Auntie's Bookstore

09/19/2026

Through historic and contemporary newspaper articles, expert interviews by cryptozoologists and cryptid enthusiasts, and retellings of local legends, author and professional weirdo Devon Kelley uncovers the hidden creatures of Cascadia.

Sunday, October 4 at 11:00am, author Devon Kelley and Liz Wood, hosts of the long-running local history podcast The Ouija Broads: Tales from the Pacific Northweird, will visit Auntie’s to chat about Devon’s book, Cryptids of the Pacific Northwest, and our area’s strange creatures.

More about the book:

The Pacific Northwest is a land of secrets, legends, and some might even say monsters. Stories of cryptids—hidden animals—are whispered throughout the region’s history, told in everything from bashful confidences to bold headlines.

Unusual creatures like the Cadborosaurus have been sighted in the Salish Sea, and the Pend Oreille Paddler is rumored to live inland, lurking deep in still waters. It’s said that one can sometimes catch a glimpse of a hulking bat-humanoid winging its way across gray skies, and the rugged Pacific coast could be hiding more scaled, tailed, finned, and furred sea cryptids in remote harbors. The foggy forests, thick with evergreens, are said to hide everything from an arboreal octopus to the king of cryptids, Sasquatch.

About the author:

Devon Kelley is an artist and professional weirdo from Washington State. She is a photographer, painter, and has published two volumes of poetry. Devon is co-host of the podcast Ouija Broads: Tales from the Pacific Northweird, running since 2017. She is a co-founder of The Vaude Villains, one of Spokane’s first revival burlesque troupes. She has a BFA in photography from EWU, and an MA in museology from UW. She lives in Washington with her favorite human and second favorite cat.

09/17/2026

In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.

🗓️Thursday, October 15th 🕠5:30PM
📍Central Public Library (906 W Main Ave)
🪑nxʷyxʷyetkʷ Hall, 3rd floor
🎟️ https://tinyurl.com/27upafnd

This event is ticketed. A signed paperback copy of the book is included with your ticket and you will receive it at the event when you check in.

There will be no signing after the presentation. Copies of Elizabeth’s other titles will be for sale at the event.

At the request of the author, there will be no photographs or video allowed during the event.

About the book

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.

What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?

All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love—or to any other passion, substance, or craving—and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.

About the author

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of nine previous works of fiction and nonfiction, which collectively have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, spent more than two hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and been translated into more than fifty languages. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. With more than 20 million views of her TED Talk and 2.7 million followers on her social media accounts, she continues to be one of the most beloved and influential writers of our age.

09/16/2026

Congrats, Leyna!!! 🎉

Spokane author Leyna Krow on Tuesday won a 2026 Washington State Book award for her fiction novel, “Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids.”

09/16/2026

FROG AND TOAD STORYTIME WITH AUNTIES BOOKSTORE

The perfect family friendly event with Hitchhiker's Theatre! Join Frog and Toad at Auntie's Bookstore on October 10th and 11am to hear them read their most iconic stories and sing their favorite songs from the upcoming musical, A Year with Frog and Toad.

Free Admission. No RSVP required

09/16/2026

This release day was UNREAL! New arrivals tables are packed with goodness. See you soon! 📚

09/13/2026

Join us for storytime with author Meghan Jones today at 1:00pm!

As a child, Meghan Jones was known for two things: Making something artistic, in any manner of mediums and always having a cool science fact on hand.

09/12/2026

Gregory Spatz’s upcoming novel, THE VIVALDI CHURCH, releases on October 6, and Auntie’s is offering signed copies to anyone who pre-orders!

About the book:
Across two continents and three-hundred years, a love for the life and music of Antonio Vivaldi unites our three main characters-Rose, Peter, and Chiara-as they come to terms with their own losses and circumstances.

In the late 1700s, Chiara dal Violino is one of the last great soloists of the Ospedali Grandi, the all-female orchestra/choir housed within Venice’s asylums for the orphaned, abandoned, destitute, and incurably ill. Chiara, left there as an infant, trained under Antonio Vivaldi to become a celebrated violin virtuoso, a woman who must be heard but never seen, playing out the sight for the rich and powerful, and never even given a last name.

In the 1990s, 13-years-old Peter discovers his aunt, his sole caretaker since the death of his mother, dead on the floor. He is lost-no relatives, no resources, not even a clean change of clothes. He attempts to attach himself emotionally to his orchestra teacher, who, while well-meaning, may not be up to keeping the promises she makes. But he does have one solace and escape-his interest in the violin and the rich history surrounding it.

It’s 2019, and Rose, a twenty-one-year-old violinist, is visiting Venice for her first time, as a featured soloist with her college orchestra. Rose is there to learn about and from the Ospedali Grandi. But neither her studies nor changing continents means she can escape her growing estrangement with her boyfriend back home, nor her budding relationship with her friend and new, exciting but confusing, lover. Nor does it erase the self-doubts that cloud her as she prepares to perform a piece written by Vivaldi for Chiara dal Violino.

All three lives intertwine around a shared passion and central question: how does music provide grace and a sense of belonging in the world for three young people, decades and centuries apart?

09/09/2026

Find us tonight at Ember Room at 225 W. Riverside for the launch of Annastacia Stegall’s book, TEARS, BRA, AND ALL. See you at 7:00pm!

A memoir spanning lyric essay, childhood games, assemblage, and traditional poetic form, Tears, Bra, and All tells a story of refashioning.

How is memory a material? Can something deemed trash be meaningful and made anew?

The book opens with a stalking. The constant rattle of a doorknob haunts Annastacia as she tries to move on after her university’s failure - and refusal - to protect her. Stegall reconfigures this memory, its aftermath, and other violences into new forms for readers to write on, cut, fold, and play with. Poems materialize as cootie catchers, games of M.A.S.H., and more as she revisits past events with a louder voice.

She adds this voice to a chorus in the book’s final section, documenting the sewing of a corset from other people’s trash that invokes the found-object art and history of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

Stegall’s writing vibrates with rage and lingers in patches of sunlight. It summons ancient tragedies, converses with avant-garde artists and poets, and takes careful note of outfits. Tears, Bra, and All is an extraordinary work of autobiographical collage that gives readers a participatory role - and “trash” a more expansive meaning.

09/09/2026

Bring the kiddos down for a special storytime with the author this Sunday at 1:00pm! Meghan Jones will be sharing her brand new book, THE UNUSUAL OCEAN: WHO LIVES IN THE DEEP?

Between four and seven miles deep, the ocean—where pressure is one ton per square centimeter—evokes both mystery and misunderstanding; accessing these depths is challenging to human exploration. Our fear of this dark unknown often conjures images of monsters of the deep, especially in the minds of children. Based on current scientific observations and studies, this book demonstrates that reality can be more fascinating than the wildest imagination all while traveling from the shore to the deepest of ocean trenches. Along the way it introduces children to twenty of the most unusual creatures to inhabit the oceans, including bone-eating worms, supergiant amphipods with expanding stomachs, snails made of iron, worms that eat chemicals and even hagfish who can suffocate on their own slime. This book will excite a new generation of ocean explorers who can take their piqued interest and become a much needed movement for deep ocean stewardship.