Rubber Rose Books & Print

09/05/2026

🗓SEPTEMBER EVENTS🗓

09/03/2026

📚BRAND NEW ARRIVALS📚

😱 Thriller
Brain Damage - Freida McFadden
Death Row (novella) - Freida McFadden
King of Ashes – S.A. Cosby
The Compound (Good Morning America Book Club Pick) – Aisling Rawle

❤️ Romance
Dolly All the Time (Good Morning America Book Club pick) - Annabel Monaghan
Wild About You – Jo Lovett
Just for the Cameras (Deluxe Edition) (Bay Area Players #1) – Meghan Quinn
Just for the Plot (Deluxe Edition) (Bay Area Players #2) - Meghan Quinn
Let's Kiss and Tell - Joss Richard
The One Where They Fall in Love - Cristina Wolf

 🏰Fantasy
🏳️‍🌈 Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (now in paperback) - Victoria “V.E.” Schwab
Katabasis (now in paperback) - Rebecca Kuang

👾Sci-Fi
Automatic Noodle (Automatic Noodle #1) (now in paperback) - Annalee Newitz

 🖤 Gothic/Literary
🏳️‍🌈 Little Wild – Laura Evans

 📜 Historical Fiction
🏳️‍🌈Atmosphere: A Love Story (Good Morning America Book Club pick) (now in paperback) - Taylor Jenkins Reid

🌍 Social Science
🏳️‍🌈 Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Q***r Identity - 📚 Pink Crime by Valena Beety

😎 Young Adult
🏳️‍🌈 Don't Let the Forest In (now in paperback) - CG Drews (Horror)

🦄 Middle Grade
A Fishboy Named . . . Sashimi (Sashimi 1) - Dan Santat
Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2 – Jeff Kinney
The Adventures of Tubby Nugget: Escape from Nuggetville 1 - Joshua Drew Jackson Jenine Pastores Tubby Nugget®

09/02/2026

Project SUN is building our strategic plan for the years ahead — and we want it shaped by the people who know this community best: YOU.

09/01/2026

📖🌈🩷

Join us for our September edition of the Literary Spectrum book club tomorrow night at 6pm!

We've partnered with the Kankakee Area LGBTQ Network for this "bring what you're reading" style book club that gives q***r folks and ally's a place to share their recent reads in a safe & inclusive environment 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We have folks that read 20+ books a month and those who read one book every few months. All types of readers are welcome, celebrated, and encouraged to come, even if you just want to see what everyone else is reading!

We hope to see you tomorrow at 6pm ☺️

***rbooks ***rbookclub

08/25/2026

💔💔💔

Sad day for the book and music world.
Dolly has been a part of our lives since we opened the store, and her voice long before that. We have (and will continue to) direct families to her free reading program.
We put the cut-out in the window facing 1st Ave. Give her a little honk when you drive by.
Dolly forever.

08/22/2026

✨️MERCH UPDATE✨️

We now have a dedicated Dungeon Crawler Carl corner including all currently available hardcovers & paperbacks, the book one graphic novel & MERCH 😁

Last night at the Sunset Stroll we sold out of book one paperbacks BUT we will be getting more in two weeks! I'll be on vacation next week so I won't be placing a new book order until Monday the 31st. The store will be covered and open normal business hours ☺️

In addition, we updated the location and pricing for the Blind Dates With A Book! They are now located below the main front crate display in the new book section. Blind Dates will be:

✅️ Like New condition
✅️ 50% or more off the cover price
✅️ Published in the last 10 years

Have a wonderful weekend 🥰

08/20/2026

‼️TEMPORARY HOUR UPDATE‼️

We will be closing early tomorrow so we can make our way to South Schuyler to set up for the Sunset Stroll!

Come check out our booth for Dungeon Crawler Carl books & merch, blind date books & book trivia with prizes 🤩

08/20/2026

🐱📚THIS SATURDAY📚🐱

We had people telling us that they missed the last storytelling we did at Sunrise Center Animal Rescue, so we're doing another one! 📚

📕Around 5 stories will be read throughout the evening
📗Snacks and Juice will be provided
📘Coloring station will be open
📙Cats will be available for snuggles and adoption

Kids of all ages are welcome ❤️

08/18/2026

🌅🚶🏾‍♀️🌅🚶‍♂️🌅

Come check out our booth this Friday from 6p-10p at the South Schuyler Sunset Stroll in Kankakee!

We will have:

✨️ Dungeon Crawler Carl Books & Merch

✨️ Blind Dates With A Book (50% off the cover price - Like New condition - published in the last 10 years)

✨️ Book Trivia & Giveaways

✨️ Special Announcement 😉

Thanks to Downtown Kankakee for putting on this event! See you Friday 🫶🏻