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The Literate Lizard
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An online-only & very woke bookstore in Arizona. Over 20 years in the book biz. We cater to the liberal point of view. Post as DebtorsPrison on Daily Kos. Books, politics, world travel, history. Support is appreciated: https://theliteratelizard.com
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Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b...
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This week's four new release fiction picks, discounted 20% through November 22nd, 2025: - Turns of Fate (An Isle of Wyrd Novel #1), by Anne Bishop - Some Bright Nowhere: A Novel, by Ann Packer - The Silver Book: A Novel, by Olivia Laing - The Merge: A Novel, by Grace Walker This week's four new release nonfiction picks, discounted 20% through November 22nd, 2025: - Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime, by Sarah Weinman - Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story, by Jeffrey Kluger - Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia, by Brian Barth - A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore, by Matthew Davis
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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New book! Swifterature: A Love Story: English Literature and Taylor Swift, by Elly McCausland.
This literary fusion of pop culture and feminism shows the literary references to classic women authors in Taylor Swift's lyrics. Buy for 20% off: theliteratelizard.com/book/9781639...
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Cover of the new book Swifterature: A Love Story: English Literature and Taylor Swift, by Elly McCausland. The book cover is surrounded by small portraits of eight 18th Century women authors: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Shelley, and Kate Chopin. A daring literary fusion of pop culture and feminism, Swifterature captures the special connection between English literature and the worldwide phenomenon of Taylor Swift. "Swifterature captures a unique fusion of different elements: fandom, feminism, and a defense of both literature and popular culture. The narrative is split into thirteen chapters that use Swift's lyrics as departure points. The reader experiences the inspiring influence of English literature as Swift’s lens breathes new vitality and urgency into older texts. She argues that Swift, through her self-conscious engagement with classic works of literature and her extraordinary popularity, invites us to reflect not only on the culture of our past but also of our present."
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Happy #Caturday! This week's new book: Cats in Pop Culture
Stéphanie Chaptal and Claire-France Thévenon. 200 pages of cats from iconic movies, books, TV series, comics, and other works of art. Get your copy here: theliteratelizard.com/book/9798337...
Published by Insight Editions.
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Cover of the new book Cats in Pop Culture, by Stéphanie Chaptal and Claire-France Thévenon, published by Insight Editions. Background images show the hairless Mr. Bigglesworth from the Austin Powers movies; Jones, or Jonesy, from the Alien movies; Church, from the movie Pet Sematary; and Pyewacket, from the 1958 movie Bell, Book and Candle.
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Thank you, Nancy Pelosi, for your powerful years as Speaker of the House.

If you haven't read her autobiography The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House, published last year, get your copy now for 20% off: theliteratelizard.com/book/9781668...
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Cover of Nancy Pelosi's autobiography The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House, published in August of 2025. The background of the image is the photo of Nancy Pelosi standing up to a seated Trump across the table in a White House meeting. An inset in the upper right corner shows Nancy Pelosi in a red coat putting on sunglasses as she leaves the White House, cropped from a photo by Andrew Harnik/Associated Press.
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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This is a week when our elder authors bring us their wisdom and insights, and we have all of these wonderful new books for 20% off. Anthony Hopkins is 87. Margaret Atwood is 86. Paul McCartney and John Irving are 83. Susan Cheever is 82. And Patti Smith is 78.
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Covers of six books being published on November 4th, 2025 written by elder authors. - We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir, by Sir Anthony Hopkins - Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood - Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, by Paul McCartney, edited by Ted Widmer - Queen Esther: A Novel, by John Irving - When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever, by Susan Cheever - Bread of Angels: A Memoir, by Patti Smith
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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RIP at age 100 Maria Riva, daughter of famed actress Marlene Dietrich. Ms. Riva is gone, but her bombshell biography of her mother, published in 1993, lives on.
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Cover of the biography Marlene Dietrich: A Life, written by her daughter Maria Riva. The book was published in 1993, one year after Dietrich's death. Maria Riva recently passed away at age 100.
November 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b...
