Ryan's Staff Picks

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1) By Becky Chambers Cover Image
$19.31
ISBN: 9781250236210
Availability: Available to Ship from Store - Usually ships in 5 - 7 days.
Published: Tordotcom - July 13th, 2021

Winner of the Hugo Award!

In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future.


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The Three Billy Goats Gruff By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illustrator)
$17.47
ISBN: 9781338673845
Availability: Available to Ship from Store - Usually ships in 5 - 7 days.
Published: Orchard Books - October 18th, 2022

Instant New York Times bestseller!

The MOMENTOUS debut of a groundbreaking Fairy Tale series -- a brilliantly crafted, hilarious twist on this beloved classic, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, from renowned, award-winning, and New York Times bestselling duo and picture book pioneers Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen!

Once there was a bridge


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My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women By 18 Afghan Women Cover Image
$23.00
ISBN: 9781538726822
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - October 18th, 2022

A landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women that are "powerful, profound, and deeply moving" (Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees, a Reese's Book Club pick)

"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream."


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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism By James W. Loewen Cover Image
$18.39
ISBN: 9781620974346
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Published: New Press - July 17th, 2018

Powerful and important . . . an instant classic.
--The Washington Post Book World


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Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor By Xiran Jay Zhao Cover Image
$16.55
ISBN: 9781665900706
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books - May 10th, 2022

Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm.

Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage.


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Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle) By Tracy Deonn Cover Image
$12.87
ISBN: 9781534441613
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books - February 1st, 2022

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!
Winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe for New Talent Author Award

Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy reinvents the King Arthur legend and “braids together Southern folk traditions and Black Girl Magic into a searing modern tale of grief, powe


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Bloodmarked (The Legendborn Cycle #2) By Tracy Deonn Cover Image
$18.39
ISBN: 9781534441637
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Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - November 8th, 2022

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
“Deonn writes…stories that humanize Black protagonists, like Bree, giving them agency and a place to both fail and, ultimately, to ascend.” —Booklist (starred review)

The “worthy successor to an explosive debut” (Kirkus Reviews)—the New York Times bestselling


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Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change By Eitan Hersh Cover Image
$15.64
ISBN: 9781982116798
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Published: Scribner - June 30th, 2020

A groundbreaking analysis of political hobbyism—treating politics like a spectator sport—and an urgent and timely call to arms for the many well-meaning, well-informed citizens who follow political news, but do not take political action.

Do you consider yourself politically engaged? Probably, yes! But are you, really?


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The Secret Garden on 81st Street: A Modern Graphic Retelling of The Secret Garden (Classic Graphic Remix) By Ivy Noelle Weir, Amber Padilla (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Ivy Noelle Weir, Amber Padilla (Illustrator)
$11.95
ISBN: 9780316459709
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Published: Little, Brown Ink - October 19th, 2021

The Secret Garden with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, this full-color graphic novel moves Mary Lennox to a New York City brownstone, where she and her very first group of friends restore an abandoned rooftop garden...and her uncle's heart.

Mary Lennox is a loner living in Silicon Valley.