Warwick's

Originally founded in 1896 in Minnesota, Warwick's is a fourth generation-owned independent bookstore based in La Jolla, CA. email: [email protected]

After all, independent minds need independent bookstores! Warwick's is the oldest continuously family-owned and operated bookstore in the United States. We are known for hosting exciting author events and an incomparable selection of gifts, stationery, office and art supplies. Read more about the store's history at www.warwicks.com/history!

09/23/2024

A full house for Tea Time!

09/23/2024
09/22/2024

Warwick’s ✨TOP TEN BESTSELLERS✨ week ending 9/14/24 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤩

Browse Warwick’s Books & Bestsellers here:
https://www.warwicks.com/browse/books

09/20/2024

✨LAST NIGHT! Warwick’s hosted bestselling author Danielle Walker in collaboration with the USD College of Arts and Sciences and Humanities Center. Danielle discussed her new cookbook👩🏼‍🍳✨Make It Easy: A Healthy Meal Prep and Menu Planning Guide in conversation with Jamie Kern Lima.

✨Signed copies of 🥕Make It Easy🥕are available at Warwick’s while supplies last.

✨🥕In this practical, time-saving guide to meal prepping and menu planning, beloved author Danielle Walker removes all the guess work from your daily effort to get food on the table. Make It Easy presents fifteen weeks of menus, along with prep-ahead and make-ahead tips, shopping lists organized by grocery store departments, and proven methods for getting it all done quickly and effortlessly. Because we all prep in different ways depending on the size of our families and the busyness of our lives, Danielle has identified six “prepper personas” and developed recipes for each type. Recipes such as Greek Lemon Chicken with Artichokes or Teriyaki Meatballs can be made in large quantities and frozen for later, while Fried Pineapple and Pork Rice or Meatballs Marsala with Mashed Roots use store-bought ingredients for no-fuss, quick meals. And Steak and Eggs Breakfast Tacos or Veggie and Shrimp Bowls are designed so components can be made ahead and then repurposed for other meals the same week. Meal plans can be followed in any order and nearly every recipe is photographed. And with additional recipes for breakfasts, snacks, sides, and back-pocket dinners (dishes using pantry ingredients you already have!), this deliciously healthy cookbook provides everything you need to meal plan right

09/17/2024

📖 🔶LAST NIGHT✨Warwick’s hosted New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author,Brenda Novak as she discussed and signed her new book, The Banned Books Club.

Find signed copies at Warwick’s while supplies last!

📖🔶Gia Rossi was considered a bit of a rebel in her small hometown of Wakefield, Iowa ever since she challenged the gaggle of well-meaning but misguided women from the PTA who’d insisted the high school English department, drop a number of “controversial” titles from the reading list. Gia had expected her favorite teacher to stand up for the books she loved by explaining why they were so important. Instead, just to avoid a fight, he’d caved in immediately, which was what had incited her to start The Banned Books Club.

09/16/2024

Tea Time with Julia and Tom!

09/16/2024

Warwick’s ✨TOP TEN BESTSELLERS✨ week ending 9/7/24 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤩

Browse Warwick’s Books & Bestsellers here:
https://www.warwicks.com/browse/books

09/13/2024

LAST NIGHT✨ Warwick’s hosted political journalist and author Sasha Abramsky who discussed and signed his new book 🔺Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America🔺

Find signed copies at Warwick’s while supplies last.

🔺In Chaos Comes Calling, Sasha Abramsky investigates the empowerment of the far-right over the past few years, stoked by the Trump presidency and the Covid-19 pandemic. He tells the parallel stories of two communities, Shasta County, California and Sequim, Washington, where toxic alliances of QAnoners, anti-vaxxers, Christian nationalists, militia supporters and other denizens of the far-right have worked to take control of the levers of power.

🔺The trajectories of both communities expose the stark divisions and extremism that have come to define our political landscape over the past decade, and offer revealing glimpses of what the future may hold. While Sequim ultimately recalibrated in 2021, returning to rationality, Shasta County has descended further into a climate of intolerance and toxic divisiveness.

🔺Chaos Comes Calling vividly captures both the regressive forces gaining momentum all over the country and the tireless efforts of citizens determined to organize against them.

09/11/2024

Delighted to meet children’s book author Maria Dolores Águilar, author of the new book

🟣BARRIO RISING - The Protest that Built Chicano Park🟠

A vivid historical fiction account of the community activism behind San Diego’s Chicano Park—home to the largest outdoor mural collection in the U.S.—and just one example of the Mexican American community’s rich history of resistance and resilience.

Find signed copies at Warwick’s while supplies last!

09/09/2024

Tea Time is BACK!

09/08/2024

Warwick’s ✨TOP TEN BESTSELLERS✨ week ending 8/31/24 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤩

Browse Warwick’s Books & Bestsellers here:
https://www.warwicks.com/browse/books

09/05/2024

✨Last Night✨Warwick’s hosted author Sheri T Joseph who discussed and signed her new novel 🟣Edge of the Known World🟣 in conversation with Paula Goodman-Crews, Bioethics Director at Kaiser Permanente San Diego.

Find signed copies at Warwick’s while supplies last.

Fans of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake will be swept away by this riveting speculative fiction adventure and love story about family, genetic privacy, and the onrushing future of surveillance technology.

