Elly's Picks
Fuck Happiness: How Women Are Ditching the Cult of Positivity and Choosing Radical Joy
by Ariel Gore Author
Happiness is big business. Books, consultants, psychologists, organizations, and even governments tout happiness…
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View Details Quick ShopBicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
by Adonia E. Lugo, PhD Author
Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two…
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View Details Quick ShopA Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit Author
Most of us probably think of disasters as times when social order breaks down, when neighbors turn on each other, when…
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View Details Quick ShopCats I've Known: On Love, Loss, and Being Graciously Ignored
by Katie Haegele Author
From deep friendships to brief encounters, this is the story of the cats in Katie Haegele's life, or rather the story of…
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View Details Quick ShopAmericanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Author
This novel is everything. At its most simplistic, it's a love story set in Nigeria, the US, and the UK. It's so much…
$18.00
View Details Quick ShopSherwood Nation: A Novel
by Benjamin Parzybok Author
In a drought-stricken Portland, Oregon, a Robin Hood-esque water thief is caught on camera redistributing an illegal…
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Add to CartFollow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
by Doris Pilkington Author
This extraordinary story of courage and faith is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the…
$17.95
Add to CartThe Sunshine Crust Baking Factory
by Stacy Wakefield Author
This is a novel that reads as a page-turning, barely-fictionalized memoir about squatting in New York City in the 90s. A…
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Add to CartHow to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
by Jenny Odell Author
Our world has become dependent on our constant attention and data production, whether it is in our professions,…
$18.99
View Details Quick ShopDecoded by Jay-Z
by Jay-Z Author
Decoded is billed as rapper Jay-Z's annotated lyrics. In reality, it's a whip-smart, beautifully written memoir that…
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View Details Quick ShopThe Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
by Wendell Berry Author
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of…
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View Details Quick ShopIn the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
by Gabor Mate Author
Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely…
$17.95
Add to CartJust Kids
by Patti Smith Author
As a rocker, poet, photographer, and now memoirist, Patti Smith follows her heart and her amazing mind to places that…
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Add to CartH Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald Author
This book is so many things: a grief memoir, a story of a lifelong obsession (and skill) with birds of prey, and the…
$18.00
Add to CartDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brené Brown Author
Daring Greatly is not about winning or losing. It’s about courage. In a world where “never enough” dominates and…
$19.00
Add to CartWired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
by Lisa Cron Author
Imagine knowing what the brain craves and what keeps readers transfixed. The vast majority of writing advice focuses on…
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Add to CartThe Dispossessed: A Novel
by Ursula K. Le Guin Author
A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother…
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Scam: The First Four Issues
by Erica Dawn Lyle Author
The classic zine Scam was equal parts an introductory guide on how to get things for free and punk memoir. Youths…
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View Details Quick ShopThe Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs Author
The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a direct and wonderfully optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness…
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Add to CartLiving My Life
by Emma Goldman Author and Miriam Brody Foreword
Born in Russia in 1869 and immigrating to America at 16, Emma Goldman played a significant role in the anarchist and…
$20.00
Add to Cart1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann Author
From the bestselling author of 1491, this is a deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the…
$22.00
View Details Quick ShopUnfuck Your Anger: Using Science to Understand Frustration, Rage, and Forgiveness
by Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
If you've ever been so pissed off that you did things that you regretted, or ruined your own day and some other people's…
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View Details Quick ShopKing Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild Author
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold Ii of Belgium seized for himself the vast and…
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View Details Quick ShopWomen in Clothes
by Sheila Heti Author, Heidi Julavits Author and Leanne Shapton Author
If you tried to explain this book to someone, you'd probably find yourself go on for a while about conversations between…
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View Details Quick ShopQueer: A Graphic History
by Dr. Meg-John Barker Author and Julia Scheele Author
Queer is a non-fiction graphic novel that take us on an extraordinary journey through the history that has shaped 'queer…
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The Global Economy as You've Never Seen It: 99 Ingenious Infographics That Put It All Together
by with Adrian Garcia-Landa, Thomas Ramge Author and Jan Schwochow Author
A huge book to help you visualize and understand a huge topic. These gorgeous, detailed infographics get right tothe…
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View Details Quick ShopConvenience Store Woman: A Novel
by Sayaka Murata Author
This short, sweet novel manages to be both funny and profoundly respectful of its oddball characters. Keiko, a woman…
$16.00
Add to CartThe Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
by Kij Johnson Author
This novella is a brilliant feminist retelling of H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. The title…
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Add to CartAll the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders Author
A perfectly-plotted book that follows two unlikely friends from besieged childhood to dystopian adulthood, along with…
$15.99
Add to CartThe Subtweet: A Novel
by Vivek Shraya Author
This is the best novel I've read in years. Vivek Shraya weaves a page-turning web of friendship, food, music, and…
$16.95
Add to CartModern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self through the Wisdom of the Cards
by Michelle Tea Author
Michelle Tea brings her panache, wit, sobriety, and queerness to the tarot, stripping away the latent christianity in…
$22.99
View Details Quick ShopWTF is Tarot?: ...& How Do I Do It?
