Shop Local. Read Local. The Local Author Fair. 🏹❤️ On April 18th, join Rebel Heart Books at the Jacksonville Public Library Community Room from 1-3pm as we feature and celebrate another round of talented local authors! We’ll have familiar faces like best-selling authors Megan Crane and Maisey Yates, as well as first time attendees like Octavio Solis, Whitney Pearl, Yvette Provosty, and over twenty others! This event has continued to grow (and frankly, burst at the seams) not only because of the talented writers, but because of the community that shows up and purchases the books that so many authors have poured their heart into. If you’ve been to the fair before, you know it’s a room full of community, creativity, and connection; it’s a room we love to be in. We hope to see you there! 📚 #localauthorfair #shopsouthernoregon #whattodoinsouthernoregon #indiebookstore #shopsmall

Did you know that Jackson County kids aged birth to five years old are eligible for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library? Thanks to Jackson County Library Services, the Jackson County Library Foundation, United Rotary Clubs of Southern Oregon, and Queen Dolly herself, children living in Jackson County can receive free, high quality books in the mail. There’s no catch, just a love of literacy and a belief that every kid deserves access to books. 🏹❤️ You can register your child today at www.imaginationlibrary.com! 🤩📖😍 If you want to donate to help the program, visit www.jclf.org/dpil 📚 #dollypartonimaginationlibrary #independentbookstore #jacksoncountyoregon #literacy #southernoregon

First Tuesdays have become one of our favorite days of every month! Join us tomorrow, March 3rd, @thebeatricemedford for Silent Book Club from 6-7:30pm. @hummingbirdestate doles out a free wine tasting, The Beatrice’s kitchen is open, we are there reading and taking any and all of your reviews, and best of all, no one is yapping (unless, of course, you want to, but *only* after the designated silent reading time)! 🤭 #silentbookclub #southernoregon #shoplocal #eatlocal

We had a wonderful time seeing so many familiar faces at @jclsoregon’s evening with @shelbyvanpeltwrites last night! Shelby was kind enough to sign some extra copies of Remarkably Bright Creatures for us to have on hand in the store (she may have even drawn a little surprise in each one 🐙😍). We have a limited number and they’re moving fast as people have already come in and grabbed copies for gifts and book clubs. We are grateful, as always, to be in a community that values literacy, libraries, indie bookstores, and human (and octopus) connection. 🏹❤️ #remarkablybrightcreatures #indiebookstore #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon

We are thrilled to provide books for @shelbyvanpeltwrites’ sold out @jclsoregon event at the Craterian on Friday night! Rebel Heart Books will have a limited number of copies of Remarkably Bright Creatures available for purchase at the event. Stop by our table, grab a copy, and then enjoy the conversation and get your book signed by this New York Times bestselling author! 🐙 #remarkablybrightcreatures #shelbyvanpelt #shopsmall #shoplocal #indiebookstore

This and a book. 🏹❤️ #rebelheartbooks #indiebookstore #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon

It’s the second Monday of the month and in a few hours, the Romance Rebels Book Club will be gathering at the bookstore. Eight years ago, we had our first Romance Rebels book club meeting helmed by Megan Crane and Maisey Yates after they rightfully questioned why Rebel Heart didn’t carry romance. We have never missed a single meeting in all the years since. It’s not widely known, though it should be, that Romance writers and readers are responsible for keeping the lights on in the publishing industry. The money they generate make it possible for all stories to be written, published and read near and far. In these quiet retail months in Jacksonville, they continue to make things possible again. Over the last weekend of January, Megan and Maisey brought together 20 women from the Romance Writers of America for a retreat here in Jacksonville and they booked rooms here, ate here, shopped here, and traveled by Trolley here. In an after hours event on January 30th at the store, the energy and love they brought and what they bought from Rebel Heart made all the difference between a month that made it in the black versus one in the red. Keeping the lights on once again. 🏹❤️ #romancebooks #rebelheartbooks #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon #indiebookstore

Who magnifies your light? Whose light do you beam back? May we have more moments of being that person for another. 🏹❤️ “The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorry occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.” —James Baldwin #rebelheartbooks #indiebookstore #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon

Independent bookstores are places of both daily refuge and action. Throughout the country, those two missions will be reflected in the choice for businesses to either close their doors for the day or keep them open in support of Jan 30th’s general strike. We support independent bookstores and small businesses near and far, whatever they choose. Though I left the ER a long time ago, I will always have the heart of an Emergency Medicine doctor, which means Rebel Heart Books’ doors will remain open. Whether you purchase anything or not (we encourage cash only sales in solidarity with the strike), we welcome anyone who believes that we are all responsible for the health of our collective humanity. —Eileen and the RHB crew 🏹❤️ 📷: Darcie Sternenberg (www.darciesternenberg.com)