Closed for Father’s Day

Meet us at YBB on June 20th for an audiobook meetup sponsored by Libro.fm! Get those phones & ear buds charged and those sneakers laced up! The first 10 attendees will receive a FREE Libro.fm audiobook credit!

Yellow Bird Books is PROUD to be walking in the Aurora Pride Parade this year!

Call for art! Celestial Sights is our theme for this month! Open to your own interpretations!

One of the most celebrated and enduringly popular works in Southern literature, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including her beloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Café." A haunting tale of love and violence in a small Southern town, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable woman whose home serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes McCullers's first published story, "Wunderkind," about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.

Buy on Bookshop.org - https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ballad-of-the-sad-caf-and-other-stories-carson-mccullers/f77a60880ce9b826?ean=9780547416601&next=t

This months book choice will be Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts.

Join us this month for a chat about Something Small Of How To See A River, by Teresa Dzieglewicz

Join us as we welcome local author James Stewart III on the 1 year anniversary of his book, Defiant Acts.

This event will include a conversation, Q&A session, as well as a signing!

More details to come!

https://youtu.be/OvXAghxDw18?si=0VvGyDfuwgCQaZVJ

In partnership with the Aurora Writers Workshop

Closed for Mother’s Day

A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is "a love letter to alphabetarians and logomaniacs everywhere" (Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season).

https://bookshop.org/p/books/ella-minnow-pea-a-novel-in-letters-mark-dunn/04b334d69323b2ae?ean=9780385722438&next=t

Call for art! Let’s celebrate all things Comic related! Comic strips, Manga, Graphic Novels…show us your interpretation!

Closed to recuperate! Thank you for celebrating Indie Bookstore Day with us!

Come out and celebrate Indie Bookstore Day! We will have games, freebies, discounts, goody bags for the first 20 guests, giveaways and so much more! Check back as we update our schedule!

10:00-11:00 Local Author Laura Smetana

11:00-1:00 Plinko for freebies

1:00-2:00 Local Author Heidi Bell

2:00-3:00 Local Author Matthew Salinas

6:00-7:00 Local Author/Poet Donna Vorreyer

Join us as we help the Aurora Public Library Foundation raise funds!

A percentage of all sales this evening will go back to the library for their fundraising needs! Food, fun and prizes!

Join us for our legendary One and Done Book chat featuring our pick, The Correspondent.

Get your creative juices flowing and join us for a hands-on workshop where you can personalize your very own painted paver masterpiece!

Join us for an afternoon of crafting. Bring your favorite book (or find one in the store) and decorate your outdoor paver! All supplies included!

Get your tickets today!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/painted-paver-workshop-tickets-1983204942369?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Join in around the table at Yellow Bird Books and create your own collage cards. Making collage cards is a great expression of creativity, as well as a calming and pleasurable activity - and they make wonderful personalized greeting cards. Marissa from Alley Art Festival will provide examples and guidance. No previous experience or skills required. All supplies provided.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/collage-card-making-with-alley-art-fest-tickets-1985145310061?aff=oddtdtcreator

Closed for Easter

Join local author Gabriella Graham with her new poetry book Home.

https://www.instagram.com/gabi_geez?igsh=djExdWl2NmtwZXJj&utm_source=qr

April is National Poetry Month! We are doing a call for art inspired by your favorite Poet or Poem.

Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.

Buy on bookshop.org - https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-minority-report-and-other-classic-stories-by-philip-k-dick-philip-k-dick/c2ccec99870275e5?ean=9780806537955&next=t

oin us for a fun and hands-on Accordion Book Binding Workshop at Yellow Bird Books Aurora! Whether you're new to bookbinding or just want to try something creative, this workshop is perfect for you. We'll meet on March 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM (Central Time) to learn cool techniques and make your own accordion-style book. Bring your creativity and get ready to craft! Feel free to bring you own scrap paper, photos, or pictures to personalize the pages of the book.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/accordion-book-binding-workshop-tickets-1984156760282?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for this month’s book The Spirit Bares Its Teeth.

