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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery

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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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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

We're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Molly at checkout. (We'd like to reopen in a brick and mortar format, then adopt a shop cat, hence the sale.) Pictured is Stan Lee, our retired shop cat who died last year.
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@rollwithheather.bsky.social thanks for the repost

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

We're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Molly at checkout. (We'd like to reopen in a brick and mortar format, then adopt a shop cat, hence the sale.) Pictured is Stan Lee, our retired shop cat who died last year.
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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Dreamcatcher. It's new, $13.99, and YA fiction.

Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is A Taste of Death and Honey. It's new, $13.99, and YA fantasy.
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A Taste of Death and Honey, by Sharon Bayliss

When Samantha’s parents died, she lost everything. Her home. Her friends. Her hope. Then a life-loving spring witch at the children’s shelter fills her life with light and joy once again.But like the ...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Cub. It's new, $15, and YA LGBT fiction.
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Cub, by Jeff Mann

Not every gay teen yearns for fashion and popular culture. Some boys are pure country folk and like the feel of flannel and the smell of the farm. And they're neither lithe nor muscle-bound but stocky...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is The Crown of Zeus. It's new, $15.99, and perfect for the tween or young teen in your life interested in Greek mythology.
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The Crown of Zeus, by Christine Norris

Which is worse: Having to start life over, or being eaten by a Minotaur? Thirteen-year-old Megan Montgomery's world is falling apart. Her father s promotion means leaving her whole life in New York be...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is A Curse of Ash and Iron. It's new, $16.99, and steampunk fantasy about a teenage girl who is under a spell and forced to live as a servant in her own home.
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A Curse of Ash and Iron, by Christine Norris

Benjamin Grimm knows the theater is much like real life. In 1876 Philadelphia, people play their parts, hiding behind the illusion of their lives, and never revealing their secrets.When he reunites wi...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Elementari Rising. It's new, $17, and fantasy about elemental spirits.
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Elementari Rising, by Nancy Hightower

Winter moves like a predator, taking villages one at a time, leaving the people either dead or half mad. For thousands of years, the Elementari — spirits of the elements — have slept peacefully under ...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is The Wizard and the White House. It's new, $14.95, and fantasy about an incompetent president who finds he can't talk one morning.
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The Wizard and the White House, by Mike Maggio

President Gerald Wellington Thorne, a bumbling, ineffective leader, wakes up one morning to discover that his mouth has disappeared.On the very same day, Larry White, a porter at Union Station, wakes ...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is The Tower and the Fox. It's new, $17.95, and fantasy about a guy who's part of a magically created race of animal people forbidden from using magic, which he finds frustrating.
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The Tower and the Fox, by Tim Susman

For Kip, growing up in shadow of the human men-only Prince George's College of Sorcery has been nineteen years of frustration. Magic comes naturally to him, yet he's not allowed to study sorcery becau...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Ogre Castle. It's new and $14.99.
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Ogre Castle, by Robert Vardeman

The ferocious Spell Wars have ravaged the island kingdoms of the Plenn Archipelago for more than a century, leaving behind ghostly remnants only wizards of Durril's ability can exorcize. With his appr...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is The Affairs of Dragons. It's new and $15.
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The Affairs of Dragons, by Mary Fairbanks

Dragons are not to be trifled with: the Black Dragon would have you for lunch. Some are very conceited: Percival can't pass a mirror without admiring himself. And don't ever nag a dragon-it is downrig...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is In the Sea Nymph's Lair. It's used, $13.99, and fantasy.
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In the Sea Nymph's Lair, by Robert Vardeman

The ferocious Spell Wars have ravaged the island kingdoms of the Plenn Archipelago for more than a century, leaving behind ghostly remnants only wizards of Durril's ability can exorcize. With his appr...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Mourning Jewelry. It's new, $12.95, poetry, and comes recommended by the dog.
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Mourning Jewelry, by Stephanie Wytovich

Mourning is the new black…The tradition of Victorian mourning jewelry began with Queen Victoria after the death of her husband, Prince Albert. Without photography, mementos of personal remembrance wer...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is An Exorcism of Angels. It's new, $13.95, poetry, and comes recommended by both the feline set *and* the canine set.
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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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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Cradle and Grave. It's new, $12.99, and science fiction about a professional scout in the distant future who gets hired to go to a ruined urban zone infected by heavily mutated phenoma.
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Cradle and Grave, by Anya Ow

In the distant dystopian irradiated future of Cradle and Grave, Dar Lien is a professional scout for scavenger runs into the Scab, a ruined urban-zone badly infected by heavily mutagenic phenomena cal...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Old Times. It's used, $5, and lesbian romance.
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Old Times, by Saxon Bennett

A Love She Can't Forget... For the umpteenth time in their 20-year relationship, Cleo's lover has run off with another woman. Her friends wonder why she puts up with this; why she lets herself be hurt...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Isabel Burning. It's new, $15.95, and horror.
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Isabel Burning, by Donna Lynch

As a young woman raised in the soot-covered mediocrity of an English industrial town, Isabel has led a common and directionless life. Secretly she yearns to be the center of something, anything, that ...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. Sorry you lost Vittles, too.

Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Only Mr. Darcy Will Do. It's used, $7.99, and historical fiction inspired by Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice.
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Only Mr. Darcy Will Do, by Kara Louise

In this fresh and original retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Bennet's greatest fear comes to pass--Longbourn is entailed to Mr. Collins. Elizabeth finds work as a governess in Londo...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

@rolandofgilead19.bsky.social thanks for the reposts

Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch. It's used, $11.99, and historical fiction about a woman accused of being a witch in Germany in 1618.
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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, by Rivka Galchen

The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Derelict, Bummers, Scoundrels, and Doves. It's used, $15.99, and historical fiction about the Alaska Gold Rush.
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Derelicts, Bummers, Scoundrels, and Doves, by Steven C. Levi

The Alaska Gold Rush is one of the most misunderstood eras of American history. In fact, many American think the Klondike Strike made famous by Jack London and Robert Service is the Alaska Gold Rush. ...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is His Majesty's Envoy. It's new, $16.99, and historical fiction about a young George Washington.
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His Majesty's Envoy, by Richard Patton

When Governor Robert Dinwiddie appointed George Washington to the post of Adjutant General of Virginia in 1753, the twenty-one year old militia major eagerly anticipated a great adventure. What he got...

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 1d

One of the books we have in stock is Captain James Lockwood. It's new, $19.50, and historical fiction about a captain in the British military sent to help suppress a slave revolt in the British colony of Guyana.
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Captain James Lockwood, by Mark Bois

Newly promoted, Captain James Lockwood returns to active service. Following a painful departure from his family, he is to travel to his regiment at Gibraltar with a draft of new recruits, but at the l...

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