Crushing It (Paperback)

By Jennifer L. Knox

$16.00

ISBN: 9781556595868

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Published: Copper Canyon Press - October 20th, 2020

The poems in Jennifer L. Knox's darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subjects--from history to true crime to epidemiology--while exploring our tenuous connections and disconnections.

No One Is Talking About This: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Patricia Lockwood

$25.00

ISBN: 9780593189580

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Published: Riverhead Books - February 16th, 2021

"I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet." --Sally Rooney

"A furiously original novel." --Jia Tolentino

Junk (Paperback)

By Tommy Pico

$15.95

ISBN: 9781941040973

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Published: Tin House Books - May 8th, 2018

An NPR Best Book of the Year

From 2018 Whiting Award winner Tommy Pico, Junk is a book-length break-up poem that explores the experience of loss and erasure, both personal and cultural.

Irl (Paperback)

By Tommy Pico

$18.00

ISBN: 9780991429868

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Published: Birds - September 1st, 2016

Poetry. Native American Studies. LGBT Studies. IRL is a sweaty, summertime poem composed like a long text message, rooted in the epic tradition of A.R. Ammons, ancient Kumeyaay Bird Songs, and Beyonc 's visual albums.

Anything with You: A Picture Book (Hardcover)

By Charlie Mylie

$18.99

ISBN: 9780374312527

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) - November 24th, 2020

With charming, expressive characters, lush autumn landscapes, and spare text, the picture book Anything with You by author-illustrator Charlie Mylie is a sweet story about how journeys are more about who you’re with than where you’re going.

The Man in the Microwave Oven: A Mystery (Theo Bogart Mysteries #2) (Hardcover)

By Susan Cox

$27.99

ISBN: 9781250116208

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Published: Minotaur Books - November 3rd, 2020

Following Susan Cox’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel award-winning debut, The Man in the Microwave Oven is her next delightfully quirky mystery featuring San Francisco transplant Theo Bogart.

No Mercy: A Mystery (Ellery Hathaway #2) (Paperback)

By Joanna Schaffhausen

$17.99

ISBN: 9781250252821

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Published: Minotaur Books - January 21st, 2020

Police officer Ellery Hathaway and FBI profiler Reed Markham take on two difficult new cases in this stunning follow-up to The Vanishing Season.

"A gripping and powerful read. It is what we call an edge-of-your-seat, rollercoaster of a thriller. You will not be able to put it down before you finish it."—The Washington Book Review on The Vanishing Season

BOOGORAMA

$13.00

SKU: 9781734638103

The first book by Boog! BOOGORAMA is a collection of articles, speeches, screeds, and letters by Dennis "Boog" Highberger from 1983-2018.

"Welcome to Boog's World: a place of thoughtfulness, humor, the tenacious pursuit of justice and a deep love for the little patch of Kansas he calls home. 'The Lawrence I love,' he writes, 'is in the details, the nooks and crannies, the fine print.' This is also the place where we find Boog in all his brilliance, illuminating the nooks and crannies, igniting the fine print." -Simran Sethi

"Everything in here is delicious and carnal and wise -- reminds me I wasn't always on Zoom, face squished between glass plates like a lab sample...the dada mayor wrote frot he Time of the Plague, when we should eat his book with music" - Andrei Codrescu

Dennis "Boog" Highberger was born and raised in Garnett, Kansas and lives in Lawrence. He was the 1992 winner in the graduate division of the Helen F. Snyder Book Collecting Contest at the University of Kansas. He currently represents District 46 in the Kansas House of Representatives. 

Rare Wondrous Things: A Poetic Biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (Paperback)

By Alyse Bensel

$14.95

ISBN: 9781732743403

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Published: Green Writers Press - July 21st, 2020

A poetic biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), Rare Wondrous Things investigates the history of this German artist and naturalist who made groundbreaking discoveries in entomology.

Gentlewomen (Paperback)

By Megan Kaminski

$18.00

ISBN: 9781934819913

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Published: Noemi Press - October 15th, 2020

Poetry. How do we care for a broken world, especially when we ourselves are broken-hearted? How do we nurture others when we have scarce resources? How do we maintain our own sense of self under these pressures? The work of care falls disproportionately on women and often renders them lacking and unacknowledged in their labor.

Ladybird, Collected

$24.99

SKU: LADYBIRDCOLLECTED

Meg Heriford of Lawrence's legendary Ladybird Diner has compiled her essays into a book, as we've all been begging her to do for ages, and now that book is here: Ladybird, Collected.

This item will be released in early October, 2020. 

100% of the proceeds from Raven sales of Ladybird, Collected will go to funding Ladybird Diner's community meal program. Each book purchase funds four meals. 

Ladybird, Collected: Collected essays on the evolution of a tiny diner in the middle of the country. These are stories of love and adaptation at the broad intersection of commerce and community, and of how a pandemic changed everything and also nothing about us. Ladybird, Collected is a book you might want to preorder if you are into:

• Sense of place
• Small business culture
• Adaptation amid uncertainty
• Confessed parental shortfalls
• Metaphors
• Pie
• Work/home life balance
• Nods to rocks
• Community interdependence
• Doing the next right thing
• Food security as a measure of justice

The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest (Paperback)

By Jon K. Lauck (Editor), Catherine McNicol Stock (Editor)

$35.94

ISBN: 9780700629312

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Published: University Press of Kansas - April 17th, 2020

In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats' so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump. But the blue wall, as The Conservative Heartland makes clear, was never quite as secure as so many observers assumed.

Do Running Mates Matter?: The Influence of Vice Presidential Candidates in Presidential Elections (Paperback)

By Christopher J. Devine, Kyle C. Kopko

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ISBN: 9780700629701

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Published: University Press of Kansas - May 15th, 2020

The American vice presidency, as the saying goes, "is not worth a bucket of warm spit." Yet vice presidential candidates, many people believe, can make all the difference in winning--or losing--a presidential election. Is that true, though? Did Sarah Palin, for example, sink John McCain's campaign in 2008? Did Joe Biden help Barack Obama win? Do running mates actually matter?

The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone's Legendary Druid Pack (Hardcover)

By Rick McIntyre, Marc Bekoff (Foreword by)

$26.95

ISBN: 9781771645249

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Published: Greystone Books - September 29th, 2020

"A redemption story, an adventure story, and perhaps above all, a love story."
--Nate Blakeslee, New York Times-bestselling author of American Wolf

The Druid Peak Pack was the most famous wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park, and maybe even in the world.