In-Store

Join us in store at Orca Books Co-op for our monthly MARXIST READING GROUP

This month, we'll be discussing the collection of speeches and essays by early 20th century labor organizer and co-founder of the IWW: EUGENE V. DEBS SPEAKS!

Monday, September 18th @ 6PM
Orca Books Co-op / 315 5th Ave SE, Olympia

For more info email noraa@orcabooks.com

Please join us for a reading of Awareni by celebrated local poet, Lennee Reid.

Lennee Reid is a Creole author, multi media artist, performance poet, activist, healer, and community organizer based in Olympia, Washington. She has opened for Pussy Riot, been featured in Northwest Poetry forum, and was included in "Arising," an installation by Yoko Ono. Awareni is her third book of poetry, and the first published by Last Word Press.

"Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner."

For the FIRST meeting of the Women's Liberation Book Club, we will be meeting in-store to discuss the monumental text by Mary Wollstonecraft. Masks Required.

Orca Books will be holding a silent rare books auction the second weekend of September.

There will be lots of:

Meet the author of "Into the Storm: The Coast Guard Adventures of Dolph and Gwen", Dary Guyant.

• Get your picture taken with Dolph and Gwen!
• Try on a real US Coast Guard pilot's flight helmet!
• Have your book autographed!

Come discuss some theory & history with Orca Books Co-op's Marxist Reading Group.

Our next title is Leslie Feinberg's TRANSGENDER WARRIORS [1996]

We will be discussing the text in it's entirety Monday, June 26th at 6:00PM at Orca Books Co-op (315 5th Ave SE, Olympia, WA)
We will also be watching a video lecture by Feinberg afterwards at 7:45PM at Burial Grounds Coffee Collective (601 Capitol Way S, Olympia, WA)

Join us in store with authors David George Gordon and MaryAnn Barron Wagner with a new edition of their book HEAVEN ON THE HALF SHELL: The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest

Friday, June 16th at 5:30pm

There will be a short reading/presentation, a Q&A and some time to chat and maybe a signing!

For more information, email noraa@orcabooks.com

Calico Lane was launched in January 2022 and went on to win a BIBA (Best Indie Book Award) in the LGBTQ Memoir category. The question, How do we survive when who we are is not the person people expect? is tenderly woven into this award-winning memoir.

Come discuss some theory & history with Orca Books Co-op's Marxist Reading Group.

Our next title is Vincent Bevins' THE JAKARTA METHOD (2020)

We will be discussing the text in it's entirety Monday, May 22nd at 6:00PM

We meet at Orca Books Co-op in Downtown Olympia (315 5th Ave SE, Olympia, WA)!

You can purchase a copy of the book at our store or on our website at orcabooks.com!

Orca Books is participating in the 2023 South Sound Book Crawl!

From April 29, 2023 through May 7, 2023, each participating store will have book crawl passports available. Pick up a passport at the first store you visit and collect your first stamp on the “Stores Visited” page of your passport.

Visit each participating store by the end of the day on May 7 to collect your remaining “Stores Visited” stamps! No purchase is necessary to get your stamps for visiting.