Our Town Books

07/12/2026

I don’t even know how to express how thankful and relieved and happy we were to see all of you this morning 🥹😭🥰📚

📚Our community (including other store owners!) showed up for us and moved ALL of our books in less than an hour! Then several of you stuck around to help us move all the furniture! We are just so insanely thankful ❤️❤️🎉

📚We can’t wait to open the new store with all of you and today helped us so much!

❤️Thank YOU thank YOU, THANK YOU!!❤️🎉

07/12/2026

Tomorrow is MOVNG DAY🎉
🍋 FREE Lemonade & Water will be available PLUS our friends at the Illinois Theater of Jacksonville are providing FREE POPCORN 🍿 🤯❤️
📍Book brigade lineup starts at 9AM‼️
📚If you feel like sticking around afterwards to help with heavier items you’re welcome to!

🎉We can’t wait to see you all tomorrow!

Sign up to HELP US MOVE! 👇🔻📚'

☀9AM this Sunday 7/12, join us to form a book brigade from 64 to 74 E. Central Park Plaza as we pass books into the NEW space! (trying to beat the heat!)☀

☀If we get enough people we will plan to pass books, otherwise we will be filling up carts and taking them to the new space.

☀If you'd like to help with lifting boxes or moving carts stick around after the book passing!

☀We will provide FREE water and lemonade!

SIGN UP HERE: https://forms.gle/nktJEnSKo7ipDEHg9

07/11/2026

Things are happening! 😍🤩🎉📚

❤️We can’t wait to see everyone Sunday morning to move books!
❤️ Waters & lemonade will be provided.
📚 Join our book assembly line as we pass books from 64 ➡️ 74 E Central Park Plaza!🤩 THIS SUNDAY 9AM. 🎉‼️

📍 ourtownbooks.com

07/10/2026

Oh hey it’s us! 🤩📚🎉

Our Town Books is hoping to have enough volunteers to form a "book brigade" to pass boxes of books from its current location to its new building.
Click the link in the comments ⬇️

07/10/2026

You know where to order🤩
📍 ourtownbooks.com
Or while we’re closed: bookshop.org

Happy Pub Day!!

Free Girls by Kristen McCallum is a heartfelt coming-of-age debut about a girl starting over while keeping secret that she’s spent the last year in juvenile detention. If you are a reader who enjoys coming-of-age novels exploring new beginnings, female friendship, young love, and so much more, this is the book for you. ✨

07/10/2026

Bring your kids to the airport this SATURDAY MORNING for FREE FLIGHTS! 😍🤩 Sign up via the link…
📍 https://events.eaachapters.org/event-registration/J32575NX

OTB owner Alex (he’s our heavy lifter, keeper of our feet on the ground, and always has The Hobbit and running books on his recommendation shelf) 🤓 will be one of the pilots giving flights!🤩😍

07/09/2026

Show us your favorite memories from building #64! 🥰📚🔻

📚We are just a few days away from the big move and as excited as we are for the NEW SPACE, we're going to miss this building. Show us some of your favorite memories in the comments 💞

📚Did you know that our current building at 64 E. Central Park Plaza has housed the bookstore since 2011! Jim & Sally Nurss started the bookstore in late 2011, adding charm and bookshelves to the building. Since then, the bookstore has seen 3 additional sets of store owners, including us! That's 4 total sets of owners since it's creation, all adding their own uniqueness and bookstore magic.

📚This move is bittersweet, but we hope it's just a few steps (literally to #74) in the perfect direction for the bookstore's future. ☀ We can't wait to share the new space with all of you!

Jacksonville Main Street Midwest Booksellers Association

07/09/2026

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