Tomorrow is the 12th annual Independent Bookstore Day! The event began in 2014 as California Bookstore Day, and has since grown in popularity to be an international celebration. It's a perfect day to support local bookstores, even stores that aren't participating. Many avid readers visit as many indie bookstores as they can in a single day.
While you're out partying with your favorite booksellers, be sure to look for exciting new releases like The Trees Are Speaking by Lynda V. Mapes, "a stunning and evocative search for the last remaining scraps of old-growth and ancient forest" throughout North America; and the "scalpel-sharp" satire Mỹ Documents by novelist Kevin Nguyen, who crafts a "brilliantly chilling" atmosphere of American paranoia following a series of coordinated attacks. Plus, Yamile Saied Méndez's "inspiring and sincere" middle-grade novel The Reel Wish considers the pressures placed on the physical and mental health of children who find a passion worth pursuing at a young age.