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BERKELEY — National Independent Bookstore Day, now in its second year, will feature more than a dozen participating East Bay stores. The event, co-sponsored by Penguin Random House, Ingram, and The American Booksellers Association, will feature literary parties, readings by authors, and exclusive, playful promotional items not available elsewhere or any other time — “Not before. Not online. And not in chain stores,” according to organizers.

The items include special signed editions of literary works; coloring books, toys and other children’s items; prints, towels, canvas pouches and sundry others.

But most of all, Independent Bookstore Day is “a large-scale communal event that joyously celebrates the literary ecosystem and shows how symbiotic the relationship between readers, writers, and bookstores is, and how essential they all are in sustaining the contemporary written word,” according to author Lauren Groff, 2016 Bookstore Day ambassador.

Participating East Bay stores include:

More information about Saturday’s event is available at and on individual bookstore websites.

Contact Tom Lochner at 510-262-2760. Follow him at .
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