Before you stroll the streets on First Fridays in downtown Bend, check out this monthly review featuring reading recommendations courtesy of the Source and Dudley’s Bookshop Café. Then head down to the shop for a discount! For those of you who don’t remember “National Geographic Adventure Magazine,” (RIP 1999-2009), it was the pinnacle of outdoor […]
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Book Talk: A Tale of Two Shepards
Before you stroll the streets on First Fridays in downtown Bend, check out this monthly review (or in this case, reviews plural) featuring reading recommendations courtesy of the Source and Dudley’s Bookshop Café. Then head down to the shop for a discount on the books! “The One Inside” by Sam Shepard “Vicious cold again. Blue […]
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BOOK TALK: Activism Talks
Ready for some civil disobedience, but need guidance on how to get started? Here are five books to get you going—no matter what your politics. “The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change In The 21st Century (2nd ed.)” by Randy Shaw “A Field Guide To Lies: Critical Thinking In The Information Age” by Daniel Levitin “Hope […]
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“The Bear and the Nightingale”
Editor’s Note: Before you stroll the streets on First Fridays in downtown Bend, check out this monthly review, featuring a reading recommendation courtesy of the Source and Dudley’s Bookshop Café. Then head down to the shop for a discount on the book! If I can convince you to pick up a copy of Katherine Arden’s […]
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2016’s Best Books by Genre
When it comes to choosing some of the best reads of 2016, we knew no one would be more well-read than Tom Beans, owner of Dudley’s BookShop Cafe in downtown Bend. These may not be the critics’ picks for best books of the year, but they certainly were his favorites. Fiction To The Bright Edge […]
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Top Books of 2015
Tom Beans is the owner of Dudley’s Bookshop Cafe When I took over Dudley’s in April 2015, I believed Bend was ready to once again support an independent bookstore—but it had to be the right bookstore. We have f cused on selling the best literary fiction available, and I’m proud to say Bend welcomed us […]