🎃It was a spooktacular event at the maplespringsofpalmer tonight! 🔮I was the resident fortune teller and candy distributor!🍬 I was able to participate at this event because of the amazing friends I have in the community who requested it and bookstore friends to cover the space for me.

👏Thank you, Hannah Green, for traveling all the way to Wasilla from Chicago to write this article. This is a deeply human piece — it captures both the desperation and resilience within Alaska’s overlapping crises of addiction, homelessness, and community care. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🏳️‍🌈☕️What a FANTASTIC Queer Adult Coffee event! It was a full house, lots of food, a few of my favorite community clergy came, and everyone was an absolute delight. Thanks for your love and support of our community! 🖤I’m proud to host all community events by request. - Taylor

See you this Friday from 3pm-7pm for a FREE banned book! Read it, share it, repeat. 🇺🇸Read like your freedom depends on it.🇺🇸 facebook.com/events/s/ban...

✈️Last week my dear friend Chloé babysat the bookstore for me so I could attend the Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Pittsburgh, PA. 👉Over 1,000 people attended to hear 200 guest speakers and learn at more then 60 breakout sessions and presentations.

I will soon be traveling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a conference. (More to come) 👉Where should I go? 👉Where should I eat? 👉Do you have friends that also need to be my friends?

👉It’s time to vote for the Best Of The Valley! Thanks for trusting us to be your Wasilla bookstore!😊🖤Share, share, share! frontiersman.secondstreetapp.com/og/0e9636ca-...

🍦 WooHoo Ice Cream is back at the Café! Vanilla, Silky Chocolate, and Cookies & Cream pair perfectly with an espresso pour over. 4oz cups are $5. 🤌Low Lactose - No Egg - Sweetened With Honey🤌 📍Find WooHoo in Anchorage, Alaska! 5881 Arctic Boulevard 907-351-3087

🎣 Saturday I was closed so I could go fishing for the first time since I was ten! Thank you to my Coastie buddy, Gabe for taking my husband, Max and I out on an adventure. 🌊🛥️ Dinner at The Highliner Seward was the perfect recharge before heading 170 miles back to Wasilla. ✨See you at the bookstore!✨

🥼🌎It’s always inspiring to see Bookstore Family when attending events! Last month I saw Neil Degrasse Tyson and last night it was Bill Nye The Science Guy! I brought a friend for the fantastic talk then had a late dinner at Humpy's Great Alaskan Alehouse. I saw 8 other people of the bookstore. 👨‍🔬🔭

👉 👉ANNOUNCEMENT 🙌🍾We made the list for the Best Of Alaska Business Award! We love our #1 winning friends, Title Wave Books and are so grateful to be held together in the same category as the TOP TWO independent bookstores in the state!🥳Thank you for trusting me with caring for our amazing community!

📚Meet your new favorite item: The Anti-Anxiety Bookshelf Fidget! This artful $15 box has tiny books for you to stock over and over. 🧘 We also have ballpoint feather pens, quill sets, edge painted memo notebooks, a fresh resupply of morale stickers and a TON of locally made items. Books… and stuff. 🤌

**FREE Concert, Donations Appreciated** Tuesday, August 26th | 5:30pm Hemlock and Chaepter are cruising in from Louisiana and Chicago, ready to share their musical magic! Armed with a guitar, a cello, and a treasure chest of merch, they're set to serenade the folks of the North!

Located in Wasilla, Alaska.

Here’s our month at a glance! See you here!

🏕️We have the site spaces for camping Saturday! See the pictures below. 🟡The yellow dots are the three spaces.🟡 (Info 👇) South Rolly Lake at Nancy Lake State Recreational Area! Sat Aug 2nd overnight from noon FREE - All Ages - SOBER Please Bring: Tent, Sleeping equipment, food, chair, firewood

✨My, what fantastic swag thou has! ✨ No adventure is complete without your Bookstore tumbler, tote, and stainless steel water bottle! 👕We still have our inventory sale on our $10 tee shirts!

🏡We’re excited to host this informational event for being a Host Home for queer youth! Bring your family, ask questions, and see if opening your hearts to a queer child or youth is something you can do. 💝

vimeo.com/1103008333 My parents just sent me this video of our family farm in Iowa. I’m so proud to pass this along! 😍 These are my parents, Kim and Jon, and my dad is narrating. They just had their 50th wedding anniversary and retired in January!

I just finished “Never flinch” by Stephen King. Whatcha readin’?

🏳️‍🌈 Underground Pride with The Queen's Guard was a delight! The DJ, performers, food trucks, vendors, non-profits, churches, security, volunteers…. All 10 for 10! 💝Thank you for making me smile so much that my face still hurts. 🥹 Love and kindness was the name of the game for this event. 🎉

See you tomorrow for Pride!🏳️‍🌈 My America is for everyone.🇺🇸

☕️🥯Coffee with a Veteran is being sponsored by Cold Snap Coffee LLC! They are the new owners at the bakery on P-W Hwy. 👉👉Side note: If you’re hungry, we will feed you if we can. Our America feeds the hungry.🇺🇸

Please support this Bookstore Family after their tragic loss last night.