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This week's four new release fiction picks, discounted 20% through November 15th, 2025: - Last Call at the Savoy: A Novel, by Brisa Carleton - Lightbreakers: A Novel, by Aja Gabel - Queen Esther: A Novel, by John Irving - The Tortoise's Tale: A Novel, by Kendra Coulter This week's four new release nonfiction picks, discounted 20% through November 15th, 2025: - Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood - Bread of Angels: A Memoir, by Patti Smith - Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department, by Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis - The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, by Michael Steinberger
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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With apologies to our beloved housecats, street cats, cafe and bookstore cats, this #Caturday we feature a book about the Siberian Tiger Project's efforts to rescue this Great Cat: Tigers Between Empires, by @jonathanslaght.com
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Alongside a picture of a Siberian tiger striding towards the viewer through the snow, we have the cover of the newly published book Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China, by Jonathan C. Slaght. By the final years of the Cold War, only a few hundred tigers stepped quietly through the snow of the Amur River basin. Soon, the Soviet Union fell, bringing catastrophe; without the careful oversight of a central authority, poaching and logging took a fast, astonishing toll on an already vulnerable species. Just as these changes arrived, scientists came together to found the Siberian Tiger Project. Led by Dale Miquelle, a moose researcher, and Zhenya Smirnov, a mouse biologist, the team captured and released more than 114 tigers over three decades. They witnessed mating rituals and fights, hunting and feeding, the ceding and taking of territory, the creation of families. Within these pages, characters—both feline and human—come fully alive as we travel with them through the quiet and changing forests of Amur. We travel across time, too, as the fate of the species has been shaped by the history and politics of empires—such as the Qing dynasty’s Willow Palisade, which once slowed human settlement, or the later introduction of roads through Russian reserves. The Siberian Tiger Project became the longest-running tiger research initiative; its work continues to guide conservationists today.
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Do not obey in advance, as Timothy Snyder urges us.
Equally important is to not let a creeping despair and hopelessness dampen your will to fight back against the creeping fascism of Trump and his enablers. Here are three books to rekindle your hope and inspire you to fight on. Details below...🧵
Three books to inspire us with hope and the will to keep fighting for the future during these dark days of Trump. Set against a background photograph of the October 18th No Kings protest (featuring one sign that says "My favorite season is the Fall of Fascism" are the covers of - Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, edited by Kelly Hayes - Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy, by Joyce Vance - The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
October 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Margaret Atwood's memoir is coming out next week, on November 4th, and we are offering preorders for 20% off, so lock in your discount now: theliteratelizard.com/book/9780385...
As we learn about the course of her life, much is revealed about how her writing connects to her real experiences
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The cover of Margaret Atwood's memoir Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, coming out November 4th, and currently 20% off at The Literate Lizard. The background of this picture is the original cover of her novel The Handmaid's Tale.
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Today's the 70th anniversary of the first issue of the Village Voice, which revolutionized journalism and reported on Trump's corruption as early as 1979. The paperback of a book on the Voice, The Freaks Came Out to Write, by @tromano.bsky.social comes out 11/04
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Cover of the paperback edition of The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture, by Tricia Romano, which comes out November 4th. You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness when other papers dismissed it as a gay disease. In 1979, the Voice’s Wayne Barrett uncovered Donald Trump as a corrupt con artist before anyone else was paying attention. It invented new forms of criticism and storytelling and revolutionized journalism, spawning hundreds of copycats. With more than 200 interviews, including two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Colson Whitehead, cultural critic Greg Tate, gossip columnist Michael Musto, and feminist writers Vivian Gornick and Susan Brownmiller, former Voice writer Tricia Romano pays homage to the paper that saved NYC landmarks from destruction and exposed corrupt landlords and judges. With interviews featuring post-punk band, Blondie, sportscaster Bob Costas, and drummer Max Weinberg, of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, in this definitive oral history, Romano tells the story of journalism, New York City and American culture—and the most famous alt-weekly of all time.
October 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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This week's four new release fiction picks, discounted 20% through November 8th, 2025: - Tom's Crossing: A Novel, by Mark Z. Danielewski - Sacrament: A Novel, by Susan Straight - Darker Days: A Novel, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt - The Bone Thief: A Novel, by Vanessa Lillie This week's four new release nonfiction picks, discounted 20% through November 8th, 2025: - Dead and Alive: Essays, by Zadie Smith - The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding, by Joseph J. Ellis - Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America, by Irin Carmon - The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life, by Amy Bowers Cordalis
October 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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It truly is the real horror show. It inspired one of my current 20% off promos featuring a selection of traditional scary books, and a selection of even scarier current affairs titles.
Pardon this self-promotion, but it seemed an OK response to your post.
