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  • Community Supported Bookstore

    The bookstore announced its new Community Supported Bookstore (CSB) program on October 19 at the Michael Ondaatje event, as a major effort to support the future of our business. The program, described in a wonderful article in the Point Reyes Light, has been met with much enthusiasm, 35 members signing up since the event. For more details or to become a member visit our website. MORE

  • Jane Hirshfield benefit for the West Marin Review

    On Saturday, December 3 at 4:00pm poet Jane Hirshfield will read from her most recent book of poetry, Come, Thief as a benefit for the West Marin Review, an award-winning literary and art journal published by Point Reyes Books and friends and neighbors. MORE
    If unable to attend order a signed first edition

  • Slow Money Catalog

    Point Reyes Books served as the bookseller at the recent Slow Money National Conference that attracted over 800 participants. The bookstore has created an online Slow Money Catalog which features all of the book titles that we offered at the conference, plus many others of interest to slow money activists. MORE
    Support the bookstore by ordering these books and other books through our e-store.

  • Emotional Currency

    Great News! Ten Speed/Random House informed co-owner Kate Levinson that her book, Emotional Currency: A Woman's Guide to Building a Healthy Relationship with Money, has gone into a second printing. Those who have not read it can ORDER NOW.

 

  • 8th Annual Wild Book Show

    Gallery Route One (GRO) and the bookstore are hosting the 8th Annual Wild Book Show at GRO from November 5 - December 10 Twenty five handmade books, using materials from the "wilds" of Point Reyes, are being exhibited and sold through a silent auction, with proceeds benefiting the local Artists in the Schools program.
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  • Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'

    "Marin's greatest poetry reading ever?" A question raised in a headline and article in the Pacific Sun regarding the epic reading of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself involving 52 readers led by Robert Hass, organized by Eric Karpeles, and sponsored by the bookstore and the New School at Commonweal. LISTEN

  • Become a Book Angel!

    Each year bookstore customers become Book Angels by purchasing books that are given as Christmas gifts to local children who have few books in their homes. Book Angels gifted books to more than 180 children last year. Beginning on Saturday, November 19th, we will have a selection of books in the bookstore for you to choose from or if your angel wings can't get you to the store, please mail us a check or go to this link to CONTRIBUTE.

  • Bookstore e-Store offers Google eBooks

    Point Reyes Books now offers one of the largest ebook collections available through our partnership with Google. You can order virtually any ebook, for reading on nearly any device, through the Bookstore's newly expanded e-store, giving you the most flexible way to buy eBooks while supporting the bookstore. Shop for your next ebook HERE.

THINK LOCAL FIRST

Why shop locally?
When you shop at local businesses, like Point Reyes Books, you also support
the local community.

Contributions to Local Nonprofits through Author Benefit Events in 2010

Pt. Reyes Books $45,000
Amazon $0
Borders $0

Number of Author Events Hosted in West Marin in 2010

Point Reyes Books: 46
Amazon 0
Borders 0

Sales Tax Paid to the State of California to Support Education, Parks,
Social Services in 2010

Independent Bookstores: $18.5 million
Point Reyes Books: Over $60,000
Amazon $0

Number of Local Businesses Supported Through the Purchase of Goods and
Services in 2010

Point Reyes Books: 35
Amazon: 0
Borders: 0

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Pam Houston

    author of Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel

    Saturday, February 18
    7:30pm
    Bookstore

    Pam Houston’s latest novel follows a woman on a series of free-spirited, far-flung adventures while she tries to master the art of existence in the midst of a crumbling relationship.

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  • Meredith Sabini

    author of The Earth Has a Soul: Jung on Nature, Technology and Modern Life

    Sunday, February 26
    3:00pm
    Point Reyes Community Presbyterian Church
    Free Event

    Meredith Sabini, Ph.D., director of The Dream Institute of Northern California, widely published author, popular public speaker, and Jungian scholar, will present a 30-minute performance, The Medicine of Enchantment: C. G. Jung as Culture Shaman.

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  • Angeles Arrien

    author of Living in Gratitude: A Journey that Will Change Your Life

    Thursday, March 22
    7:00pm
    Point Reyes Community Presbyterian Church
    Free Event

    Angeles Arrien is a cultural anthropologist, award-winning author and educator bridging cultural anthropology, psychology, and comparative religions.

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  • Joel Salatin

    author of Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

    Sunday, April 15
    7:00pm
    Dominican University, Guzman Hall
    Book and reserved seat: $35 / Event only: $20

    Farmer and food movement pioneer Joel Salatin’s most recent book conveys the gravity of the ecological and cultural crisis our country is facing.

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  • Joanna Macy
    Saturday, April 28
    7:00pm
    Point Reyes Community Presbyterian Church
    Free Event
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  • Eric Alan

    author of Grace and Tranquility and Wild Grace: Nature as a Spiritual Path

    Thursday, May 17
    7:00pm

    Eric Alan is an author, photographer, lyricist, radio broadcaster, and workshop leader. He will talk with us about his books, Grace and Tranquility and Wild Grace: Nature as a Spiritual Path, in which he encourages the re-integration of nature into daily life.

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