Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day w/ Us 📚

We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate our first Indie Bookstore Day next weekend, Saturday April 25th! Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. We will be celebrating all day, so we hope you’ll join us!

Read on to learn all the details on our day of celebrations!

Call for used book donations: Do you have gently used books you’re wanting to get rid of to make room for new books on your shelves? We like to keep a selection of gently used books to make them more financially accessible to folks. We generally price them for $1-6 and will also often donate them to good causes around the city. If you have books you’d like to donate to us, please reply to this email and we can coordinate a pickup or drop off. We’re so grateful to everyone who has donated books to our shop.

Find the Golden Ticket, Win 12 Free Audiobooks 🎧

We will be hiding a Golden Ticket in the store early Saturday morning before we open at 8am. The person who finds the Golden Ticket will win a code to redeem 12 free audiobooks from our book buds, Libro.fm!

The Golden Ticket will be hidden near books but not inside books at the store, so please be gentle while searching. We can’t wait to see who wins this treasure trove of audiobooks!

In addition to this amazing audiobook giveaway, Libro.fm will be joining us for more celebrations by hosting an amazing audiobook sale and offering new Libro.fm members two free audiobooks for joining!

Local Author Signings ✍🏻

We are filthy rich in Portland in terms of having amazing authors that live right here in our beautiful city. I am so excited for y’all to come chat with these fantastic authors and get some books signed!

12-1pm: Olufunke Grace Bankole (Literary Fiction), The Edge of Water
1-2pm: Alison Cochrun (LGBTQ Romantic Comedies), Every Step She Takes, Here We Go Again, Kiss Her Once for Me, & The Charm Offensive
2-3pm: Anita Kelly (LGBTQ Romance, adult & young adult): Donut Summer, Love & Other Disasters, Something Wild & Wonderful, How you Get the Girl, & Heartwaves
3-4pm: C.J. Switzer (fantasy): Morvelving
3-4pm: Jasmine Sears (Picture & Middle Grade): The Little Red Hen Learns How to Ask for Help & Where the Veil Thins

We will have copies of each author’s book on hand for you to purchase and get signed. If you already own one of their books, you’re welcome to bring it and have it signed.

Specials and Sales ✨🪩

We will be having a huge sidewalk sale with tons of books 20% off and a selection of gently used books that will be priced from $1-6.

Spend any amount and be entered to win a $50 Endless Wonders Books gift card! Spend any amount with us (Hungry Heart purchases are not eligible) on Indie Bookstore Day and you can fill out a raffle ticket to be entered to win a $50 gift card to our shop. Winner will be announced at the end of the day.

Spend $75, get a free Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) book! Publishers will send us books before they’ve officially been published to drive hype and try to convince us booksellers to carry the book in our stores. Legally, we cannot sell them, so we love to give them away as prizes (and we have been known to drop them off at Little Free Libraries when doing online order deliveries 😉 ). Spend $75 and you get to choose any ARC we have to take home with you for free as a thank you.

Spend $100, get a free ARC & a free Endless Wonders tote bag! Thank you for supporting our store! Pick a free book from our ARC treasure chest and take your choice of our branded tote bags. We think they’re pretty cute and work great for toting your book stack around town.

$1 mini cupcakes from Hungry Heart! From 12-4pm, Hungry Heart will be joining in the fun by selling mini cupcakes for $1 each (max 4/person).

Be the First to Get Our New Merch 🧢🚲

We are so excited to be adding some new merch to our store, including a new store sticker designed by the one and only Zimmsie Illustration. We met Zimmsie at our very first market last summer and began carrying some of her prints and cards shortly thereafter. You’ll recognize her “Happy Birth-Gay” and “Happy Birthday You Hot Slut” cards in addition to her very popular “Queer Birds of the PNW” prints. It was a dream to work with her on a new sticker for the store. We hope you love it as much as we do! I can’t even show you a picture yet, so you’ll just have to believe me when I say it is very cute and you will definitely want it on your emotional support water bottle, your bike, your cooler, and your planners. Stickers are $4!

We’ve also designed some new hats! These hats are super soft, very cozy, very bookish. We’re obsessed and hope you are too, book buds. Hats come in a foresty green and maroon and are $28. Each hat has “book bud” embroidered on the front in a cream color.

May Book Club Pick 📚

Ok, this one isn’t Indie Bookstore Day related, but still timely relevant. In May, the EWB Book Club is venturing to the horror genre and the book buds have voted for Andrew Joseph White’s young adult novel, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth. Per usual, purchasing book club picks directly from us saves you 10%. Of course, you can also find it on Bookshop, Libro, or the Multnomah County Library.

Upcoming Events:

• Sunday, April 19: Audiobook Walk, 12pm | Start & end at Hungry Heart | 414 SE 80th Ave

  • We’ll meet outside Hungry Heart, mingle a little bit, then head out on a casual walk around the neighborhood for about a mile and then end up back at Hungry Heart.

• Saturday, April 25: Independent Bookstore Day, 8am-4pm | Hungry Heart | 414 SE 80th Ave

• Thursday, April 30: Park Reading Hours, 5:30pm | Clinton Park | SE 57th & SE Woodward

  • Silent Book Club, but in a park! We’ll mingle for a little bit, read silently for about an hour, then mingle some more. Bring something comfy to sit/lounge on, any snacks/drinks you’d like, and a book to read. Need a new book to start? Order from our website, select local delivery, and put a note that you’ll pick up at Park Reading Hours.

  • This event is weather dependent. If the weather is not conducive to a cozy evening in the park, we will move this event indoors at Hungry Heart. We will try to send an email out if that is the case and post on our Instagram Stories.

• Thursday, May 7: Rant&Rave Book Club, 6pm | Hungry Heart | 414 SE 80th Ave

  • This is a choose-your-own-adventure book club. No pre-reading required. Just come hang out and rant and/or rave about any books you want!

• Sunday, May 10: In Person Book Club, 4:30pm | Hungry Heart | 414 SE 80th Ave, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

• Wednesday, May 20: Virtual Book Club w/Milo Todd, The Lilac People, 6pm | Zoom | More details and register here

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

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