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Built from the Fire (Staff Pick)

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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street By Victor Luckerson Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593134375
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Published: Random House - May 23rd, 2023

This closely focused history Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood, starting with the Tulsa Massacre, shows how thoroughly racism shaped and shapes American society. Though a history of tragedy, it is also a history of how people can triumph despite the systemic forces against them.

- Josh


Life is Not Useful (Staff Pick)

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Life Is Not Useful By Ailton Krenak, Alex Brostoff (Translator), Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Translator) Cover Image
By Ailton Krenak, Alex Brostoff (Translator), Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Translator)
$14.95
ISBN: 9781509554058
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Published: Polity Press - May 8th, 2023

This book is my go-to when I start spiraling over climate change and capitalism. For hope & determination without self-delusion, there is no better teacher than Ailton Krenak, an Indigenous leader who has survived decades of colonial oppression in Brazil.

- Murphy


The Comfort of Crows (Staff Pick)

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year By Margaret Renkl Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9781954118461
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Published: Spiegel & Grau - October 24th, 2023

Organized like a devotional prayer book, Renkl’s fifty-two, short meditations closely observing the wonders of nature in her small backyard is a perfect book to daily turn to reconnect with the web of life sustaining us.

- Dale


The Writer's Garden (Staff Pick)

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The Writer's Garden: How gardens inspired the world's great authors By Jackie Bennett, Richard Hanson (By (photographer)) Cover Image
By Jackie Bennett, Richard Hanson (By (photographer))
$40.00
ISBN: 9780711277168
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Published: Frances Lincoln - September 26th, 2023

Lose yourself in the beauty and imagination of literary gardens (and see if you can guess what garden belonged to which writer).

- Stacey


The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog (Staff Pick)

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The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog By Maybell Eequay Cover Image
$11.99
ISBN: 9781837991013
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Published: Summersdale - September 5th, 2023

Affirmations already make me cry, but now you have a frog in a mushroom hat and high heeled boots telling me them?? Tissues are sold out everywhere.

- Jane


Storyteller's Workbook (Staff Pick)

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The Storyteller's Workbook: An Inspirational, Interactive Guide to the Craft of Novel Writing By Adrienne Young, Isabel Ibañez Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780593539439
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Published: TarcherPerigee - December 13th, 2022

Happy NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)! If you're looking for a way to give your creativity a boost, check out The Storyteller's Workbook! This tiny volume packs everything you need to craft a successful outline or draft a novel. Full of character sheets, worldbuilding exercises, revision outlines, and even advice for writing an amazing pitch, synopsis, and query, this guide is the cheerleader you need to get your first draft through the finish line!

- Cindy


The Mona Lisa Vanishes (Staff Pick)

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The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity By Nicholas Day, Brett Helquist (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Nicholas Day, Brett Helquist (Illustrator)
$19.99
ISBN: 9780593643846
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Published: Random House Studio - September 5th, 2023

How could someone steal the most famous painting in the world? Well as it turns out, it was easy; ridiculously, disapointingly, easy.

- John


The League of Lady Poisoners (Staff Pick)

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The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women By Lisa Perrin, Holly Frey (Foreword by), Maria Trimarchi (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Lisa Perrin, Holly Frey (Foreword by), Maria Trimarchi (Foreword by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781797215884
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Published: Chronicle Books - September 19th, 2023

A cleverly bewitching design and fun illustrations make this book pretty irresistable. The edges might be a shiny green, but the subjects are certainly morally grey at best.

- Stacey


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