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BALLANTINE BOOKS

Congratulations, The Best I...

$27.00

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It returns with an all-new collection of heartening, deeply relatable, and laugh-out-loud essays about what happens after happily ever after.“Funny, insightful, and hopeful . . . a profound meditation on what it means to come home, and on finding your wa...

STONE ARCH BOOKS

Paulina and the Disaster at...

$7.99

Twelve-year-old Paulina is delivering bread to her new friend Fabia's home when the air begins to fill with smoke and ash. Mount Vesuvius is erupting! Fabia's father leaves to help fellow Pompeii residents evacuate, telling the girls to make their way to the port where they can board boats to esc...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Hestia Strikes a Match: A N...

$28.00

A Must-Read at The Washington Post and Oprah Daily“Steamy, smart, and hilarious.” ―Oprah DailyChristine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship in the midst of a new American civil war.The year is 2023, and things are bad―bad, but still ...

Charm Person Games

Sapphic Space Pirates Rolep...

$10.00

Sapphic Space Pirates is a tabletop roleplaying game about the warm bonds that form between women who love other women while stuck in fragile spaceships moving through the cold void. It's about the moments between the action where you find comfort in each other. It's also a game about the monstro...

RISE X PENGUIN WORKSHOP

The Catalogue of Hugs

$16.99

Author and dad-fluencer Joshua David Stein offers up an array of parent-and-child hugs, from the classic to the humorously questionable, each one cleverly titled and informatively illustrated. For affectionate families everywhere comes this engaging reference volume featuring 25 kinds of hugs. Fr...

Emons Publishers

111 Places in Baltimore Tha...

$19.90

•The ultimate insider's guide to Baltimore, fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs•Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides•Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 170 titles and 1 million copies in print worldwide•Appe...

Berkley Books

We Are Satellites (Paperback)

$16.00

"Taut and elegant, carefully introspected and thoughtfully explored."—The New York TimesFrom Hugo award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them.Everybody's getting one. Val and Julie just want what’s best for their kids, David and Sophie. S...

KOKILA

Kings of B'more

$18.99

"Infused with all the joy of the best teen movies, Kings of B'more is sure to be a big hit." —BuzzFeed  Two Black queer best friends face their last day together with an epic journey through Baltimore in this magnetic YA debut by bestselling author of Here for It, R. Eric Thomas.With junior year ...

Image Comics

Stray Dogs TPB

$16.99

It's scary being the new dog. In this suspenseful new series, readers meet Sophie, a dog who can't remember what happened. She doesn't know how she ended up in this house. She doesn't recognize any of these other dogs. She knows something terrible happened, but she just...can't...recall...Wait! W...

OTHER PUBLISHERS

Animal Rescue Friends Graph...

$12.99

Join Bell, Maddie, Noah, and the rest of the Animal Rescue Friends as they learn to love an affectionate rat named Whiskers, find Sergio the tortoise a forever home that's just his speed, fall for the antics of a chatty parrot with a familiar name, and more! Along the way, they make a few new fri...

IDW Publishing

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...

$3.99

Casey Jones may not be souped up with mutagen ooze, but even without ninja skills and a half shell, he holds his own as a hero. So imagine everyone's surprise when stopping a burglary at a top-secret R&D lab leaves Casey imbued with superpowers! Emboldened by his new gift, Casey takes on NYC'...

Legacy Lit

Black Boy Smile: A Memoir i...

$27.00

“This is, no doubt, an origin story for the ages.” —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist At nine years old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad’s Lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. Directly in his per...

IDW Publishing

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...

$3.99

Once upon a time, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles encountered Mr. Ogg, a card-carrying trickster type from an alternate dimension. Now he's back and it's no more Mr. Nice Guy as Ogg charges the Turtles with a crime that they're most definitely guilty of, and Raphael is the guiltiest of all! It's...

IDW Publishing

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...

$3.99

Season's greetings from Saturday Morning Adventures!There's nothing more magical than winter in New York. Only this year, City Hall's banned St. Nick look-alikes outright. To the surprise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the rest of New York, the usual crew of Kris Kringles have been repla...

IDW Publishing

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...

$3.99

There's a special election in New York to select the next mayor, and a rebuilt Chrome Dome is running for office! If the android is still an agent of evil, it'd be a disaster for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... to say nothing of the nonmutant citizens of New York City! Saturday Morning Advent...