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Rozzie Bound Pop-up!Saturdays, 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM Roslindale Substation, 4228 Washington Street |
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In addition to all the great books we sell every Saturday in our popup, we are introducing other Massachusetts small businesses products to consider while browsing with us at the Substation. |
| Smudge InkSmudge Ink, a local, woman-owned business that sells letterpress greeting cards. |
| | Sharif MuhammadLocal artist Sharif Muhammad designed the Black Cards, playing cards with illustrations of African-American kings and queens. |
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Upcoming Author Signings |
| Neema AvashiaBack by popular demand! Neema Avashia is back and will sign copies of her book, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place on Saturday, June 11, 12-2 PM. The book will be available for purchase at the popup, or you can purchase your copy here. | |
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| Kim Foley MacKinnonKim Foley MacKinnon will sign copies of her new book, 100 Things to Do on Cape Cod and the Islands Before You Die on Saturday, June 18, 12-2 PM. The book will be available at the popup or you can buy it here. | |
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| Michael LowenthalMichael Lowenthal will sign copies of his book, Sex with Strangers on June 25, 12-2 PM. The book will be available for purchase at the popup, or you can purchase your copy here. | |
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Banned Book ClubTuesday, June 14, 6:30-8 PM Roslindale Substation, 4228 Washington Street |
| We will read Malinda Lo’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club as the first selection in our inaugural Banned Book Club meeting. This young adult novel, about a lesbian romance set in 1954 between a Chinese American teen and a white classmate, has been flagged for removal from libraries and schools around the country. You can sign up for the June 14 meeting here. You can purchase the book below. | |
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Father’s Day PicksFather’s Day is on June 19, and these are some of our book recommendations for celebrating the dads in your life! |
| Hair Love by Matthew Cherry It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this ode to self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters. Zuri's hair has a mind of its own. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Zuri knows it's beautiful. When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. But he LOVES his Zuri, and he'll do anything to make her -- and her hair -- happy. Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair -- and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere. | |
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| The Movement Made Us by David Dennis Jr. A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr, a journalist working on the front lines of change today. | |
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| Love Makes a Family by Sophia Beer Love is baking a special cake. Love is lending a helping hand. Love is reading one more book. In this exuberant board book, many different families are shown in happy activity, from an early-morning wake-up to a kiss before bed. Whether a child has two moms, two dads, one parent, or one of each, this simple preschool read-aloud demonstrates that what's most important in each family's life is the love the family members share. | |
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| Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men's Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of the season; Chabon Sr., whose interest in clothing stops at "thrift-shopping for vintage western shirts or Hermès neckties," sat idly by, staving off yawns and fighting the impulse that the whole thing was a massive waste of time. Despite his own indifference, however, what gradually emerged as Chabon ferried his son to and from fashion shows was a deep respect for his son's passion. The piece quickly became a viral sensation. With the GQ story as its centerpiece, and featuring six additional essays plus an introduction, Pops illuminates the meaning, magic, and mysteries of fatherhood as only Michael Chabon can. | |
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| My Papi Has A Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change. | |
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Tell us your thoughts!We have developed a brief, anonymous customer survey to assess the book-buying habits of our customer base. Eventually we will open a brick-and-mortar store. We will use responses to create a bookstore that caters best to all of our current and potential customers. |
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Worker-Owner RecommendationsBelow are some book recommendations from our worker-owners. Click on their shelves to see more recommendations and learn about our staff. |
| From Roy Karp’s Shelf If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. The classic hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
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| From Judy McClure’s Shelf Using her keen observation skills, 11-year-old Harriet M. Welsch writes down in her notebook what she considers the truth about everyone in and around her New York City neighborhood. When she loses track of her notebook, it ends up in the wrong hands, and before she can stop them, her friends read the sometimes awful things she's observed and written about each of them. How can Harriet find a way to keep her integrity and also put her life and her friendships back together? | |
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| From Ana Crowley-Noordzij’s Shelf To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light— these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. | |
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| From Talia Whyte’s Shelf Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. As a boy growing up outside DC, Will, who went by his Nigerian name, Yemi, was shunted from school to school, never quite fitting in. He was a Black kid with a divorced white mother, a frayed relationship with his biological father, and teachers who scolded him for being disruptive in class and on the playground. Eventually, he became close to Kalfani, a kid he looked up to on the basketball court. Years after he got the call telling him that Kalfani was dead, another sickening casualty of gun violence, Will looks back on the relationships with an extraordinary series of mentors that enabled him to thrive. Drawing on Will's inspiring personal story and involvement in My Brother's Keeper, President Obama's national initiative to address persistent opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color, My Seven Black Fathers offers a transformative way for Black men to shape the next generation. | |
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| From Kim Patch’s Shelf Sounds Like Titanic tells the unforgettable story of how Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman became a fake violinist. Struggling to pay her college tuition, Hindman accepts a dream position in an award-winning ensemble that brings ready money. But the ensemble is a sham. When the group performs, the microphones are off while the music--which sounds suspiciously like the soundtrack to the movie Titanic--blares from a hidden CD player. Hindman, who toured with the ensemble and its peculiar Composer for four years, writes with unflinching candor and humor about her surreal and quietly devastating odyssey. Sounds Like Titanic is at once a singular coming-of-age memoir about the lengths to which one woman goes to make ends meet and an incisive articulation of modern anxieties about gender, class, and ambition. | |
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Looking for more book ideas? |
| You may also want to check out some of our themed shelves such as: We also have tons of 500 and 1000 piece Jigsaw puzzles, which are a fun relaxing pastime and also make for great gifts for the puzzlers in your life. You can also find tons more by clicking the “Games & Puzzles” link at the top of our Bookshop site. |
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To purchase a Rozzie Bound Gift Card, which can be sent to any valid email address, please click here. Libros en español aquí. |
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