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Fri, Apr 10
Shenandoah Valley Indie Bookshop Crawl 2026
Staunton Books & Tea
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Apr 10, 2026, 10:00 AM – Apr 25, 2026, 8:00 PM
Staunton Books & Tea, 34 E Beverley St, Staunton, VA 24401, USA
Tue, Apr 21
The Secret Life of Bookshops
Staunton Books & Tea
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Apr 21, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Staunton Books & Tea, 34 E Beverley St, Staunton, VA 24401, USA
A conversation with Evan Friss and Anika Horn.
Thu, Apr 30
Book Talk: Mulberries in the Rain by Ryan Blosser & Trevor Piersol
Staunton Books & Tea
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Apr 30, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Staunton Books & Tea, 34 E Beverley St, Staunton, VA 24401, USA
Can plants be your teachers, your neighbors, and your friends? Join Shenandoah Green for an Earth Day book talk on Mulberries in the Rain — a funny, heartfelt guide to growing food, building community, and falling in love with the living world around you.
Date and time is TBD
Poetry Speakeasy
Staunton Books & Tea
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Date and time is TBD
Staunton Books & Tea, 34 E Beverley St, Staunton, VA 24401, USA

Recent Blog Posts

Guest blog: What 54 Indie Bookshops Taught Me About Running a Great Bookshop

Women Writing the World – And Why That World Might Look Different

Booksellers’ Picks. Books We Love to Recommend.

Save the date 📅

The inaugural Shenandoah Valley Bookshop Crawl starts next week!

For two weeks, shop your bookloving hearts out and enter to win prizes from participating independent bookstores, and enter for a chance to win our grand prize!

Tour the Shenandoah Valley from Buena Vista all the way up to Winchester (with stops in Waynesboro, Crozet, Staunton, Harrisonburg & Woodstock)!

Find all information at Valleybookshops.com 👉 we'll be adding more information and details over the next week (please bear with us).

Clear your schedule and come shop books!

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Listen up book lovers!

We are launching the Staunton Reading Society next week!

Instead of everyone reading the same book, every participant brings a book they've already read and loved, and won't shut up about😃

Who is a woman who made history - an author, a heroine, a memoirist - that you want other readers to know about?

Join us Wednesday, March 18, at 6.30 pm!

📸 @kate_simon_photo /Virginia Humanities

Happy Valley Women's Weekend ✨

We are excited to reveal our inaugural Book Exhibition titled "Women Writing the World" in time for International Women's Day and Valley Women's Weekend!

What happens when women write the world on their own terms?

Come and find out! All titles are for sale and while you're here, grab some tea and fresh pastries from our friends at @prahacrozet and stick up on carts by local artist @littlemisspinkerbell!

We're open for your reading needs all weekend 📚

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Not your typical book club.

In March, we are launching the Staunton Reading Society.

For our first quarterly gathering, every reader brings one book they've already read and loved about a woman who shaped history.

No homework. Just discovery.

Join us at Staunton Books & Tea and leave with a long list of books you didn't know you needed.

Tickets in bio.

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Meet Chelsea!

If you're looking for some darker reading, Chelsea has you covered!

As our resident horror and folklore reader, she will put the right book in your hands.

When she's not chatting with customers about what to read next, she is managing inventory and serving you @prahacrozet pastries!

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[International Book Club]

On February 4, we were joined by American-Iranian author Ali Hosseini to discuss Women without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur.

Written in 1977, only three years before the revolution, Parsipur made a name for herself by taking a female point of view on Iranian culture.

She talks about women's situation under the dominant religious and political situation in a time when virginity, purity, and "women's topics" were not discussed in public.

It landed her in jail.

As a result of Parsipur's unflinching bravery, more Iranian women began to write changing the literary landscape in Iran.

Swipe to the end to hear co-host Ali read an original passage in Persian.

Want to join our international book club?
Date: April 8, 2026
Book: Archipelago by Natalie Bakopoulos
Tickets: Free through our website

Only 4 tickets remain!

Friends, we only have 4(!) more tickets for our inaugural Book Salon tomorrow night!

If you're looking for some cozy winter reading, exclusive previews up upcoming books and a good ol' chat with your favorite booksellers, join us Wednesday night at 34 E Beverley St!

You bring the curiosity. We bring the hot tea, chocolate and all the cozy book recs!

Grab your ticket and bring a friend!

