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How to Weep in Public

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How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows By Jacqueline Novak Cover Image

How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows (Paperback)

By Jacqueline Novak
$16.00
ISBN: 9780804139700
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Published: Crown - March 1st, 2016

With this laugh-out-loud, poignant-ish part-memoir filled with helpful lists like “Top Eight Ways to Avoid Charming Your Therapist,” Novak bravely gives fellow “depressos” permission to lean in to what they feel, and learn things along the way, maybe.

Kate M

Frog and Toad are Doing Their Best

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Frog and Toad are Doing Their Best [A Parody]: Bedtime Stories for Trying Times By Jennie Egerdie, Ellie Hajdu (Illustrator) Cover Image

Frog and Toad are Doing Their Best [A Parody]: Bedtime Stories for Trying Times (Hardcover)

By Jennie Egerdie, Ellie Hajdu (Illustrator)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780762478460
Availability: In Stock: Click Title to See if it's in CAMBRIDGE or BOSTON
Published: Running Press Adult - October 5th, 2021

Frog and Toad are back, dealing with anxiety and depression and hats that make them look like internet trolls. They tackle all of these with humor, kindness, and love for each other. These are the bedtime stories we need right now. Frog and Toad are Doing Their Best, and so are you.

Shana

Thirsty Mermaids

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Thirsty Mermaids By Kat Leyh Cover Image

Thirsty Mermaids (Hardcover)

By Kat Leyh
$29.99
ISBN: 9781982133573
Availability: Available to Order from Supplier: Arrives at Store in a Week(ish)
Published: Gallery 13 - February 9th, 2021

In search of booze, three mermaids venture onto shore, where they have to navigate everything from walking and clothes, to jobs and purpose. Thirsty Mermaids is the adult female friendship comic for everyone who's trying to balance their Little Mermaid nostalgia with their feminism.

Marika

I Left the House Today

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I Left the House Today!: Comics by Cassandra Calin By Cassandra Calin Cover Image

I Left the House Today!: Comics by Cassandra Calin (Paperback)

By Cassandra Calin
$14.99
ISBN: 9781524855574
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Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - June 2nd, 2020

 

Hilarious and so real, Calin's comics are perfect to read while curled up in sweats (yours or stolen from a significant other) and eating a bag of chips-- preferably ones that leave your hand orange.

Marika

HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING

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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler By Ryan North Cover Image

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler (Paperback)

By Ryan North
$17.00
ISBN: 9780735220157
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 17th, 2019

Feel like the end of the world? Fear not: with this handy (and hilarious) guide, you can completely rebuild civilization from scratch--and even take some shortcuts and avoid some of the missteps of our forebears. This book somehow manages to be a fascinating primer on science history and a witty page-turner. Essential reading for the post-apocalypse.

 

Kate

everyone's a aliebn...

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Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book By Jomny Sun Cover Image

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book (Hardcover)

By Jomny Sun
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062569028
Availability: In Stock: Click Title to See if it's in CAMBRIDGE or BOSTON
Published: Harper Perennial - June 27th, 2017

I turn to this book whenever I need to be comforted or inspired, to laugh or cry, to feel understood and be reminded that we are not alone. Every time I pick it up, I find something new in it, and it's always what I need most to hear at the time. In fact, I've already staff picked it! But I'd like for you all to have the chance to have a copy with you right now. Plus.... if you want..... it can double as a quarantine coloring book.

Kate

 

 

Let's Be Weird Together

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Let's Be Weird Together: A Book About Love By Brooke Barker, Boaz Frankel Cover Image

Let's Be Weird Together: A Book About Love (Hardcover)

By Brooke Barker, Boaz Frankel
$12.95
ISBN: 9781523507733
Availability: Available to Order from Supplier: Arrives at Store in a Week(ish)
Published: Workman Publishing Company - December 10th, 2019

 

 

From the creator of the eminently adorable Instagram account @sadanimalfacts (featuring such tragic true tidbits as, ‘rhinos make a squeaking sound to call for their friends when they’re lost’). This wonderful, all-inclusive celebration of the weirdness of love features notable couples through history, animal courting rituals, and all the strange things we do when we’re half of a pair. I’m tossing you a softball here, folks: get this sweet, silly book for your partner for in lieu of the Hallmark card. Or for yourself, if you’re a single, hopeless romantic like me!

Leila

Ask Baba Yaga

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Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles By Taisia Kitaiskaia Cover Image

Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles (Paperback)

By Taisia Kitaiskaia
$14.99
ISBN: 9781449486815
Availability: In Stock: Click Title to See if it's in CAMBRIDGE or BOSTON
Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - September 26th, 2017

 

Some of the questions posed are very traditional for an advice column, but the responses are all earthy, poetic, and a little sinister. I can easily picture Baba Yaga's claws clacking away as she type up her response. I enjoy the raw, truthfulness of some of the answers, but just a reminder that Baba Yaga is not an actual therapist. (This book was featured on BitchReads' list of "11 Books to Hex the Patriarchy" last October.)

Stacey

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