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Playtime Songs (Board Books) By Parragon Books (Editor), Jill Howarth (Illustrator) $12.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Backordered	Where the Wild Things Are: A Caldecott Award Winner (Paperback) By Maurice Sendak, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) $9.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Where the Wild Things Are: A Caldecott Award Winner (Hardcover) By Maurice Sendak, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) $21.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
How to Catch Santa Claus (Hardcover) By Alice Walstead, Andy Elkerton (Illustrator) $12.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Blue Hat, Green Hat (Board book) By Sandra Boynton, Sandra Boynton (Illustrator) $6.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	How to Catch a Gingerbread Man (Hardcover) By Adam Wallace, Andy Elkerton (Illustrator) $10.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Llama Llama I Love You (Board book) By Anna Dewdney $7.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Harold and the Purple Crayon (Paperback) By Crockett Johnson, Crockett Johnson (Illustrator) $7.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	How to Catch an Elf (Hardcover) By Adam Wallace, Andy Elkerton (Illustrator) $10.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
How to Catch a Reindeer (Hardcover) By Alice Walstead, Andy Elkerton (Illustrator) $10.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	10 Cats (Hardcover) By Emily Gravett $16.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Crayons' Book of Feelings (Board book) By Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator) $8.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now

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7352 Manchester Rd.
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Sunday: 1-6 PM

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Science Friday Book Club

Listeners to NPR's Science Friday may know that the program also has a monthly book club, with recommendations each month.

If you'd like to join the discussion of the books, you can visit their website here, and all books featured can also be directly ordered from the Book House!

November: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez

December: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 edited by Carl Zimmer and Jaime Green

January: An Immense World by Ed Yong