Author: James
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New Arrivals for Used Books
A new and improved area for all the great used books coming in the store. They are generally priced half or less the in print price. Read more
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Nature Tats
Surprise your partner with a snake tattoo peaking out of your collar! Read more
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What is a book ban?
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Four Points Trading Co.
Such unual scents, smell the Fruit Loops and have your mind blown. Read more
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Outfoxed – A Great Family Game
Possibly our bestselling game of all time, a great great family game ages 5+. Read more
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Activities to Stay Cool
Crafts & activities for super hot or rainy days Read more
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Woobles!
Henry came in today to show the Woobles he has crafted!!! Bacon the Pig took him one day. Unseen is the beyond adorable curly tail. Plus, would parents being more willing to add cute little creatures if the kids made them? Read more
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May Contain Butts!
Maybe it does? Maybe it doesn’t? We will never tell. Find out for yourself. Read more
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Quick Finds: Outdoor Games and Toys for Fun
We love it when people wonder around the store browsing and laughing for hours. But sometimes you know just what you need and you need it quick! Outdoor games & toys all in one place. Read more
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Happy Father’s Day
We have a hen that counts her own eggs. Yeah, she’s a Mathmachicken …. Dad joke? Our Father’s Day Picture Display brings a smile to our face every time we walk past. Come in and check it out! We also have a pretty good selection of Father’s Day cards & gifts left. Read more
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Stan Chomsky!
We are overbooked with excitement to welcome Stan Chompski to the Fox Den Staff! Stan is truly the plot twist we didn’t know we needed—her shelves are always brimming with brilliant recommendations in young adult, graphic novels, chapter books, and picture books. Basically, if you’re ever in a bind, Stan is your go-to for finding Read more
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Sport Your Geekyness
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Let Fate Decide: A Fun Approach to Your Reading List
I love this idea. A customer was telling me that when she goes to her To Be Read shelf, she finds herself avoiding certain books. I do the same thing myself, “This is an important book and I need to read it… Well, next time! I’m gonna read this awesome suspense book first.” Well the Read more
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You Are Loved!
We spotted a You Are Loved flag by Transpainter at a local business. Can you guess which business? Read more
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Bath Time!
Bath time toys! Getting clean can be just as fun as getting dirty Read more
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Uncover the Wilderness in the New Greenwild Book
Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive, and a deep magic rises from the Earth itself …. The third installment of the Greenwild series is here! “An eco-thriller novel that every child should read” – The Telegraph Read more
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Cookie Storytime with Mei Mei
Did you hear?? On Tuesday the one and only Mei Mei’s Cookies & Creamery will be here for story time! Guess what we will be reading about??? COOKIES! Read more
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Cranky Chicken: Fun Reading for 6-9 Year Olds
Cranky eyes. Cranky beak. Cranky, scratchy feet. Cranky Chicken series is perfect for emerging readers around 6 to 9 years old. Do you think the Chicken stays cranky through all four books?? Read more
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BOTS & Press Start: Fun First Chapter Books for Young Readers
1 Greeting Earthlings Summer vacation is almost here Keep your young readers engaged and entertained with books! In our First Chapter Books Section, you’ll find this cute series – BOTS: The Most Annoying Robots in the Universe. Ideal for ages 4-9. Easy-to-read language. Illustrations on most pages. BOTS are perfect for emerging readers. Read more
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Stitch & Sip – Tonight, 6/5/25
Free but space is limited! Signup for all our events on the link above or https://foxdenbooks.com/59-2/ Read more
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Little Builders
Vivi the Elf and Nora tested out a new game at Waystone Coffee Co. last week. Little Builders is a fun and simple memory game. Work together to find the cards that create each building. Suggested age range is 4-6years, but these two came up with ideas on how to make it more challenging for Read more
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Magneti’books
THE BEST travel activity kits! Everything’s magnetic! Everything is less likely to get lost between the seats in your van or on a plane. Read more
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If the Future is Dark, Orwell or Huxley?
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would Read more
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Prepare Your Home for a Fun-Filled Summer with Kids
It’s the last week of school before everyone is out for the summer!! Is your house ready for the kids to be home all day? All. Day. We have “welcome to summer” activities to help you all stay sane Read more
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Pride 2025!
