Main Street Books -- Lafayette Indiana
@mainbooksin.bsky.social
Inclusive new & used bookshop in historic downtown Lafayette, IN. Championing diverse books. Home of the Biggest Gayest Table. Sister shop to @2ndflightbooks www.main-street-books.com
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The quote below is from the book Let This Radicalize You. #Hoosiersky we recommend it highly. Available from the #Tippecanoe County Library, from @mainbooksin.bsky.social or from @haymarketbooks.org
June 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The quote below is from the book Let This Radicalize You. #Hoosiersky we recommend it highly. Available from the #Tippecanoe County Library, from @mainbooksin.bsky.social or from @haymarketbooks.org
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My local is Joseph-Beth Booksellers and one of my fave booksellers (hi, @panediting.bsky.social!) works at @mainbooksin.bsky.social and they’re fantastic! Highly recommend both stores.
June 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My local is Joseph-Beth Booksellers and one of my fave booksellers (hi, @panediting.bsky.social!) works at @mainbooksin.bsky.social and they’re fantastic! Highly recommend both stores.
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My local indie is Joseph-Beth and my other favorite indie I order from is @mainbooksin.bsky.social because @panediting.bsky.social has the best recommendations! I highly recommend both for your book needs on Saturday #IndieBookstoreDay or any day! :)
www.josephbeth.com
main-street-books.com
www.josephbeth.com
main-street-books.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My local indie is Joseph-Beth and my other favorite indie I order from is @mainbooksin.bsky.social because @panediting.bsky.social has the best recommendations! I highly recommend both for your book needs on Saturday #IndieBookstoreDay or any day! :)
www.josephbeth.com
main-street-books.com
www.josephbeth.com
main-street-books.com
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When librarians fight book bans, the are not just fighting for freedom of expression, but also against hatred and discrimination. #libraries #archives 📚
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds
Study counteracts claims by conservative lawmakers that books being removed from classrooms are sexually explicit
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
When librarians fight book bans, the are not just fighting for freedom of expression, but also against hatred and discrimination. #libraries #archives 📚
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is Nazi shit
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The end result of this is trans people can't travel to the USA without the risk of being permanently banned from entering the USA on grounds of "gender fraud".
Already know trans folks in high tech fields who will be cancelling plans to give talks in America.
The end result of this is trans people can't travel to the USA without the risk of being permanently banned from entering the USA on grounds of "gender fraud".
Already know trans folks in high tech fields who will be cancelling plans to give talks in America.
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is Nazi shit
Join us tomorrow evening for a virtual event with @elianeboey.bsky.social and @edashtonwriting.bsky.social (author of Mickey7) to chat about scifi noir novel Club Contango & Ashton's forthcoming book The Fourth Consort. Bookseller Kel will moderate. You can still sign up at tinyurl.com/clubcontango
January 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Join us tomorrow evening for a virtual event with @elianeboey.bsky.social and @edashtonwriting.bsky.social (author of Mickey7) to chat about scifi noir novel Club Contango & Ashton's forthcoming book The Fourth Consort. Bookseller Kel will moderate. You can still sign up at tinyurl.com/clubcontango
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Next Sunday night!
Don’t forget to join @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social, @novelnightmares.bsky.social on Sunday as we talk to one of my favorite humans, @jonathanjanz.bsky.social about CHILDREN OF THE DARK! January 26 at 8PM ET!
January 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Next Sunday night!
Whoever decided to release Onyx Storm the day after a holiday when most (if not all) delivery services are closed is, um, not the sharpest. Especially after the disaster release of the last book. 👀
January 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Whoever decided to release Onyx Storm the day after a holiday when most (if not all) delivery services are closed is, um, not the sharpest. Especially after the disaster release of the last book. 👀
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January 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It's a great day to support your indie bookshop and rely on your friendly neighborhood bookseller to recommend some awesome gifts (because those special orders probably aren't gonna make it!).
December 20, 2024 at 3:01 PM
It's a great day to support your indie bookshop and rely on your friendly neighborhood bookseller to recommend some awesome gifts (because those special orders probably aren't gonna make it!).
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Am I going to stop by @mainbooksin.bsky.social and @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social to spend money I shouldn't? Yep.
December 14, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Am I going to stop by @mainbooksin.bsky.social and @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social to spend money I shouldn't? Yep.
We look pretty stinkin' cute in the snow.
December 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM
We look pretty stinkin' cute in the snow.
Just a heads up that if you want to support your local bookshop as part of your holiday gift buying, you need to get any special orders in like, NOW, if you want to ensure things are here by xmas.