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Something new on our bookshelves

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You have a date🌹

Who is up for a cozy night at a local bookshop as your actual plan for Valentine's Day?

At our inaugural Winter Book Salon, we'll have
• booksellers from @leafandlorestore, @stonesoupbooks & @wordsmattergiftshop
• hot tea and artisanal chocolates
• book recommendations galore (from people who curate for a living!)
• a preview of 2026 titles that we can't wait to put on the shelves
• an Ask-Me-Anything Bookseller Edition
• meet-your-match: "Tell us what story you're craving, and we'llrecommend a book!" and of course:
• a bookish community of readers!

All genres welcome!

Treat yourself ($10) OR bring a bookloving friend ($18 for a double 😉)

We can't wait to see you!

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This week we introduce the party from @prahacrozet

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We hope you had a chance to meet Vicki!

Before she embarked on her next adventure, she shared with us (and now all of you!) what genres and books she most enjoys, and what books she is excited about in 2026!

Want more recommendations from our booksellers? Join our Winter Book Salon on Feb 11!

We look forward to reading with you this year!

What's on your to-read list in 2026?

#shopsmall #shoplocal #supportindiebookstores

You're invited 💌

On February 11, local booksellers from the Shenandoah Valley are hosting the Valley's inaugural Winter Book Salon in Staunton 📚

We will talk about:
• Books we can't stop recommending
• Books that moved and surprised us in 2025
• Books we're excited about in 2026

❌ This is not a panel discussion ❌

1. Ask-Me-Anything Bookseller Edition: what have you always wanted to ask your local booksellers?

2. Book matchmaking: tell us what you're in the mood for and we'll recommend a book (or 3).

3. We will have all the books that we discussed available for purchase that night (and a chance to pre-order your next great read!)

4. You'll have time to browse the shelves and chat with booksellers while sipping hot tea and enjoying some fine chocolates 🍫

5. Tickets are available on our website. We even created a "Best Friends ticket": Buy 2 tickets and save so being your bookloving friends and make it an early Valentine's Day date!

Participating bookshops:
@stonesoupbooks
@leafandlorestore
@wordsmattergiftshop

#ItTakesAValley #supportindiebookshops #shoplocal

What happens when your dreamy small town gets shut down by a snow storm?

And what do booksellers actually do when they're waiting for it to re-open?

Welcome behind the scenes of our bookshop!

Please remember that every day we're closed we lose revenue making winter a tough season for Indie bookshops and other small businesses.

There are at least 4 ways to help us keep the doors open 👉 see last slide 💡

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This month’s International Book Club is not a typical book discussion.

We’ll be gathering around Women Without Men, a short, powerful novel that reshaped Iranian literature and continues to resonate across borders.

We're co-hosting this conversation with Ali Hosseini, who will guide us through:

the literary and political context in which the book was written

why it was banned, censored, and seen as threatening

the symbolism, mysticism, and poetic language that make this novel so singular

Ali will also read a short passage in Persian so we can hear the texture and rhythm of the original language.

This won’t be a plot recap.

It will be a layered, thoughtful conversation about women’s inner lives, cultural constraint, imagination against the backdrop of magical realism in Tehran, CA. 1950s.

If you’ve read the book and want to go deeper, this evening is for you.

If the book unsettled or puzzled you, you’re especially welcome!

If you haven't read it yet, no sweat. It's only 122 pages😉

📖 February International Book Club
🗓️ Feb 4, 2026 | ⏰ Doors & tea service at 6.30 | Discussion at 7 p.m.
🔗 Register via link in bio

Have you ever fantasized about all the books you would read if you were snowed in and had nowhere to go?

That week is upon us!

And these new arrivals are looking for a new home on your to-read list 📚

From memoir to poetry, international fiction to current affairs - we have something for everyone.

Travel around the world without leaving your sofa.

Experience other cultures and epochs.

Explore foreign cuisines and American folklore.

We open at 10 and will stay open as long as it's safe to do so. Our first priority is the health and safety of our staff; if the snow starts early, we'll close in time for everyone to get home safe.

⚠️ We will be closed tomorrow, Sunday, Jan 25. ⚠️

What are you waiting for? Come and grab your extended weekend reading while we're here!

#shoplocal #supportsmallbusiness #supportindiebookstores

On Tuesday night, we made a little magic.

Staunton Backstage sold out. Standing room only. And for 90 minutes, the room was alive.

We gathered leaders from @off_center_staunton, @shenanarts, @silverlinetheatre and @americanshakespearecenter for an honest conversation about what local theaters are up against, and what becomes possible when collaboration replaces competition.

The generosity in the room was the very essence of what makes our town so special ✨

So go out to see a show. Or five. Bring your friends and neighbors!

Sign your kids up for drama and musical classes and camps at @silverlinetheatre

Celebrate Valentine's Day with a candlelight concert at @americanshakespearecenter

See one of many shows at @shenanarts

Explore American Myths at @off_center_staunton

Staunton's theater companies have something for EVERYONE.

New tea tasting event prior to our tea menu expanding. We selected an interesting list of green and oolong for you to taste. We have just 6 seats for each event and they are usually gone very quickly - reserve your spot. See events link in the bio.

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New arrivals just hit the shelves!

With a super cold weekend ahead, grab a warm drink and hunker down with a book you can’t put down.

These titles travel across continents and centuries. They wrestle with belonging, grief, power, love, faith, and the stories we inherit and choose to carry forward. Some are sweeping and historical, others intimate and quietly devastating.

If you’re craving something thoughtful, global, and emotionally rich, we have just what you need!.

Stop by this weekend (see our Winter Hours on the last slide) to shop new arrivals or grab a classic.

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#shoplocal #indiebookshops

Staunton’s theater scene punches far above its weight.

But that work doesn’t happen by accident.

On January 20, join us for Staunton Backstage, an open conversation with leaders from Off Center, ShenanArts, Silver Line Theatre Exchange, and the American Shakespeare Centre.

We’ll talk about why theater matters in a small city, how national challenges are showing up locally, and the work audiences don’t always see: from funding realities to education, partnerships, and long-term sustainability.

If you love live performance, are curious about how it all works, or want a better understanding of what it takes to keep these stages alive, this night is for you.

Bonus: Get an exclusive preview of the 2026 season at all four companies.

🎭 January 20
📍 Staunton Books & Tea
🎟 Limited seating, ticketed event

We are so honored to be featured in the 2026 Staunton calendar 🎉

@littlemisspinkerbell is a Staunton-based artist who not only celebrates the beauty and small businesses in our town but also supports local nonprofits:

The proceeds of the 2026 calendar directly support @newdirectionscenter, a nonprofit that works to reduce the impact of intimate partner violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.here in the Shenandoah Valley.

We have 2(!) calendars left in the shop. Come buy a piece of Staunton, support a local artist AND the nlgeeat work of New Directions!

Shipping's never felt this good 😊

📸 by @c_lassiter & @littlemisspinkerbell

Updated tea flight selection today - try all spiced from our tea list!

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Here are our fiction and nonfiction bestsellers!
 Since our shop is a boutique space with a carefully rotating selection (often just one copy per title), bestsellers here are wonderfully fleeting.
 A good reason to stop by regularly - you never know what treasure you’ll catch next.

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Announcing the books and tea subscription!

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Experiences

Our range of products will provide you with a cozy reading, tasting, or gifting experience.

Reading

Our small space allows us to highlight what is truly important: a community-curated book selection focusing on nonfiction genres and thought-provoking fiction. Generally, we do not carry children’s or young adult books, ensuring our selection remains dedicated to mature readers.

Tasting

Treat yourself to the ultimate tea and desserts experience. We offer a wide variety of premium loose-leaf teas, each carefully selected for its unique flavor profile, and delicious international desserts to ensure you have an unforgettable cultural experience.

Gifting

In addition to our wide selection of books, teas, and sweets, we offer a variety of gifts for every taste. Whether you are looking for a card, puzzle, candle, or literary gift, we have something unique that will delight everyone on your list. Come in and explore our collection of fun and unique gifts today!

A Haven to Explore and Savor

Upcoming Events

Recent Blog Posts

Guest blog: What 54 Indie Bookshops Taught Me About Running a Great Bookshop

Women Writing the World – And Why That World Might Look Different

Booksellers’ Picks. Books We Love to Recommend.

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Experiences

Reading

Tasting

Gifting

Books Request Form

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STAUNTON BOOKS & TEA

A Haven to Explore and Savor

​Upcoming Events

Recent Blog Posts

Guest blog: What 54 Indie Bookshops Taught Me About Running a Great Bookshop

Women Writing the World – And Why That World Might Look Different

Booksellers’ Picks. Books We Love to Recommend.

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Follow us on Instagram

Experiences

Reading

Tasting

Gifting

Books Request Form

Stay Tuned

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