The Butterfly Effect: A Novel (Paperback)

By Rachel McKenny

$19.99
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ISBN: 9781643855295

Published: Alcove Press - December 8th, 2020

"A warm, winning debut from a talented new Midwestern voice." --J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest

Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America (Hardcover)

By Mark A. Bradley

$27.95
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ISBN: 9780393652536

Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 13th, 2020

Finalist for the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime

The shocking assassination that catalyzed groundbreaking reform in Big Coal.

Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic (Paperback)

By Eric Eyre

$17.00
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ISBN: 9781982105327

Published: Scribner - April 6th, 2021

A New York Times Critics’ Top Ten Book of the Year * 2021 Edgar Award Winner Best Fact Crime * A Lit Hub Best Book of The Year

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, a “powerful,” (The New York Times) urgent, and heartbreaking account of the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pil

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife (Hardcover)

By Ariel Sabar

$29.95
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ISBN: 9780385542586

Published: Doubleday - August 11th, 2020

From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author comes the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard.

What's Inside A Flower?: And Other Questions About Science & Nature (Hardcover)

By Rachel Ignotofsky

$17.99

ISBN: 9780593176474

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Published: Crown Books for Young Readers - February 2nd, 2021

From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science, comes a new nonfiction picture book series ready to grow young scientists by nurturing their curiosity about the natural world--starting with what's inside a flower.

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

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ISBN: 9780593189580

Published: Riverhead Books - February 16th, 2021

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021
WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
  
“A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (Penguin Poets) (Paperback)

By Patricia Lockwood

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ISBN: 9780143126522

Published: Penguin Books - May 27th, 2014

The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood, Booker Prize finalist author of the novel No One Is Talking About This and the memoir Priestdaddy

SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell’s * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire

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

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ISBN: 9780374312527

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

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ISBN: 9781250116208

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

The Man on the Washing Machine: A Mystery (Theo Bogart Mysteries #1) (Paperback)

By Susan Cox

$20.99

ISBN: 9781250768353

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Published: Minotaur Books - December 15th, 2015

When former party girl and society photographer Theophania Bogart flees to San Francisco to escape a high-profile family tragedy, a series of murders drags her unwillingly out of hiding. In no time at all she discovers she's been providing cover for a sophisticated smuggling operation, she starts to fall for an untrustworthy stranger, and she's knocked out, tied up and imprisoned.

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

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ISBN: 9781732743403

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

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ISBN: 9781934819913

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