Everyone's Books

Newbery Medal winning (and local!) author Karen Hesse has delivered four more hand knit dolls! They are for sale by donation ~ $20 or more, each, check or cash.

(Paddington's hat and sweater are removable!)

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Everyone's Books

Hi folks! Some of you may have noticed that our website isn't currently accessible - this is because it's *supposed* to be redirecting to our new url! Hopefully we can troubleshoot the error today, but in the meantime if you are hoping to browse or order (or just check out the new website) you can go straight to everyonesbooks.com!

We're opening late this Monday so we can switch to a new point-of-sale program! We're very excited about this change and the improvements it will bring, but please be patient with us over the next few weeks while our staff continues to adjust to the new software.

In the meantime you can look forward to faster and smoother checkouts, a new and improved website with exciting new features, gift cards that will work online *and* in-store (about time!), and booksellers that have more time to help you find books you'll love. Some of these changes will be immediate and some will be coming in the next week or two, but we hope you'll enjoy these improvements enough that they outweigh any inconveniences you might experience during the switch.

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They're not out yet, but I'm telling you, our new holiday cards are *chef's kiss* 😌

My life in a bookshelf (ves)

Here’s to the comfort and magic of being surrounded by books. ❤️ 📚

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Did you know we have a a new Library of America 3 volume set of James Baldwin in stock? 👀

THE JAMES BALDWIN COLLECTION includes:

Collected Essays (LOA #98)
Notes of a Native Son
Nobody Knows My Name
The Fire Next Time
No Name in the Street
The Devil Finds Work
other essays

Early Novels & Stories (LOA #97)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Giovanni's Room
Another Country
Going to Meet the Man (including "Sonny's Blues")

Later Novels (LOA #272)
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
If Beale Street Could Talk
Just Above My Head

Edited by Toni Morrison ( #97 & 98) and Darrly Pinckney ( #272), each volume contains a textual essay, a chronology of Baldwin's life and career, and detailed notes.

We of course carry his books in paperback as well!

Graphic credit: A Room of One's Own

Looking for a good book for the beach, pic-a-nic, mountain retreat, and deck? Check out these titles! Lost City of the Monkey God is non-fiction, and the rest are all mixed fiction, mystery, fantasy, and horror. ☺

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We don’t highlight YA books as often as we should, so we are giving a big shoutout to this lovely debut from Chatham Greenfield that is out today! It’s a beautiful story starring two disabled Jewish le****ns, perfect to pick up before Disability Pride Month ends. We’re so excited to see a story featuring so many underrepresented identities and you can find this book in our YA LGBTQ+ section!

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PSA: folks, we can't always see comments on our posts for reasons unfathomable to us. (I mean, we have our suspicions, but we can't post them *here*, a-ha ha)

If you've made a comment and after a couple of days don't see it, feel free to send us a dm!

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell is now available in trade paperback.

A must-read given Vermont's new seasonal tornado watches and warnings (and as of yesterday, touchdown) and floodings, the wildfires in Canada, the lack of snow...

'“When heat comes, it’s invisible. It doesn’t bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it’s arrived…. The sun feels like the barrel of a gun pointed at you.”

The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is not complicated: Stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, and the global temperature will stop rising tomorrow. Stop burning fossil fuels in 50 years, and the temperature will keep rising for 50 years, making parts of our planet virtually uninhabitable. It’s up to us. The hotter it gets, the deeper and wider our fault lines will open.

The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event— one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that is changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic.

As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell’s new book may be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it. Masterfully reported, mixing the latest scientific insight with on-the-ground storytelling, Jeff Goodell tackles the big questions and uncovers how extreme heat is a force beyond anything we have reckoned with before. '

No biting, no stinging, just hovering around, trying to get into your house for no good reason...

Would you like to know more? Check out our insect guides!

I'm a crane fly, commonly known as a giant mosquito. Due to the ignorance of many people, they took my life without me posing any danger. I don't suck blood, I'm not a vampire. Feeding on the nectar of flowers and helping with pollination, just doing my natural duty. Now that you know me, please don't kill me.

I won't name any titles, but this

The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand - Reactor It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”

Negative Space by Ron Koertge.

I don't know about anyone else, but I need some poetry today.

We have insect identification guides!!

A guide to yellow stripey things! 🐝