🇺🇸We will be open on the Fourth of July until 5pm. 👉Some people can’t do parades and picnics because of accessibility or surroundings. We’ve got you! Pop by for some coffee and hang out.🇺🇸 My American is ALL of us.

🖤Thanks to everyone who came to Mick’s Memorial Open Mic last night. We had over 60 people!🖤 Mick was the MC for our Open Mic’s for almost 7 years, did the sound and equipment for Drag Storytime for 3 years, and came to the bookstore weekly. ✨The world lost a little magic when it lost Mick.✨

🇺🇸Please donate to support this veteran’s family. This is the fifth death within the Bookstore Family this year. 🖤 gofund.me/3161bde3

🏳️‍🌈It was a FULL HOUSE! We had 40 individuals and families attend our 3rd Annual Drag Storytime! We are so honored to have been trusted to host! ✨Thank you Penny, DandyLyin and Lovebug for being our readers and a special thank you to our two ASL interpreters for helping keep the event accessible.

💝✨We're excited about the storytime this Saturday! Thank you to our readers Lovebug, Dandylyin and Penny! We have interpreters on site so the event is more accessible!

3 little punk-goth lookin teenagers just left the bookstore. THESE KIDS were polite, respectful, pushed in their chairs, volunteered to help me put little pride flags on sticks, then said “thank you” AGAIN when they left……….. parents… you’re doin it right.🖤 Way to build some kiddos with character.

🏕️I had a fantastic weekend motorcycle camping in Talkeetna! I read a book and a half. It was a much needed break before the big events coming up! 🦄This Sunday is the Unicorn Festival!🛍️ 💃🏻The following Saturday is Drag Storytime!📖

🏳️‍🌈See you TONIGHT 5pm-7pm for the Queer Adult Coffee! It’s always a good turnout and tons of fun! Come meet new friends, drink some coffee, have some snacks, play some board games and hang out!♥️💙💜💛💚🧡🤎🤍🩷🩶🩵 This is a FREE event to attend.🤘

Join us at Black Birch Books in Wasilla, Alaska, for our THIRD ANNUAL Drag Storytime here in the MatSu!  This event celebrates diversity, encourages creativity, and promotes love for reading among children and adults alike.  Our facility is handicap accessible and there’s an ASL interpreter. 

🎉By golly, it’s time for books! Visit all week for our $5 used book sale to celebrate our 7 year anniversary of the bookstore and community support!!🥳 #community #independentbookstore #wasilla #veteranowned #loveislove #allarewelcome

📚Just us book ladies! 🖤Thank you, Angela from Title Wave Books and Mary Ann from Fireside Books Alaska for spending lunch with me! 🥳Today is the SEVENTH year of Black Birch Books being open!🎉 This week all used books will be $5! Thanks for 7 surprising years!🤩

🐾Dante has a fantastic 7th birthday yesterday! Thanks for popping in and showing love to your Bookstore Dog!🎁

Thank you Rock MatSu for being an amazing space for conversations like this. www.facebook.com/share/r/16BB...

See you today (at all your independent bookstores)!

#independentbookstoreday is this Saturday!! Make sure you support your little Alaska bookstores! 👉There are plenty of events in between! Tonight is the 🏳️‍🌈Adult Queer Coffee 5-7. Friday is 🎙️Open Mic Night 5-7. Saturday is 🇺🇸Coffee With A Veteran at 10 and 🦄Youth Queer coffee 2-4.

🇺🇸☕️Coffee With A Veteran had a new competent intel officer arrive. He brought donuts so, the troops had buy-in. 😉🫡 🍩 Coffee With A Vet is every Saturday morning. It gets a bit roudy. 🤘 www.facebook.com/share/1KxLsM...

💙It was another amazing event for the 26th Annual The Children's Place Alaska Boots & Bling Gala fundraiser! They do amazing work and the 50 tables of supporters proved it! #ChildAbusePreventionMonth💙 #WearBlue #familysupport #community #Alaska #independentbookstore #veteranowned

*snort* This was a clever and quirky book. The newspaper is like the NY Times but a conspiracy theory rag you find at the checkout. 🤣 What are you reading?📖 Make sure you support your independent bookstores with audio books too! 👉 libro.fm/referral?rf_... 👈

🐠Breaking News🐟 We have two new friends at the bookstore! Meet 👉 Hardcover and Paperback! H & C are Blood-red Parrot Cichlids. The Blood-red Parrot Cichlid, a man-made hybrid, is a popular ornamental fish known for its vibrant color and unique features. No, they don’t need welcome home presents. 🤣

Thank you Friends of the Anchorage Library for allowing your community to support you! We raised $136,000!

Thank you, Palmer United Methodist Church for having me as a guest speaker for service this Sunday morning. I met old friends and made new ones. Your standards of inclusion within your walls are a testament to your strength. I’m honored to have been included.😊

🎂Happy BDay, Flo! We’re honored to host her firearm cleaning party for her and the community! (It’s Alaska. This is our normal at our bookstore.) 🤘😘 Come visit and see for yourself!

👉Black Birch Books is a female, disabled veteran owned independent bookstore. It’s our pleasure to welcome ALL people in our safe space.👈