December 10, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Just a heads up that if you want to support your local bookshop as part of your holiday gift buying, you need to get any special orders in like, NOW, if you want to ensure things are here by xmas.
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Also a very good bookmail day! A trio from @mainbooksin.bsky.social (after enjoying @cupiscent.bsky.social Book 1 on a mystery box selected by @panediting.bsky.social) and a Kickstarter from @jeannettebedard.bsky.social!
December 9, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Also a very good bookmail day! A trio from @mainbooksin.bsky.social (after enjoying @cupiscent.bsky.social Book 1 on a mystery box selected by @panediting.bsky.social) and a Kickstarter from @jeannettebedard.bsky.social!
obsessed with this cover! 😍
Turns out it's cover reveal day!
A GAME IN YELLOW is coming August 12, 2025 from Saga, with a delicious cover by Caroline Teagle Johnson and Math Monohan, that the publisher calls "a masterful blend of horror, erotica, and psychological thriller" 💛
tinyurl.com/sagayellow
A GAME IN YELLOW is coming August 12, 2025 from Saga, with a delicious cover by Caroline Teagle Johnson and Math Monohan, that the publisher calls "a masterful blend of horror, erotica, and psychological thriller" 💛
tinyurl.com/sagayellow
December 6, 2024 at 5:51 PM
obsessed with this cover! 😍
Over on tiktok we had a viral post about Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees with 1.5 million views that has likely brought in A LOT of sales, but want to guess how many we've sold at OUR indie shop? Just FIVE. In 2 months of it being viral, & with so many commenting about how they just bought it. 😭
December 6, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Over on tiktok we had a viral post about Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees with 1.5 million views that has likely brought in A LOT of sales, but want to guess how many we've sold at OUR indie shop? Just FIVE. In 2 months of it being viral, & with so many commenting about how they just bought it. 😭
A lovely local author posted a video of our shop yesterday and someone commented to take the pride flag down. If you don't like the flag, we're perfectly fine if you don't come in! 👍
December 6, 2024 at 4:08 AM
A lovely local author posted a video of our shop yesterday and someone commented to take the pride flag down. If you don't like the flag, we're perfectly fine if you don't come in! 👍
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
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Next time you have an idea that seems too crazy, just remember that John Woo once walked into an office and said "I wanna make a movie where Nick Cage plays John Travolta playing Nick Cage, and John Travolta plays Nick Cage playing John Travolta," and someone wrote him a check for 80 million dollars
December 4, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Next time you have an idea that seems too crazy, just remember that John Woo once walked into an office and said "I wanna make a movie where Nick Cage plays John Travolta playing Nick Cage, and John Travolta plays Nick Cage playing John Travolta," and someone wrote him a check for 80 million dollars
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One of the things I think people don't understand is that you only need 2% of people to be actively committed anti trans people to wildly outnumber, outpace and out power 1% who are trans if the other 97% are ambivalent.
Ambivalence about human rights is a problem.
Ambivalence about human rights is a problem.
December 4, 2024 at 8:14 PM
One of the things I think people don't understand is that you only need 2% of people to be actively committed anti trans people to wildly outnumber, outpace and out power 1% who are trans if the other 97% are ambivalent.
Ambivalence about human rights is a problem.
Ambivalence about human rights is a problem.
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So I have been promoting this like crazy to friends but by coincidence this weekend I read Banned Book Club by @ryanestrada.com and it gave me some great context around the history of Korean democracy that was helpful in understanding the broader implications of what happened yesterday. 📚👀 #booksky
December 4, 2024 at 7:09 PM
So I have been promoting this like crazy to friends but by coincidence this weekend I read Banned Book Club by @ryanestrada.com and it gave me some great context around the history of Korean democracy that was helpful in understanding the broader implications of what happened yesterday. 📚👀 #booksky
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Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
December 3, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
Speaking of books with lesbians in them, Private Rites released today! If you want a very queer King Lear retelling that doubles as dystopian eco-fiction, this book is for you!
December 4, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Speaking of books with lesbians in them, Private Rites released today! If you want a very queer King Lear retelling that doubles as dystopian eco-fiction, this book is for you!
People tend to romanticize dusty bookshops filled almost entirely with old books, and yes, it's still a room full of books, but every time I go to one like that I am thinking about who is missing in all those pages. All the women and BIPOC folks and queer people. I want to hear those voices.
December 4, 2024 at 2:42 AM
People tend to romanticize dusty bookshops filled almost entirely with old books, and yes, it's still a room full of books, but every time I go to one like that I am thinking about who is missing in all those pages. All the women and BIPOC folks and queer people. I want to hear those voices.