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Bookstore in Bethel CT. We host a queer bookclub and plant swap.
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New old books at the store!

"The People's Pottage" on government expansion, unchecked executive power, & expansion of empire... under the New Deal led into the Cold War. originally published in 1953

History has lessons for us

#historybooks #essays

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Cover for book, The People's Pottage by Garet Garrett. Shows a styalized woman in a red and white striped dress staring forlornly into an empty bowl in her hands.
January 26, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Poor Yorick Writer's Open Mic

Sunday January 18th 3-5PM @ the Market at Meetininghouse, 602 Ridgebury Rd. Ridgefield, CT

Literary Open Mic for short works and poetry. Hosted by WestConn's Department of Creative Writing.

I'll be there with a popup bookstore!

#connecticut
Flyer for Poor Yorick Open Mic. Overall image shows a background of a snow flake. There is a picture of the outside of the bookstore showing a gay Pride flag outside a red Victorian style building. There is a stupid amount of text on here. The key points are produced in main post, for better formatting.
January 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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I've served as a drop off point for the Bethel Food Pantry for years, but y'all stepped up this last week. The photo is ONE DAY of donations!

Donations can be dropped off at Rainy Day Paperback, 81 Greenwood Ave. Bethel 11AM-6PM Tues-fri. 10AM-5PM Sat.

#SNAP #foodpantry #connecticut
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November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Shop small and support our bookshop with audiobooks from @libro.fm Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale!

Don’t miss out—sale ends October 13! libro.fm/sale?booksto...

All audiobooks from Libro are DRM-free so you can download & listen on ANY device.
teal background with white book outlines. Yellow text reads: Indeibook Appreciation Sale. White text reads: October 6-13 www.libro.fm/sale white logo for Libro.fm shows a smartphone with audiobook app on screen. text reads: Make the Switch. Start a new one credit per month libro.fm membership and get two free audiobook credits! Use the code SWITCH collage showing many different book covers included in the libro.fm sale
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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5:30PM: Welcome & short words on book bans
5:45-6:15PM: Silent Reading time, either a printed book or an audio book.
6:20-7PM- Talk about what you were reading and have some fun working on a collage about banned books. You may either take your piece home or have it displayed, your choice!
TextL October 7, 2025 Banned Books Read-IN logos for Silent Book Club and Libro.fm. black and white image of a hand holding up a hardcover book over a background that is half white and half red-orange background is white with lower third a red orange. colored part has the logo for Silent Book Club and Libro.fm. Text reads Book Banes are Loud, but our voices are louder! Background is primarily white with lower third a red orange. the colored section has the logo for SIlent Book Club and Libro.fm on top of it. On top of this shows a phone with an audiobook on it, showing play buttons. text reads. Banned Books Read-in. Join Our read-in to Protest and Take Action Against Bans. Attendees will receive a free audiobook copy of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books.
October 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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New old books in the store! Paul Caponigro's "Sunflower" a series of black and white photos of sunflowers from 1974 lhttps://www.rainydaypaperback.com/product/270920/Sunflower
#photography #vintagebooks #flowers
Cover for book "Sunflower" the cover is mostly black. there is a photo in the middle, in greyscale, showing the center of a sunflower Detail from inside of photography book, "Sunflower" showing two black and white photos of sunflowers bent over under the weight of their own flowers. Detail from inside of photography book, "Sunflower" showing two black and white photos of sunflowers in extreme close up
September 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Today is Bookstore Romance Day!

Come into the shop today and buy $15 worth of romances & get one of our genre grab bags for free!

Grab bags have 6 different books by 6 different authors. A perfect way to try out a bunch of new authors!

Store at 81 Greenwood Ave. Bethel, CT

#bookstore
Logo in a heart shape. half is books in a rainbow color. the other half is text saying Bookstore Romance Day. Above it are the words Love is Queer
August 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The online megaretailer doesn't host a plant swap.

WE DO!

