Talking Leaves Books

Join us October 2nd (a week from today!) at Canisius University for an evening with the authors of CREATING READING RAINBOW! Doors open at 4:00pm, with program to begin at 4:30pm. The event will consist of a talk and Q&A to be followed by book signing. As usual, one of our staff members will be present to sell books! This event is free and open to the public, and we can’t wait to see you there!

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If you scan the QR code on this year's Banned Books Display at Talking Leaves, Pengiun Random House will donate a banned book to organizations in need! This is a super easy way to take action and fight censorship! Spetember 22-28 is -- stay tuned to learn what else you can do to help fight censorship!

September 22-28 is 2024. Throughout the week, we will be posting information about book bans and what you can do to fight them. Today's topic: the past year's top 10 most banned books. How many have you read?

We can’t wait to see you tomorrow night at Canalside where Gene Bunnell will be speaking about his new book Buffalo’s Waterfront Renaissance!

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The September meeting of Talking Q***r Books is only one week away! We will be discussing Nevada by Imogen Binnie. Originally released in 2013, this novel is credited as having started the literary transgender fiction movement and inspiring authors such as Torrey Peters. RSVP and buy your copy using the link in our bio!

Join us at Hallwalls this Tuesday for an evening with Mark Jacobs! This event is free to attend and books will be available for purchase courtesy of Talking Leaves.

Did you know Percival Everett is speaking at the Buffalo Humanities Festival in ONE WEEK? Registration is free online and books will be available for purchase courtesy of Talking Leaves — we can’t wait to see you there!!!

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Stop by this weekend to browse our “hurt books” sale carts, plus lots of shiny new books inside the store! Open Saturday 10-6, Sunday 10-5

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Today! 5PM! Get back to school with the coolest, creepiest new Middle-Grade book in town! Buffalo, we now claim Z Brewer as our own, so let's show them the love!

Bring your kids, bring your friends! There's only ONE WEEK until launches THE CHRONICLES OF VIKTOR VALENTINE at our store! You may know Z best for their best selling Vladimir Todd series. Viktor Valentine will introduce a whole new generation of readers to this fun and spooky world, and returning readers will be thrilled to see some old friends once more.

This book is appropriate for ages 8 and up.

We can't wait to see you there!

In just one week from today, Western New York Land Conservancy will be hosting conservation journalist Ben Goldfarb, and we can't wait to see you there! Goldfarb's first book, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, was a breakout sensation in 2019. His second book, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, is a critically-acclaimed study of how roads have fragmented and transformed habitats around the globe. Crossings' message reinforces the habitat restoration and permanent land protection work of the Land Conservancy here in WNY.

This event is free to attend, but registration is encouraged.

Talking Leaves... Books is the official bookseller of the event

Join us in TWO WEEKS for an evening with the legendary -- and NEWLY local author-- for the launch of their new book, THE CHRONICLES OF VIKTOR VALENTINE! You may know Z best for their best selling Vladimir Todd series. Viktor Valentine will introduce a whole new generation of readers to this fun and spooky world, and returning readers will be thrilled to see some old friends once more. We can't wait to see you there!

The next Talking Q***r Books is a week from today! There’s still time to RSVP - link under “book club” in our bio! Can’t wait to see you there!

Please note: this is a repost as our initial post had the date wrong in one image.

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Join us for our August book club meeting where we will be discussing The Darkness Outside Us the YA Sci-Fi Elliot Page is adapting into a film! RSVP's are still open, link in bio!

Join us in welcoming Daniel Campo to Duende at Silo City for a reading from his new book, Postindustrial DIY! This book chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. Silo City is the subject of one of the five chapter-length explorations in the book and Buffalo's Central Terminal is also featured!

This event is free to attend. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Talking Leaves.

For more information, or to buy the book, follow the event link in our bio!

