Hoilday Promo!

We’ve extended our Holiday Promo through Giving Tuesday (November 30).

Spend $60 at Rozzie Bound and we will send you a $10 digital gift card that can be used for a future purchase.

Shipping Deadlines for Christmas & Kwanzaa: Dec 6, 2021 for Standard USPS; Dec 10, 2021 for USPS Priority & UPS Ground.

A perfect gift for that music lover in your life is Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh. This is an entire history of popular music over the past fifty years seen through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop. Sanneh shows how these genres have been defined by the tension between mainstream and outsider, between authenticity and phoniness, between good and bad, right and wrong.

Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there have always been Black audiences and white audiences, with more or less overlap depending on the moment, there has been Black music and white music, constantly mixing and separating.

For young adults, we recommend Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, which is a groundbreaking thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community. This book will soon be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team.

For middle-grade readers, we recommend the science fiction/fantasy book The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera. There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her Abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?

For kids’ picture books, we recommend Soulful Holidays by Ciara Hill. It gives readers a sense of the soulful nature of both Christmas and Kwanzaa in a way that honors the Black and African American experience. Cozy up together with this charmingly illustrated family book told in easy-to-read memorable rhymes. Through this heartwarming tale, children and families all over the world can experience the magic of Christmas and the true essence of Kwanzaa. Read about the food, songs, cultural decorations, and more! The catchy couplets in this dazzling picture book will delight readers with the inclusive traditions of families who honor one or both of these incredible holidays.

Another great kids book, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson, is about a young student who receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. Her grandma gathers the whole family, and the student learns that 400 years ago, in 1619, their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by white slave traders. But before that, they had a home, a land, a language. She learns how the people said to be born on the water survived. With powerful verse and striking illustrations by Nikkolas Smith, Born on the Water provides a pathway for readers of all ages to reflect on the origins of American identity.

Still looking for gift ideas? You may also want to check out some of our themed shelves such as:

• The Poetry Pharmacy

• The Music Department

• Art Museum Gift Shop

• Form Follows Function: Architecture + Design

• Green Building

• Green Living

We also just added a new bookshelf featuring 500 and 1000 piece Jigsaw puzzles, which are a fun relaxing pastime for the winter season and also make for great gifts for the puzzlers in your life.

THRIVEGulu’s Executive Director, Mick Hirsch, has curated a wonderful shelf featuring books about Uganda and South Sudan, with a primary focus on Ugandan and Sudanese writers exploring themes of migration, displacement, conflict, and trauma.

As with all our Community Partners, we have committed to donating 50% of store proceeds from this shelf to THRIVEGulu. You can learn more about THRIVEGulu at https://thrivegulu.org/.

To learn more about our Fundraising Program, please visit rozziebound.com/fundraising-program/.

Congrats to local National Book Award winners!

Three Massachusetts-based writers were recently recognized with National Book Awards:

• Malindo Lo for Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Young Adult Fiction)

• Tiya Miles for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (non-fiction), and

• Martin Espanda for Floaters (poetry).

You can find these selections as well as earlier works by these award winning writers on our Local Authors We Love shelf.