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July 2018
5225 Canyon Crest Dr. #30A, Riverside CA | 951.787.7807 | cellardoorbookstore.com
Store Hours: Mon - Sat 10 am-8pm | Sun 10 am-6 pm
CLOSED Wednesday, July 4th
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Storytime: every Saturday at 11 am
Upcoming Events
Sun, July 1 - Mon, July 30
Find Waldo in Riverside
Friday, July 6 at 6 pm
Teen Advisory Board Meeting
Saturday, July 14 at 6 pm
Daniel de Vise
Wednesday, July 18 at 6 pm
Jason Porath
Friday, July 20 at 6 pm
Cellar Door Think Tank
Saturday, July 21 at 6 pm
Game Night
Tuesday, July 31 at 5 pm
Harry Potter's Birthday at W. Wolfskill
June Best "Cellars"

1. The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
     Balzer & Bray |  9780062498533
2.  Jade Dragon Mountain, Elsa Hart
     Minotaur Books |  9781250072337
3.  Sycamore, Bryn Chancellor
     HarperCollins |  9780062661104
4. Miss Burma, Charmaine Craig
     Grove Press |  9780802127686
5.  Ugly Cat & Pablo, Isabel Quintero
     Scholastic |  9780545940917
6.  No Is Not Enough, Naomi Klein
     Haymarket Books |  9781608468904
7. Partners in Crime, Agatha Christie
     HarperCollins |  9780062074362
8.  Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
     Henry Holt & Co. |  9781250170972
9. Ghost Boys,  Jewell Parker Rhodes
     Little, Brown Books |  9780316262286
10. Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
     Doubleday |  9780385534246
July Staff Picks
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The Stranger in the Woods by Michae Finkel
"In a search for books about the woods of Maine, I discovered this true account of Christopher Knight... Finkel's telling of this yearning in humankind for solitude made me lovingly stroke my sleeping bag and wish I had not given my tents to my kids." - Linda

Linda's vacation pick! Read the full review here. 


Wonder at the Edge of the World by Nicole Helget
"From the author of The End of the Wild! Science and magic, abolitionists, slaves and pre-Civil War sentiments, whaling ships, and more, but it's the characters who are thrown about for whom you will come to care deeply." - Linda

Read the full review here.


Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Mesmerizing and full of heart, Love's author-illustrator debut about a young boy wanting to become a mermaid is a radiant celebration of individuality and unconditional love. One of the great picks from last month's Drag Queen Storytime, and a Kids' Indie Next pick!
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Buy the book here.
July Summer Camp Schedule
Tuesday, July 10 from 11 am-3 pm
Cellar Door Camp: See You in the Cosmos
Wednesday, July 11 from 10 am-12 pm
Magic Tree House Camp: Animals
July 11 & 13, from 12 pm-2 pm
Writing is a Superpower! 
Wednesday, July 18 from 10 am-12 pm
Magic Tree House Camp: Nature
July 23-27 from *1-3 pm
Self-Expression Through Portrait w/ Alicia
Wednesday, July 25 from 10 am-12 pm
Magic Tree House Camp: Sports
July 25 & 27, from 12 pm-2 pm
Writing is a Superpower!
Tuesday, July 31 from 11 am-3 pm
Cellar Door Summer Camp: Harry Potter
*Time subject to change due to scheduling conflicts. Check our website and social media for updates.

Psst... interested in joining one of the camps? There are still spots left! Visit or give us a call at (951) 787-7807 to inquire about registering.
Daniel de Vise
Saturday, July 14 at 6 pm

Join us in welcoming Daniel de Vise, author of The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France, for a reading and signing! This event is partnered with the Riverside Bicycle Club. 

For more information or to purchase the book online, click here.
Jason Porath
Wednesday, July 18 at 6 pm

We're excited to welcome Jason Porath, author of Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History's Mightiest Matriarchs and Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics, for a reading and signing!

For more information or to purchase the books online, click here.
Find Waldo in Riverside
Sunday, July 1 - Monday, July 30

Waldo, the iconic children's book character, is coming back to Riverside this July! Pick up your Find Waldo passport from us or any of the participating local indie businesses and let the hunt begin. Then join us for the Find Waldo party on July 30th at 3 pm!
Take a vacation. Bring a book...

Looking for that perfect new book to read for lazing in your hammock, tent, luxury suite, or on your beach towel? Cellar Door invites you to spend some time in our store this summer and pick up the great summer reads featured in the California Summer Reads catalog, available at the front desk!


...or listen to an audiobook from Libro.fm.

Sign up for the monthly membership and you'll get the first audiobook for free, take 30% off additional audiobooks, hold or cancel your account at any time and keep your audiobooks, and you'll be directly supporting Cellar Door. And did you know you can now preorder audiobooks? 

To sign up for Libro.fm, click here.
Harry Potter's Birthday at W. Wolfskill
Tuesday, July 31 at 5 pm

Celebrate the Boy Who Lived with Cellar Door Books and W. Wolfskill! Join in on the magic with themed cocktails, games and competitions, and a selection of books chosen by our booksellers for sale. Find more information on our social media as we get closer to the event! (And, please, no flying motorcycles or sat-on cakes.)