1 All are Welcome at the Fox Den! Read more
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Air Forts! Cool and Tidy (a great place to read)
We are calling these “welcome to summer activities” Do you have a box fan? Add these air forts and you’ve got yourself a few good hours of the kids being busy so you can read! Follow us for more parenting tips! Read more
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Coloring Books
Do you have a kid with a sporting event this weekend and your other kids are coming along? Of course you do. Tiger Tribe saves the day with little boxes of pure magic! Everything you need in one small box. Let the kids color by numbers, learn to draw, get sparkly with the shimmer set, Read more
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Sunday is Graduation Day
River Falls High School Graduation is this Sunday, June 1st! We have plenty of cards and gifts left Read more
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Subscriber Discount 5/30/25 -6/2/25
Subscribers come on in, give us your email, and get 10% Off your entire purchase. Not a subscriber yet? Well, subscribe to our website first, then come on in and get your 10% Off discount. Hurry! This deal ends on Monday! Read more
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Father’s Day @ The Fox Den
Our Father’s Day display is up and it’s amazing! Please stop in to check it out Read more
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Grads & Dads
Grads & Dads! We’ve got gifts for both! Cards? Books? Pot Holders? Actually, yes. Yes, we do! … See more Read more
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Wreck this Journal & Co.
Wreck This Journal! Who can wreck the journal the fastest?!? *Mini Edition! These handheld fun journals will get your kids running all over the house to looks for pencils, trash, dirt, erasers, coffee grounds, and more! Tested by The Kaufman Kids (ages 14, 12, 9, & 7) and everyone gave it two thumbs up! Read more
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Single Player Logic Games
SmartGames RESTOCK! And some NEW games So excited!! Read more
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Summer Storytime Schedule!
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Unveiling the Beauty of Katie’s Art Wall
Double the Katie means Double the art wall! It’s a masterpiece. Read more
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Engaging Fantasy Series for Ages 9 and Up
This is such a terrific series for 9ish and up. Each book builds on the last; the characters are really engaging (with very real faults, making them relatable); and explores themes of friendship, honor, & self confidence. Plus there isn’t a lot of unnecessary violence. Also highly recommended for adults looking for a fantasy series Read more
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Hanging City Book Club 5/20 7pm
Our Between the Covers (with Monica Eileen LaVold) Romance Genre Book Club meets on Tuesday, May 20th at 7pm to discuss The Hanging City by Charlie N. Holmberg Read more
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Father’s Day June 15th
Our Father’s Day gift items are stocked up front and ready to go! Father’s Day is June 15th Read more
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Between the Covers (with Monica 🙂 ) – Pride Month
Hello Romance Readers!I am absolutely loving this book club.This is Pride month, so instead of a Trope Talk, we’re reading whatever LGPTQIA books suit our fancy!We’ll go round the circle and tell our favorite things and our worst annoyances about our pick. Bring your book with if you can for us visual learners. Just a Read more
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Unbought & Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
Join the discussion at our Best Intentions Book Club – 7/27/2025 5pm. This should be an amazing an important book discussion. Click the link above to join the discussion. Read more
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Dad’s Day Pictures Needed
Send us a picture of the dads in your life for our Father’s Day display! Email is best – [email protected] Please send your pictures in by Sunday, May 25th (pretty please no later than May 26th ) The earlier, the better! Picture of Vivi the Elf and her dad Read more
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Please Take Them!
New card from the creative & hilarious Modern Printed Matter Please tell us, on what occasion would you give this card for? grabbing our popcorn to enjoy these answers … Read more
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Special Hours Saturday, May 17th
Just a reminder that we have special hours tomorrow to allow all of our staff to attend a special wedding celebration. On Saturday, May 17th we will be closing early at 4pm. Thank you for understanding! Read more
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ABC’s of Banned Books – B is for The Book Thief
Wednesday, June 18th 7pm. Click the Above Link to Signup. Read more
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Greenwood Fundraiser 5/12 7 to 9pm!
