Low Tide, Long Beach
Mara Quillen · 336 pages
“The car had been in the water long enough to grow a beard of weed, and the plates still said mine.”
$18
Pull something off the shelf.
An independent bookshop on 4th Street in Long Beach. Ten books on the front shelf at a time, every one a bookseller would hand you across the counter.
Tap a spine to pull it out. Thicker spine, longer book.
Most read this month
All 10 booksWhat kind of book?
Tell us a mood. We’ll pull three.
Pick how you want to feel and how long you’ve got. The matcher pulls three books off the shelf and says why each one fits.
- Cozy
- Can’t put it down
- Funny
- Make me cry
- Learn something
- A little strange
The Spineout Box: a bookseller picks for you
One new book a month, chosen by a real person who read your answers, with a note on why they picked it.
- Tell us three books you loved and one you didn’t.
- A bookseller picks one new book a month.
- Already have it? Send it back in the same mailer, free.
Come in. Stay a while.
The shop on 4th Street has a reading chair by the window and a bookseller who will ask what you read last. Order online and pick it up the same day.
- Open
- Every day, 10 to 8
- Pickup
- Free, usually same day
- Author nights
- Every other Thursday Sample
- Call
- (562) 555-0148
- Free shipping over $35 Out in 1 to 2 days
- Free pickup At the shop on 4th Street
- Gift wrap, $4 With a handwritten card