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Welcome to Bloomsbury Books

An independent bookstore in downtown Ashland, Oregon

Bloomsbury Books is an independent bookstore on Main Street in downtown Ashland, Oregon, home of the world-famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Founded in 1980, we specialize in contemporary fiction and children’s books, but also carry a wide variety of nonfiction and local authors, and, of course, have a large Shakespeare and theater section.

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AUTHOR TALKS AT BLOOMSBURY

Jennifer Greer presents her new mystery – A Twisted Place

Jennifer Greer presents her new mystery – A Twisted Place
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Sharon Mehdi talks about her new book “The Messages”

Thursday November 6th  7:00 to 8:00 pm What if a voice calling herself Our Lady of Chartres told you the world…
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AshlandTrails.com: The Book: Jackson County Edition with Trail Maniac Jim Falkenstein

In his book AshlandTrails.com: The Book: Jackson County Edition there are over 100 local trails from Union Creek t…
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Paul Bannick presents his new book – Woodpecker: A Year in the Life of North American Woodpeckers

In this new presentation, Paul explores  the often secret lives of woodpeckers from Alaska’s boreal forests to the…
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Dusty Roads: Meet the Hidden Figure Who Really Ignited the Women’s Movement

Hear the inspiring story of Dusty Roads—a stewardess, union leader, and one of the first female lobbyists to Congr…
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Heal Your Mental Disorder: The Doctors’ Step-by-Step Program for Conditions from Dementia to Schizophrenia with Author Ambuja Rosen

Thursday October 30th  7:00 to 8:00 pm Ambuja Rosen presents her new book Heal Your Mental Disorder: The Doctor…
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At the Ashland Library: Daniel Pollack-Pelzner in a conversation about his new book, Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist

At the Ashland Library: Daniel Pollack-Pelzner in a conversation with Barret O’Brien about his new book, Lin-Manue…
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Three local poets will read their original work.

Three local poets will read their original work.
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The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish Stories Repopulated with Spunky Heroines, Wise Women, Brave Crones and Powerful Prophetesses

Join us to celebrate a groundbreaking new book on November 10, at 7 pm.! 
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    Upcoming New Books

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    The Black Wolf

    By Louise Penny

    October 28th, 2025

    The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.

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    The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life

    By Amy Bowers Cordalis

    October 28th, 2025

    A moving multigenerational memoir of Indigenous resistance, environmental justice, and a Yurok family’s fight to protect their legacy and the Klamath River.

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    PCOS Is My Power (Signed!)

    BY CORY RUTH, RDN

    January 6th, 2026

    The first complete guide to thriving with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), offering a science-backed, holistic path to managing symptoms, plus 68 recipes and 6 meal plans

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    Bloomsbury Recommends

    We hope you enjoy our favorite Bloomsbury Picks as much as we have!

    What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

    “From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered aro…
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    Replaceable You by Mary Roach

    Limited Quantity of Signed Copies Available! “The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what’s available–sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we’re attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doin…
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    Amity by Nathan Harris

    “New Orleans, 1866. The Civil War might be over, but formerly enslaved Coleman and June have yet to find the freedom they’ve been promised. Two years ago, the siblings were separated when their old master, Mr. Harper, took June away to Mexico, where he hoped to escape the new reality of the postbellum South. Coleman stayed behind in Louisiana to serve the Harper family, clinging to the hope that one day June would return. When an unexpected letter from Mr. Harper arrives, summoning Coleman to M…
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    Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

    In this sapphic dark fantasy about vampires, V.E. Schwab explores what makes us human, and what remains when our mortality is stripped from us. With incredible tenderness and vitality, we see the innermost lives of characters, as they experience the evolution of what life looks like when its transience disappears. Ultimately a meditation on love, relationships (romantic or otherwise), power, and humanity, Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil is a departure from the standard vampire romance. What…
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    Is A River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

    “Hailed in the New York Times as “a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,” Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary peop…
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    The Doorman by Chris Pavone

    “A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York’s cultural elite. Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom she’d quietly loathed even before the recent revelations about where all the mon…
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    The Emperor Of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

    “One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual re…
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    Speak To Me Of Home by Jeanine Cummins

    “On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother’s isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela’s daughter, Ruth, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in…
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    Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

    An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them. From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power an…
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    Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    “Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until–betrayed and brokenhearted–she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeep…
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      Below are some of our currently featured titles available at Bloomsbury Books.

      The Emperor Of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

      “One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual re…
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      Speak To Me Of Home by Jeanine Cummins

      “On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother’s isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela’s daughter, Ruth, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in…
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      The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

      The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Quâebec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sãuretâe, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finall…
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      The God of The Woods by Liz Moore

      When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn’t just any camper, she’s the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp–as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared in this region: Barbara’s older brother also went missing 16 years ea…
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      Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench

      For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. In a series of intimate conversations with actor & director Brendan O’Hea, she guides us through Shakespeare’s plays with incisive clarity, revealing the secrets of her rehearsal process and inviting us to share in her triumphs, disasters, and backstage shenanigans.
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      The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

      The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War–a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery…
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      The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

      Cassie Andrews, a mild-mannered bookseller in New York City, inherits the mysterious eponymous volume from a deceased customer. Discovering its magical ability to transport her to any place she envisions, Cassie, accompanied by her spirited roommate, Izzy, embarks on an adventure. However, as they realize the perilous potential of the book, they find themselves entangled with an enigmatic man known as the Librarian, who protects a collection of similarly magical books, and pursued by malevolent…
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      The Women

      by Kristin Hannah
      When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, Frankie joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets―and becomes one of―the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost. But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. T…
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      Fup

      by Jim Dodge
      I read this little gem at least once every year to laugh at Jake’s moonshine antics and to revisit the strange and tear-inducing adventure of Tiny and his mysterious duck, Fup. Take your whiskey or tea out to the back porch on a quiet evening and sit for an hour or two to relish the wonder wrought by Jim Dodge in this short tale. – Meg
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      The Whalebone Theatre

      by Joanna Quinn
      When we first meet Christabel Seagrave, we know three things: it is the end of WWI, she is 3 years old, and she is a force to be reckoned with. Orphaned yet living on her family’s estate, she is mostly left to her own devices as she grows up exploring the seaside around her home, along with the books in the estate’s extensive library. An eccentric cast of characters come and go: Rosalind, her champagne-loving stepmother; Myrtle, the wealthy American “Poetess;” Taras, the Russian-expat artist; t…
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