For more info or to buy the new covers by Brian Selznick, click here.
Indies Introduce: What's New in July

What is Indies Introduce? Booksellers from across the nation do what indies do best: find and showcase undiscovered debut authors and their books every season, for both kids and adult titles. Here's some of the notable Indies Introduce releases this month from the Summer/Fall Kids' list! 

Don't forget about the adult list, though. (Anyone finished reading There There or Convenience Store Woman yet?) There's quite a number of adult Indies Introduce titles releasing in July! - Destenie

Where the Watermelons Grow by Cindy Baldwin (7/3): A tender and empathetic depiction of mental illness, this story is as sweet as summer watermelon, even while the reader follows young narrator Della navigating her Mama's "sickness" the best she can.

 Buy the book here.

Sea Witch by Sarah Henning (7/31): This re-imagining of The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen's, not Disney's) is not only a tale of the "Other," not only the story of a strong female protagonist, but an origin of one of the most iconic fairy tale villains.

Buy the book here.
Book Clubs for Adults

Cellar Door Book Club (Meets the fourth Sunday of the month at 3 pm)
Sunday, July 22: Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
Sunday, August 26: The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick

Mystery Book Club  (Meets the third Thursday of the month at 6 pm)
Thursday, July 19: Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart
Thursday, August 16: Devotion of Suspect X by Heigo Higashino

Science-Fiction & Fantasy  (Meets the third Saturday of the month at 5 pm)
Saturday, July 21: Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn
*No meeting in August

Memoir & Biography  (Meets the second Wednesday of the month at 6 pm)
Wednesday, July 11: Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
Wednesday, August 8: Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo

Latino Book Club  (Meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm)
Tuesday, July 24: Umami by Laia Jufresa
Tuesday, August 28: Blindness by Jose Saramago

Historical Fiction Book Club  (Meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 5 pm)
Saturday, July 28: The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Saturday, August 25: Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford

Agatha Christie Book Club  (Meets the third Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm)
Tuesday, July 17: Partners in Crime
Tuesday, August 21: Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

Philosophical Horror  (Meets the third Monday of the month at 6 pm)
Monday, July 16: Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Monday, August 20: My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

Black Lit Book Club  (Meets the final Friday of the month at 6 pm)
Friday, July 27: What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Friday, August 24: Wizard of the Crow (Book 1-3) by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Speculative Fiction Book Club  (Meets the second Friday of the month at 6:30 pm)
Friday, July 13: Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi
Friday, August 10: Children of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

LGBTQ Book Club  (Meets the fourth Monday of the month at 6 pm)
Monday, July 23: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Monday, August 27: Mary Renault: A Biography by David Sweetman

Not Your Father's Teen Lit  (Meets the first Saturday of the month at 6 pm)
Saturday, July 7: Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Saturday, August 4: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Bucket List Book Club  (Meets the third Sunday of the month at 3 pm)
Sunday, July 15: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Sunday, August 19: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

Phy-Sci Book Club  (Meets the fourth Wednesday of the month at 6 pm)
Wednesday, July 25: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
Wednesday, August 22: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Current Affairs Book Club  (Meets the second Sunday of the month at 4 pm)
Sunday, July 8: An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Sunday, August 12: Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean

Feminist Book Club  (Meets the first Tuesday of the month at 6 pm)
*Thursday, July 5: Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
Tuesday, August 7: The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

Graphic Novel Book Club  (Meets the first Monday of the month at 6:30 pm)
Monday, July 2: The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturns by Neil Gaiman
Monday, August 6: Angel Catbird by Margaret Atwood, ill. by Johnnie Christmas

Libros en Espanol (Meets the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm)
Tuesday, July 10: Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego by Mariana Enriquez
Tuesday, August 14: A Lupita le gustaba planchar by Laura Esquivel

350 Book Club (Meets the fourth Thursday of the month at 6 pm)
Thursday, July 26: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Thursday, August 23: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Book Clubs for Kids and Youth

Early Readers Book Club (Meets the second Saturday of the month at 1 pm)
Saturday, July 14: The Creature of the Pines ( The Unicorn Rescue Society #1) by Adam Gidwitz
Saturday, August 11: Ugly Cat & Pablo by Isabel Quintero

Spanish Readers Book Club  (Meets the third Saturday of the month at 1 pm)
Saturday, July 21: Azucar! by Ivar Da Coll
Saturday, August 18: Lola by Junot Diaz

Kid's Book Club (Meets the second Thursday of the month at 4 pm)
Thursday, July 12: Nick & Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab by Bob Plugfelder
Thursday, August 9: See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng

Dumbeldore's Army (Meets the first Monday of the month at 3:30 pm)
*No meeting in July and August
Monday, September 3: American Street by Ibi Zoboi

There are no official sign-ups or fees for our offered book clubs, but we do ask that you purchase these books from us in order to participate. *Starred meetings are not held at their usual date and/or time. 

Visit our Book Clubs page here for more info.
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