Inspired by the generosity of a global movement, Beaverdale Books is proud to host Above + Beyond Cancer. Beaverdale Books will donate 20% of the day’s sales.

Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel is one of our most acclaimed and revered storytellers, with her novels spanning genres from post-apocalyptic fiction to literary fiction to mystery thriller.

The Forever Days is an intimate remembrance of a lifetime of summers spent by mind/body/spirit practitioner Mary St Onge at a lakeside cabin near the Boundary Waters in Northern Minnesota. 

Former U.S. Navy SEAL Jack Carr is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of tense military and political thrillers.

Celebrate Dinosaur Day! Head to the library to meet special guest and author Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia for a prehistoric journey of fun stories, activities, and crafts related to all things dinosaurs. All ages are welcome!

Aisle 228 is a book of poems about the Chicago Cubs and listening to baseball on the radio. The speaker also details attending games with her father. The book highlights milestones across baseball in the past 70 years and culminates in the Cubs 2016 World Series win.

Author and journalist Paul Kix’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, ESPN, The Wall Street Journal and more.

Timely and propulsive, The Long Way Back is a novel that blazes its own trail, diverging from its presumed path in unexpected ways.

A ruthless sexual predator...a young woman determined to see justice done...and an aging hit man beginning to doubt his abilities...

Virginia-based writer Taylor Harris’s 2022 debut memoir, This Boy We Made, received critical acclaim.

Do you love to write poetry?  Or read poetry?  If so, grab a friend and head to Beaverdale Books for a free, fun, and informal evening of open mic poetry, emceed by Iowa poet Kelsey Bigelow.  

In The Swine Republic, Chris Jones takes a long hard look at the science, politics, culture, and economics of Iowa agriculture and the state’s degraded waters and connects the dots for everyone who wonders why progress toward improvement is so maddeningly slow in Iowa and the rest of the farmed Midwest.