Leiden's Room

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Welcome to Leiden's Room

Behind Weldon's Room is Leiden's Room, where most of the toys, games, and children's books are. Here you'll find puppets, puzzles, card games, board games, and a wealth of literature for all ages and interests.

Among the books of Leiden's room are:

Young Adult Fiction, with emphasis on award winners and banned books
Series (like Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys)
Youth in Spanish (and other languages)
Nonfiction
(including History, People, Body & Health, Society & Current Events, Art, and Science)
Poetry
Mythology & Folklore
Early Readers
Picture Books
Alphabet & Reference
Pop-up Books
Board Books
Bedtime Books

New Arrivals

Food including subsections of:
General Cookbooks
Gastrologues (food writing)
Vegetarian and Vegan
Diet and Nutrition
Food by Type
Beverages
Desserts
Regional Cookery
Crafts
Home Repair and Decor

Audio Books - cassette and CD
Blank Books and Journals
Gift and Miniature Books
Tarot Cards
Ghost Stories

Manga
Graphic Novels
Comic Books
Role Playing Games

Why is it called Leiden's Room?

When the owner met Leiden, who was ten years old at the time, Leiden explained why Marxism might not work. Nialle was impressed, but over the years, the two became friends, discussing Victor Hugo, graphic novels, invented languages, mathematics, civil rights and policy, etc., until Leiden basically became part of the family. Though he's a grownup now, Nialle gets dorkily nostalgic about the early years of her first young-reader met-at-the-bookstore friendship, so the room in which Nialle compares reading lists with a new generation of enthusiastic bibliovores is named for Leiden and almost always has a copy of Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, which was the first book he recommended to her.

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