2nd Saturday of each month, drop off plants to rehome & take home some new pals!

Or trade in your old books for a credit & new-to-you titles. We're here 11-6PM Tues-Fri, 10-5 on Saturday

Or get audiobooks through @libro.fm

#connecticut
Bakcground shows a variety of plants. a white note is laid over top that says "reminder: This Prime Day (and every day), support the businesses actually making a positive difference in your community. Shop small, support our indie" Libro.fm logo at bottom Shows two phones. One shows the libro.FM logo. the other shows the cover of an audiobook with cover reading "read by offer". Text on image reads "Make the Switch" Start a new one credit per month libro.fm membership and get two free audiobook credits! use code SWITCH" the switch code if over a two headed yellow arrow meant to pardoy the Amazon logo
July 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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New old books in the store!
13 Thunders : The history of Manna

Secret history in which the Earth was actually terraformed by alien reptiles after Lucifer's rebellion. A little Bible, a lot of aliens!

Nonfiction...? I guess?

www.rainydaypaperback.com/product/2691...
cover for 13 Thunders : The history of Manna. and yellow orange and red graient background. Foreground, a chalk white woman in a skimpy outfit that barely covers her breasts. She has too many fingers and toes, point ears, and antenna, indicating she is some kind of space alien. She is shooting some kind of rockets out of her feet and the tips of the cape. back cover for 13 Thunders : The history of Manna Extensive text of interior of 13 Thunders : The history of Manna. the chapter title is "the sheep" There is a small illustration showing a centaur like creature. It has a horse like body but human feet on the end of horse legs. The centaur torso is humanlike, but the face is elogated somewhere in between a horse and human face. extensive text from interior of 13 Thunders : The history of Manna. There are two small illustrations. One is of some kind of female demon with wings. The other is a female humanoid.
May 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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New old books in the store!

Stalin's Correspondence with Churchill and Attlee 1941-1945
500 primary source documents on WWII strategy & coordination between USSR & the UK

www.rainydaypaperback.com/product/2598...
Red cover for Stalin's Correspondence with Churchill and Attlee 1941-1945 Back cover for Stalin's Correspondence with Churchill and Attlee 1941-1945- extensive text Interior pages from Stalin's Correspondence with Churchill and Attlee 1941-1945- extensive text Interior pages from Stalin's Correspondence with Churchill and Attlee 1941-1945- extensive text
May 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Queer Book Club meeting this weekend! Cohosted with @bethelctpride.bsky.social

Sat. 5/17 3PM at Rainy Day Paperback, 81 Greenwood Ave. Bethel.

Discussing Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes by
Anne Elizabeth Moore

essays on body autonomy

#queerbooks #bookclub #bookstore #connecticut
book cover for: Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes by Anne Elizabeth Moore. A lavender background with a figure on it, in a somewhat Cubist style. The figure has two heads, three arms, four legs and is show with male and female attributes. The figure is shown driving knife into body and dripping abstract fluid awhile another knife has stabbed a tube that is also dripping. Feet with eyes are show carrying dollars bills.
May 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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New old books at the store!
"On Democracy" by Saddam Hussein
Yes, THAT Saddam Hussein

first English translation of his speeches on democracy from the 1970s. He was vice-president of Iraq at the time. www.rainydaypaperback.com/product/2689...
Green book cover with a black illustration of Saddam Hussein on the cover. Title in yellow and white: On Democracy. Back cover of On Democracy. Green cover with white text reading: In 2003, after returning from a monthlong stay in Baghdad, American artist Paul Chan was given a gift from a colleague in the human-rights group Voices of the Wilderness: a copy of three speeches on democracy written by Saddam Hussein in the 1970s, before he became president of Iraq. The speeches, compiled here for the first time in English, are politically perverse, yet eerily familiar. The then vice president of Iraq characterizes social democracy as demanding authority, and defines free will as the patriotic duty to uphold the good of the state. This volume takes the speeches as an opportunity to ask what democracy means from the standpoint of a notorious political figure who was anything but democratic, and to reflect on how promises of freedom and security can mask the reality of repressive regimes. With drawings by Paul Chan, including a new suite in its entirety, and essays by Bidoun's Negar Azimi, philosopher and artist Nickolas Calabrese and journalist Jeff Severns Guntzel, this book is the inaugural copublication of the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art and Chan's own Badlands Unlimited.
May 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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New old books in at the store:

