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Datura Magazine

Datura Magazine Issue One

$20.00

Datura Magazine is a queer josei-inspired anthology series featuring a range of speculative and realist stories for an adult audience that, like the poisonous datura flower, might have an edge to them. We look to expand on ideas of "Girl's Love," along the lines of how its counterpart BL can be a...

Little Bee Books

Our World of Dumplings

$17.99

This delicious story celebrates the many different types of dumplings that exist in our world and how food brings people and cultures together!"Readers will enjoy learning about different cultures' dumpling traditions, and this book certainly celebrates culinary diversity." --Kirkus ReviewsMy nos...

DC Comics

DC Power A Celebration #1 (...

$9.99

Written by Chuck Brown, Morgan Hampton, Stephanie Williams, Evan Narcisse, And Others. First there was DC Pride and DC Festival of Heroes; now it's time to celebrate Black History Month! Cyborg, John Stewart, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Batwing, Vixen, Amazing-Man, and more take center stage to highlight...

Johns Hopkins University Press

The Black Butterfly: The Ha...

$19.95

The best-selling look at how American cities can promote racial equity, end redlining, and reverse the damaging health- and wealth-related effects of segregation. Winner of the IPPY Book Award Current Events II by the Independent Publisher The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and ...

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Cardboard Kingdom Hardcover...

$20.99

A mystery is afoot in the Cardboard Kingdom. Vijay, the Beast, renounces his title after being bullied by neighborhood teenagers. No one - not his big sister Shikha or his friends - can seem to draw him back out of his shell. That very night is when it starts. At first, no one believes Nate, who ...

Johns Hopkins University Press

Come and Be Shocked: Baltim...

$29.95

Baltimore seen through the eyes of John Waters, Anne Tyler, Charles S. Dutton, Barry Levinson, David Simon―and also ordinary citizens. The city of Baltimore features prominently in an extraordinary number of films, television shows, novels, plays, poems, and songs. Whether it's the small-town ecc...

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 repl...

DWA Press

Quislaona: A Dominican Fant...

$25.00

Latinx voices continue to be underrepresented in publishing. We collectively strive to elevate writers of our cultural community by creating and holding space for the authentic and diverse voices that make up Dominican writers today.   Quislaona welcomes you to the fantasy island where the wa...

CHRONICLE BOOKS

The League of Lady Poisoner...

$24.95

A feast for the senses, this sumptuously illustrated book will introduce you to some of the most infamous women throughout world history, united by their shared taste for poison. Welcome to the League of Lady Poisoners.. This riveting and well-researched volume by Lisa Perrin weaves together the ...

GALLERY

Chasing the Boogeyman: A Novel

$28.00

The acclaimed New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel of small-town evil that “is genuinely chilling and something brand-new and exciting” (Stephen King) and “unforgettable” (Harlan Coben). . In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small M...

Random House

Your Brain on Art: How the ...

$30.00

A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts—and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities.“This book blew my mind!”—Angela Duckwort...

Harry N. Abrams

Flung Out Of Space Graphic ...

$18.99

Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes, reimagining the events tha...

Ashanti Fortson

The White City: Architectur...

$10.00

The White City is an essay by Ashanti Fortson that investigates aspects of racism found in the beloved trilogy, The Lord of The Rings. First, Ashanti addresses the obvious assignments of “good” on the white protagonists—whose appearance and culture are inspired by European cultures— and “evil” o...

Dell

Charm City Rocks: A Love Story

$17.00

When a single dad meets the former rock-star crush of his youth, everything they thought they knew about happiness and love is thrown into chaos in this hopeful, heartwarming romantic comedy.“Bound to charm readers from page one . . . You’ll root for everyone in this sweet love story.”—Elissa Sus...

Picador

Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Roman...

$18.00

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of Mr. Know-It-All.Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her de...