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Indy Reads Community Bookstore 2025 Book Club!
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All about Love: New Visions
Rise to the Sun
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality
Against the Loveless World
You Had Me at Hola
The Bluest Eye
Nothing Special, Volume One: Through the Elder Woods (a Graphic Novel)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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February: Celebrate Black History Month
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Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
Cool. Awkward. Black.
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Inciting Joy: Essays
Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
Maame: A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Nothing Burns as Bright as You
Jason Reynolds's Track Series Paperback Collection (Boxed Set): Ghost; Patina; Sunny; Lu
Miles Morales: Stranger Tides (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)
As You Walk on by
Black Women Writers at Work
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
The Davenports
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Black Sci-Fi & Afrofuturism
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Rosewater
Dhalgren
The Prey of Gods
The Lesson
Brown Girl in the Ring
The Fifth Season
Babel-17/Empire Star: Nebula Award Winner
The DOME
Kindred (Anniversary)
Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel
An Unkindness of Ghosts
Binti: The Complete Trilogy
War Girls
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Black Lives Matter
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Black Girls Must Be Magic
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan (Reissue)
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Welcome to Lagos
I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays
Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir
The Renunciations: Poems
The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning
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Local Author Bookshelf
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Tell Me the Dream Again: Reflections on Family, Ethnicity, and the Sacred Work of Belonging
Before the Dream: Martin Luther King's 1963 Speech, and Civil Rights Struggles in Fort Wayne, Indiana
The Fable of Wren
The Stars Will Guide Us Back
People You May Know
The Greatest Kid in the World
The Big Smoke
The Sisters Are Alright, Second Edition: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays
Cryptokill: Book Two of the Cybercode Chronicles
You Should See Me in a Crown
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
Blessed Youth: Breaking the Silence about Mental Health with Children and Teens
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Banned Bookshelf
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Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out
This Book Is Gay (Revised)
The Bluest Eye
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner
Out of Darkness
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
Lawn Boy
Gender Queer: A Memoir
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Romance
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Fools in Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales
Finding Balance
The Witch King (Original)
One True Loves
This Is My Brain in Love
Never Look Back
Where the Rhythm Takes You
Most Likely
Love Is a Revolution
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Classics!
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Things Fall Apart
Blacker the Berry...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Native Son
The Souls of Black Folk
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
The Bluest Eye
Black No More
Not Without Laughter
The Color Purple
A Raisin in the Sun
If Beale Street Could Talk
Invisible Man
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LGBTQ+ Nonfiction
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Rosewater
Pageboy: A Memoir
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
In the Dream House: A Memoir
The LGBTQ + History Book
Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men
I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life
Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
Quietly Hostile: Essays
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me about (Desiring) Men
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives
The Queer Film Guide: 100 Great Movies That Tell Lgbtqia+ Stories
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Our Favorite Merch
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Art of Nature: Flight of Beetles Notebook with Elastic Band
Art of Nature: Botanical Hardcover Ruled Journal
Jrnl O/S Azure Dreams
DC Comics: Batman: Quotes from Gotham City (Tiny Book)
Beetlejuice Pocket Notebook Collection (Set of 3)
Book Nerd Tote
Bookstores Save Democracy Tote
Marvel Comics: Captain America (Tiny Book): Inspirational Quotes from the First Avenger (Fits in the Palm of Your Hand, Stocking Stuffer, Novelty Geek
Smarty Cats Journal
Celestial Journal
Conservation Sewn Notebook Collection (Set of 3): Large (Notebook with Lined Pages)
Conservation Softcover Notebook: Notebook with Quotes, Hiking Journal, Camping Journal
Superman: Daily Planet Hardcover Ruled Journal
Dangerous Women Read Tote
Dogs at Play (Blank Lined Journal)
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