Books on the Park

9th Ave: Elif Batuman

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Elif Batuman reads from her new novel, The Idiot.

Praise for The Idiot

The Idiot (Paperback)

By Elif Batuman

$16.00

ISBN: 9780143111061

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Published: Penguin Books - February 13th, 2018

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
"An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down."
--Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses You
"Easily the funniest book I've read this year."
--GQ

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Cover Image

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)

By Elif Batuman

$16.00

ISBN: 9780374532185

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Published: Farrar Straus Giroux - February 16th, 2010

One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year

THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED--ABSURDLY MELANCHOLICALLY BEAUTIFULLY --TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS

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9th Ave: Jessica Hopper

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Jessica Hopper, author of The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic, dicusses her new memoir, Night Moves.

Night Moves (Paperback)

By Jessica Hopper

$15.95

ISBN: 9781477317884

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Published: University of Texas Press - September 18th, 2018

Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes drawn from 2004 through 2009, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ, living in decrepit punk houses, biking to bad loft parties with her friends, exploring Chicago deep into the night.

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The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic (Paperback)

By Jessica Hopper

$17.95

ISBN: 9780983186335

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Published: Featherproof Books - May 12th, 2015

Jessica Hopper's music criticism has earned her a reputation as a firebrand, a keen observer and fearless critic not just of music but the culture around it. With this volume spanning from her punk fanzine roots to her landmark piece on R.

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9th Ave: Paul Matthew Maisano

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Paul Matthew Maisano discusses his debut novel, Bindi.

Praise for Bindi

Bindi (Hardcover)

By Paul Matthew Maisano

$26.00

ISBN: 9780316509480

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Published: Little Brown and Company - August 14th, 2018

A richly imagined debut set against the backdrop of southern India, London, and Hollywood that tells the story of a young boy in India, suddenly orphaned, and the adults around him, each of whom is also looking for a home in the world

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9th Ave: Susan Froderberg

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Susan Froderberg discusses her new novel Mysterium.

Praise for Mysterium

Mysterium (Hardcover)

By Susan Froderberg

$26.00

ISBN: 9780374217686

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Published: Farrar Straus and Giroux - August 14th, 2018

Inspired by the true story of Nanda Devi Unsoeld's tragic 1976 death while climbing her namesake mountain, Susan Froderberg's novel Mysterium tells the tale of a courageous woman's ascent to the summit of India's highest peak to honor her fallen mother.

Old Border Road (Paperback)

By Susan Froderberg

$20.99

ISBN: 9780316098786

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Published: Back Bay Books - December 7th, 2011

Katherine is seventeen, living alone in the beautiful, desolate landscape of southern Arizona. Her mother is feckless, her father busy up north with his new family. Meeting Son, the scion of a local rancher, seems like deliverance.

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9th Ave: Ada Limon and Matthew Zapruder

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The Carrying: Poems (Hardcover)

By Ada Limon

$22.00

ISBN: 9781571315120

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Published: Milkweed Editions - August 14th, 2018

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Lim n comes The Carrying--her most powerful collection yet.

Bright Dead Things: Poems (Paperback)

By Ada Limon

$16.00

ISBN: 9781571314710

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Published: Milkweed Editions - September 15th, 2015

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours."

Why Poetry (Paperback)

By Matthew Zapruder

$14.99

ISBN: 9780062343086

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Published: Ecco - June 12th, 2018

An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder

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9th Ave: Christian Kracht

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Christian Kracht reads from his new novel, The Dead.

Praise for Christian Kracht

The Dead (Hardcover)

By Christian Kracht, Daniel Bowles (Translator)

$25.00

ISBN: 9780374139674

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Published: Farrar Straus and Giroux - July 17th, 2018

In The Dead, Award-winning author Christian Kracht presents a historical novel of international conspiracy, cinematic intrigue, and murder set before World War II, in the early years of the Axis powers' rise to tyranny.

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Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas (Paperback)

By Christian Kracht, Daniel Bowles (Translator)

$17.00

ISBN: 9781250097477

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Published: Picador USA - November 8th, 2016

Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize

One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2015

A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year

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9th Ave: Julie Bruck

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Julie Bruck reads from her new poetry collection, How to Avoid Huge Ships.

Praise for Jule Bruck

How to Avoid Huge Ships (Paperback)

By Julie Bruck

$20.00

ISBN: 9781771314855

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Published: Brick Books - September 1st, 2018

Both "grave and brave, serious and hilarious"--new poems from a Governor General's Award-winning poet.

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9th Ave: Alexandra and David Brown

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Alexandra and David Brown discuss their new book, A Year Off: A Story About Traveling the World-and How to Make it Happen for You.

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A Year Off: A Story about Traveling the World--And How to Make It Happen for You (Hardcover)

By Alexandra Brown, David Brown

$24.95

ISBN: 9781452164656

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Published: Chronicle Books - September 4th, 2018

Wait for me... Who knew these three words said to a near stranger would start an international travel adventure?

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9th Ave: Kamila Shamsie

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Kamila Shamsie joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her new novel, Home Fire.

Praise for Home Fire

Home Fire (Paperback)

By Kamila Shamsie

$16.00

ISBN: 9780735217690

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Published: Riverhead Books - September 4th, 2018

"Ingenious... Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." --The New York Times
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences