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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 1d

Can you spot the ten hidden goldbugs in this holiday newsletter edition?! Exciting things happening at the bookstore in the coming months, be sure to check it out! online.fliphtml5.com/suene/rgkg/

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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

This event is on Sun at @peoplesbooktakoma.com. My daughter @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social will be my conversation partner. She lived the story of our harrowing disappearance, as well, and I suspect the questions will be fire. Come join us!

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Karen Palmer for She’s Under Here

“Once upon a time, I disappeared.” So begins Karen Palmer’s harrowing and redemptive memoir, She’s Under Here. In 1989, shortly after her second marriage, Palmer and her new husband quit their jobs…

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DC Books to Prisons @dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social · 3d

October 7-8 all books purchased from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists come with free delivery! With the Banned Books Week Bookdrive, a donor will cash match every book! Right now is the best time to donate to DC Books to Prisons – linktr.ee/dcbtp

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 4d

Support bookstores. Not billionaires.

Free shipping on any purchases 10/7-10/8.

See our recommendations and more:
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DC Books to Prisons @dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social · 4d

Until October 11, buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from the @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlist and a donor will match the amount of the gift to DCBtP. So the store gets the sale, and we get the book and some money to send them! Check out the wishlist -
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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 4d

✨It's Weekly Bestseller Time! ✨

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 5d

Thanks for stopping by Congressman Raskin! We're so appreciative of you and the work you're doing!

Megan and Matt Bormet with People's Book shirts and Congressman Jamie Raskin

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 5d

Come say hi at The Takoma Park Street Fest today and grab your People's Buck! We'll be at the corner of Westmoreland and Carroll from 10-5 with activities, banned books, Halloween goodies and more!

TKPK ST Fest 2025 flyer bright neon green and purple

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 6d

Thank you!!

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 6d

This week, Banned Books Week, we're partnering with @dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social - any books purchased off their wishlist will be matched! Let's clear the list!

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 8d

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Matt B, People's Book @mattbormet.com · 9d

We got free coffee for any furloughed feds. C'mon by. Russ Vought sniffs farts.

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 9d

@ahylton26.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social @freedcproject.bsky.social @keyachatterjee.bsky.social @montgomerycollege.bsky.social @maxdelsohn.bsky.social @karenpalmer.bsky.social @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social @libro.fm

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 9d

Boo! We have a spooktacular month of free author events, fang-tastic storytimes, and as always, a hauntingly good book selection in store that’ll leave you spellbound! Witch events are you dying to attend?!

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 11d

🦉This Week's Bestsellers🦉

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Sticky Doodler ▶️ PAXU @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to share about the amazing things that an artist collective can accomplish, but first I want to come full circle and announce our next big event: the SECOND ANNUAL Indie & Local Tabletop Games, hosted once again by @peoplesbooktakoma.com on Oct 18 in Takoma Park MD!
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Poster for the event, alt text coming soon

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 13d

Wed. Oct 1, we're joined by @ahylton26.bsky.social to celebrate the paperback release of Madness, which details the history of Crownsville, one of the last segregated asylums, with a campus still standing in Anne Arundel county. Don't miss this important convo! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/madness/

Antonia Hylton for Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation’s last segregated asylums…”a book that left me br…

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 14d

@ellenoh.bsky.social at People's Book this Tuesday at 6pm! Celebrate the release of her newest book, The House Next Door, with us! 🥳

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Ellen Oh for The House Next Door

Celebrated cofounder of We Need Diverse Books and APALA Honoree Ellen Oh delivers another spooky story in the vein of Spirit Hunters, about hero Rory and the creepy house next door. Filled with ang…

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McNally Editions @mcnallyeditions.com · 14d

Readers in the DMV! Join us at @peoplesbooktakoma.com this Sunday for a conversation with Carolivia Herron, author of THEREAFTER JOHNNIE, a genre-defying novel that is by turns a poetic epic, a ghost story, a historical saga, and a chilling dystopian fable. RSVP for free:

Carolivia Herron for Thereafter Johnnie

The Snowdon family stands as a pinnacle of Black excellence in Washington, D.C.: educated, affluent, and influential. John Christopher, the patriarch, is revered by his medical students at Howard U…

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 18d

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 18d

We loved hosting y'all! Those zines have been flying off the shelf! peoplesbooktakoma.com/product/bann...

Donate a Banned Book!

Join People’s Book to rally against the censorship happening around the country. Your book purchase will be shipped directly to the Texas Freedom Network. a statewide non-partisan, grassroots…

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 18d

It certainly is! And well stocked!

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 18d

I had such a wonderful time at @peoplesbooktakoma.com with @sarahpeitzmeier.bsky.social & Frances Reed! We left many signed copies of Gender Queer and Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding there, & the bookstore is now carrying a selection of my zines as well! A must visit if you are in the area.

a yellow sandwich sign on a brick street corner which reads "People's Book- Here be Books Bout Dragons, open 9 to 8 Daily"

A picture of authors Sarah Peitzmeier and Maia Kobabe, both dressed very cute and smiling, sitting in yellow armchairs in front of a yellow People's Book sign in the corner of the bookstore during an author talk

Three authors each holding a copy of their books standing in front of big windows and yellow armchairs in the bookstore People's Book in Takoma Park, Maryland. From left to right are: Frances Reed (a white nonbinary person with a swoop of gray hair, glasses, and a big smile), Sarah Peitzmeier (an Asian American woman in a chic black dress, glasses, big smile and asymmetrical haircut) and Maia Kobabe, (a white nonbinary person with short brown hair, smile, black and pink floral button up and red shorts). This was taken at a joint book event on September 12, 2025.

A large white painted brick wall leading into a parking lot under a blue evening sky. On the wall is a big painted yellow arrow with the signs People's Book, Tonal Park and Takoma Radio, 7014 Westmoreland Ave

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 18d

A free chance to ask all your burning writing and publishing questions?! Yes please! @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social @thewriterscenter.bsky.social

Gabriella Aldeman @writebetween.bsky.social · 18d

Join us and bring your burning questions—we’re talking writing and publishing!

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🔗RSVP here for free: peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/writin...

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People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com · 18d

🍂🍎Last week's Top Sellers🍎🍂

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