Avant Garden Bookstore

06/06/2026

Happy Pride🏳️‍🌈

on until five💙💜🩷💜

06/03/2026

Find our volunteers at the Rum River Farmer's Market TONIGHT from 4-7!

06/03/2026

The Anoka County Library's summer challenge has officially begun📚☀️

Let's Goooo❤️

🎲 Summer Adventures - Game On officially begins today! ACL’s summer reading challenge is for all ages and runs through August 15.

🤼Don't miss our Summer Kickoff with F1RST Wrestling at Northtown Library on Saturday, June 6 from 1 pm - 3pm. Bring your lawn chair and sunscreen! Visit the online calendar for more information ahout this event https://anokacounty.libcal.com/event/16330187

🏆 Register with the Beanstack Tracker app or online at tinyurl.com/ACLBeanstack!
Earn Digital Badges beginning June 1 for: • Hours spent reading • Writing book reviews • Completing fun activities

🎟️ Get 1 virtual ticket for each badge earned in Beanstack = for activities, logging, & book reviews. Enter your tickets for one prize or multiple prizes – you choose which drawings to enter!
🧒 Youth Prizes Family 4-pack passes: • Anoka County Fair • Bunker Beach • MN Twins • MN State Fair • SEALIFE at MOA
🧑 Adult Prizes: • Anoka County Fair passes 4-pack • Twins passes 4-pack • $50 Blainbrook Entertainment Center giftcard • $50 Curious Crow Game Store giftcard

🎁 Earn 2 Book Prizes this summer!
• LOG 5 HOURS of reading → Youth: Free book Adults: Coupon for a book cart item or Friends of ACL book sale
• LOG 20 HOURS of reading → $15 coupon redeemable in-person at Avant Garden Bookstore in Anoka

🔎 Discover a Hidden Level in Summer Adventures! Pick up your "Shelf Detectives case note book" beginning July 1 – August 15 at any Anoka County Library (while supplies last)! Visit each branch to discover clues and solve the case of the missing book.

📅Ready Player One? Get in the game and attend library programs this summer. Visit the event calendar here: tinyurl.com/aclEventCalendar runs through 8/15.

🀄Be sure to checkout games (board games & video games) from our Special Collection in the catalog tinyurl.com/aclSpecialCollections.

✨We thank our summer sponsors for supporting libraries: Friends of the Anoka County Library Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) Avant Garden Bookstore Bunker Beach Water Park - Anoka County Parks Anoka County Fair Minnesota State Fair Minnesota Twins SEA LIFE Aquarium

06/01/2026

🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

We are running a little late as we pull together our June newsletter, so if you haven't signed up yet, you should do it for sure. June is full of exciting events in Anoka, including this Saturday, June 6💖

Our newsletter focuses on in store events and upcoming titles. This month is especially exciting with our first audio book event and with information about our participation in summer book club series.

You can sign up for our newsletter on our website https://www.avantgardenbookstore.com/newsletter

🩵🩷💜🧡💚💛🩵🩷💜🧡💚💛🩵🩷💜🧡

06/01/2026

A fun discount for you to check out from Bookshop.org below🏳️‍🌈

I haven't ranted about this in awhile, so here goes:

Bookshop.org is an excellent resource for bookstores like ours. Use Bookshop in place of Amazon and your dollars go to indie bookstores who pay taxes and give back to their communities.

-rant over-

🩷❤️💙🩵Happy Pride month 💛💚🧡💜

Join us in celebrating Pride Month by purchasing a new book by LGBTQIA+ authors 📚
Every book has been recommended by a bookseller at LGBTQIA+-owned bookstores.

Get 15% off 100+ curated titles with code Pride26. Head to the link in bio to see the full list 🔗

Expires 6/30/26. Discount off list prices. Excludes ebooks.

05/31/2026

June 6th is right around the corner🧡💛💚🩵💙

Follow Anoka Pride Day for an amazing day of celebration🩷

We present, our stage schedule, sponsored by Lyric Arts.
All performances and times are subject to change.
Lyric Arts

05/27/2026

Join us this weekend at Saturday Story Hour! Anoka-Hennepin Schools ECFE & Preschool is an incredible resource in our community. Bring your questions and have some fun with young readers 🥰

🌟🐞 Join teachers Penny and Karina at Avant Garden Bookstore in Anoka on Saturday, May 30 from 10-11 a.m. They will read stories on bugs, sing songs and have a fun hands-on art project! We can’t wait to see you at this interactive, free event!

05/26/2026

Join us 📚☀️☕️

05/22/2026

☀️We are open all weekend☀️

Start your weekend off with Saturday Story Hour at 10am: this week will feature a reading of Don't Trust Fish, a laugh out loud picture book about the villainy of fish. We will be talking fish and you will have the opportunity to design your own fish to take home😁

Amber has fresh roasted coffee beans that you can enjoy in-store, or you can pick some up on your way out of town.

Our coffee shop and bookstore will be open 9-5 on Memorial Day.

We are so grateful we have this space to connect. We are here because you make it so by choosing to champion our work. Thank you 😊