For books in store, our rates are $5 for the first pound and another .60 for each additional pound.

Gifts, apparel, and other items ordered through this site have their own shipping rates.

Now that we’re open for stop-in browsing, we no longer offer local delivery, sorry!

In the store we have some of the most popular titles. We can also place special orders for books available from our distributor, which you can then pick up from the shop.

In 99% of cases, you can use your store credit to get up to 20% off new books!

If you don’t want to pick up in store but still want to shop indie, we encourage you to order from our Bookshop.org store, which helps us out a LOT.

Those books will ship direct to you from the distributor’s warehouse, and we get a commission that’s actually better for us than selling the books ourselves.

Bookshop.org is a not-for-profit, the goal of which is to let indie bookstores compete against You Know Who. We curate a bookstore on their site, they handle customer service, and the books themselves are shipped from Ingram (the distributors we ourselves use). We get 30%+ of the cover price on all books purchased through our affiliate link.

As crazy as it sounds, this is legit.

Here’s all the details if you want them.

We don’t have any access to those orders, but Bookshop has great customer service. Click the contact link on their help page.

Yes! Please read the Trading page for all the details.

To check your balance, stop in or give us a call at 206-999-7703.

YES! We have a giant, customer-funded store credit account which teachers (and nonprofit volunteers) can use to get 50% off used and 20% new books when used for educational purposes or similar, such as stocking a library. We also offer special order services for teachers.

He did until he passed away in June, 2025. It’s now owned by his widow, Lanthe, and daughter, Emma.