by Bakara Wintner Author and Autumn Whitehurst Illustrator
WTF Is Tarot...& How Do I Do It? is what I'd imagine a book about tarot and magic to look like if it was written by Dr.…
$19.99
View Details Quick ShopTough Guide to Fantasyland : The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel
by Diana Wynne Jones Author
Once you've read enough standard mainstream fantasy novels, you start to see some pretty funny patterns—like, why…
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View Details Quick ShopThe Courage Party: Helping Our Resilient Children Understand and Survive Sexual Assault
by Joyce Brabner Author and Gerta Oparaku Egy Illustrator
The Courage Party is a "gently explicit" book about sexual abuse, written for kids to read alone or (better) with a…
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View Details Quick ShopRoller Girl
by Victoria Jamieson Author
A delightful coming of age graphic novel about roller skating, girl power, and lost friendships. The summer before…
$20.99
Add to CartCometbus #59: Post-Mortem
by Aaron Cometbus Author
What are the successes and failures of punk and its institutions? What happened to a once-thriving punk underground…
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View Details Quick ShopThe Closing of a Corner Store
by Amelia Bjesse-Puffin Author
A touching tribute to an oft-overlooked neighborhood institution. Amelia chronicles the sudden closure of the…
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Add to CartThe Healing Energies of Trees
by Patrice Bouchardon Author
Trees play a crucial role in the existence of humanity, offering oxygen, soil stabilization, and habitats for numerous…
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Londonderry: A cyclo-feminist zine: Vol 2
by Les Derailleuses Author
The second edition of Londonderry, published by Montreal-based cyclo-feminist collective Les Derailleuses, is all about…
$15.00
Add to CartBicycle Culture Rising #4: How Kittie Knox Made Bicycling for Everyone
by Joe Biel Author
In the 1890s, bicycling was a cultural activity for the wealthy elite, with a bicycle costing about twenty weeks of a…
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View Details Quick Shop$20 Superpack of Enjoyable Distractions
by Elly Blue Author, Kate Lopresti Author, Erica Dawn Lyle Author, Joshua Ploeg Author, Meadow Shadowhawk Author, 3 more
Sometimes you want to know everything that's going on around you, your brain whirring like a machine, soaking it all in.…
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$25 Superpack: Dr. Faith's 5-Minute Therapy
by Dr. Faith G. Harper Author and Super Pack! Author
Dr. Faith Harper is a badass funny lady with a PhD, a professional counselor, a certified sex therapist, and an adult…
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Slow Jams Greeting Card
by Alyssa John Author
What do sloths do when they're done with their shift at the DMV? At last, this question's been answered. They get cozy…
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Furcoats and Backpacks greeting card (Beau—skull shirt)
by Mari Ichimasu Author
The purr side of the punk scene. Beau with his skull shirt—a traveling cat.
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Sticker #582First Pride Was a Riot
People these days often don't realize that the first Pride celebration was a riot, following a police raid at The…
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Add to CartSticker #383Feminist Chainring Fist
Put your feminism and bicycle love together in one solid statement! This sticker combines two amazing things -…
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View Details Quick ShopSticker #314If I Had Biked Today, This Parking Spot Would Be Yours
by Elly Blue Author
Got a car? Put it to work doing bicycle advocacy when it would otherwise just be sitting there! Let other drivers know…
$4.00
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