We’re turning one!

We launched our online shop and had our first pop-up last June and I cannot believe we’re getting closer to celebrating one full year of Endless Wonders. 🥹 Starting a small retail business focused on diverse books during an economic recession is a somewhat foolish endeavor, and yet, y’all have been there to support us along the way. We really cannot put into words how grateful we are for your support. Commenting, sharing, and boosting our social posts, telling your friends about us, showing up at events, discussing diverse books with us and of course, supporting the store financially truly means the world. With your help, we’ve been able to get to a break even point for our small business. We’d love to be able to start saving towards a future brick & mortar home, so we hope you’ll continue to support us!

To get in a more sustainable financial situation, we have a goal of getting 10 more Book Bud Subscription Box members! These are our personally curated book boxes for any genre and any age group. Simply tell us what types of books you vibe with and which ones to avoid and we’ll have a book just for you every month or quarter. ✨ For new Book Bud members, we’ll give you a free Endless Wonders tote bag and stickers with your first box! ✨ Our Book Bud boxes are eligible for shipping across the US or free local delivery in Portland.

Join us for our anniversary party on Sunday, June 7th 🎈

We’ll have mini cupcakes and macarons to celebrate (while supplies last) and an all-star slate of local authors will be hanging out, signing books, and chatting with readers throughout the day. Did we mention it also happens to be Portland Book Week? There is no end to the book magic, y’all.

Sunday, June 7th
10am-2pm*
414 SE 80th Ave
Portland, OR 97215

Author signing schedule:
10-11am: Jamie Pacton & Rosiee Thor 
11-12pm: Olufunke Grace Bankole & Ling Ling Huang
12-1pm: Aiden Thomas & Julie Lew
1-2pm: Ashley K. Stoyanov Ojeda

*We’ll be open 8am-4pm this day, but the bulk of the celebration will be from 10am-2pm.

Portland Book Week is June 5-14 📚

Portland Book Week is back! PBW is an annual celebration of Portland’s indie bookstores and this year, we’re doing 10 days of bookish bingo, a massive bookstore crawl, and so many fun bookish events.

We’ll have limited edition Portland Book Week totebags available (very limited quantity, $12), and make sure to pick up your PBW bingo card for an opportunity to win amazing prizes. Check out this year’s bingo card and rules here. We got some adorable new tiny snail stamps to stamp the PBW bingo cards, so help us use them! We’ll have two pop-up events during Portland Book Week (check out our upcoming event section at the end of this newsletter) and you can still get bingo stamps there as well.

During Portland Book Week, we’ll be offering a BOGO deal on new books: Buy 3, get 1 15% off (in person only).

Upcoming author event: Lauren J. Joseph w/Torrey Peters [virtual]

Please join us virtually on Saturday, June 27th at 11am PT for a conversation with Lauren J. Joseph and Torrey Peters.

Endless Wonders Books is excited to welcome playwright and author Lauren J. Joseph to celebrate the release of her newest book, Lean Cat, Savage Cat! She will be joined in conversation by bestselling and award-winning (including recent Pulitzer Prize finalist) author Torrey Peters. Following their conversation will be audience Q&A.

This event will take place on Saturday, June 27th from 11am PT-12pm PT on Zoom. You must register for the event in order to receive the meeting link.

Help us get diverse books to local students!

This May, we are partnering with The Shadow Project to help get diverse books to local students who need them. The Shadow Project is a local nonprofit that offers school-based programs, proven to help K-8 students with learning challenges — like dyslexia, ADHD, autism and trauma — build skills for school and life success.

Help support local students with learning challenges by purchasing books from our Bookshop.org registry! Books purchased through the registry will be mailed directly to The Shadow Project and will be distributed to students. The Book Drive will run throughout the entire month of May. Please help us get as many books to students as possible by sharing our social posts (already posted on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky) and telling your friends and family!

We' have about a week left on our book drive. We have a goal of getting 5 more books donated to The Shadow Project’s by the end of May. Will you please help us get there?

Adjusted Hours May 30-31; June 13th 🕰️

We’ll be closing early a few days coming up:

Saturday, May 30th: Open 8am-2pm
Sunday, May 31st: Open 8am-2pm
Saturday, June 13th: Open 8am-2pm

Thanks for your patience and understanding ❤️ 

Announcing June’s Book Club Pick 📚

Vote for July’s Book Club Pick 📚

Please select the book you would like to read and discuss for the EWB official book club's July meeting! The theme this month is Light Summer Read, which can be taken a million different ways but we're mostly focusing on cozy fantasy or romance titles.

In Person Meeting: Sunday, July 12 @ 4:30pm at Hungry Heart (414 SE 80th Portland, OR 97215)

Upcoming Events:

• Thursday, May 28th: Park Reading Hours, 5:30pm | Clinton Park | SE Woodward St & SE 57th Ave

  • AKA Silent Book Club; We'll mingle a little bit, read silently for about an hour, then mingle a little more at the end. Folks are welcome to engage with others as little or as much as they'd like during the mingle bits. Bring whatever you're currently reading, something to sit on (we’ll be in the grass), and any snacks/drinks you’d like.

• June 5-14th: Portland Book Week!

• Thursday, June 4th: Rant & Rave Book Club*, 6pm | Hungry Heart | 414 SE 80th Ave

  • This is a mostly unstructured time for book buds to get together and talk about any books they need to rant and/or rave about! Whether you read it last night or a decade ago, its time to chat about it. Leave with a list of books to read and a list of books to avoid.

• Sunday, June 7th: EWB Anniversary Party, 10am-2pm | Hungry Heart | 414 SE 80th Ave

• Thursday, June 11th: Estate Planning Workshop w/Sam Baker, 6pm | Hungry Heart | 414 SE 80th Ave

  • More details coming, but save the date! Free info session with local lawyer, Sam Baker, on estate planning. Sam helped us with our estate planning and making sure we had all the legal documents we would need due to all of the queer/trans attacks happening across the country.

• Saturday, June 13th: Pop-up @ Foster Summer Soiree, 12-6pm | Along SE Foster, nearish Bar Carlo (exact location TBD)

• Saturday, June 13th: Pop-up @ The Hotel Zags Pride Market, 12-6pm | The Hotel Zags | 515 SW Clay Street, Portland, OR 97201

• Sunday, June 14th: EWB Book Club*, 4:30pm | Hungry Heart | 414 SE 80th Ave

  • We’ll be discussing Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

• Saturday, June 20th-Sunday, June 21st: Boozy Bookfair, 11am-10pm | Baerlic Beer Co. | 2239 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 97214

• Thursday, June 25th: Park Reading Hours, 5:30pm | Clinton Park | SE Woodward St & SE 57th Ave

  • AKA Silent Book Club; We'll mingle a little bit, read silently for about an hour, then mingle a little more at the end. Folks are welcome to engage with others as little or as much as they'd like during the mingle bits. Bring whatever you're currently reading, something to sit on (we’ll be in the grass), and any snacks/drinks you’d like.

• Saturday, June 27th: Lauren J. Joseph w/ Torrey Peters, 11am | Virtual | Details and register here

• Sunday, June 28th: Pop-up @ Portland Flea, 11am-4pm | The Redd | 831 SE Salmon St . Portland, OR

• Keep your eyes on our event page for more fun!

• Note: events marked with an asterisk (*) require masks

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