Please come by to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with us and show your support for this amazing movement. We’ll have fun together along with stimulating activities all day long.  We're opening at 9:00AM and there will be story time beginning at 9:15 with Miss Holly and special guest, author Claudia Gray. Also in the morning, there will be coffee and Rebecca's famous carrot cake chip cookies, brownies and a blueberry coffee cake to go along with a discussion of The Golem and the Jinni by the Science Fiction Book Club.  In the afternoon, New Orleans piano man Armand St. Martin gives a solo performance, and we'll have special author visits by Irvin Mayfield presenting NEW ORLEANS PLAYHOUSE, Carrie Rollwagen discussing THE LOCALIST, and Sarah J. Maas reading A COURT OF THORNS & ROSES. We are also featuring some exclusive literary-themed art and gift items you will want to have to remember this special day.

Octavia Books, Garden District Book Shop, and Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop are celebrating Independent Bookstore Day. Each store is planning special activities; and together we are offering the chance to win $75 in gift certificates to book lovers who visit all three participating bookstores as part of a fun scavenger hunt. The three stores have also joined together to give away a limited number of Blackbird Letter Press New Orleans City Notebooks (printed in Louisiana) to customers who purchase a limited edition Independent Bookstore Day book or item, or who spend $25 or more on May 9th.

The Octavia Books Science Fiction Book Club will be discussing Helene Wecker's popular book, THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI.  You are alway invited - but we especially hope you will read the book and join the discussion as part of our Independent Bookstore Day celebration. There will be coffee and Rebecca's famous carrot cake chip cookies, brownies and a blueberry coffee cake.

As a special feature of our New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day celebration, please come meet Grammy and Billboard Award winner Irvin Mayfield when he performs and presents & signs NEW ORLEANS PLAYHOUSE, his just released 304-page coffee table book that includes seven CDs of live music recorded at his Bourbon Street Jazz club.

"With this book and these recordings, Irvin Mayfield connects our past and present with vignettes on three muses: truth, love, and beauty. As a son of New Orleans, as a trumpeting descendant of Buddy Bolden, as a proprietor of the most successful bona fide Jazz club on historic Bourbon Street, he is absolutely qualified to tell our story. He understands that if we are to remain ourselves, our story must be told and retold—remembered and reinvented—at each telling."
- Wynton Marsalis

For our Independent Bookstore Day celebration finale, please join us for an evening with New York Times bestselling YA author Sarah J. Maas presenting  and signing A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES.

“A completely new spin on a classic fairytale.”
—Teen Vogue

Sarah J. Maas’ New York Times and USA Today bestselling Throne of Glass series has captured readers all over the world. Maas is an epic storyteller, spinning intricate tales of worlds in peril and the incredible characters who work to save them. Now, in the first book in her new series, A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES, she introduces a new world with