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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery
@carpelibrum.bsky.social
Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally doesn't DM people.
https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
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In memory of our sweet cat Stan Lee, we're running a special sale on our website this holiday season. Get 20% off the new books with promo code Catmas at checkout. carpelibrumbaltimore.com
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November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
One of the new books we have in stock is Walking Shadow. It's $14.99 and science fiction.
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Walking Shadow, by Clifford Royal Johns
Benny tries to ignore the payment-overdue messages he keeps getting from "Forget What?," a memory removal company. Benny's a slacker, after all, and couldn't pay them even if he wanted to. Then people...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
One of the new books we have in stock is The Library Beneath the Streets. It's $14.99 and about a story thief named D'Shall.
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The Library Beneath the Streets, by Daniel Hale
There are stories that matter.There are stories that shape the world.There are writers who long to tell them.And, disillusioned and bereft, there is a place they go to write them.But the Library Benea...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
One of the new books we have in stock is Catalyst. It's $17.99 and set in the future.
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Catalyst, by M. D. Benoit
2046. Mutations and MIDS ravage the planet, and the need for body parts and organ transplants escalate. Corbin has created GenOrg, a farm that speed-grows in coffin-like pods thousands of human clones...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
One of the new books we have in stock is Eat Your Heart Out. It's $13 and LGBT horror.
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Eat Your Heart Out, by Dayna Ingram
A breakneck tale of kick-ass, wise-ass, sexy-ass lesbians and ZOMBIES, Eat Your Heart Out opens on what promises to be another tediously annoying day at Ashbee’s Furniture Outlet. Then the strip-mall ...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Elegy for the Undead also comes recommended by the feline set.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One of the new books we have in stock is Elegy for the Undead. It's $14 and LGBT horror.
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Elegy for the Undead, by Matthew Vesely
Jude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a disease that transforms him into a violent and often incomprehensible person. With no cure for the "zombie"...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
One of the new books we have in stock is An Exorcism of Angels. It's horror poetry and $13.95.
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An Exorcism of Angels, by Stephanie Wytovich
Love is an exorcism of angels…Heaven and Hell are not places, nor times, but rather shared experiences. It’s a love whether dark or light, a passion whether of pleasure or pain, and there’s a beauty t...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
One of the new books we have in stock is Standish. It's $18 and LGBT historical fiction.
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Standish, by Erastes
A great house. A family dispossessed. A sensitive young man. A powerful landowner. An epic love that springs up between two men. Set in the post-Napoleonic years of the 1820's, Standish is a tale of t...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
One of the new books we have in stock is Beheld: Godiva's Story. It's $18 and historical fiction about Lady Godiva.
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Beheld: Godiva's Story, by Christopher M. Cevasco
Having survived a grave illness to become one of 11th-century England’s wealthiest landowners, Godgyfu of Coventry (Lady Godiva) remains forever grateful to the town whose patron saint worked such mir...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
One of the new books we have in stock is My Dear Watson. It's $18 and historical fiction.
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My Dear Watson, by L.A. Fields
One of the most famous partnerships in literature yields, over time, to a peculiar romantic triangle. Sherlock Holmes. Dr. John Watson. And the good doctor's second wife, whom Doyle never named. In L....
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November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In memory of our sweet cat Stan Lee, we're running a special sale on our website this holiday season. Get 20% off the new books with promo code Catmas at checkout. carpelibrumbaltimore.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Reposted by Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery
In memory of our sweet cat Stan Lee, we're running a special sale on our website this holiday season. Get 20% off the new books with promo code Catmas at checkout. (Stan Lee 100% thought he was the reason for the season.)
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November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@ixtumea.bsky.social thanks for the repost
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Thanks for the repost
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
One of the new books we have in stock is Beautiful Ape Girl Baby. It's $18 and magical realism with a bit of humor.
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Beautiful Ape Girl Baby, by Heather Fowler
A rollicking ride of a magical realist, coming-of-age story that explores sex and gender in ways that will have you laughing out loud. Be prepared to travel light with a somewhat murderous female prot...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
One of the new books we have in stock is The Quelling. It's $18 and literary fiction about two sisters who have spent most of their lives in a locked psych ward.
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The Quelling, by Barbara Barrow
Addie and Dorian have always been together. They're clever, beautiful--and hopelessly violent. Diagnosed with a rare psychiatric condition and accused of murder in childhood, the sisters have spent mo...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thanks.
And thanks for the repost.
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Crows of Beara also comes recommended by the humans and the feline set.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
One of the new books we have in stock is The Crows of Beara. It's $18.95 and eco-fiction partially set in Ireland.
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The Crows of Beara, by Julie Christine Johnson
When Annie Crowe travels from Seattle to a small Irish village to promote a new copper mine, her public relations career is hanging in the balance. Struggling to overcome her troubled past and a faili...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
One of the new books we have in stock is My Days of Dark Green Euphoria. It's $19.95 and eco-fiction about a woman with anxiety about the climate.
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My Days of Dark Green Euphoria, by AE Copenhaver
Thirty-something Cara Foster is, one might say, eco-anxious-perhaps even eco-neurotic. She eats out of dumpsters (not because she wants to but because it's the right thing to do), does laundry as seld...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
One of the new books we have in stock is Sasha and Emma. It's $19.95 and about two people who immigrated to America in the late 1800s.
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Sasha and Emma, by Paul and Karen Avrich
In 1889 two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman (perhaps you've heard of them?!), met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and Sasha would be fast...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM