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With World Book Day happening April 23 and Independent Bookstore Day arriving on Sunday April 26, it’s a good time to remember to shop local. In local bookstores, you often see current events on one side, immortal stories that have entertained for 500 hundred years on another, and in the middle series of books that tell tales of how we got from the old to the new.
At Northport Books, down by the Firefly, they are getting started Thursday night! (See flyer below). At Theodore’s Books of Oyster Bay, another local book store we know well, events will be held with authors from the 26th to the 29th. They will also have a number of exclusive items on sale. Details can be found at their website.
We love watching the extraordinary child of Book Revue, The Next Chapter develop. While sad to see Finley’s gone, we are excited to learn about Published in this great article by Melissa Farrell of Going Local LI
Below, please see an incomplete list of these and other local book stores. We encourage you to check out their websites and see if they will be hosting events. If not, go check them out anyways. Book stores are a treasure from winter to summer and back again. Some bookstores may not be listed. We’d love to learn about your favorites!
List of Book Stores, ordered by hamlet:
- The Never Ending Story, Babylon
- Book Lover’s Paradise, Bellmore
- Ketcham Inn Book Barn, Center Moriches
- Xerxes Books, Glen Head
- Burton’s Bookstore, Greenport
- IB Publisher Inc. Islamic Bookstore, Hicksville
- The Next Chapter, Huntington
- Published, Huntington
- Locust Valley Bookstore, Locust Valley
- BookOFF, Massapequa
- Book & Mortar, Mt. Sinai
- Dog-Eared Bards Books Shop, East Northport
- Northport Books, Northport
- A Book Place, Riverhead
- Tiny Racoon Books, Sayville
- Black Cat Books, Shelter Island