2024 American Fiction Awards Winner in multiple categories, including Best New Fiction, Political Thriller, and Science Fiction

09/04/2024

Delighted to meet author Nisha Vora on the PUBLICATION DAY of her new book 🥕🥬Big Vegan Flavor: Techniques and 150 Recipes to Master Vegan Cooking 🥕🥬

Find signed copies at Warwick’s while supplies last!

With more than two million devoted fans online, Nisha Vora has become the trusted source for exceptional vegan recipes for the home cook. That’s because of her “flavor first” philosophy. It’s an approach she’s honed nearly a decade creating plant-based dishes that just plain taste amazing, labels aside. Now she’s created an essential, comprehensive guide that codifies the principles of plant-based cooking for the first time, from how to coax the most out of your ingredients and how to understand essential flavor pairings, to how to achieve impossible-to-resist, must-have-more textures and embrace the myriad ways vegetables can be enjoyed: roasted, caramelized, braised, pampered in bold marinades and umami-rich sauces, and so much more.

09/02/2024

🍎Warwick’s SEPTEMBER Events! 🌻Grab dinner at one of the great village restaurants and walk over for a free 7:30pm author event! 📖✨
Make plans to join us!

✨For more information go to:

https://www.warwicks.com/event

Photos from Warwick's post 09/01/2024

Nancy Warwick highly recommends the new novel ✨THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY✨ by Elif Shafak

Readers will appreciate that Warwick’s carries Lamassus bookends - noted and pictured in the novel: “The entrance to the library is flanked by two gigantic statues: hybrid creatures— half human, half animal. Lamassus are protective spirits. …They are the guardians of gateways that open on to other realms.” Find these beautiful bookends in our gift department.

THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY
In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives.

In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur’s only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthur’s world opens up far beyond the slums, and one book in particular catches his interest: Nineveh and Its Remains.

In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf. Before that happens, her grandmother is determined to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But with the rising presence of ISIS and the destruction of the family’s ancestral lands along the Tigris, Narin is running out of time.

In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything.

A dazzling feat of storytelling, There Are Rivers in the Sky entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Both a source of life and harbinger of death, rivers—the Tigris and the Thames—transcend history, transcend fate: “Water remembers. It is humans who forget.”

09/01/2024

Warwick’s ✨TOP TEN BESTSELLERS✨ week ending 8/24/24 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤩

Browse Warwick’s Books & Bestsellers here:
https://www.warwicks.com/browse/books

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08/29/2024

Last Night✨ Warwick’s hosted bestselling author TJ Newman who discussed and signed her new novel
✈️WORST CASE SCENARIO ✈️ in conversation with the delightful Jason Blitman, host of the podcast .

You should have been there! It was so fun. But… if you missed it Warwick’s has signed copies while supplies last!

🔸When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications.

🔸The International Nuclear Event Scale tracks nuclear disasters. It has seven levels. Level 7 is a Major Accident, with only two on record: Fukushima and Chernobyl. There has never been a Level 8. Until now.

🔸In this heart-stopping thriller, ordinary people—power plant employees, firefighters, teachers, families, neighbors, and friends— are thrust into an extraordinary situation as they face the ultimate test of their lives. It will take the combined courage, ingenuity, and determination of a brave few to save not only their community and loved ones, but the fate of humanity at large.

08/28/2024

Georgy patiently waiting for mom to find her fav books♥️🐾

08/26/2024

Please enjoy this pre-recorded edition of Tea Time, chock-full of reading goodness, courtesy of our phenomenal publisher reps. After a short hiatus, Tea Time will return live on 9/9. In the meantime, we wish you a wonderful Labor Day weekend of relaxation and great books!

08/25/2024

Warwick’s bookseller Cristina Gurtman was featured in Sunday’s Union Tribune recommending Helen Phillips’s brilliant new novel 🌀HUM: a novel🌀

Buy your copy at Warwick’s or warwicks.com

08/25/2024

Warwick’s hosted bestselling author Susan Casey in Coronado in collaboration with the Coronado Public Library. Susan discussed her book 🌊The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean moderated by Jeniffer Thompson.

Find signed copies at Warwick’s while supplies last.

🐙NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets

🐙For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular, compelling question: What’s down there? Unable to answer this for centuries, people believed the deep was a sinister realm of fiendish creatures and deadly peril. But now, cutting-edge technologies allow scientists and explorers to dive miles beneath the surface, and we are beginning to understand this strange and exotic underworld: A place of soaring mountains, smoldering volcanoes, and valleys 7,000 feet deeper than Everest is high, where tectonic plates collide and separate, and extraordinary life forms operate under different rules. Far from a dark void, the deep is a vibrant realm that’s home to pink gelatinous predators and shimmering creatures a hundred feet long and ancient animals with glass skeletons and sharks that live for half a millennium—among countless other marvels.

08/25/2024

Great to meet author Jesse Katz today! Find signed copies of his book, The Rent Collectors: Exploitation Murder and Redemption in Immigrant LA, at Warwick’s while supplies last!

★ “For a tough-guy book about tough guys, this is a work of almost unerring tenderness. If its subtitle promises “redemption,” the book itself delivers something more honest: stories about people broken by powers larger than they are and who nonetheless find the will to fight on.” — Ben Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review

★ “A searing account of gang violence and its consequences ... Macedo’s grim story, expertly documented by Katz, cries for a documentary series to follow his fortunes as, after years in prison, he strives for redemption. A masterful work of true crime—and, to be sure, true punishment.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

08/25/2024

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