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Happy Book Birthday to Lisa Frenkel Riddiough and Furious Turtle! 🐢🎉
We can't wait for readers to discover this thoughtful new picture book about navigating big feelings. Congratulations on today's release! Pick up your copy today, and join us on Sunday, July 19 for a special storytime and meet & greet. 💜📚

Furious Turtle
When everything goes wrong for Turtle during the school carnival, he becomes shell-shakingly furious. How will he get through the rest of this obnoxious day?

This second book in the Forest School of Big Feelings series from Lisa Frenkel Riddiough and Andrea Tsurumi offers a relatable look at tackling big feelings, losing with grace, and discovering your own calm in the face of chaos.

The carnival was just beginning.
Turtle had grand plans for winning!

He tried to hit the striker bell
but accidentally whacked his shell.

From arcade games to the beanbag toss,
Turtle’s fury grew with each upsetting loss.

What is Turtle to do when his fishing pole breaks, he isn't the winner of the drawing contest, his number isn't chosen during the prize walk, and the arcade machine won't accept his token?

He gets frustrated, flabbergasted, and, of course, furious!

But with help from his teacher Ms. Bunny, Turtle learns how to transform his anger into peace.

New Release Tuesday is here! 🎉📚

A good book makes every summer adventure even better. ☀️⛱️🕶️

Join us this Saturday, July 4th at 11AM for Storybook Time at Sutter Street Theatre! This family-friendly, free event is perfect for the little ones! 🇺🇸

📚Presented in partnership with Ruby's Books on Sutter Street!

If you're looking for your next unforgettable read, this is it. 💙

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves is July's Indie Next Pick, a heartfelt, powerful novel that booksellers can't stop talking about.

📅 On sale July 6th
📚 Preorder your copy today!

Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Summer by: People, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, and more... • "One of the most original, riveting, and moving books I’ve read in a long while." —Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project

For fans of Fredrik Backman and Virginia Evans, an astonishing, deeply moving novel about finding beauty in the brevity of life, as narrated by the one who knows it best: Death.

Travis is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a small, gray town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life, which he does without complaint or judgement. He’s stoic, gentle, and a little naive, despite who he is, but he never tries to change anyone’s fate. He is responsible for maintaining the balance of nature, and every life must eventually end.

Then Travis meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, who live across the hall, and despite his best attempts to keep his distance, he finds himself wholeheartedly embraced by other people for the first time. So it is with this seemingly unremarkable family that Travis begins to understand what it means to be truly alive—and what might be irrevocably lost in death.

Written with radiant warmth, wisdom, and compassion, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt is a timeless and ultimately uplifting story about appreciating life, accepting its end, and finding our place in the universe—especially when it feels most impossible—that will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost or worried about time’s passing.