From Third Place Books on Instagram: Everything seems trite so I’ll just say: here are a few titles we are not sold out of. Anything we are sold out of but can get for you, we will order. The least that we can do to help the situation is to educate ourselves.
While still a teenager, abolitionist Harriet Tubman received a head injury that left her with pain, dizziness, and visions. Coates reimagines her visions as something more. This tale of Hiram Walker, and enslaved half-white, half-black child of a slave and a plantation owner in the Antebellum South, weaves subtle magical realism into life as he …
Spellhacker is a fun, spunky romp through an exciting, technologically savvy world. Diz and her fellow band of insurgents are the best heist-mongers for Maz, or magic, in their sad, industry-controlled city. With their last official heist complete, Diz faces her nightmare of losing everything she cares about. In efforts to retain her loved ones, …
Otaku by Chris Kluwe will have to be compared to Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One because they have a lot in common. Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a dystopian world that’s gone to hell and it would really suck if there wasn’t some kind of global virtual reality game for people to get …
This is one of the most approachable cookbooks I have ever used. There are no long, drawn-out anecdotes about the author’s romance with that really expensive, hard-to-find ingredient, and no over-glamorized photographs of impossibly perfect baked goods on rustic pieces of slate. The book introduces itself by explaining the anti-inflammatory eating regime and covers a …
Arguably one of the most outstanding Americans of the 20th century, yet seemingly almost forgotten today, George Washington Carver gets an enlightening biographical treatment in this beautifully illustrated picture book. The book focuses on George’s childhood, as he tends a hidden garden and teaches himself botany through observation and experimentation, but his social and scientific …
BY ALEX BEHR May 18th, 2020 on The Rumpus.net That Little Bit of Magic: A Conversation with Ramiza Shamoun Koya The Royal Abduls, Ramiza Shamoun Koya’s debut novel (Forest Avenue Press, December 2019), drops us into a Muslim American family twisted by generational expectations and self-doubt. It’s told in shifting views by Amina Abdul, an …
As it says on the cover, there are cowboys in Compton, which has been known to resemble the Wild West on occasion. The Compton Junior Posse was founded in 1988, and it has been instrumental in preserving the historical legacy of the black man in the opening of the West during the later part of …
Next chapter: COVID-19 and Oregon’s indie bookstores How sellers adapted, and what changes they may carry forward as the state reopens by: Hannah Ray Lambert Posted: May 19, 2020 on koin.com CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. (KOIN) — In mid-March, independent bookstores across the country closed their doors indefinitely in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Now two months later, …
We know puzzles can be hard to come by these days, and many of our suppliers are out of stock, but we recently received another batch, and this time we’ve made it a little easier to buy them from us. We’ve created a page on our site with our current puzzle inventory—you can purchase them there, …
