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The Butterflies and Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities and Rarities
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Search by Subject, Author, or Date
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Visual Explorer

Welcome to our visual explorer, to see if something literally just catches your eye.
Please note that this gallery does not cover everything, but should include most recent posts.

 
Featured
Arrrrrrrgh!
The Eclectic Abecedarium
Book of the Month: Notes on a Case of Melancholia, or: A Little Death
Book of the Week: What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
Meet Philip Worré!
Book of the Week: The White Road
Meet Julie Hiner!
Book of the Week: Moon of the Crusted Snow
Meet Alex Melton!
Book of the Week: Child of the Morning
Meet Steve Stred!
Book of the Week: I Do Not Eat Children
Meet Janice Blaine!
Book of the Week: Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
Time Travelling with Rare Print Materials
Meet Annette Whipple!
Book of the Week: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
An ever widening path of destruction…
Book of the Week: The Melting Queen by Bruce Cinnamon
Meet Mika Burns!
Book of the Week: The Three Little Tardigrades by Sandra Fay
Meet Jennifer Windsor!
Book of the Week: The Compendium of Srem by F. Paul Wilson
Meet Joan Marie Galat!
Book of the Week: Pockets by Hannah Carlson
Meet Dana Church!
Book of the Week: Where Do You Poop? by Agnese Baruzzi
Twenty twenty what now?
There is just the way you choose…
A Book of Centuries
Featured
Something awoke in the garden…
Introducing the Capping Project…
Proof of Life…
A bit of serendipity
Ready or not, here I come…
Bread and representation
No avatar, just an original
A Faustian bargain… but the good kind
When Words Collide… 2023 and beyond
Canadian Born Chinese
Drawn Together, Judged Together
You sold a book…
Book Mail: Life Beyond Us
The Monk and Robot books by Becky Chambers
Embracing the Prairie Witch
Lego Lost at Sea
A state of perpetual wander…
Finally, time for some summer reading…
99 Dead Snowmen
The Art of the [_____]: A Life in [_____]
It had a blue cover…
Happy Sesame Street Day!
Something from the Past, Something for the Future
Starting with our ABCs…
A miniature fairy library…
Know Your Weird: The Organization of Information
Otto & Victoria, Time Traveling in Style…
Yeah, no, we’re still here!
International Coffee Day 2021
Banned Books Week 2021
Featured
Drawn Together, Judged Together
Book News: A push for free textbooks
Book News: Sensitivity Readers in Publishing
Solarpunk
Book News: The bookstore is the most recession-proof business in America for 2023
Book News: Open Access!
Book News: Markus Dohle’s Big Flop
Book News: Some alternatives to “big media”
Book News: The Viability of E-Books and the Survivability of Print
Book News: What is chokepoint capitalism?
Publishing and librarianship in the news, and at school
Otto & Victoria, Time Traveling in Style…
Small Press Saturday: House of Anansi Press
Small Press Saturday: Book*hug Press
Small Press Saturday: Goose Lane Editions
Small Press Saturday: The Juvenilia Press
Small Press Saturday: Now Or Never Publishing
Small Press Saturday: Biblioasis
Small Press Saturday: Stonehouse Publishing
Small Press Saturday: Who’s on your list? Take 2!
Small Press Saturday: Conundrum Press
Small Press Saturday: Lanternfish Press
Small Press Saturday: Portage & Main Press and HighWater Press
Small Press Saturday: Between The Lines Press
Small Press Saturday: Touchwood Editions
Small Press Saturday: Great Plains
Small Press Saturday: Fernwood Publishing
Small Press Saturday: Nimbus Publishing
Small Press Saturday: Tyche Books
Small Press Saturday: Who’s on your list?

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