Mr. Follstad is helping us get the word out! One night only, special hours, join us in celebrating and supporting Greenwood Elementary!! From 7-9pm, Monday May 12th, Fox Den will donate 20% of all sales to support Greenwood’s literacy programming and continuation of author events. Remember, anything purchased during your two hours, 20% goes back Read more
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So Many Fun Stickers!
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New Book Nooks In Stock!
So Beautiful and fun to assemble. Read more
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Mom Pictures Needed!
It’s that time of the year again! If a picture of your mom is not in this stack that Heather is holding, then please email us a picture of your mom! [email protected] Our Mother’s Day display will look a little different this year We ran out of window space last year (because there are so Read more
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Suport Your School!
1 20% of Our After Hours Events go Back to the Schools! Read more
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Western Wisconsin Book Crawl Comes to an End
Thank you all so much for participating. Our first Crawl was so much fun, Moms & Sons, Families, Groups of Friends… Just great. Read more
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Earthday!
Every day should be Earthday! Or maybe Independent bookstore Day/Earthday. Read more
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Exchange Your Books
We have a used book exchange. Make an appointment to bring in your gently used books. We will go through them and offer you store credit that will be good for any of our thousands of used books in our store or our warehouse. Your credit will be put in our system under your name Read more
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Banned Books.
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3D Printed Cuties
1 Melissa’s Madness “What you’re holding is special. Take another look. You probably can’t tell, but this model is 100% biodegradable. No petroleum-based plastic here.“ Read more
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Frog & Toad Press
New company, in at Fox Den! Now this is good stuff. Happy Monday laughs to you. & Read more
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Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
On Sale 4/22. Reserve your copy in the comments below. Read more
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When you’re here for the Western Wisconsin Book Crawl…
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Easter Prizes
Stuffies, Puzzles, Stickers, Eggmazing, & So Much More Read more
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“Out of my way, Fools!” Pinky 6 years old
Please read Ferris, another triumph for the great Kate DiCamillo. It is, as turns, hillarius and heart warming. Kate DiCamillo spent most of her childhood in the South, and moved to Minnesota when she was in her twenties. She was inspired to write Because of Winn-Dixie, her first novel, during a bout of homesickness one brutally Read more
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Beautiful Magical Prints -Local Artist
“Doors are for people with no imagination.” ~ Derek Landy Sophie Koch has obviously never encountered a door. Come into the world of Iron Tofu Art Prints and cards now available at Fox Den. Read more
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Kitty With a Cupcake!
Stack your Pride Pins. Read on Blog to See Cute Video. Read more
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Aster, The Earth & Sophie
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Easter Storytime Tonight
6pm 4/11 Did you hear? It’s story time TONIGHT! And the Easter Bunny has been spotted scampering around the store, leaving eggs everywhere! Please help us find all of the eggs that have been hidden amongst the books! See you at 6pm! Read more
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Subscriber Special!
10% Off Entire Purchase Click Read More For Details Thank you for subscribing to our website. Read more
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Happy 100th Birthday
The Great Gatsby published by Scribner’s on 4/10/1925 and received fairly favorable reviews, but was a commercial disappointment – selling fewer than 20,000 copies. With the themes of the alluring, but illusory American Dream, and the brutal carelessness of the moneyed class, it seems to still pack a punch. Like so many other great books, Read more
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Easter Curators
Check out this adorable Easter Basket and these two creative basket curators. Read more
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So Many Fidgets
1 Needoh Nice Bergs are back in stock and a bunch more too! Read more
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Made By Women Survivors
1 Thistle Farms is an amazing organization, one that makes beautiful products while doing important work to help women who are survivors of sexual violence. Read more
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Western Wisconsin Book Crawl 4/18 – 4/26
Come join all the fun! Read more
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Farewell to our Beautiful Women’s History Month Display
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If you loved these books…
The House in the Cerulean Sea The Kamogawa Food Detectives Butcher &. Blackbird Lessons in Chemistry Fourth Wing To the right of each book are recommendations. Read more
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Stuffy Explosion
1 10 huge boxes of Squids, Unicorns, Elephants, Pigs, Seagulls, Dragons, and sooo much more. Schwoo! Read more
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Cats and Puzzles
2 So many puzzles but some reason it’s really hard to get going (scroll down.) Read more
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This Book is Gay
1 Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Intersex. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for YOU (plus candles, flags, cups, pins, and other items of beauty and love.) Read more
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Eugy 3D Cuteness!
