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Towne Center Books

Name: Towne Center Books
Address: 555 Main Street, Pleasanton, CA, 94566, US
Telephone: +19258468826
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Towne Center Books is a locally owned general bookstore, conveniently located on Main Street in Downtown Pleasanton. www.townecenterbooks.com

06/02/2026

Our first Storytime of the summer will be this Friday at 10:30 am! We can’t wait to see you there 📚☀️😎

05/23/2026

Please join us for a special author event celebrating Lisa See and her new book, Daughters of the Sun and Moon: A Novel at the Firehouse Arts Center, Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 7 pm. This is a ticketed event.

2 OPTIONS TO ATTEND:

Option 1: $45 — includes a copy of Lisa See’s book + ticket to the event (best deal: book is $32 including tax - great savings on attending the event)
Option 2: $30 — includes ticket to the event
Towne Center Books will be selling additional copies of Daughters of the Sun and Moon as well as other Lisa See titles at the event too.

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See draws on the vibrancy and turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles to tell the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive, despite all odds.

Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, The Island of Sea Women, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls, China Dolls, and Dreams of Joy, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the Historymaker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women.

05/19/2026

Don’t miss out on our next author event with a store favorite, Allison Larkin! You can pick up Home of the American Circus in hardcover or the newly released paperback 📙

This event will take place on May 21st at 11am at the Cellar Door Patio on 4469 Railroad Ave in Pleasanton. This is a free event but RSVP’s help us plan! You can follow the link in our bio to our website and RSVP on the events page.

We are delighted to present this in partnership with The American Association of Women University (AAUW) 🤝📚

05/15/2026

Please join us in partnership with The American Association of University Women as we host author Allison Larkin on Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 11:00 am on the Cellar Door patio (4469 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton, CA). We will be in the garden behind the restaurant which will be closed (located next to Meadowlard Dairy and behind Inklings Coffee). There is parking next to the Firehouse Arts Center which is diagonal from the Cellar Door.

This is a free event but RSVP’s are appreciated. You can RSVP on our website (link in bio) or you can call 925-846-8826.

Allison Larkin is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The People We Keep, Stay, Why Can’t I Be You, and Swimming for Sunlight. Her short fiction has been published in The Summerset Review and Slice, and nonfiction in Author in Progress, a how-to guide from Writer’s Digest Books, and the dog anthology I’m Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Jeremy, and their rescue dog, Roxy.

05/12/2026

Join us at the Livermore Library this Saturday at 2pm with bestselling author Elaine Castillo! This is a free event and we’d love to see you there 📚

Elaine Castillo, named one of “30 of the Planet’s Most Exciting Young People” by the Financial Times, was born and raised in the Bay Area. Her most recent novel Moderation has been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize in Fiction, and was named one of the Top Ten Books of 2025 by The Atlantic, Slate, and a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, TIME, Kirkus Reviews, and more.

Her debut novel, America Is Not the Heart (2018), was a finalist for numerous prizes including the Elle Big Book Award, the Center for Fiction Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize and was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Public Library. She is also the author of the acclaimed collection of essays How to Read Now (2022), the longform essay Good Girl: Notes on Dog Rescue (2024).

She is the recipient of a 2026 Whiting Award for Fiction, a two-time San Francisco Public Library Laureate, a Berkeley Public Library Laureate, and has been longlisted for the 2026 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, in recognition of writers of national consequence.

In the tradition of diasporic mothers everywhere, she works primarily so her rescue German shepherd Vincent can live a better life.

05/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first Sorcery & Stardust bookclub meeting! Our next meeting will take place on June 4th for the sci-fi novel Of Monsters and Mainframes. We hope to see even more of you then 📚✨

05/05/2026

April Showers May Your TBR Grow! Hope you had a great reading year, what is one of your favorite books so far?

05/02/2026

Now that the weather is warming up we thought it was about time for another Boozy Bookfair at Sidetrack Bar & Grill! This is an adult bookfair (21+) and tickets are $25 per person and will take place on May 12th from 5pm-7pm.

This time around we will be joined by authors Sally Faddis, Michelle Chouinard, and Brian Copeland as an extra special treat!

There will be wine and small plates courtesy of Sidetrack as well as treats from Primrose Bakery. Julie Castillo will also be selling her “My Restaurant Bag.”

You can RSVP via the link in our bio or directly from our website 💻📚

04/30/2026

Join us this Sunday at the Livermore Library at 2pm with author & illustrator Angie Kang!

Angie Kang is the author and illustrator of the recently released picture book Our Lake and illustrator of Navigating Night by Julie Leung

Angie Kang is a Chinese American writer and illustrator currently living in LA. Her work has appeared in Narrative, The Believer, and elsewhere. She enjoys painting places she remembers and places she would like to go.

04/28/2026

Thank you all so much for your support on Independent Bookstore Day! Congratulations to our winners of the Golden Ticket from , we hope Cora and Xavier enjoy their audiobooks 🎧📚🎫

Zoom in on our Take a Recommendation, Leave a Recommendation board to see what our customers are reading and loving! We see lots of great taste 👏📚

We are so glad people took advantage of our photobooth and we have booksellers Amanda, Banita, and Senna pictured on the 4th slide holding the first 3 books for our new bookclub, Sorcery & Stardust 📚✨

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your support not just on Independent Bookstore Day but everyday. We love what we do because of you 💕📚

Address

555 Main Street
Pleasanton, CA
94566

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 7pm
Tuesday	10am - 7pm
Wednesday	10am - 7pm
Thursday	10am - 7pm
Friday	10am - 9pm
Saturday	10am - 9pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

Telephone

+19258468826

Website

http://www.townecenterbooks.com/

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