Tiny Raccoon Books

Come meet author Briana Gervat and chat with her about her book, "There Will Come Soft Rains: A Journey Along the Western Front". Copies of the book will be for sale and Briana will sign copies.About the book: In 1914 a war began that destroyed nearly everything in its path: lives, countries, empires, and the world as it was known until that moment. And while destruction could be found almost everywhere around the world in its aftermath, nowhere was more marred than that of the Western Front; the scars of which still haunt us to this day.In 2022, one woman set out to walk across the ruined landscape of the Western Front in search of peace; finding it in the mountains of Alsace, in the forests of Verdun, in Gothic cathedrals, and nights spent sleeping under the very same stars that the soldiers slept, in want of the very same thing: PEACE.This is not just a story about the Great War.It is the story about what it means to walk through the remnants of history to feel its reverberations, to listen to its echoes, and with hope, to learn something along the way.About the author: Briana Gervat received her B.A. in Art History at The University of Mary Washington and an M.A. in Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design. After completing graduate school, she travelled to Rwanda to continue her studies on the Rwandan Genocide and the art of East Africa. Her prose, poetry and photography have been published in anthologies, magazines, and online publications. She has self-published three travel memoirs: Mosaic, I Once Was a Pilgrim, and There Will Come Soft Rains: A Journey Along the Western Front. All of which can be found on Amazon.She currently lives in New York, but dreams always of France.

Local Event: Meet & Greet with Briana Gervat

Suffolk County

Sayville-Bayport

New York

Meet & Greet with Briana Gervat

Come meet author Briana Gervat and chat with her about her book, "There Will Come Soft Rains: A Journey Along the Western...

The next Silent Book Club Sayville chapter meet-up of 2026 will take place on May 7th at 7pm at Tiny Raccoon Books, 277 Railroad Avenue.
Have you committed to reading more books in 2026? Here is a great opportunity to do so!
Silent Book Club is a community of readers worldwide. With traditional book clubs, you might not like the chosen book or finish it on time. You might not love the conversation that’s involved with a conventional book club. Silent Book Clubs have no assigned reading and no need to discuss the book!
Show up, socialize, shop, spend some time reading, and then socialize some more or keep reading. It’s up to you. Everyone is welcome, and anyone can join. Bring your own book, audio book (with headphones) or buy one! It's your call!
Schedule: 7-7:15pm Hang out, socialize, shop 7:15- 8:15pm Silent reading 8:15-830pm Hang out, socialize, shop
Parking: 1- We have a small lot behind the store accessible from Hiddink Street. Our back door is open. 2- The LIRR lot is one block away- right next to the Gas station across the street on Depot Street. There are over 100 spots 3- There is limited short-term street parking on Railroad Avenue.

Local Event: Silent Book Club Sayville May meetup

Silent Book Club Sayville May meetup

The next  Silent Book Club Sayville chapter meet-up of 2026 will take place on May 7th at 7pm at Tiny Raccoon Books, 277...

We are joining forces with our friends at New Hour for Women and Children to write letters to people in prison and jail on the May 14th at 7pm.
We also have all the supplies you need to write a letter- pads of paper, pens, envelopes and stamps.
Why write letters to people in prison. The United States is unparalleled historically and ranks among the highest worldwide in its dependence on incarceration. (Over 2 million people in state and federal prisons and jails). Over five million people in total are under supervision by the criminal legal system. Of these, nearly two million people, disproportionately Black people, are living in prisons and jails instead of their communities. People in prison are people from our communities and deserve support, consideration and communication with the outside world.
This event is free. 277 Railroad Avenue, Sayville, NY 11782.
Parking is either behind the store in our well-lit parking lot or at the LIRR parking lot across the street.
This event is co-sponsored by New Hour for Women and Children.
New Hour for Women and Children was founded to provide meaningful support to current and formerly incarcerated women, their children and families. We build community to promote successful re-entry and lasting reintegration, and to reform unjust criminal justice system policies. We empower directly impacted people to utilize their lived experiences to create lasting reforms to the carceral system.

Local Event: Writing Letters to People in Prison session

Writing Letters to People in Prison session

We are joining forces with our friends at New Hour for Women and Children to write letters to people in prison and jail on the...

