Join us at the Book Den
for California Bookstore Day.

California Bookstore Day is a statewide celebration on May 3, 2014.  It’s more than 90 stores in more than 80 zip codes putting their bells on and throwing out the welcome mat.

The headline attraction are the just-for-us books you cannot get on any other day at any other place.  These are books published just for California Bookstore Day. You can’t buy them online. You can’t order them ahead of time. And when they’re gone, they’re gone. The only way to buy them is to go into a participating store on May 3rd.

So here are some examples of books we will have at the Book Den:

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman HarperCollins Children’s Books $16.00 A limited bound and illustrated copy of a Gaiman short story inspired by Sleeping Beauty, for middle and young readers.

Congratulations, By the Way by George  SaundersRandom House, $20.00In May 2013, George Saunders gave an eight-minute convocation address at Syracuse University. Congratulations, By the Way is an expanded version of that speech. It brings Saunders’s trademark wit, wisdom, and compassion to an even broader audience.This special California Bookstore Day edition is signed, numbered, and doodled in by the author.

California Classics Box Set by John Fante, Charles Bukowski, Armistead Maupin, and Elmore Leonard Harper Collins, $48.00 New covers and art for a 4-novel box set of classic California literature including Ask the Dust by John Fante, Hollywood by Charles Bukowski, Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, and Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard.