Maria's Bookshop

Previously self-published, Blake Crouch's 'Run' has not had physical distribution across bookstores until now! Its release date is October 22, 2024 and if you pre-order before October 10, 2024 Blake will sign copies of Run and his backlist for you!

'Run' is a gripping apocalyptic thriller about a man and his family running for their lives in an America gone mad. Jack Colclough is listening over the battery-powered radio on his kitchen table in Albuquerque, and he just heard his name. People are coming to his house to kill him, his wife, his daughter, his son. He doesn't know why, but he doesn’t have time to think about that anymore. He only has time to run.

Visit the link the comments below or message us for details.

Blake Crouch

✍️Authors in the Parklet is our seasonal feature of local authors.

From fiction to memoirs to children’s storybooks and more, our talented local authors write a wide variety of books they’re eager to share with you! Authors in the Parklet is an opportunity to meet & talk with writers while enjoying our beautiful Parklet made possible by Durango Street Pianos Durango Creative District Laurie Cullum Design City of Durango - Government

🌄This coming weekend Friday September 20 - Sunday September 22 our schedule features health & wellness, stories of found family, and the indomitable spirit of women:

Aubree Eck "Optimal Health Simplified"
Leah Evert-Burks "Slices of Sky"
Margaret Kirk "They Persisted"

🗓️Get all the details from our website and look ahead on our events calendar for more upcoming author events.

History Live Durango continues this month with a live podcast performance from Kirbie Bennett, Jamie Wanzek, and Adam Burke of The Magic City of the Southwest Podcast in our bookshop!

You'll sit front row as we take a listen to excerpts from upcoming episodes along with conversations with special guests.

What makes The Magic City of the Southwest Podcast so special is that it's a regional history podcast series featuring stories all too often unaccounted for in this area's Western tales. Through extensive research and personal interviews, Kirbie, Jamie & Adam bring forth archival documents, photos and oral histories to highlight these forgotten histories.

Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable

Join us for a special History Live Durango event!

Ed Horvat will be in the bookshop for an author talk & sharing images from his recently released Images of America book "La Plata County", tomorrow Thursday September 12 6pm at the bookshop.

Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book Arcadia Publishing

✍️Authors in the Parklet is our seasonal feature of local authors.

From fiction to memoirs to children’s storybooks and more, our talented local authors write a wide variety of books they’re eager to share with you! Authors in the Parklet is an opportunity to meet & talk with writers while enjoying our beautiful Parklet made possible by Durango Street Pianos Durango Creative District Laurie Cullum Design City of Durango - Government

🌄This coming weekend Friday September 13 - Sunday September 15 our schedule features inspiring narratives & poetry:

Cynthia Griswold "Finding My Inspiration"
Erin Agee "Let Us Be So Familiar"

🗓️Get all the details from our website and look ahead on our events calendar for more upcoming author events.

💌You're invited to our 40th Anniversary celebration!

🥰Without you, we wouldn't be celebrating this momentous milestone. This party's for YOU! Come say hi. See old friends. Make new ones. Be surrounded by books!

We'll be giving away a Year of Books, a Year of Audiobooks (thanks Libro.fm ), and more throughout the party. Starting at 6pm local band People We Know will play as we roll the bookshelves to the side to open up a dance floor! Plus our friends Ska Brewing have brewed a special anniversary beer for the occasion! You could even bring a book and just read in the corner. Seriously.

This party wouldn't be possible without the support of Local First .

We hope to see you there 😎

✍️Authors in the Parklet is the seasonal feature of our local authors.

From fiction to memoirs to children’s storybooks and more, our talented local authors write a wide variety of books they’re eager to share with you! Authors in the Parklet is an opportunity to meet & talk with writers while enjoying our beautiful Parklet made possible by Durango Street Pianos, , ,

🌄This coming weekend Friday September 6 - Sunday September 8 our schedule is jam packed:

William Eastwood "The Altruism Code"
Dr. Jon Powell "Mouse Goes Skiing"
E.B. Golden "Behind the Crimson Curtain"
Conner McCue "An Eight-Legged Tale"
Heather Hinsley "Delicious Details"

🗓️Get all the details from our website and look ahead on our events calendar for more upcoming author events.

We're getting excited to host columnist, poet, essayist & author Zach Hively next week!

You can enjoy a pre-view if you tune in to KDUR Community Radio on Monday September 2, 2024 9:00am for Four Corners Art Forum with Margy Dudley as she interviews Zach Hively .

Yes! We're open on Labor Day!

Monday September 2nd also begins our Fall & Winter Hours.

7 days a week 9:00am - 9:00pm

📢We're currently hiring for a part-time Bookseller!

🤝Maria’s Bookshop has served Durango and its surrounding communities since 1984. Our customers count on receiving outstanding service every time they walk through our doors. We trust our employees to ensure that this expectation is met and exceeded with each customer interaction.

📚If you or someone you know is an enthusiastic reader and has prior bookselling/retail/public relations experience, we invite you to learn more and apply!

🔗Details about this opportunity can be found at the complete job listing and application page on our website, the link to which is in our comments below.

✍️Join us for a special in-store & as our very own Gennys sits down for a chat with Paolo Bacigalupi !

👑From The New York Times best-selling of The WindUp Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping literary about the young scion from a ruling-class family who faces rebellion as he ascends to power.

🗡️“Steeped in poison, betrayal, and debauchery, reading is like slipping into a luxurious bath full of blood.” — Holly Black , #1 New York Times bestselling author

🐉With echoes of Renaissance Italy, The Godfather, and , Navola is a stunning feat of world-building and a mesmerizing depiction of drive and will.

Calling all river rats, photographers and human beings doing their best, you know, just existing!

Meet us in The Rochester Hotel Garden this Wednesday, July 31 at 6:00pm as we sit down with Outdoor Photographer & Author, Colleen Miniuk Photography & Writing .

'So Said The River' is an adventure travel memoir about Colleen’s wild adventures on the Colorado River and finding unexpected sources of fulfillment and identity through adversity—sometimes “happily ever after” looks different than what we’ve been told.

For 40 years, Colleen Miniuk relentlessly pursued perfection, achievement, and success without finding happiness. Then she found herself unexpectedly facing the end of her marriage. To cope with the devastating loss, she and her mother, Jacque, attempted to paddle across Lake Powell, a reservoir along the Colorado River on the Utah-Arizona border. Like life, the trip did not go as planned.

📋Registration for our August Reading Group is open!

🧜‍♀️Molly's selected 'The Seas' by Samantha Hunt (check out our Stories for the low down!). Tin House

🤝Our Maria's Bookshop Reading Group is a dynamic gathering that is always welcoming new readers! So if our pick really speaks to you one month, come join and don't feel obligated to commit to every month.

Details are in the comments below.

Today, July 20, 2024, begins Lauren Olamina's diary entries and the first of the Earthseed series, Octavia Butler 's award-winning science fiction novels set between 2024 and 2027.

Praised as a groundbreaking work of climate fiction for its prescient depiction of global warming, wealth disparity, racial inequity, substance abuse, and fascism, never has 'Parable of the Sower' been more relevant to its timeline.

Start your journey with Lauren Olamina today and read along with us!