Join labor activist and author Daniel Gross at Tiny Raccoon Books on May 16th at 7pm for a reading from his new book, "Unions of Our Own- Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World" (Haymarket Books, 2026).
Daniel will take questions and discuss the book after a reading. We will have copies of his book for sale and he will sign copies.
About the book An actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win.
Our workplaces urgently need to get better, but change can feel murky, daunting, or even impossible. We imagine a different world, too, but billionaires are doing their best to make things worse.
In Unions of Our Own, veteran labor organizer and cofounder of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union Daniel Gross provides a radically new, step-by-step framework for workers who want to dramatically improve their jobs—and dream of bigger changes too. It reveals and puts into your hands the eight fundamental building blocks of a union that meets your needs and values.
Through proven tools, Gross’s personal stories from campaigns, vivid history, and real-world examples, Unions of Our Own offers a practical, accessible, and empowering philosophy on how to design your own union and win.
About the author Daniel Gross has been doing worker-led organizing and union-building for more than two decades, accompanying thousands of workers creating unions in their workplaces. Together with his co-workers, Gross helped found the groundbreaking IWW Starbucks Workers Union, which held power for over a decade at the coffee giant and helped revitalize a more inclusive labor movement.
Gross has practiced labor law from a rank &amp; file perspective and served on the board of the National Lawyers Guild and the Food Chain Workers Alliance. He is also the founding director of Brandworkers, the first worker center of immigrant workers in the metro New York local food manufacturing industry.
With Staughton Lynd, he is the co-author of the classic Labor Law for the Rank &amp; Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law as well as the graphic pamphlet, Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks, with illustrator Tom Keough. He is based in New York City.
Parking: 1- We have a small lot behind the store accessible from Hiddink Street. Our back door is open. 2- The LIRR lot is one block away- right next to the Gas station across the street on Depot Street. There are over 100 spots.

Local Event: Daniel Gross & "Unions of Our Own" book event

Daniel Gross & "Unions of Our Own" book event

Join labor activist and author Daniel Gross at Tiny Raccoon Books on May 16th at 7pm for a reading from his new book, "Unions...

Join author Arianna Rebolini at Tiny Raccoon Books on May 9th at 7pm for a reading from her book, "Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die."
The event will be moderated by Erika Swyler. Arianna will take questions and discuss the book after a reading. We will have copies of her book for sale and she will sign copies.
About the book Why do so many people want to die—and how do we begin to understand what makes a person choose suicide?
After a decade of therapy and a stint in a psychiatric ward to treat suicidal depression, Arianna Rebolini was “better.” She’d published her first book, enjoyed an influential, rewarding publishing job, and celebrated both a marriage and the birth of her first child. But none of it was enough to keep the desire to die at bay. One night, grappling with overwhelming debt and a pro-longed depression, she composed goodbye letters to her husband and son while they slept just feet away.
In Better, Arianna interweaves the story of this period of crisis with decades of personal and family history, from her first cry for help in the fourth grade with a plastic knife, to her fears of passing down the dark seed of suicide to her own son, to her brother’s own life-threatening affliction. To make sense of this dark desire, Arianna pored over the journals, memoirs, and other writings of famous suicides, and eventually developed theories on what makes a person suicidal.
Her curiosity was driven by the morbid, impossible need to understand what happens in the fatal moment between wanting to kill oneself and doing it—or, unthinkably, the moment between regretting the action and realizing it can’t be undone. When her brother became institutionalized, Arianna realized that all of the pattern recognition and trenchant insights could not crack the shell of his annihilating depression—and that the only way to help a person live is to address the societal factors that make them want to die.
About the author Arianna Rebolini is a writer and editor born and raised in New York. Formerly the Books Editor at BuzzFeed News, her criticism, essays, and features have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Esquire, TIME, The Cut, Vulture, and elsewhere. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and has been awarded residencies at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts as well as the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow.
Her debut novel, Public Relations (Grand Central Publishing), co-authored with Katie Heaney, is out now. She lives in Queens with her husband, son, and two cats.
About the moderator Erika Swyler is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels We Lived On the Horizon, Light From Other Stars and The Book of Speculation. Her writing has appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, Literary Hub, VIDA, The New York Times, People, and elsewhere. She lives on Long Island, NY, with her husband and a mischievous house rabbit.
Parking: 1- We have a small lot behind the store accessible from Hiddink Street. Our back door is open. 2- The LIRR lot is one block away- right next to the Gas station across the street on Depot Street. There are over 100 spots.

Local Event: Arianna Rebolini book event at Tiny Raccoon Books

Arianna Rebolini book event at Tiny Raccoon Books

Join author Arianna Rebolini at Tiny Raccoon Books on May 9th at 7pm for a reading from her book, "Better:  A Memoir About...