Independent Bookstore Day & Tiny Raccoon Books' Third Birthday Party!

We would be honored if you would join us on April 25th to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day and our Third Birthday!

April 25, 2026
12-4pm
277 Railroad Avenue, Sayville.
Free!
With

MUSIC!

Mike & The Mistakes (Solo acoustic act that pretends to be a band)
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https://www.instagram.com/mikeandthemistakes

Wildlife from the Sweetbriar Nature Center!
Our friends from Sweetbriar will be conducting a backyard wildlife program focusing on how to help animals locally. Critter friends who will be on hand include a screech owl and box turtle!

Authors!

Eddie McNamara
Straight outta' South Brooklyn with a newly released book (Zodiactually: The Real Story of a Fake Serial Killer)! Eddie will be on hand to talk all things ZODIAC KILLER as well as sell his other works: Brooklyn Hardcore, Two Fare Zone and Toss Your Own Salad: The Meatless Cookbook with Burgers, Bolognese, and Balls. Friends of the store may remember Eddie from the slide presentation he did on his Zodiac research in 2024 at our store.

Regina Brownell
Author of The Two-Week Promise, The Ex Agreement and The Purrfect Arrangement among other romances novels.
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https://reginabrownellauthor.wordpress.com/

Susan Blake
A local author, retired Montessori teacher and creator of the children’s movement program, Dynamic Kids of New York. How I rescued a family, Ruby A. Beagle, is her first children’s picture book. RUBY is based off of her family’s experiences of rescuing a beagle from a local shelter. The book highlights love, acceptance, patience and finding your person!

Matthew Sabatino
Author of the just-released Empire of Dirt as well as 2025’s Quagmire in the Pine Barrens, Matt is also the owner of Barnaby Black, which handcrafts natural fragrance from sustainably, harvested plants & trees.

Mathew is a writer, artist, and founder of Barnaby Black—a creative house rooted in the wild margins of the American landscape. Born on Long Island (deep in the Pine Barrens), his work draws deeply from place: from pine air and coastal Atlantic beaches, from folklore whispered through the understory, from the quiet tension between beauty and ruin.

His writing leans into a dark, romantic Americana—where obsession, myth, and the natural world blur at the edges. Influenced by the likes of Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson and Edward Abbey, Sabatino imagines stories that feel unearthed rather than invented, often exploring the unseen forces that shape both land and man. He lives, creates and writes in Sayville, NY.There will be cake, sales and some surprises