The Elliott Bay Book Company

Jeremy doesn't want to play outside with the other kids. He would rather stay inside and draw... But the monster he draws becomes a nuisance. Can he draw a way out of it? What will he do if the monster leaves?

This is the story of one amazing woman who is transformed by grief over the loss of her daughter and opens her heart and small home to children orphaned by AIDS. Greene's narrative interweaves the personal, political and historical and creates a picture of the AIDS crisis that is complete and shocking.

In the dear, sweet, funny sequel to Love That Dog, Jack hates the mean, fat black cat that scratched him when he tried to rescue it from atop a tree.... But thanks to the kindly and encouraging Mrs. Stretchberry, Jack learns to express himself (and his feelings toward the cat) through poetry. Will he come to love the cat? Ages 8-11!

Did you know you could revitalize your wardrobe using paint and a potato or a leaf? Or that you could add some Scandinavian style to your bedroom without going to IKEA? Lotta Jansdotter is so inspiring ... Stencils are included.

This was my pick for the best book of 2006! I devoured this brilliantly-told graphic novel memoir in an afternoon.
Alison Bechdel, a veteran comic writer, here gives us her memoir of childhood, the drama of an imperfect family, her relationship with an emotionally-absent father, and sexual discovery in drawings that are cartoon-ish but elegant, reproductions of diary entries, and reflections aided by Proust, Wilde and Camus (some of her father's favorites). She conveys what was never said, because it was unspeakable (her father's relationships with young men), and what was missing (tenderness, a smile on her stoic father's face) in an unsentimental, but deeply moving way.

Leonard Shlain offers a new perspective on the history of the inequality between the sexes, and he forces us to reevaluate the role of women in the development and evolution of concepts and conventions central to our lives. He argues that woman's understanding of the relationship between her monthly cycle and the cycle of the moon gave birth to the concept of time, and gave her power, which men would envy and supress over the course of history.

George Lakoff is well known these days for his writing on political language and framing (Don't Think of an Elephant, Moral Politics, whose freedom?). This book, written in the '70s, explains the essence of his beliefs: that the way we see the world and talk about it is, in essence, metaphorical. We live by metaphors.