Orca Books Co-op

closing early today for member meeting. If you're a member swing on by! . we'll have out SALE FICTION items going for pay-what-you-wish at the meeting and you get to hear about what our co-ops been up to this last year- our most successful year as a business since becoming a co-op.

hot tea, coffee, snacks, and free parking.

MARGARET KILLJOY tomorrow at the YWCA of Olympia Friendship Hall! For those of you who do not know yet...

SAPLING CAGE: In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in a powerful story of trans witchcraft.

MARGARET KILLJOY: Margaret Killjoy (she/they) is a transfeminine author, musician, and podcaster. Some of her other books include The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, A Country of Ghosts, We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow, and Escape from Incel Island. She is the host of the radical history podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and the individual and community preparedness podcast Live Like the World is Dying. She is the principal songwriter for the atmospheric black metal band Feminazgûl. She lives in West Virginia.

Indoor, masks required!

this weekend at friendship hall!! we are soooo excited to sling some books for at her author talk at Friendship Hall (YWCA), hosted by . we’ve got copies in the store now if you want to read beforehand, and we’ll have more at the event 🩷📚

Next Sunday at 7:00 p.m.! Ollie Schminkey and Zach Goldberg from Button Poetry, with local poet Beatrice Timken!

Olympia Family Theatre has been awesome with the run of Winnie the Pooh - you might've seen us tabling at their shows or showcasing the pooh series in our juvenile section~ Find us at one of their last shows this evening.. and plenty of pooh and the crew in-store 🐻🐷🦄

There are two chances to catch The House at Pooh Corner today!! We may be sold out online, but come to the box office an hour before the show begins to get one of the 15 tickets we hold for walk ups!
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‼️raffle alert‼️ it’s time for our fall fundraising raffle, as always sponsored by our dear friend who MADE THIS QUILT for us to raffle off. tickets are $10, you can buy as many as you want, gotta be a member to participate. proceeds go to keeping our little bookstore happy and healthy 🩷📚🍄

Look at our beautiful new website! Check it out for yourself and order some books at https://orcabooks.com/

Read banned books!

Our website will be going through a reboot this Monday and Tuesday (9/23-24). No orders through the website during this time. Please feel free to call us as at (360) 352-0123 to order or if you have any questions!

~Orca Pod

Our Orca tees are restocked! Printed by AYC Studios in Portland, logo by nat.gio.wild. Sizes S-3XL

some of the titles just in from contagion press! get em while they’re hot

tis the season for a restock! got tons of new titles this year 💀 🖤

(is august too early to be thinking about halloween? no such thing.)

our tote bag design contest is ending soon, get your entries in while there’s time!

send your designs to [email protected]. you’ve gotta be a member to enter, so join now if you haven’t already!

We are going to be selling books at on September 6 for local author Mara Kardas-Nelson’s tour of “We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky”. We’ve got a few copies in the store now if you want to pick one up before the event and there will be more there for signing and chatting with the author on the day!

We got some amazing new signage on one of our windows this week! Designed by .gio.wild & painted by

We also have more shirts coming soon. One is logo from window, and one is Gio's amazing whale tail tee. ykiyk😉

Orlando approved dollar cart books.

August-to-August Planners are in stock!

August is nearing! Come pick up a planner before we run out!

August-to-August Planners are in stock!

Starting today!

A different movie every single day this week? Some say it's possible

Run Lola Run screens this Wednesday as part of our Reel Oddities series. The cult classic is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a brand new 4K restoration! Experience the adrenaline rush of a movie as it was meant to be seen - big and loud. "A film of nonstop motion and visual invention," raved our dear old pal Roger Ebert 🏃‍♀️

Our final screening! A modern twist on the buddy comedy from a q***r and trans perspective, Noah Schamus’ debut feature Summer Solstice is a celebration of friendship, resilience, and coming of age again. 🍷

A new 4K restoration of Seven Samurai arrives at OFS! One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Akira Kurosawa's film tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits.

Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: A Trans Film Fest begins this Friday. Curated by authors Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay, this weekend of movies dives deep into the history of trans representation in film. Our friends at Orca Books Co-op will be selling copies of Gardner and Maclay's book, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema before select screenings. Olympia Timberland Library patrons can purchase tickets at OFS Member prices 📚

One of the most beloved animated films of all-time returns to the Capitol Theater on Sunday. “Imagine E.T. as a towering metal man, and you have some of the appeal of The Iron Giant, an enchanting animated feature about a boy who makes friends with a robot from outer space," said Roger Ebert. Kids 12 and under receive free admission! 🤖

www.olympiafilmsociety.org