Used Books · Downtown Sebastopol · Est. 2017
Second Chances is Brandy's shop — forty years of bookselling distilled into one well-chosen room in downtown Sebastopol. The popular and the peculiar, the beautiful and the thoughtful, all waiting for their next reader. Yours, perhaps.
The Shelves
Every book here was chosen by someone who has spent a lifetime knowing which ones matter.
The books everyone's after, kept in stock and easy to find
The odd, the rare and the wonderfully specific
Editions worth holding — covers, bindings and print worth keeping
The books that ask something of you, and give more back
The Bookseller
Brandy has been a bookseller for four decades and a reader for even longer. She worked at Aardvark Books, managed Copperfield's Used Books for twelve years, and co-owned Mockingbird Books — a whole career of learning which books deserve a second life.
In December 2017 she finally opened a shop of her own. It's the kind of place where the person behind the counter has actually read the spines.
Visit
You'll find us in downtown Sebastopol, open every day. Gift cards are available if you'd rather send someone else down the rabbit hole.
6932 Sebastopol Avenue, Suite E, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Open daily · 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year's Day.
Good to know
Brandy — a bookseller of forty years and a lifelong reader. She worked at Aardvark Books, managed Copperfield's Used Books for twelve years and co-owned Mockingbird Books before opening Second Chances.
December 2017, in downtown Sebastopol. As Brandy puts it: "I was a Virginia Woolf buff in my twenties. It was inevitable I'd choose a room of my own."
Used books across every genre and subject — the popular and the peculiar, the beautiful and the thoughtful, chosen by someone who has spent a lifetime among books.
Daily from 10:30am to 5:00pm, closed only on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. Gift cards are available.