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Banned Book #1
2 All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson We are preparing for our ABC’s of Banned Books Book Club and first up, for the letter A, is All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson Garçon. “When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever Read more
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Easter Basket Ideas
Scorpio Tea Lights & Stones Sea Witch Botanicals Incense sticks Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater Journal Scorpio Races locket by Marshall & Rose Flying Wish Paper Wooden Tarot/Oracle Card Holder with the rarepress Affirmations Deck Plot Twist candle by Fly Paper Products Add a pop of color to the Easter baskets with these adorable embroidered Read more
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Fox Den Bestsellers – A Snapshot
1 1 Black, Juneau – Shady Hollow2 Haig, Matt Midnight Library3 Brammer, Mikki – Collected Regrets of Clover4 Barnhill, Kelly – When Women Were Dragons5 Peters, Amanda – Berry Pickers6 Ocker, J.W. – United States of Cryptids – A Tour of American Myths and Monsters7 Johnson, George M. All Boys Arent Blue8 Orwell, George – Read more
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Hop Hop Hop!
Easter Basket Ideas for a baby/toddler Peter Rabbit Jack in the Box Peter Rabbit plush Easter Rabbit Fun boom Rabbit Silicone Teether The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter book Spring Stickers Two delicious chocolate bars (maybe for the parents? ) Read more
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Spring is…
1 It will get warm soon, right?!? Right?!? Prepare to get yourself and those kids outside! Read more
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Hey Easter Bunny
We’ve got the things you need for baskets. Read more
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Dangerous Women
1 Hell yeah we do! Read more
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Notebooks and Such
Lined, lay flat notebooks with beautiful books on the cover. Read more
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Calling All Teachers
2 We have a program at the Fox Den which is funded by our wonderful customers. Teachers, regardless of where they teach, can come in and use up to $25.00 a month on Used Books for classroom materials. When customers bring in used books, they can get store credit for any of our thousands of Read more
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Back List – Used Book Alert
2 The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries by Charlaine Harris I started rereading the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries by Charlaine Harris to see if they were as enjoyable as I remembered, having read a couple and watched the HBO True Blood series. They really are a ton of fun, filled with vampires, shape shifters, Maenads, and who knows Read more
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Earrings…
1 Restocked with some favorites and some new earrings from nomanslandartifacts_ Read more
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Truth or Beard Bookclub
1 “He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners.” ― Penny Reid, Truth or Beard Monica’s warned us about this Winston clan of Duane, Jethro, Cletus, Beau, Roscoe, Billy, and Bethany. Can’t wait to meet them! What to expect ~ -Big Read more
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Squishable Cuteness
1 We aren’t sure what’s cuter; the new squishables or the people holding them? Read more
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Murdle
1 Get the book series that’s a #1 Sunday Times bestseller, a USA Today bestseller for more than a year, the British Book Awards Book of the Year! – from Murdle.com Read more
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Charm It Restock!
We’ve got back in your favorites and brought in some new goodies. Come in and see We’ll meet in the lower level by the fireplace for stories, songs, perhaps a puppet or two. One never knows what will happen at the Fox Den. All ages are welcome. #foxdenusedbookstore#shoplocal #finditatfoxden#FunAtFoxDen Read more
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Story Time Friday, March 28th 6pm
Stop by on Friday, March 28th at 6pm for our next Fox Den EVENING family story time – Alphabet! We’ll meet in the lower level by the fireplace for stories, songs, perhaps a puppet or two. One never knows what will happen at the Fox Den. All ages are welcome. #foxdenusedbookstore#FunAtFoxDen #WeLoveRiverFalls Read more
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Women’s History Month
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, let’s take a moment to reflect on the incredible stories, achievements, and voices we’ve celebrated this month. Let’s carry this momentum forward, setting an intention to never let women’s voices be silenced. Whether in our workplaces, communities, or homes, let’s continue to uplift and amplify the voices Read more