Barnes & Noble will open new stores next Wednesday, November 5, in Austin, Tex.; Napa, Calif.; Brea, Calif.; and Glenwood Springs, Colo.; and will reopen its renovated store in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The Austin store, in a 20,000-square-foot space in the Southpark Meadows shopping center, will include a B&N Cafe. Tracy Wolff, author of It Happened on a Sunday, will cut the ribbon and sign copies of her books.
The 10,000-square-foot store in Napa, Calif., will reside at 3900 Bel Aire Plaza and will not include a B&N Cafe. Wednesday's ribbon cutting and signing will feature Jill Shalvis, author of He Falls First.
The Brea B&N, in the Brea Plaza at 439 S. Associated Rd., will measure around 15,000 square feet and will not include a B&N Cafe. Holly Goldberg Sloan, author of Finding Lost, will be on hand for the ribbon cutting and signing.
The Glenwood Springs store, located at 115 E. Meadows Dr. in the Glenwood Meadows shopping center, will span around 23,000 square feet and include a B&N Cafe. Author Kylee Marshall will preside over the ribbon cutting and stay to sign copies of her book, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Memoir on Growing the Courage to Bloom.
And in Park Slope, the store at 267 7th Ave. is reopening after undergoing renovations. It measures 23,500 square feet and has been in business since September 1997. Among other improvements, the renovations included expanding the children's department. Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful, will cut the ribbon before signing copies of her books.
B&N plans to open 14 new stores in total in November, and more than 60 new stores in 2025.