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Finally arrived! Newly published paperback editions of @marthawells.com (still thankfully fairly fictional) Murderbot Diaries!

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'Saqi Books is also launching #BooksellingIsNotACrime Day on Saturday, with booksellers invited to put on events, donate a percentage of their profits to the fundraiser or create displays of Palestinian literature.' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear.” —Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933

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#BookSellingIsNotACrime Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop was raided by police. Mahmoud & Ahmad were arrested, and hundreds of books confiscated. This Saturday, bookshops worldwide stand in solidarity. Support the emergency appeal www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems...

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My cartoon for today’s @guardian books.

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letting Ursula le guin know the divine right of kings is back and teaming up with capitalism and she's like well fuck good luck w that

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From recent donations: queer novels, art books, classics, books about depression and much more. Thank you!

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When reading sci-fi and fantasy, try not to get too religiously or anti-religiously indoctrinated. 😉 The “His Dark Materials” series part 1,2 and 3 by @philippullmanofficial and part 1 (or part 2 depending on your point of view) of the Narnia Chronicles by #cslewis #independentbookstoreberlin

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Before penis shaped rockets, the go-to splurge for billionaires was buying islands. But in his Menippean satirical novel "Settlers Landing," writer Travis Jeppesen has these billionaire boys clubbers building their own nation state. For more, check out this Q&A. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖💰🏝️

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She was an industrialist, a lesbian, a landlord, a traveler, a businesswoman, a womanizer, a butch, a snob, the original Tory girlboss, a century English diarist who coined such terms as "grubbling," for mutual masturbation. It's Anne Lister. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...

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First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

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@badgayspod.bsky.social Might you know anything about this book? Just found it on a shelf here, looks suspicious. Thought if anyone would know it’s y’all.

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Tiny kids books from the north (Canada and Sweden). Thumb for scale. #robertmunsch #elsabeskow #berlinbookstore #independentbookshop

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We know the U8 has basically stopped running for the next couple of months but we’re hoping some of you will take the opportunity for a sunny walk past ivallan’s books. We’re at Schönleinstr. 32 📚

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In our zine section you can find two books by bubamarre 🐞, a Kosovar-Albanian storyteller and performer based in Berlin, whose work touches on love, belonging, and the ever-evolving self.

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There are many kinds of good books. Some become favourites that we read over and over again during our lifetimes. Some might be taken down periodically to look up a fact, lend to a friend before being placed back on their shelves.

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Meet Astaroth the cat-syph, protector of the Bruscha-Jeki Archives & BFF to the talking books known as living narrators. He’s my favorite character to write about/undoubtedly the sneakiest. Also, the telescope is modeled after the one my father taught me with. 🔭🤍 #booksky #writingcommunity

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Horrified by news of our friend & fellow bookseller Mahmoud being arrested by Israeli forces alongside his nephew. A tireless campaigner for the power of literature, Mahmoud was in Edinburgh with us just months ago - please join call for their release! #Booksky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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We are alarmed at the arrest of our friend and bookselling colleague Mahmoud Muna in East Jerusalem. We join our colleagues in the book trade in calling for the immediate release of Mahmoud and his nephew Ahmad and for the charges against them to be dropped.

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School curriculum. youtube.com/shorts/clXSg...

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New to ivallan’s! Books by @nnedi.bsky.social Nikki Giovanni, Junot Diaz, George Orwell, Susan Sontag, @stephenking.bsky.social, Samuel R. Delany, Astrid Lindgren, Caleb Femi, Emmet Grogan, Steven Sharpin and Simon Shaffer. 🎉

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Me and my book club buds are finishing reading “Children of Blood and Bone” by @tomiadeyemi.bsky.social ✨ In February, we’re reading LEGENDBORN by @tracydeonn.bsky.social! We start reading on February 7, 2025. I’m excited for this read! ❤️‍🔥 fable.co/club/mychal-...

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A beautiful collection of books just arrived from independent publisher @twistedspoon.bsky.social ❤️ in Prague. All recommended (or in one case written) by our friend Travis Jeppesen.

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You know what would make this picture purrfect? If they had books! Enjoy your long weekend everyone!

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Two weeks ago, I announced a drawing for a copy of my book, and anyone who made an appointment to start hormones or get a trans surg could enter. Then I decided to send a copy to everyone who entered :)

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In the current edition of @artforum.com courtesy of Travis Jeppesen: "Needles manifests as a paean to Prague at its darkest hour, and as a defiant and harmonious assertion of life by two of its most distinctive voices." www.artforum.com/columns/czec...

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Queer and trans people have been here for far longer than billionaires

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A recent translation of the novelizations of the first two Godzilla films offers a fascinating look into the history of the films and the creation of the greatest kaiju of them all! reactormag.com/the-birth-of...

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Newly arrived by @badinfinity2.bsky.social

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okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES! I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books. (details below)

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This is huge - amazon to stop selling Bloomsbury's books at midnight tonight. Especially as my first two books are published by....bloomsbury... www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-...

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Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena is providing aid to those affected by the CA Fires. Please help them out. www.gofundme.com/f/octavias-b...

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