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Did you know Talking Leaves has a Disability Studies section and a Large Print section? Many of the books that belong in Disability Studies are currently on our display! And if audiobooks are more your speed, check out the link to Libro.fm in our bio!

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Happy !! What does that mean? We're glad you asked!

For ease of access, here are all the books mentioned in this post:
1. Fighting for Yes!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
2. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judy Heumann
3. Disability Pride: Dispatches from a post-ADA world by Ben Mattlin
4. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs edited by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
5. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
6. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
7. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong
8. Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia by Christie Furnas
9. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
10. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
11. A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice by Katie Tastrom
12. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
13. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short) by Asley Shew
14. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau
15. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics Anthology edited by Rebecca Ollerton
16. Brittle Joints by Maria Sweeney
17. S*x With A Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery by Annie Liontas
18. What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller
19. Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole by Julia Watts Belser
20. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong
21. Disability Visibility: for young readers edited by Alice Wong
22. Every Body: A First Conversation about Bodies (First Conversations) by Megan Madison and Jessica Ralli
23. You’re So Amazing!: Being Singled Out Doesn’t Always Feel Amazing by James and Lucy Catchpole
24. Sam’s Super Seats by Keah Brown

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Who's ready for the Olympics? 🙋

For ease of access, the books shown here are:
1. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Q***rness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters
2. Women in Sports: Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky
3. Rebel Girls Champions: 25 Tales of Unstoppable Athletes from Rebel Girls
4. The Race to be Myself by Caster Semenya
5. Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss
6. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky
7. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

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We hope you will join us for our next Talking Q***r Books club meeting! July 30th from 7-9 we will be discussing The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde. If you plan to attend, please RSVP as space is limited!

Help us keep this club going by purchasing your book from Talking Leaves! We offer a book club discount online and in store for physical copies of the book, but if audiobooks or ebooks are more accessible to you, you can also support Talking Leaves through Libro.fm or kobo

[Image ID 1: TALKING Q***R BOOKS, Tues July 30th from 7-9pm. The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde. Disability Pride Month pick! ""Gorgeously written, radically told, eminently quotable. Lorde explores the intersections of her own identities -- Black, q***r, feminist, poet, breast cancer patient -- and fights for a future where her communities' struggles are made visible and their voices heard."- Ron, q***r disabled bookseller and co-host of Talking Q***r Books. RSVP strongly encouraged - www.tleavesbooks.com]

[image ID 2: TALKING Q***R BOOKS, a new monthly book club led by q***r booksellers! Tues July 30th from 7-9pm. The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde. Please support our club by purchasing your book from Talking Leaves! Non-Members: 10% off. TLB Members: 15% off. In store and on our website, just mention book club at checkout! RSVP strongly encouraged - www.tleavesbooks.com]

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Join us Saturday, July 13th at North Presbyterian Church for a conversation with Harvard University Professor Robin Bernstein about her new book Freeman's Challenge and the history of Prisons for Profit in Auburn, New York. The event is free to attend and books will be available for purchase.

We've just added lots of childrens' books and activities to our sale section! Stop by and browse our selection and keep your kids reading all summer long! Sale books start at 30% off, and members save an additional 10%

Buy your school summer reading books from Talking Leaves! When you let us know at checkout when you're purchasing assigned summer reading, and we'll apply a discount! Non-members save 10%, and members save 15%!

We will be closed tomorrow for the 4th of July. Regular hours resume Friday!

If you saw our post about a Creating Reading Rainbow book launch event yesterday, please be aware this event is already at capacity and attendance is not open to the general public. Our staff was not clear on this at the time the post was made, and the post has now been taken down. So sorry for any disappointment or confusion. We hope to host an open signing in the near future!

Happy Disability Pride Month!

[image ID: two photos of a large display of books with a sign reading “Happy Disability Pride Month! Celebrating the Americans with Disabilities Act established July 26, 1990” the display includes four long rows of books, fiction and nonfiction, for all ages]

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