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🖤 HORROR RECS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BORED OF THE SAME INTERNET LISTS 🖤

📚 White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
Indigenous urban horror with ghosts, family secrets, punk energy, and late-night bad decisions.

📚 Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
Haunted house horror mixed with fascism, trans rage, trauma, and absolute emotional chaos.

📚 Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
American Psycho for girls who work at theme parks and are one bad day away from becoming the problem.

📚 The Spite House by Johnny Compton
A haunted house story with real emotional weight, sharp tension, and dread that just keeps building.

📚 Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
Werewolf horror with messy relationships, dark humor, body horror, and millennial burnout energy.

📚 The Good House by Tananarive Due
A massive slow-burn haunted house novel full of grief, curses, family history, and absolute creeping terror.

📚 Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum
Short, grotesque, deeply weird body horror that feels like reading a Victorian nightmare while mildly feverish.

📚 Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Historical horror with isolation, survival, secrets, and something horrifying hidden in a trunk.

Because sometimes you don’t want “cozy spooky.”
Sometimes you want a book that follows you into the bathroom at 2am.

Word of the Day — “Noctuary”

A record of things that happen at night.
A nighttime journal.

Honestly sounds like the title of a gothic fantasy novel we would absolutely sell out of immediately.

Some incredible Latine and Chicano history + fiction recommendations from the shop:

📚 Borderlands / La Frontera — Gloria Anzaldúa
📚 The House on Mango Street — Sandra Cisneros
📚 Harvest of Empire — Juan González
📚 Olga Dies Dreaming — Xochitl Gonzalez
📚 Children of the Land — Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Stories about migration, identity, survival, family, resistance, and joy.

✨ WORD OF THE DAY: “Tomes”

Large heavy books capable of causing both emotional and physical damage.

We love a blunt object 📚📖

In light of current events, we will be rescheduling Shah Smith for another time.

Apologies for the last minute change of schedule. Thank you for understanding.

- magpie

Our hearts are with everyone affected by this tragedy. Workers, families, first responders, and our whole community are carrying a lot right now.
If you’re able, please consider donating to support those impacted during this incredibly difficult time. Even small acts of care can make a difference when a community is hurting.
Longview always shows up for each other. Let’s keep doing that now. ❤️

The effects of yesterday's tragedy continue to ripple thru our community. We're all hurting, especially the families who are missing loved ones. And the last thing these families need is to have the burden of uncertain finances. The Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Central Labor Council and the Longview/Kelso Building Trades Council have set up an account to accept donations for the families affected by the disaster at the Nippon Dynawave facility.

All donations can be dropped off at the Longshoreman's Federal Credit Union. Just let them know why you're there and they'll make sure it gets into the right account.

✨ INDIGENOUS AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT ✨

Have you picked up a book by Robin Wall Kimmerer yet?

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a botanist, professor, and writer whose work beautifully blends Indigenous knowledge, science, nature, and storytelling. Her writing invites readers to rethink our relationship with the earth, community, reciprocity, and what it means to truly care for one another.

Her books feel like sitting quietly in the woods with someone wise enough to change your whole perspective without ever raising their voice. 🌿

📚 Recommended reads:
• Braiding Sweetgrass — A stunning collection of essays weaving Indigenous wisdom, ecology, and healing.
• Gathering Moss — Quiet, thoughtful reflections on nature, science, and slowing down enough to notice the world around us.
• The Serviceberry — A beautiful exploration of reciprocity, abundance, and community care.

Perfect for readers who love nature writing, anti-capitalist themes, hopeful nonfiction, and books that make you want to go touch grass and radically care for each other afterward. 🍃📖

join us Friday May 29th at 5pm - Ask questions, get answers, know the facts before you vote!

Reading Palestinian authors is one way to push back against dehumanization.

Some powerful reads:

📚 Mornings in Jenin — Susan Abulhawa
📚 Minor Detail — Adania Shibli
📚 Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear — Mosab Abu Toha
📚 Palestine — Joe Sacco

Books help us remember that people are not headlines.

Reminder: reading outside in summer with iced coffee counts as self care.