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One of the images promoting my current 20% off book promotion featuring both scary horror titles and even scarier current affairs titles.
October 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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1. Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre's memoir Nobody's Girl has been published. On Feb. 17th comes another book by a brave woman: A Hymn to Life, by Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who bravely exposed sexual violence against her.
Preorder for 20% off: theliteratelizard.com/book/9798217...
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Cover of the book A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides, by Gisèle Pelicot, coming out February 17th 2026. Pelicot is the French woman who, upon discovering that her husband had not only been drugging and raping her himself, but advertising on the internet for other men to do the same. When her husband and 51 other men went on trial for rape in 2024, she waived her right to anonymity and a closed-door trial. She bravely wanted the world to see what these men had done, and the person they did it to. The cover of the book also features the words "Shame Has to Change Sides," away from the victims and onto the perpetrators of sexual violence. Also pictured is the front page of The Guardian newspaper published after the guilyty verdict, with the headline "Gisèle Pelicot: 'I wanted all of society to be a witness.'"
October 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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The simultaneous ineptness and destructiveness of the Trump chaos may sometimes seem like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, but the horror is very real. Our 20% off Scary!/Even Scarier!! promo, offers both traditional and political horror through 10/31/25.
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Our graphics for our 20% off Scary!/Even Scarier!! promotion, whicgh features 20% off selected horror books, and 20% off books about the even scarier horror of the Trump administration. A closeup picture of a group of large pumpkins, one of which has a lightly superimposed image of a pouting Donald Trump's face.
October 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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It's #Caturday, and we're celebrating the reissue of I Am a Cat, by the great 19th C. Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki, first published in 1905. An observant cat comments on the foibles of human beings in Meiji-era Japan.
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Our once-upon-a-time cats Grace and Alfie, seen as kittens, contemplate the cover of the new edition of I Am a Cat, by the great 19th Century Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki. First published in 1905, it tells the tale of an adopted cat observing the foibles of Japanese society during the Meiji period (1868–1912).
October 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Night is falling on National Horror Movie Day, so now's the time to shop our 20% off Scary!/Even Scarier!! promotion. You can choose between traditional scary books, or even scarier books about the disastrous Trump presidency.
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Our graphics for our 20% off Scary!/Even Scarier!! promotion, whicgh features 20% off selected horror books, and 20% off books about the even scarier horror of the Trump administration.
October 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Two new books about ghost hunting and investigating paranormal occurrences, and both have 20% of their price disembodied through November 1st
Ghosted, by @alicevernon10.bsky.social: theliteratelizard.com/book/9781399...
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Two books about ghosts and paranormal occurrences, both currently discounted 20% through November 1st. - Chasing the Dark: A 140-Year Investigation of Paranormal Activity, by Ben Machell -Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking, by Alice Vernon
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b...
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This week's four new release fiction picks, discounted 20% through October 25th, 2025: - Bad Bad Girl: A Novel, by Gish Jen - King Sorrow: A Novel, by Joe Hill - The Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel, by Michael Connelly - When They Burned the Butterfly: A Novel, by Wen-yi Lee This week's four new release nonfiction picks, discounted 20% through October 25th, 2025: - Finding My Way: A Memoir, by Malala Yousafzai - Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy, by Joyce Vance - The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America, by Jeffrey Rosen - Chasing the Dark: A 140-Year Investigation of Paranormal Activity, by Ben Machell
October 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Today is all about #NoKings, but we mustn't forget it's also #Caturday. Here's a pic of a nice cat relaxing on a white wall.......
BUT WAIT!! BE CAREFUL, KITTY!!!!!!!!
A cat relaxing atop a white wall. The same cat as in the original picture, but seen from afar. The white wall the cat is relaxing on is actually a perilously narrow corner of a second-floor balcony.
October 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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#NoKings Mesa,Arizona
October 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Another small portion of the ##NoKings protest in Mesa, Arizona. A joyous crowd, and nonstop supportive honks from passing cars.
October 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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A small portion of the ##NoKings protest in Mesa, Arizona. A joyous crowd, and nonstop supportive honks from passing cars.
October 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I'm not the only Literate Lizard at the #NoKings protest in Mesa Arizona!
Two people in inflatable lizard costumes at the N Kings protest in Mesa Arizona.
October 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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#NoKings in Mesa, Arizona. Huge crowds stretching at least a half mile in all four directions of this busy intersection.
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October 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM