Main Street Books

Main Street Books is proud to offer story time for children every Sunday. Throughout October we will be reading halloween and harvest books and enjoying an activity geared toward the season. As always, the event is free and it is a great way for mom's and dad's to get together and meet new people and ... (more)visit.

Join Main Street Books Readers as we will have read and be ready to discuss "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle." "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" is a debut novel by author David Wroblewski and was a number one Indie Bound pick, one of the many books that independent bookstores fall in love with and help catapult ... (more)the book toward success.

Main Street Books will be reading "After Anne," by North Dakota author Roxanne Henke. The book was chosen, in part, because Roxanne will be in the store the following Wednesday, April 23 from 2:30-3:30 for a book signing and social. .
If you have read the book or wish to read the book and join in the ... (more)discussion, please join us at our new, larger location, 106 South Main Street.
Please call Main Street Books at 839-4050 or stop by for more information or with questions. Store hours are Mon. - Fri 9-6, Sat. 10-5 and Sunday 12-4..

Join the Main Street Book club for the kickoff of their fall season.
We will be reading and discussing "Three Cups of Tea," by Greg Mortenson -- a book that has been on the New York Times Bestseller list and the Indie Bound softcover non-fiction list forever (at least six months, anyway).
Feel free ... (more)to join us if you have previously read the book or come for the first time to see what it is all about.
Future book club selections will be chosen at this meeting (meeting! It sounds way too stuffy).

Join the Main Street Book club for the second book of their reading season.
We will be reading and discussing "In the Woods," by Tana French -- a book that has been on the Indie Bestseller list and the Indie Bound softcover non-fiction list for the past three months (at least two, anyway).
Feel free ... (more)to join us if you have previously read the book or come for the first time to see what it is all about. We are hoping this is an appropriately scary book for the month of October.
Please call about future book club selections.

Author Jenny Barwick will be at Main Street Books for a book signing and meet and greet event.
Jenny Barwick is a local author from Hazen and is the author of "What Will You Do with This One Called Jesus?"
Coffee and cookies will be served and the great opportunity to meet a successful local author ... (more)is free.

Main Street Books is very pleased to be able ot offer Sunday afternoons kids story time.
Story time starts at 1pm for onesies and twosies (lap children) and continues until 3pm for preschool and older children.
A healthy snack will be provided and all ages are welcome.
We are located right across ... (more)from Charley's Restaurant, an easy stroll after brunch for a great family activity. What fun!

Main Street Books is very pleased to be able ot offer Sunday afternoons kids story time.
Story time starts at 1pm for onesies and twosies (lap children) and continues until 3pm for preschool and older children.
A healthy snack will be provided and all ages are welcome.
We are located right across ... (more)from Charley's Restaurant, an easy stroll after brunch for a great family activity. What fun!

Main Street Books is very pleased to be able ot offer Sunday afternoons kids story time.
Story time starts at 1pm for onesies and twosies (lap children) and continues until 3pm for preschool and older children.
A healthy snack will be provided and all ages are welcome.
We are located right across ... (more)from Charley's Restaurant, an easy stroll after brunch for a great family activity. What fun!

Main Street Books will be reading "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons," by North Dakota author Lorna Landvik.
This is a fun story about women who belong to their own book club, the friendships they make and how belonging to a book club helps them cope with the daily problems in their own lives.
If ... (more)you have read the book or wish to read the book and join in the discussion, please join us at our new, larger location, 106 South Main Street.
Please call Main Street Books at 839-4050 or stop by for more information or with questions. Store hours are Mon. - Fri 9-6, Sat. 10-5 and Sunday 12-4..

Main Street Books is very pleased to be able ot offer Sunday afternoons kids story time.
Story time starts at 1pm for onesies and twosies (lap children) and continues until 3pm for preschool and older children.
A healthy snack will be provided and all ages are welcome.
We are located right across ... (more)from Charley's Restaurant, an easy stroll after brunch for a great family activity. What fun!

Main Street Books is very pleased to be able ot offer Sunday afternoons kids story time.
Story time starts at 1pm for onesies and twosies (lap children) and continues until 3pm for preschool and older children.
A healthy snack will be provided and all ages are welcome.
We are located right across ... (more)from Charley's Restaurant, an easy stroll after brunch for a great family activity. What fun!

Main Street Books will be reading and discussing "The Shack," by Wm. Paul Young. "The Shack" has been a NY times and Indie Bound bestseller and is currently #1 in bestselling independent bookstore paperbacks. If you have read the book or wish to read the book and join in the discussion, please join us ... (more)at our new, larger location, 106 South Main Street.
Please call Main Street Books at 839-4050 or stop by for more information or with questions. Store hours are Mon. - Fri 9-6, Sat. 10-5 and Sunday 12-4..

Main Street Books is very pleased to be able ot offer Sunday afternoons kids story time. Story time starts at 1pm and is appropriate for all ages A healthy snack will be provided with an activity to follow. We are located right across from Charley's Restaurant, an easy stroll after brunch for a great ... (more)family activity. What fun!

Main Street Books is very pleased to be able ot offer Sunday afternoons kids story time. Story time starts at 1pm and lasts about one hour. A healthy snack and a great activity will be provided and all ages are welcome. We are located right across from Charley's Restaurant, an easy stroll after brunch ... (more)for a great family activity. What fun!

Main Street Books will be reading and discussing "Astrid & Veronica," by Linda Olsson. "Astrid & Veronika" has been a NY times and Indie Bound bestseller. The author, Linda Olsson was raised in Sweden and currently lives in New Zealand. If you have read the book or wish to read the book and join in the ... (more)discussion, please join us at our new, larger location, 106 South Main Street.
Please call Main Street Books at 839-4050 or stop by for more information or with questions. Store hours are Mon. - Fri 9-6, Sat. 10-5 and Sunday 12-4..

Rick Watson, Professor of English at Minot State University & North Dakota Associate Poet Laureate will be at Main Street Books as mediator and instructor for the ND Humanities Council North Dakota reads project. This is an opportunity for people in the community to gather and discuss ideas on deeply ... (more)engaging topics within the humanites, including diversity and tolerance, ethics and integrity, civil liberties . . . Books are available at Main Street Books to check out for the event.

Story Time Sundays will feature a Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed Party. It will include the story, snacks and activities around the theme. Clothing is NOT optional, but be prepared to come and have fun dressed.

Main Street Books will be reading and discussing "The Bluest Eye," by Pulitzer Prize author Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison has been a NY times and Indie Bound bestselling author. Her latest book, "A Mercy" was voted as a top ten book by the NY Times. If you have read the book or wish to read the book and ... (more)join in the discussion, please join us at 106 South Main Street.
Please call Main Street Books at 839-4050 or stop by for more information or with questions. Store hours are Mon. - Fri 9-6, Sat. 10-5 and Sunday 12-4..

This is an interactive workshop. Bring a journal and come prepared to write.Co-sponsored with Body Mind and Soul and Spectrum Center.Here's all you will learn in this workshop:Learn how Writing Down Your Soul the practice and the book came to be (Janet’s story)What is writing down your soul? ... (more)Is it journaling? Meditation? Prayer?
What happens when you write down your soul: exit conscious mind; get in touch with your authentic story and self; connect with and activate your inner resource of truth, guidance, and creativityBrief overview of the science that explains what happens when you write this way How to enter the theta brain wave state while writing How to maximize the theta brain wave state while sleeping 10 minute experience of deep soul writing Share our experiences, ask questions Overview of the four steps in Writing Down Your Soul Next steps: How to use the Thirty Day Guide to Writing Down Your Soul, how to maintain your daily deep soul writing practice, and additional resources $35.00 per person;$30.00 per person if you attend with a friend workshop time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm. Please register for this workshop with Body Mind and Soul #713-993-0550. On Sunday, the workshop will be held at Spectrum Center.

Celebrate Mom's Day for an hour at Main Street Books by reading "Love You Forever," and planting a special flower for your mom in a pot. If you weren't here last week to decorate a pot we will have pots available to plant a flower in and (if we have time) to decorate. Come prepared to get your hands ... (more)dirty and (weather permitting) be outside for the potting activity. A snack will be provided.

Celebrate our many varied emotions in living color for an hour at Main Street Books by reading "My Many Colored Days," by Dr. Seuss and making paper plate masks that reflect the many moods of our "Many Colored Days." A snack will also be provided and the activity is free. Come prepared to get moody, ... (more)creative and have fun

Join us for a feathered friends feeding frenzy -- we will be reading Kevin Henke's "Birds," and making some real cool pine cone bird feeders to take home. A snack will be provided and we welcome all ages although most activites and stories are geared for ages 4-7.

Meet "Westhope" author Dean Hulse as he signs and discusses his new book about growing up a country boy in North Dakota. The event is free and the book will be available for sale. Free coffee and bars will be served.

Join us for a special father's day story time and activity. We will be reading father's day themed stories and decorating t-shirts for father's day. The activity and story time is free and we will have a free snack and beverage.

Join us for a special Prairie day story time and activity. We will be reading "If You're Not From the Prairie" and making pinwheels to celebrate the wonderful winds of the prairie. The activity and story time is free and we will have a free snack and beverage.

Main Street Books will be hosting a reading & book launch with Australian author and professor Lauren Rosewarne for her new book "Cheating on the Sisterhood." "Cheating on the Sisterhood" is a feminist analysis of the imbroglio of sexual politics, brute sociobiology, and pop-mediated passion that is ... (more)conjured up when a married man cheats on his wife with a younger single woman. Drawing upon her own experiences as the other woman, Rosewarne shows what happens when all three parties to the triangle are femninists . . . Should be a great reading, discussion and time -- don't miss this opportunity to meet and greet and obtain signed copies of Lauren's new book.

ND author Rhonda Kulczyk will be signing her book "Freedom to Love" at Main Street Books Saturday, July 11, from 1-3 pm. This is Rhonda's first book and is historical/Christian fiction which takes place in the mid 1800's. "Freedom to Love" is an intriguing and heart-wrenching novel about overcoming one's ... (more)past and allowing God to be God.

Join us for a special Beach day story time and activity. We will be reading Beach Themed Poems and stories and making "A Beach in a Bottle" to celebrate the wonderful gift of summer. The activity and story time is free and we will have a free snack and beverage.

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland presents Dean Kuipers as he discusses and signs his new book, Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness, an insider's look at the environmental movement's radical wing and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream.
Dean Kuipers is an editor at ... (more)the Los Angeles Times. Burning Rainbow Farm, about the 2001 FBI shooting of two libertarian pot activists on a farm in Michigan, was published in 2006. His work has also recently appeared in the 2008 titles, The Contenders, in which he wrote on Al Gore, and Red State Rebels, where the Rainbow Farm book is excerpted. He is the co-author of I Am A Bullet, a collaboration with photographer Doug Aitken on the acceleration of global culture. As a former editor at Spin and Raygun magazines, he wrote extensively on radical movements and rock’n’roll, with cover stories on Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, the Rolling Stones and many others. As author and editor of the 1997 graphics/pop culture book, Ray Gun Out Of Control, he worked with contributors David Bowie, REM's Michael Stipe, cyberpunk writer William Gibson and the world's foremost graphic designers. His work has appeared in Playboy, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Interview, Travel & Leisure, Outside, Spin, LA Weekly, and others.

Join us for a special cooking event story time and activity. We will be reading "Bunny Cakes," by Rosemary Wells and making our own "Earthworm" Bunny cake. The activity and story time is free and there will be a beverage to enjoy with our "Gummi-Worm" cake.

Judy Cook will be signing her book "If This Land Could Talk" a historical memoir chronicling the early ND Homesteading Experience. The author's Historical account introduces each of her four grandparents, who arrive separately in central North Dakota by rail around 1905. Cook offers a poignant but entertaining ... (more)glimppse into their daily lives.

Judy Cook will be signing her book "If This Land Could Talk" a historical memoir chronicling the early ND Homesteading Experience. The author's Historical account introduces each of her four grandparents, who arrive separately in central North Dakota by rail around 1905. Cook offers a poignant but entertaining ... (more)glimppse into their daily lives.

