Here's the good news: books will always make the best gifts and demand for print books is soaring! The bad news? As reported recently in the New York Times, COVID-related supply chain issues forewarn that we may not be able to get every book on your list as quickly as we usually do. So, get cracking on your holiday gifting early by

We believe that books are tools for liberation, but we also know that they are just one of many tools that need to be deployed to achieve racial justice. Beginning in September and through the end of the year, we will highlight two to three books and donate the profits of those sales to a mission-aligned organization in Chicago. Discover this month's highlighted titles. This month, we will be donating 100% of the profits from sales of the following three titles to Black and Pink: Chicago. For more information, CLICK HERE.

Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her South Side Chicago neighborhood who witnesses weird occurrences like werehyenas stalking the streets at night and a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams. Her friends try to find an explanation—perhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom experiment gone awry.

At forty, Margaret quits her sales job to follow her husband's hotel career to Paris. She's setting sail on this adventure with a glass half full of bravery, a well-traveled passport, a journal in which she plans to write her novel, and the mentally engrained Davis Family Handbook of Rules to Live By.

If you've been combing the bookshops for a new collection of poetry that's likely to stimulate the intellect, fine-tune the senses, and simultaneously break the heart, Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound is the volume you're after. Here, the gifted poet Yvonne Zipter exhibits an astonishing vocabulary, offering insights that perhaps we never realized we'd missed. 

For this Zoom event, Riva Lehrer will be in conversation with Audrey Niffenegger!

Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Trump Era brings together a diverse community of women who reveal the impact Donald Trump’s behavior, words, and presidency has had on each one of them, how each is confronting the problem, and how she is fighting back.

Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep "ownership" of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color.

As a poet, novelist, and performer, Sandra Cisneros has been a lightning field for love. Whether it's the heat of an affair or the dull ache of a lover's absence, the warmth of a parent's embrace or the need for safety one feels with siblings, Cisneros' work conjures the necessities of love. Even for those to whom words are almost enough. 

Please join us for a virtual poetry reading with Sibling Rivalry Press authors Kay Ulanday Barrett (author of More Than Organs), Amir Rabiyah (author of Prayers for My 17th Chromosome), and Bradley Trumpfheller (author of Reconstructions).

New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history?

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Author Reading in collaboration with Chicago Humanities Festival

Virtual Book Launch

Virtual Author Panel in collaboration with Pilsen Community Books

Virtual Story Time in honor of Shirley Chisholm's birthday!

on Oct. 13.

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