Tea Time in Flanders: The maritime trade between the southern Netherlands and China in the 18th century

Art book of exhibit at Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware in Hong Kong on the trade between Flemis& Chinese ports

www.rainydaypaperback.com/product/2689...
Frotn cover of "Tea Time in Flanders". blue background with a map in pale blue on it. It shows a 19th century painting of a tea ceremony. Interior view of book showing text accompanying two pictures of wooden sailing vessels
April 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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It's Independent Bookstore Day and we've got a Golden Ticket from @libro.fm to give away!

Find the ticket, win 12 audioboooks from Libro.fm!

Hints to find it:
above toddler grab height.
I'm short. I can still reach it.
It's too big to fit inside a mass market paperback
April 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Saturday 4/12. 11AM-2PM Rainy Day Paperback, 81 Greenwood Ave. Bethel, CT

Bring a plant to swap or take some home! You don't have to bring plants to take some home & you can bring plants without taking.

Plus seed packets!

cohosted with @bethelctpride.bsky.social

#connecticut
the words PLANT SWAP in large letters across a background of red, yellow, and purple flowers. The logos for the hosts are small in the bottom corner: Bethel CT Pride and & Rainy Day Paperback
April 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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New old books at the store!

Rifles and Shotguns; the Art of Rifle and Shotgun Shooting for Big Game and Feathered Game, With Special Chapters on Military Rifle Shooting by Warren H. Miller from 1917. Miller was editor of Field & Stream at the time.

www.rainydaypaperback.com/product/2686...
Cover of book: Rifles and Shotguns by Warren H. Miller. The cover is brown cloth and shows two crossed long guns in black. Cover of Rifles and Shotguns, showing the spine and exterior covers. Shows two crossed long guns in black on brown cloth cover. Title page of Rifles of Shotguns from 1917. The facing page shows the author in a black and white photo. He is in functional western hunting wear with flat soles leather boots, trousers, a shirt, and vest. He is holding a long gun in one hand, with his hand off the trigger. Content page for the book showing all the chapter titles, all of which are about rifle and shotgun shooting.
April 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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New old books in the store!

"We Almost Lost Detroit" by John Fuller
An account of the near melt down of Enrico Fermi Nuclear Reactor 1 in 1966. Safety features worked... but how DO you evacuate a city of 2 million?

www.rainydaypaperback.com/product/2685...

#disasters #michigan #science
Book cover. Black background with small white text on it from the first chapter. Large red text reads "We Almost Lost Detroit" dominates the cover. a small yellow band across the top corner says "frightening... true..." Interior photo inside a book. The black and white photo is a very confusing jumble of metal parts, showing where a nuclear reactor had an equipment failure. It is unclear what happened, other than it was bad.
April 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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New old book just in! In the Shadow of Katyn: Stalin's Terror

translated from Polish. Author escaped the Katyn Forest massacre because captors were interested in his economic work on totalitarian governments

www.rainydaypaperback.com/product/2683...
#wwII #books #historyBooks #poland
Book cover for In the Shadow of Katyn: Stalin's Terror. Black background with heraldic eagle on it. The eagle is bleeding. In yellow, a cross, a star of david, and a crescent and star. Back cover of book. photos show Katyn memorial, a head shot of the author, a short bio of the author, and a bar code. Maps inside a book. They depict battle lines during world war two Black and white photos graphs from inside a book. They are mostly posed portraits from 1937 to 1956 showing the author in several settings. There is a family portrait, some military portraits, and a business gathering
March 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM