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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/01/2026

Our wish for all of you is that you actively choose hope over despair every day. We hope you will be resisters who help to bring a new, more loving world into being. May you find peace in the promise that you are not walking through this storm alone.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/01/2026

Although it seems weird to keep doing “business as usual,” our business is spreading love, light, and joy, and that is needed now more than ever. So we’ve decided to continue our “business as usual,” not to be complacent or ignore what’s happening, but in spite of it.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/01/2026

If we can help folks find a small amount of joy, find their community, be creative, and show up for each other, we want to keep doing that. We’re still here, reading books. Trying to build community and safety where we can. And we’re going to keep going.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/01/2026

How do we keep going? Community care. Love. Creativity. Showing up for each other. Finding joy where we can. And we believe all of these are done through places like your community bookstore.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/01/2026

Even when things feel like they’re falling apart, especially then, it’s important to create space for joy and community. Joy and love *ARE* resistance. It’s how we continue on, despite opposing forces wanting us not to.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/01/2026

True revolution requires radical love built on small, consistent actions - helping your neighbor, feeding people, listening to each other. To do the work of fighting for justice and peace, we must radically love each other, and the world.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/01/2026

It’s easy to fall into despair. But hope is not just a “fuzzy feeling,” it is an active choice. It’s a decision we make every day to keep going, to act, to fight. It’s important to actively choose hope over despair when things are chaotic.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/01/2026

NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL. Posting on social media for business has just seemed...unimportant in this moment. It isn’t normal to witness a genocide, along with ICE murders and everything else the state is doing, and then have to answer emails and run a business. But, here we are.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 12/12/2025

Let's get messy 🤪 What is that book that everyone loves and you just... don't? Let's have it out in the comments 👇

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 08/12/2025

Most of all, we're really looking forward to connecting more with you! ㅤ Run (don’t walk): Join our Community Hub hosted by @binderybooks.bsky.social today! Visit tubbyandcoos.com/hub to join.

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Community Hub – Tubby & Coo's Traveling Book Shop

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 08/12/2025

When you support us with a sustaining monthly donation, every dollar stays in the community and doesn’t support billionaires hoarding wealth, but queer booksellers just trying to pay rent.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 08/12/2025

When you join a paid membership tier, you’re not just getting access to perks and spaces. You’re funding: ㅤ 📚 Banned books outreach and access 🧡 Living wages for queer booksellers 🌟 Anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist resource work 📦 A Mission-Driven Local Business

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 08/12/2025

🎉 20% off your first month as GAYluminati is LIVE for 10 days ONLY - join for free to get the code We include a LOT for free followers, but for as little as $5/month, you can upgrade.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 08/12/2025

🎉 Join for FREE in the next 72 hours and be entered to win your first 3 months as GAYluminati (our highest paid tier) free 🎉Join any paid tier in the next 72 hours and get a 15% off coupon

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 08/12/2025

🚨 WE ARE LIVE, BOOK BESTIES! ㅤ The Community Hub is officially OPEN! ㅤ It features our content, houses our new membership tiers, acts as a book list aggregator, and hosts our community Discord server. Basically, it's a one-stop shop for all things Tubby & Coo's, and you can join completely for FREE!

A graphic saying the Tubby & Coo's Community Hub is live. Join for free in the next 72 hours and be entered to win your first 3 months as GAYluminati free. Join any paid tier in the next 72 hours and get a 15% off coupon.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 24/11/2025

Ever walked into a bookstore and felt like the queer section was basically one shelf and a dream? Yeah. Same. Queer folks deserve better than breadcrumbs. We need a place where we're not a footnote — we're the main character. Want first dibs? Visit bit.ly/48awe3D

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 20/05/2025

If you're looking for summer book recs, you can get them from an actual person if you email or message us! Happy to curate real books instead of whatever bizarre fake stuff this is. Email info@tubbyandcoos.com for recs or ask us to curate a summer reading box for you!

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 26/04/2025

Show us what you got at an indie bookstore today! 📚

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/04/2025

AND the return of the beloved LIBRO.FM GOLDEN TICKET! Hunt for the ticket at The Good Shop, and if you find it first, you'll win 12 FREE audiobooks! We hope to see you tomorrow!

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/04/2025

At The Good Shop, we'll have a pop-up from Viola's Heritage Breads, a few IBD exclusive items, giveaways, and more. Plus, the return of our Bookstore Passport! Pick yours up or get a stamp at The Good Shop. Visit all 7 participating stores and be entered to win $175 in gift cards to every store.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/04/2025

At both The Good Shop and at Mystic, we'll have giveaways and goodies! We're also doing a book drive for Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners, and every book purchased is being matched by a generous donor, which means you're giving TWO books to incarcerated readers with every purchase from the wishlist.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/04/2025

Indie Bookstore Day is tomorrow! Come support an indie bookstore that: is queer owned, focuses on diverse reads, speaks out against genocide, and is staffed by actual, real people who love books and are not billionaires!

A graphic promoting Indie Bookstore Day that claims that Tubby & Coo’s is queer owned, focuses on diverse reads, speaks out against genocide, and is staffed by actual, real people who love books and are not billionaires!

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/04/2025

This is a highly important case. If this goes in favor of the parents (and it likely will), it will lead to quiet censorship because it's way too onorous for schools to implement an opt out plan. This will lead to queer books disappearing from classrooms.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 27/03/2025

Sign up for our newsletter by 3/31 and get a FREE digital reading journal! Also really great book recs and lists 😁 tubbyandcoos.com/subscribe

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 25/03/2025

They were all on last year's list! We tried to change it up some 😁 All excellent recs!

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 24/03/2025

Nonfiction recs: Cleavage by Jennifer Finney Boylan It Came From the Closet by Joe Vallese Paper Doll by Dylan Mulvaney Beyond They/Them by Em Dickson So Many Stars by Caro De Roberts Trans History by Alex Combs & Andrew Eakett Marsha by Tourmaline

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 24/03/2025

Horror: What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky Model Home by Rivers Solomon The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias The Honeys by Ryan La Sala Family Business by Jonathan Sims Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 24/03/2025

Romance: Home Grown Magic by Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos Single Player by Tara Tai Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa Hangry Hearts by Jennifer Chen The Pairing by Casey McQuiston The Prospects by KT Hoffman

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 24/03/2025

Sci-Fi: Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield Bad Dream by Nicole Maines Magodiz by Gabe Calderon Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae In the City of Time by Gwendolyn Clare Key Lime Sky by Al Hess Failure to Comply by Cavar

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 24/03/2025

Fantasy: Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright Sistersong by Lucy Holland She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg Burning Roses by S.L. Huang Human Rites by Juno Dawson The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 24/03/2025

We're donating 10% of sales from the linked list below to Louisiana Trans Advocates. Buy from this list & support a nonbinary/trans business AND a trans rights organization. Check out the recs in this thread & see more on our Trans Rights Readathon Bookshop list: bookshop.org/lists/tubby-...

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Tubby & Coo's Trans Rights Readathon 2025

10% of sales from this book list between 3/21/25 and 3/21/25 will be donated to Louisiana Trans Advocates.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 24/03/2025

We read trans books all year 🏳️‍⚧️ It's time for the Trans Rights Readathon, and we're so excited to see a lot of participation! Now more than ever, we trans and nonbinary folks are fighting for our right to exist, & it's important that you bring your energy IRL to help us & defend your trans siblings.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 10/03/2025

Super excited to meet Sarah Gailey! They're the author of Upright Women Wanted, which is one of the two books that inspired our current business model. Gailey was SO supportive of the bookstore, and it was so wonderful to meet them!

Candice wearing a blue t-shirt and blue plaid shorts posing next to author Sarah Gailey.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 06/03/2025

I'd be a terrible fantasy hero because unless I get a text, I wouldn't even know I was the chosen one, and even then, I'd probably ignore it. Also, as soon as they said "we ride at dawn" I'd be like cool, I'm out.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 21/02/2025

More historical photos from the Civil Rights Movement in south Louisiana✊️

Protest in front of Woolworth's and Acme Cafe, Bogalusa LA. 1964. From the Civil Rights Movement Archive.

