Category: Bookstores
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Curbside Books
Our first independent bookstore profile! Come along and meet this unique-in-Idaho (to my knowledge!) roving independent bookstore. How did your bookstore come about? Any origin stories? How long have you been in existence? Curbside Books grew out of a love of bookstores as places where people linger, wander, and stumble into something they didn’t know…
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A Celebration. A Why
Yet another reason to “buy local, buy independent”. This short essay on LitHub, found via the Rediscovered Books newsletter (do sign up, especially if you’re in the area). They aren’t a replacement for public libraries, but their role is just as essential. Bookstores function as what sociologist Ray Oldenburg famously termed “third places”: locations outside…
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Moving Books!
After being a sauntering-through-downtown book lover’s destination for just shy of twenty years, Rediscovered Books in Boise will be shutting its doors, probably in June [2025]…but don’t panic! They’ll be reëstablishing their sumptuous stacks at 1576 West Grove Street — which, in this writer’s estimation, appears to be the former home of Eyes of the…
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Best Holiday Idea
Every family, group of friends, or even individual people have their favorite end-of-calendar-year holiday traditions. But one that has been accumulating more interest in recent years is the adoption of an Icelandic tradition: the Christmas Book Flood or Jolabokaflod. It’s a bit of a natural that this tradition developed in this small and unique country,…
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Books on Boise’s Bench!
There’s a new resource for Boise readers and book-lovers — conveniently located near the Orchard/Fairview intersection. Opening in August, they have around 2,000 books on the shelves, and their inventory is growing. Mostly used, but some are new, including books in languages other than English. They cover all the genres, but have a classics section,…
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Caldwell Book Store Closing
According to the news reported at BoiseDev, Rediscovered Books’ Caldwell store will be closing. A date is not indicated, but BoiseDev suggests following Rediscovered Books’ Facebook page for the Caldwell store for more details. UPDATED (from their 3 Aug. newsletter): Rediscovered Books Caldwell is officially closing its doors at the end of the day, August…
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Freeing Banned Books
Rediscovered Books started the Read Freely Project in 2021 to highlight and distribute recent books that are diverse, well-written, and yet vulnerable to censorship in the current social climate. The project is designed to connect readers with authors and stories that are different from our own and often unheard. The Cabin has joined in the…
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Lani Forbes memorial
Earlier this month, we lost a beloved member of our book-centered community. Young adult author Lani Forbes, whose critically acclaimed Age of the Seventh Sun series won multiple Realm Awards, died on February 3, 2022, in Boise, Idaho, after a nine-month battle with neuroendocrine cancer. She was 35. Please join us for Lani’s Book Birthday and a Celebration of Life and Literature. …
