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Carpe Librum

Carpe Librum is a bookstore benefiting the nonprofit, Turning the Page's parent engagement programs in Washington D.C. and Chicago. 

Back-to-School Reads
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Los Peores Niños del Mundo / The World's Worst Children
Los Peores Profes del Mundo / The World's Worst Teachers
School Days Around the World
Madeline
Bread and Jam for Frances
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Media Tie-In)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
School's First Day of School
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Read Local - Chicago
by Carpe Librum View all (12)
S is for South Side
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
The Coast of Chicago
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
A Raisin in the Sun
Read Local - Washington DC
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The Exorcist (Anniversary)
Lincoln
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
All the President's Men
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Murder on Embassy Row
A is for Anacostia
First Cosmic Velocity
The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro
The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
When Washington Was in Vogue: A Love Story
Pride Prose & Poems
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Anger Is a Gift
Where We Go from Here
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
The Great Believers
Nightwood
If They Come for Us: Poems
The Naked Civil Servant (Revised)
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Under the Udala Trees
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Modern Lovers
Our Rainbow
Julián at the Wedding
AAPI Stories & Authors
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A Tale for the Time Being
Five Star Billionaire
The Dark Road
When the Emperor Was Divine
Beauty Is a Wound
My Baby First Birthday
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
Midnight's Children (Anniversary)
The Satanic Verses
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book)
Mala & the Mask of Gold
The Refugees
Interpreter of Maladies: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
Earth Month - Adult Reads
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Eating Animals
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Taking on the Plastics Crisis
Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
Fashionopolis: Why What We Wear Matters
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Power
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America
No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis
Silent Spring (Anniversary)
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Walden
Earth Month - Youth and YA
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Me and Marvin Gardens
Hey, Water!
Forest World (Reprint)
Hoot
Old Enough to Save the Planet
The Water Walker
The Lorax
Walk Two Moons: A Newbery Award Winner
Women's History Month - Adult Reads
by Carpe Librum View all (21)
Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publising in Phnom Penh
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition
Chelsea Girls
Heroines
Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions
Men Explain Things to Me
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World (Three Rivers Press)
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
The Color Purple
Rubyfruit Jungle
The Joy Luck Club
Why Not Me?
Yes Please
Bossypants
Women's History Month - Youth and YA
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What Miss Mitchell Saw
A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa
We Are Water Protectors
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles
Mae Among the Stars
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom Volume 6
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
Black History Month 2021
by Carpe Librum View all (18)
Every Day Is for the Thief: Fiction
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Citizen: An American Lyric
Native Son
Mama Phife Represents: A Memoir
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
The Fire Next Time
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Brown Girl Dreaming
The Bluest Eye
Keats's Neighborhood: An Ezra Jack Keats Treasury
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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