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09/29/2026

The long-awaited “American Hagwon” by acclaimed author Min Jin Lee was released today! We’ve been biting our nails, trying to keep busy, waiting for this novel to arrive, and now, thank goodness, it’s here! Did you love “Pachinko”? If so, find this book on our shelves and you’ll fall in love again.
About the novel: “In American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable, panoramic novel where the smallest of gestures can have enormous repercussions, where the bonds of family and of memory twist and fray but rarely break, and where willful self-sacrifice--for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers--is a kind of prayer.”

09/26/2026

Join us Monday, November 30 at 6pm Saturn Birmingham for a conversation between Alice Ollstein and Amy Yurkanin about Alice’s new book, Side Effects: How Abortion Bans Impact Everyone’s Health.

RSVP and preorder the book at the link in our bio. Please RSVP for an accurate head count.
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About Side Effects:

In the turbulent aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the loss of abortion access created ripple effects that washed over the entire U.S. health system, making care both less accessible and of lower quality for millions of people. Alice Miranda Ollstein’s explosive reporting offers an urgent, on-the-ground look at a medical system under pressure, at the patients and providers caught up in the dragnet of the new abortion restrictions, and at the impacts on both reproductive care and completely unrelated services.

09/22/2026

Happy pub day to Deena Helm - “Our Cut of Salt” is a “lyrical debut, about three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all. Our Cut of Salt is a powerful and intimate look at what it means to make a home, to lose it, and to return, only to find it irrevocably changed.”
Find this horror book on our shelves at Burdock or purchase online from Bookshop.org. Just choose Burdock as your bookstore!

09/16/2026

New to our shelves: “Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide” by Assal Rad (assalrad_)
From Molly Crabapple: “In this important new work of media criticism, Rad dissects the biases, distortions, and falsehoods by which press institutions conceal the atrocities of empire—as well as delivering a powerful call for accountability, justice, and truth.”
Find this book on our shelves chahousebham or order online from Bookshop.org and choose Burdock as your bookstore!

09/15/2026

Happy pub day to naomiaklein and astrataylor! We’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of their new book “End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World.” You can find this most important book and instruction manual on Burdock’s shelves at chahousebham or from bookshop_org (just choose Burdock as your bookstore!).
From V (formerly Eve Ensler): "This might be the most important book you read. Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor have managed to brilliantly organize this terrifying world into a clear, completely understandable vision of potential apocalypses while simultaneously showing us how to fight for the beauty and wonder of here, and for each other."

09/13/2026

New at Burdock: “Story Rug” by Sophie Blackall and illustrations by Phoebe Wahl
Grab this sweet book from our shelves chahousebham ! Our kids really loved this one!
About the book: “The children of Class 203 are learning to braid. They started with hair and shoelaces, and now the children have brought rags from home. Their braid gets longer and longer until one idea transforms it into an extraordinary surprise for their teacher.

Here is the story of a rag rug, woven through with the stories of the scraps used to create it and those told during its making. The result is a special handmade spot where the whole class can gather, ready for more stories.
This beguiling celebration of storytelling is woven through with an easy-to-learn and impressive craft project, including instructions, will have readers reaching for scraps to make their own rag rug.”

09/12/2026

New at Burdock: “Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine” by Jules Boykoff
Do you love soccer and other sports but hate to see communities disrupted, powerful world leaders and their politics centered and money filling the pockets of so few? This is Th book for you!
“At the heart of this analysis by acclaimed sportswriter and scholar Jules Boykoff, who himself played soccer professionally, is the concept of sportswashing, where political leaders use sports to stoke nationalism and legitimize themselves on the world stage, deflecting from chronic problems at home. Step forward the recipient of the newly cast FIFA Peace Prize, Donald J. Trump, a titan unrivaled in squeegeeing every drop of personal wealth and prestige from hosting the competition. In this, he is ably assisted by a governing body of global soccer dripping in patronage and corruption.

In these pages Boykoff demonstrates that it is possible to simultaneously treasure the skills and athleticism displayed on the pitch while lamenting their exploitation by malevolent powerbrokers for whom love of the game means nothing next to turning a buck or harvesting prestige. And, as Red Card so skillfully shows, this bait and switch is not confined to soccer. Precisely the same legerdemain will be used to distract and enrich when the Olympic Games come to Los Angeles two years from now.”
“Red Card” is available for purchase from Burdock! Find it on our shelves at chahousebham. Want to start a book club about the cognitive dissonance of watching, loving, and celebrating sports? Let us know! We feel it too!

09/02/2026

Join us for our Palestine Book Club on Tuesday, September 29 at 6pm as we discuss “Palestine: A Socialist Introduction” Edited by Sumaya Awad and brian bean.
About: “Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won.
Through an internationalist, anti-imperialist lens, this book explores the links between the struggle for freedom in the United States and that in Palestine, and beyond. It examines both the historical and contemporary trajectory of the Palestine solidarity movement in order to glean lessons for today’s organizers, and compellingly lays out the argument that, in order to achieve justice in Palestine, the movement has to take up the question of socialism regionally and internationally.”
Books are available for purchase at our location inside chahousebham. We look forward to seeing yall there!

08/07/2026

Join us Tuesday, August 25 at 6pm as discuss the second half of “Here Where We Live is Our Country” by mollycrabapple.
About: “In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Sam Rothbort created “memory paintings” with the hope of resurrecting the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. Decades later, his great-granddaughter, the award-winning artist Molly Crabapple, discovered these paintings and one stood out: a girl, her dress the color of sky, hurling a rock through a cottage window. Itka the Bundist, Breaking Windows.

Itka is how Crabapple met the Jewish Labor Bund. Once the most influential Jewish political force in eastern Europe, the Bund was secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist. The Bundists fought for dignity and equality, not in an imagined homeland in Palestine but “here where we live.””
The book is available for purchase from Cha House or online from bookshop_org just be sure to choose Burdock as your local bookstore!

08/03/2026

Hi Folks! Here sharing a virtual book discussion opportunity being led by some friends at Bham Racial Justice (formerly Bham SURJ) and the Lineages of Organizing Listening Program. You can find the RSVP link in our linktree (in our bio). Feel free to DM us directly for more info as well.

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131 41st Street South
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Tuesday	4pm - 8pm
Wednesday	4pm - 8pm
Thursday	4pm - 8pm
Friday	4pm - 8pm
Saturday	11am - 3pm
Sunday	11am - 3pm

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