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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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BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL
June 10th, 2025
From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.

NEVER FLINCH
May 27th, 2025
Stephen King comes with an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines–one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker–featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.

The Emperor of Gladness
May 13th, 2025
Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

Speak to Me of Home
May 13th, 2025
What does it mean to call a place home?
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multigenerational family story.

Is a River Alive?
May 20th, 2025
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.

My Name Is Emilia del Valle
May 6th, 2025
In this spellbinding historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The Wind Knows My Name, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father–and herself.

Run for the Hills
May 13th, 2025
An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.

The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
April 15th, 2025
In a rare window into some of her life’s pivotal moments, Melinda French Gates draws from previously untold stories to offer a new perspective on encountering transitions.

My Friends
May 6th, 2025
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later.
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

The God of The Woods by Liz Moore

My Murder by Katie Williams

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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

Citizen: My Life After The White House by Bill Clinton

Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

The City And Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

Last Days by Brian Evenson

The Damned (La-Bas) by J.k. Huysmans

Patriot by Alexei Navalny

What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci

Framed by John Grisham

War by Bob Woodward

Into the Uncut Grass by Trevor Noah

The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Weyward by Emilia Hart

Playground by Richard Powers

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton
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The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

The God of The Woods by Liz Moore

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

The Women

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The Whalebone Theatre

Young Queer America: Real Stories and Faces of LGBTQ+ Youth
