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$30-$2000 Superpack: Slightly Damaged Books! (Distributed Books)
by Super Pack! Author and Various Author
Each year we receive 6,000 damaged books from other publishers—and we're passing the savings on to…
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$35 Superpack: Write Your Book!
by Dr. Faith G. Harper Author, Ariel Gore Author, Jessie L. Kwak Author and Joe Biel Author
Writing a book? We know, this is a hard thing to do. Here are three of our best books about how to write your own.…
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Sticker #529Read a Fucking Book
The sticker says it all. Read a fucking book! That's, like, our whole deal here at Microcosm. Slap this sticker on…
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How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
by Danny Caine Author
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local…
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Rejected Books: The Most Unpublishable Books of All Time
by Graham Johnson Author and Rob Hibbert Author
From the creators of Images You Should Not Masturbate To, this collection of forty hilarious books that were never…
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I Support My Local Independent Bookstore
Announce it loud and proud! Supporting local and independent booksellers gets more important every year, as big internet…
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Revolution Between the Lines
Reading is revolutionary! Celebrate the power of good writing with this typewriter-themed magnet. Stick it on your…
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Sticker #520Books Save Lives
Books save lives! Celebrate the power of a good book with this sticker. Slap it up on any flat surface you feel…
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Sticker #488Readers Are Words People
Proclaim your love of books and reading, as well as your personality type and possibly who you want to date with this…
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Sticker #487I Read Past My Bedtime
Do you prefer a good story, sometimes to the detriment of a good night's sleep? Are books your preferred mode of…
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Cats & Books
by Universe Author
For cat and book lovers alike, and doubly so if both are your passion. This cute little volume features pictures of cats…
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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts, and Other Literary Curiosities from History
by Edward Brooke-Hitching Author
This one of a kind collection belongs on the shelf of every book nerd, and contains some of the most obscure and unusual…
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Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
by John B. Thompson Author
The last forty years have brought some truly revolutionary changes to the publishing industry, fueled by the rise…
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Catalog (Fall/Winter 2022)
by Various Author
Want to get off the internet? For many years we've been trying to create a catalog that simultaneously meets the…
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
by Thomas C. Foster Author
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor provides general advice for reading nonfiction as a whole and genre…
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Loaners: The Making of a Street Library
by Ben Hodgson Author and Laura Moulton Author
Once upon a time, Laura Moulton had an idea—what if she fixed up a cargo tricycle as a rolling library to…
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Catalog (Spring 2022)
This catalog is designed for the book industry, and anyone else who wants to see what we are publishing (and have…
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Sticker #486I Read Queer Smut
Find liberation in the pursuit of your desires and letting your imagination run wild and free! Queer erotica is a…
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The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores
by Josh Cook Author
Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked hard in the last few years to…
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Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile
by Sharlee Glenn Author
This is the story of the first bookmobile and how one revolutionary librarian decided if you can't bring people to…
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Sticker #257Support Your Local Infoshop
by Steven Stothard Author
Infoshops! They're overflowing with radical ideas, books, resources, flyers, zines, community, you name it! The…
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Sticker #159Chainring Heart
by Joe Biel Author, Aaron Renier Author and alex wrekk Author
Microcosm's iconic chainring heart, now in sticker form! Show your bike love to the world!(Sturdy vinyl sticker with…
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Making Comics
by Lynda Barry Author
Take the leap and try communicating only through your imagery, your art, your work. Learn to actively not think and just…
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Patch #236Library Gearz
by Joe Biel Author
Ever notice how social change happens? 1) People get educated... say, at the library or through the little phones…
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Cometbus #56: A Bestiary of Booksellers
by Aaron Cometbus Author
The 56th issue of Cometbus is a loving ethnography of New York City's wild, weird, and bearded used book trade.…
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Honing Your Craft: Developing Your Writing Skills on a Budget
by Lydia Rogue Author
Do you dream of being a writer, but despair of finding the resources to make it happen? Writing for your passion, or…
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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
by Ronald Rice Author
In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite…
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Against Amazon: and Other Essays
by Jorge Carrión Author
Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise…
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In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes
by Giorgio Van Straten Author
A real-life detective novel, this is the story of a quest for eight mysterious books that nearly vanished from…
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
by Rebecca Romney Author and J.P. Romney Author
The road paved by our civilization’s best books is a long and noble one, but it is also lined with unexpected…
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