Freedom marchers cross the Amite river on a 10-day march from Bogalusa to the state capitol in Baton Rouge in 1967. From the Civil Rights Movement Archive.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 21/02/2025

Whether they like it or not, it's still Black History Month. Google and billionaires be damned. Here are some historical photos from civil rights fighters in south Louisiana ✊️

A yellow graphic that says "Black history month: Whether they like it or not. Google and billionaires be damned. It's still Black history month."

Marching for freedom in New Orleans, 1963
From the left march leaders: Lolis Ellie, Rev. A.L. Davis, Ernest "Dutch" Morial, Rev. John Morris, and Oretha Castle Haley. Photo from the Civil Rights Movement Archive.

Boycotting white-owned stores on Dryades Street in New Orleans in 1959. From the Civil Rights Movement Archive.

Julia Aarons and David Dennis of CORE on the first ride from New Orleans to Jackson. From the Civil Rights Movement Archive.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 21/02/2025

We have always loved @chriswarcraft.bsky.social and somehow now love him even more. FYI to Chris: this story is making the rounds around indie booksellers, and we all appreciate you so much 🙌 Keep fighting the good fight! www.startribune.com/chris-kluwe-...

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Ex-Viking Chris Kluwe vows to keep fighting California city’s ode to MAGA on library plaque

“I plan to keep on showing up to the City Council meetings unless they ban me,” he told CNN Friday morning.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 19/02/2025

Y'all the wind has been SO strong, it's wild, I was just walking and suddenly I appeared at the bookstore, then the wind blew like 15 books into my hands, like wut?!

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 19/02/2025

🌱 The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy - 1st book in a trilogy about trans witchcraft, coming of age, gender identity crisis, impeccable vibes. 🍀 Go Luck Yourself by Sara Raasch - PERFECT for the season. The follow-up to The Nightmare Before Kissmas, which was one of our favorites of last year.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 19/02/2025

Featured books: 🗡 The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri - The final book in the Burning Kingdoms series that we've been desperate for, in the sword lesbians genre. 👹 But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo - Sapphic monster romance novella wrapped in gothic fantasy trappings.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 19/02/2025

Gay is in, gay is hot 🏳️‍🌈🔥 Looking for some gay (in the umbrella sense) ebooks? We've got you 🙌 Ebooks now available via our Bookshop site: bookshop.org/shop/tubbyandcoos 🔊 From What We Do in the Shadows (Laszlo is the best)

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 16/02/2025

This adult epic fantasy debut from Sarah Rees Brennan puts the reader in the villain's shoes, for an adventure that is both "brilliant" (Holly Black) and "supremely satisfying" (Leigh Bardugo). Available at The Good Shop and from our Bookshop site: bookshop.org/a/55/9780316...

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Long Live Evil

Check out Long Live Evil - <b>ONE OF <i>THE NEW YORK TIMES</i> "BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2024" AND "BEST ROMANCE NOVELS OF 2024" <p/> THIS IS A TALE FOR EVERYONE WHO'S EVER FALLEN FOR THE V...

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 16/02/2025

But when she gets there, she finds that she isn't the hero - she's the villain. So be it. The wicked are better dressed, with better one-liners, even if they're doomed to bad ends.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 16/02/2025

The premise that drew Candice in: When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favorite fantasy series.

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 16/02/2025

The secondary characters that kept Candice around: 🪓 An axe wielding maid 🗡 A shining knight with dark moods ☠️ A homicidal bodyguard 🐍 A playboy spymaster with a golden heart and a filthy reputation

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 16/02/2025

Right up my alley as someone who loves a complicated villain who just might have a point. Can't wait for the next one! - Candice

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Tubby & Coo’s Traveling Book Shop @tubbyandcoos.com · 16/02/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A fun romp! The premise drew me in, and the well drawn secondary characters kept me around. Tons of action, some romance, some fun, badass queer characters, and plot driven, which are my favorite kinds of books. (Con.)

A white hand holds a paperback copy of Long Live Evil in front of a colorful bookshelf.

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