Release date March 24, 2026

Ticket price includes a pre-order copy of The Beheading Game which will be signed by the author!

Bio: Rebecca Lehmann is an award-winning poet and essayist. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Maytag Fellow. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Between the Crackups; Ringer, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize (selected by Ross Gay); and The Sweating Sickness. Her writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, NPR’s The Slowdown, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. She lives in Indiana with her family, where she is an associate professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at Saint Mary’s College.

In her newest adventure, she explores magical realism and alternative history.

The Beheading Game - The Beheading Game begins in the hours after Anne Boleyn's beheading, when she wakes to find herself unceremoniously laid to rest in a makeshift coffin, her head wrapped in linen at her knees. Discarded by King Henry VIII for being unable to give him a male heir and reviled by Cromwell for being too smart for her own good, she was ultimately executed based on trumped-up charges of adultery, incest, and high treason.

Anne escapes the Tower of London, sews her head back on, then sets out on a quest to kill Henry VIII before he can marry her own lady-in-waiting Jane Seymour. The stakes are high--if Jane gives birth to a rival heir, Anne's daughter, Elizabeth, will lose her claim to the throne. Traveling the streets of London in the guise of a commoner, with the help of a prostitute who becomes a trusted friend (and perhaps something more), Anne soon realizes how little she knew about life in the real world.

A fantastical journey through the wilds of England and Tudor history, filled with danger and magic and steeped in Arthurian legend, The Beheading Game is a prescient reminder that "mouthy" women have always been punished. Now, thanks to debut novelist Rebecca Lehmann, nearly five hundred years after Anne Boleyn's death, one of history's most maligned women finally has the chance to tell her story.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pre-order-the-beheading-game-tickets-1969893728169?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join the Poetry Book Club as they dive into Unrivered by Donna Vorreyer, local author!

Call for art! This First Friday we are celebrating The Spring Equinox.

In 2026, the March equinox happens on March 20 at 10:46 A.M. EDT and is the astronomical beginning of the spring season in the Northern Hemisphere.

Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised.

Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.

Buy on bookshop.org - Grief Is the Thing with Feathers: A Novel​

This months book: Officer Clemmons A Memoir

Join us as we welcome local author Maureen McKane and her new book, Walters Way: A Coach, His Runners, and His Race.

This will be a talk with q&a followed by author signing.

About the book:

As the civil rights movement roils the nation, in a quiet Illinois city, Wilbert Walters goes solo to uplift his race by launching Aurora Sundowners Track Club for marginalized Black girls. He sets out to teach the fundamentals of excellence and to prepare his athletes to thrive in a world preset to believe they are extraneous. On the way, they take Junior Olympic Medals. Coach Walters chronicles the glories and defeats of his life to a White author as both set out to understand what it all means. It is his true story of living two lives simultaneously. In one, he is esteemed and awarded. In the other, where he is invisible, disaster hits twice. The second time, he is prepared. This complex, indomitable hero is Everyman. His truth belongs to anyone who has fought to be heard, anyone who is baffled by the story of race in America, and anyone who believes every child has potential.

www.maureenmckaneauthor.com

Join us for a evening dedicated to "ladies celebrating ladies"
Leslie Knope (Parks and Rec) defines Galentine's Day as "a day for ladies celebrating ladies, a gathering of female friends who leave their significant others at home to honor their friendships with personalized gifts, compliments, and waffle-filled festivities, emphasizing platonic love over romantic love."

Join us as we do just that!

Your ticket includes:

The store closed to the public for the private event

Snacks

Friendship bracelet making station

Candle decorating station

Wineglass decorating station

Henna (each person will receive hand henna!)

Goody bag from YBB

$40/person
https://www.eventbrite.com/.../2026-galentines-day-event...