Sunday story time continues with a "Very Hungry Caterpillar" Story and activity. Main Street will be reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and making our very own egg carton caterpillar. Join us for this activity which also includes a free beverage and snack.

Join us for an August BUZZING Good time when we read "The Very Greedy Bee" by Steve Smallman and make our very own bumblebee to bring home. A snack will be provided and we welcome all ages although most activites and stories are geared for ages 4-7.

Join us for our last book on insects when we read about flies and make fireflies (okay, so I could not find a craft activity for yours and my favorite household summer pest-- the fly) A snack will be provided and we welcome all ages although most activites and stories are geared for ages 4-7.

Join us for a special month of school themed story times where we do some great alphabet books among other great activities that are way more fun than school. The activity and story time is free and there will be a snack provided.

Join us for a special month of school themed story times where we do some great alphabet books among other great activities that are way more fun than school. The activity and story time is free and there will be a snack provided.

Meet one of North Dakota's most popular authors, Lauraine Snelling. Say "Hello" to Lauraine prior to this year's Norsk Hostfest. Lauaine will be signing her books and will be doing a small prior to her booksigning. Join Main Street for Cookies, Coffee and Lauraine -- and make sure you get here at 6pm ... (more)so you can get a front row seat to hear Lauraine speak to some of her biggest fans -- here in Minot.

Main Street Books will continue having story time on Sunday's with Celia at 1pm. The activity is geared toward ages 4-7 and a snack and activity is provided.

Main Street Books is proud to offer story time for children every Sunday. Throughout October we will be reading halloween and harvest books and enjoying an activity geared toward the season. As always, the event is free and it is a great way for mom's and dad's to get together and meet new people and ... (more)visit.

Join our own Main Street Readers as we discuss "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society," by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. This historical novel has been the #1 paperback bestseller on the Indie List and is a New York Times bestseller. New members are always welcome and even if you haven't ... (more)read the book stop by, check it out, and see what belonging to a book club is all about. We are asking readers to bring their own favorite book to the meeting so we can get together our list of books for the year. Join us. The event is absolutely free and it is a great way to meet new people if your are new (or old) to the area.

Main Street Books is proud to offer story time for children every Sunday. Throughout October we will be reading halloween and harvest books and enjoying an activity geared toward the season. As always, the event is free and it is a great way for mom's and dad's to get together and meet new people and ... (more)visit.

Main Street Books is proud to offer story time for children every Sunday. Throughout October we will be reading halloween and harvest books and enjoying an activity geared toward the season. As always, the event is free and it is a great way for mom's and dad's to get together and meet new people and ... (more)visit.

Main Street Books is proud to offer story time for children every Sunday. Throughout October we will be reading halloween and harvest books and enjoying an activity geared toward the season. As always, the event is free and it is a great way for mom's and dad's to get together and meet new people and ... (more)visit.

Meet ND Native and New York Resident Jonathan Twingley, author and illustrator of "The Badlands Saloon." Jonathan will be giving a presentation about his book, his art and his journey to acquiring a publishing contract with a major publisher, Simon & Schuster. Main Street Books will be offering the books ... (more)for sale at the event with a book signing to follow the event. The books will make a wonderful and inspiring Christmas present for any aspiring artist or author.

Main Street Books is proud to offer story time for children every Sunday. Throughout October we will be reading halloween and harvest books and enjoying an activity geared toward the season. As always, the event is free and it is a great way for mom's and dad's to get together and meet new people and ... (more)visit.

Join Main Street Books, Gourmet Chef, The United Pantry and our newest business on Main Street "La Dee Dah" as we say "Thank you," for keeping it local with four big shopping days filled with Cider, chances to win a large basket of goodies and many sales on unique items. The event takes place Nov. 11-14 ... (more)during regular business hours. Cards will be available to be stamped when you shop and filled cards can enter to win our great sweepstakes basket filled with wonderful products from participating stores. What a great way to shop early, save money and support your locally owned, independent retailers.