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Random House Studio

Rivka's Presents

$18.99

In this heartwarming story about the importance of community, a little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons. It's 1918 on the Lower East Side of New York...

Enchanted Lion Books

Drawing on Walls: A Story o...

$18.95

Burgess describes Haring discovering Robert Henri's The Art Spirit in college ("He felt as if the book was speaking directly to him"), encountering the large paintings of Pierre Alechinsky (he was "blown away"), and recognizing a common impulse in dancers at the West Village's Paradise Garage ("F...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Be Amazing: A History of Pride

$18.99

In Be Amazing, drag kid Desmond is Amazing walks you through the history of the LGBTQ community, all while encouraging you to embrace your own uniqueness and ignore the haters.Desmond is amazing--and you are, too.Throughout history, courageous people like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and RuP...

Sleeping Bear Press

La Mariachi (Own Voices, Ow...

$18.99

Tuchi longs to join in and play with the school's mariachi band, but it's the 1970s and in her community, mariachi is only for the boys. Still she hopes--and wishes on Seńora Luna. When Tuchi stumbles across her nana's guitarrón, Nana teaches her to play in secret. The music rumbles inside Tuchi ...

Gallery / Saga Press

The Reformatory: A Novel

$28.99

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead. Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Step...

Image Comics

Universal Monsters Dracula ...

$4.99

MINISERIES PREMIERE THE BIGGEST NAMES IN COMICS RESURRECT THE MOST ICONIC MONSTERS! THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH creators JAMES TYNION IV (W0RLDTR33, Something is Killing the Children) and MARTIN SIMMONDS reteam to tell a new tale of the monster who started it all! When Dr. John Seward admits a strang...

Fantagraphics Books

Dauntless Dames Hardcover

$100.00

The audacious exploits of ten great adventurous female stars from the Golden Age of comic strips. In the 1920s they were socialites and flappers. In the 1960s they were homemakers and heartthrobs. But from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, female stars of the newspaper comic strips were detectiv...

OTHER PUBLISHERS

Smash The Patriarchy Graphi...

$19.99

Patriarchy means "the rule of the father" and describes a system where men are in control. Since at least the time of Aristotle, if not long before, loud-mouthed men have called women weak and inferior. In entertaining comic book form, Smash the Patriarchy shames the culprits and salutes more tha...

Berkley Books

The Hacienda (Paperback)

$17.00

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches...During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and ...

OTHER PUBLISHERS

Sí, Se Puede

$19.99

Meet the unsung Latino rebels, artists, and activists who changed the United States—from Dolores Huerta to Desi Arnaz to Lin Manuel Miranda—in this bold and entertaining graphic history.From community activism to the halls of government, pop-culture, arts, and beyond, Latinos have shaped every as...

Drawn & Quarterly

Are You Willing To Die For ...

$24.95

A deep dive into a contentious and dramatic period in Canadian history-the rise of a militant separatist group whose effects still reverberate today. In Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?, Quebec-born cartoonist Chris Oliveros sets out to dispel common misconceptions about the birth and early ...

Puffin

Dracula

$14.99

A thirst for blood, nocturnal debauchery, hypnotic trances ... this is Dracula. . Jonathan Harker is travelling to Castle Dracula to see the Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. He is begged by locals not to go there, because on the eve of St. George's Day, when the clock strikes midnight, all the...

Puffin

Frankenstein

$13.99

Scientist Victor Frankenstein learns how to create life, but his discovery goes quickly awry when he creates a monster larger and stronger than an ordinary man. As the monster uses its power to destroy everything Victor loves, the young scientist is forced to embark on a treacherous journey to en...

DOUBLEDAY BOOKS

Crook Manifesto: A Novel

$29.00

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.. “Dazzling” –Walter Mosley, The New York Times Book Review. . It’s 1971...

Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

There Was a Party for Langston

$18.99

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired.. Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The K...