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Some pics of this absolute ANGEL and her adorable tiny mullet. She makes my day! ♡♥︎♡

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Welcome Georgia!! This sweetie loved her first day! She played with so many new friends, including Frank, Buddy and Hoagie!! We can’t wait to have you back soon!!

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My loves! We’re included with some great local businesses and orgs like @phillygoatproject @theintlbar @balletx.official @fringearts in the Best of Philly 2021!!! Since Linda and I call ourselves shadow people, we don’t know quite what to do when a light shines on us so you’ll find us in the corner nervously texting each other emojis.

But really, thank you for the support! We’d love to see you, so if you wanted to stop by to say hi in person today, we’re open until 6 and we promise to come out of the shadows and act like humans. 😬

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From ideation to publication, we work with partners to produce chapbooks about some of the most important issues and history of the day. We edit, design, print locally, and package them up ourselves. It’s definitely a labor of love. This time around, we teamed up with The Venceremos Brigade to publish eight stories chronicling a half century of solidarity work by the VB’s members in Cuba and beyond. Multigenerational stories of activism abound, and we cannot wait to hear the authors share their work and dialogue with our audience of supporters during the launch this Monday evening. Link in bio to register and shop.

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Announcement time! We are grateful to the Binc Foundation for giving us a #survivetothrive bookstore grant to expand our business so that we can thrive not just as a retailer, but as a community hub for literary culture.

#grant #nonprofit #fundthearts #community #indiebookstore #fishtown #kensingtonphilly

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I truly don’t know how, but by the grace of the bookstore gods, we made it to our 2-year anniversary. This is our second pandemic birthday and coincidentally, our second time using this sign, although Linda jazzed it up this time.

Instead of having a virtual or outdoor birthday event, we are going to spend this week celebrating the couples who have kept our store alive (and thriving) this last year. You’ll get to hear directly from our date night duos about their stories of love, and hopefully get a little taste of the magic we get to experience every day. Let’s celebrate two years of loving literature, but most importantly of loving people. ❤️
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#happybirthday #pandemicbirthday #pandemicanniversary #datenight #indiebookstore #fishtown #kensingtonphilly

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We’re spending independent bookstore day the only way we know how: celebrating local authors and hanging with our folks outside in the sunshine. Thank you to all our supporters for keeping us in business during a pandemic so that we can experience this day with gratitude at @kcfcoop farmers market and birthday jawn.
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#indepedentbookstoreday #happybirthday #anniversary #shopsmallbusiness #buylocal #fishtown #kensingtonphilly

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There are almost too many women to name that have impacted the history of H&H — interns, teaching artists, volunteers, board members — and sadly we don’t have photos of them all, but we tried our damnedest to capture some of them here.

Thank you Amanda, Jeannette, Chloe, Maria, Maryan, Isabella, Tracey, Sarah, Rachel, Melody, Catherine, Shoshana and many more. We’re proud our history includes you. Happy Women’s History Month!

#womenshistorymonth #womensupportingwomen

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Continuing our Women’s History Month series with the women who have dreamed, spoken, and crafted this organization into existence. This, my friends, is Kerry B. She was a founding member of our fledgling publishing company in 2012. She provided marketing and strategic scaffolding, and has continued to be a source of wisdom. Let us count the ways in which her brilliance and vision shaped our organization from the jump—from her tech savvy to her wordsmithing to her boundless creativity, the impact is mighty. Get yourself a fellow founder with wit, grace, and style for miles, a tall order she clears with ease.

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As part of Women’s History Month, we want to introduce you to the women that have shaped our history. First up is Ms. Lisa McHenry Bendel. Lisa joined our editing staff one year after we began as a craft publisher wayyyy back in 2012/2013. She has been an editor and typesetter through full length novels, memoirs, chapbooks, anthologies, and more. When we became a nonprofit, she became our board vp and helps us out in the bookstore on weekends. She is loving, loyal, has a great laugh, amazing perfume, and endless curiosity. We’re lucky to have her. Thanks for supporting us, Lisa! ❤️

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Happy International Women’s Day from H&H featuring some of our favorite books we have in-store written by and/or about women. Our small team is made up of majority women and we’re always so glad that we’re able to spread the voices of women authors. These books and others are available for purchase online, or come stop by Fri-Sun. Let us know who some of your favorite women writers are!
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#internationalwomensday #womensupportingwomen #womenshistorymonth #philly #localbusiness #supportwomenwriters

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Welcome Anthony!!! This sweet pup had such a fun first day! He especially loved the attention from the humans, and playing with his friend Buddy! We can’t wait to have you back, Anthony!!

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