discuss reexamining the history, culture, and myths of the West through their fiction.
Join co-hosts Jennifer Haupt, editor of Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19, and Garth Stein, Author Leadership Circle Campaign Chair for Binc, for readings and conversations with Alone Together contributing authors Faith Adiele, Gayle Brandeis, W. Ralph Eubanks, Jamie Ford, Major Jackson, Sonora Jha, Scott James, Jessica Keener, Jean Kwok, Roberto Lovato, Ada Limón, Claudia Castro Luna, Kevin Sampsell, and Luis Alberto Urrea.
BOOKSTORE DAY AMABSSADOR SHOWCASE WITH TAYARI JONES, LAUREN GROFF & EMMA STRAUB
Sat., Aug. 29 @ 5pm (PT)
Join three of Bookstore Day’s past Author Ambassadors for a lively discussion of books, bookstores, and the writing life. Featuring Tayari Jones (An American Marriage and Silver Sparrow), Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies and Florida), and Emma Straub (All Adults Here, Modern Lovers, The Vacationeers and owner of Books Are Magic! in Brooklyn).
A Virtual Evening with Lynne Barrett, Chantel Acevedo, Ana Veciana-Suarez, Thomas Swick, Sammy Mack & Fabienne Josaphat
Sat. Aug. 29 @ 7pm (EST) LIVE on Crowdcast
Books & Books and Miami Book Fair present…
Making Good Time
(Jai-Alai, $24)
Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don’t, Get Around in South Florida, is an anthology of more than thirty Miami transit-related stories, edited by Lynne Barrett. 31 true transit stories by 32 award-winning South Florida writers. Join us for a conversation between six of the authors of Making Good Time.
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