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9th Ave: Lidia Yuknavitch

Cover of Lidia Yuknavitch's novel Thrust. It has an illustration of a naked figure riding a sea turtle with a red saddle

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Thrust: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Lidia Yuknavitch
$28.00
ISBN: 9780525534907
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 28th, 2022

As rising waters—and an encroaching police state—endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a "carrier" travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable figures from the margins of history

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Verge (Paperback)

By Lidia Yuknavitch
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525534884
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 2nd, 2021

LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit Hub

A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.

9th Ave: Fariha Róisín

The cover of Fariha Roisin's Who is Wellness For? It's a watercolor painting of horizontal stripes, of tan, yellow, salmon, and brown.

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Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind (Hardcover)

By Fariha Roisin
$26.99
ISBN: 9780063077089
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Published: Harper Wave - June 14th, 2022

The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness.

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Like a Bird (Paperback)

By Fariha Róisín
$17.00
ISBN: 9781951213442
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Published: Unnamed Press - August 3rd, 2021

A revolutionary story of empowerment and redemption, Like a Bird is the highly anticipated debut novel from Fariha R is n, author of the poetry collection How to Cure A Ghost
One of Vogue and Refinery29's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall

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How to Cure a Ghost (Paperback)

By Fariha Róisín, Monica Ramos (Illustrator)
$14.99
ISBN: 9781419737565
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Published: Abrams Image - September 24th, 2019

A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness
 
Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, Fariha Róisín’s poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme naviga

9th Ave: Sloane Crosley

Cover of Sloane Crosley's novel, Cult Classic. There is an almost-psychedlic drawing of a three doorways, made up of carved facial silhouettes facing one another, and all lead to a blue, feminine figure at the very center of the cover, or end of the illustration's hallway. The doorways are marroon, fuschia, and magenta, with red carpet.

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Cult Classic: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Sloane Crosley
$27.00
ISBN: 9780374603397
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Published: MCD - June 7th, 2022

Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance.

MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2022 by Glamour, W, Nylon, Fortune, Lit Hub, The Millions, and more!

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Look Alive Out There: Essays (Paperback)

By Sloane Crosley
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250310415
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Published: Picador - April 2nd, 2019

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Buzzfeed, Elle, Cosmopolitan, The Millions, InStyle, Bustle, BookRiot, and Southern Living

Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays!

9th Ave: Tsering Yangzom Lama and Shruti Swamy

The cover of We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies. The cover is a very light lavender, with cut outs of mountains made from different textiles in pink, red, green, and yellow.

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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies (Hardcover)

By Tsering Yangzom Lama
$27.00
ISBN: 9781635576412
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - May 17th, 2022

Named a Most Anticipated Book by:
The Millions * Ms. Magazine * Bustle
For readers of Homegoing and The Leavers, a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family's journey through exile.

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The Archer (Hardcover)

By Shruti Swamy
$26.95
ISBN: 9781616209902
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Published: Algonquin Books - September 7th, 2021

“Set in 1970s Bombay, the novel explores art, ambition, gender roles and class with the same shimmering prose of Swamy’s first book, the story collection A House Is a Body.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] sublime, boundary-pushing exploration of sexuality, creativity, and love.”
—NPR
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9th Ave: Shelly Oria

The cover of I Know What's Best for You, edited by Shelly Oria. The cover is red, and the title is in a black script in the center of the cover.

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I Know What's Best for You (Paperback)

By Shelly Oria (Editor), Tommy Orange (Contribution by), R. O. Kwon (Contribution by)
$21.99
ISBN: 9781952119217
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Published: McSweeney's - June 7th, 2022

Edited by Shelly Oria--author and editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus--this explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality.

9th Ave: Lubna Safi

Cover of Lubna Safi's Your Blue and the Quiet Lamnet. It has an image of rolling hills in blue on the front, the hills becoming a dark blue the closer to they are to the bottom of the cover. Some letters from the title of the book are slightly eclipsed by the tops of the hills.

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Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems (Hardcover)

By Lubna Safi, Rachel Mennies (Foreword by)
$21.95
ISBN: 9781682831397
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Published: Texas Tech University Press - June 7th, 2022

Your Blue and the Quiet Lament records the textures of grief after a cousin's murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative of arrest, imprisonment, and torture in Syria and interweave the difficulties a family experiences in the diaspora.

9th Ave: Elif Batuman with Rachel Khong

Cover of Elif Batuman's Either/Or. The cover has a light yellow background, and "Either/Or" is written in two columns multiple times down the cover. There is a red light going between some of the words, like a maze, and ends as an arrow pointing to the words "A Novel" written in red.

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Either/Or (Hardcover)

By Elif Batuman
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525557593
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Published: Penguin Press - May 24th, 2022

“Batuman has a gift for making the universe seem, somehow, like the benevolent and witty literary seminar you wish it were . . .This novel wins you over in a million micro-observations.” —The New York Times

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Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel (Paperback)

By Rachel Khong
$16.00
ISBN: 9781250182555
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Published: Picador - July 10th, 2018

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; San Francisco Chronicle; Esquire; Huffington Post; Nylon; Entertainment Weekly; BuzzFeed; Booklist; and The Independent

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The Idiot: A Novel (Paperback)

By Elif Batuman
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143111061
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Published: Penguin Books - February 13th, 2018

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

“Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ

9th Ave: David Yoon with Tom Lin

The cover of David Yoon's City of Orange. It has an illustration of rolling hills with a gradient of orange. The title is written in white font down the center of the cover.

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City of Orange (Hardcover)

By David Yoon
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593422168
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - May 24th, 2022

A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone.

 He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket?

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The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (Hardcover)

By Tom Lin
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316542159
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - June 1st, 2021

Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award

A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem).

Orphaned young, Ming Tsu,

9th Ave: Obi Kaufmann

Cover of Obi Kaufmann's book, The Coasts of California. The cover is white and in the center in a round frame is a water color painting of a wooded coasts with pine trees, a light blue sky, and cerulean blue water. There is a bird flying up and out fo the round frame. Additional cover text reads "A California Field Atlas"

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The Coasts of California (Paperback)

By Obi Kaufmann
$55.00
ISBN: 9781597145510
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Published: Heyday Books - April 19th, 2022

An epic, gloriously illustrated journey up and down California's shoreline

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The California Field Atlas (Paperback)

By Obi Kaufmann
$45.00
ISBN: 9781597144025
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Published: Heyday Books - September 1st, 2017

" A] gorgeously illustrated compendium."--Sunset

This lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California, revealing its myriad ecologies, topographies, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings.

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The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas (Paperback)

By Obi Kaufmann
$55.00
ISBN: 9781597144797
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Published: Heyday Books - September 7th, 2020

The first book of a major new trilogy from artist-naturalist Obi Kaufmann

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The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious Resource (Hardcover)

By Obi Kaufmann
$20.00
ISBN: 9781597144698
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Published: Heyday Books - June 1st, 2019

Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State's single most complex and controversial resource: water.

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