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Welcome to
Rebel Heart Books

We hope you’ll stay a while.

As with many stories, Rebel Heart Books began as a secret dream, an if only, a someday.

Since setting foot in the historic town of Jacksonville, OR over 20 years ago, the setting was the only thing we knew for sure.

Though it’s not necessarily an original idea, it’s the driver for this particular story. We believe that everyone has a bit of a rebel heart; the desire to be or do something different or unexpected.

Welcome to
Rebel Heart Books

We hope you’ll stay a while.

As with many stories, Rebel Heart Books began as a secret dream, an if only, a someday.

Since setting foot in the historic town of Jacksonville, OR over 20 years ago, the setting was the only thing we knew for sure.

Though it’s not necessarily an original idea, it’s the driver for this particular story. We believe that everyone has a bit of a rebel heart; the desire to be or do something different or unexpected.

Eileen's Essay

"As a teenager I was fascinated by columnists. I routinely read the work of Erma Bombeck, Dave Barry, Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, and Mike Royko."

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Eileen's Essay

"As a teenager I was fascinated by columnists. I routinely read the work of Erma Bombeck, Dave Barry, Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, and Mike Royko."

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What our customers are reading now:

Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Bookshop | Custom | Audio
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
Bookshop | Custom | Audio
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Bookshop | Custom | Audio
The Man Who Lived Underground
Richard Wright
Bookshop | Custom | Audio

It's All Good Here

What our customers are reading now:

Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Bookshop | Custom | Audio
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
Bookshop | Custom | Audio
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Bookshop | Custom | Audio
The Man Who Lived Underground
Richard Wright
Bookshop | Custom | Audio
  • 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)
  • “The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our doors are open everyday
  • Oh my god, it’s happening! This weekend only! Every book in our little shop will be 20% off! 📚😱 

Our first ever Book Blowout Sale is a thank you to our local community and an opportunity for us to make a little room for all the new titles coming your way in 2026. 😍

Thank you for shopping small, shopping local, and for being a part of what makes Rebel Heart Books so special. 🏹❤️

#rebelheartbooks #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon #indiebookstore
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
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
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
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
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
6 days ago
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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 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 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 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
2 weeks ago
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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
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
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This and a book. 🏹❤️

#rebelheartbooks #indiebookstore #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon
This and a book. 🏹❤️ #rebelheartbooks #indiebookstore #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon
3 weeks ago
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4/9
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
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
4 weeks ago
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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
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
1 month ago
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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)
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)
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“The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our doors are open everyday
“The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Our doors are open everyday
2 months ago
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Oh my god, it’s happening! This weekend only! Every book in our little shop will be 20% off! 📚😱 

Our first ever Book Blowout Sale is a thank you to our local community and an opportunity for us to make a little room for all the new titles coming your way in 2026. 😍

Thank you for shopping small, shopping local, and for being a part of what makes Rebel Heart Books so special. 🏹❤️

#rebelheartbooks #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon #indiebookstore
Oh my god, it’s happening! This weekend only! Every book in our little shop will be 20% off! 📚😱 Our first ever Book Blowout Sale is a thank you to our local community and an opportunity for us to make a little room for all the new titles coming your way in 2026. 😍 Thank you for shopping small, shopping local, and for being a part of what makes Rebel Heart Books so special. 🏹❤️ #rebelheartbooks #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon #indiebookstore
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Connection is Key

To help us all stay connected,
  we offer events, bookclubs & more!     

Connection is Key

We offer special events,
bookclubs & more to help all of us
stay connected. Don’t miss out!

  • 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)
  • “The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our doors are open everyday
  • Oh my god, it’s happening! This weekend only! Every book in our little shop will be 20% off! 📚😱 

Our first ever Book Blowout Sale is a thank you to our local community and an opportunity for us to make a little room for all the new titles coming your way in 2026. 😍

Thank you for shopping small, shopping local, and for being a part of what makes Rebel Heart Books so special. 🏹❤️

#rebelheartbooks #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon #indiebookstore
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
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
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
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
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
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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 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 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 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
2 weeks ago
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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
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
2 weeks ago
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3/9
This and a book. 🏹❤️

#rebelheartbooks #indiebookstore #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon
This and a book. 🏹❤️ #rebelheartbooks #indiebookstore #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon
3 weeks ago
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4/9
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
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
4 weeks ago
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5/9
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
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
1 month ago
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6/9
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)
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)
1 month ago
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7/9
“The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our doors are open everyday
“The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Our doors are open everyday
2 months ago
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8/9
Oh my god, it’s happening! This weekend only! Every book in our little shop will be 20% off! 📚😱 

Our first ever Book Blowout Sale is a thank you to our local community and an opportunity for us to make a little room for all the new titles coming your way in 2026. 😍

Thank you for shopping small, shopping local, and for being a part of what makes Rebel Heart Books so special. 🏹❤️

#rebelheartbooks #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon #indiebookstore
Oh my god, it’s happening! This weekend only! Every book in our little shop will be 20% off! 📚😱 Our first ever Book Blowout Sale is a thank you to our local community and an opportunity for us to make a little room for all the new titles coming your way in 2026. 😍 Thank you for shopping small, shopping local, and for being a part of what makes Rebel Heart Books so special. 🏹❤️ #rebelheartbooks #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsouthernoregon #indiebookstore
2 months ago
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