Books on the Park

9th Ave: Kaveh Akbar with Tommy Orange

This is a ticketed event and will be held at our 1231 9th Ave location in the Inner Sunset.

 

Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance By Kaveh Akbar (Editor), Paige Lewis (Editor), Joy Harjo (Contribution by) Cover Image
By Kaveh Akbar (Editor), Paige Lewis (Editor), Joy Harjo (Contribution by)
$21.95
ISBN: 9781956046168
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Published: Sarabande Books - October 24th, 2023

An anthology edited by acclaimed poets Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis.


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Wandering Stars: A novel By Tommy Orange Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780593318256
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Published: Knopf - February 27th, 2024

The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel.


The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine By Kaveh Akbar, Kaveh Akbar (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Kaveh Akbar, Kaveh Akbar (Introduction by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780241391594
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Published: Penguin Classics - September 12th, 2023

An inspiring new selection of poems exploring faith and the divine, featuring poets from across the world, from antiquity to the present, compiled by renowned poet Kaveh Akbar

A Penguin Classic


Calling a Wolf a Wolf By Kaveh Akbar Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781938584671
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Published: Alice James Books - September 12th, 2017

2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Gold Winner

2018 Levis Reading Prize Winner

2017 Julie Suk Award Winner

A 2017 Nautilus Silver Award Winner

2017 Florida Book Award Gold Winner

A 2018 First Horizon Award Winner

Winner of the 2017 John C. Zacharis First Book Award

A 2018 Montaigne Medal Finalist

A 2017 NPR Best Book of the Year


Pilgrim Bell: Poems By Kaveh Akbar Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644450598
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Published: Graywolf Press - August 3rd, 2021

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf


There There By Tommy Orange Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525436140
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Published: Vintage - May 7th, 2019

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.


9th Ave: Margo Steines with Amanda Montei

This event will be held at our 1231 9th Ave location in the Inner Sunset.

Brutalities: A Love Story By Margo Steines Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781324050872
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 3rd, 2023

"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bearing witness—and utterly propulsive." —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

A searing, vivid memoir that investigates the dynamics of violence, power, desire, and a body pushed to the brink.


Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control By Amanda Montei Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9780807013274
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Published: Beacon Press - September 12th, 2023

In this stunning blend of memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, a new mother examines the intersection between misogyny and motherhood, considering how caregivers can take back their bodies and pass on a language of consent to their children

Motherhood and the culture of misogyny in America are not often explored in tandem. The connection is women’s bodies.


9th Ave: We Call to the Eye and the Night

This event will be held at our 1231 9th Ave location in the Inner Sunset.

We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage By Hala Alyan, Zeina Hashem Beck Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780892555673
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Published: Persea - September 12th, 2023

This landmark anthology gathers together almost two-hundred vibrant English-language love poems by living writers of Arab descent.


9th Ave: Melissa Lozada-Oliva with Hieu Minh Nguyen

This event will be held at our 1231 9th Ave location in the Inner Sunset. 

Candelaria: A Novel By Melissa Lozada-Oliva Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781662601804
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Published: Astra House - September 19th, 2023

"With tongue-in-cheek humor and sharp cultural criticism, this novel is an unforgettable exploration of diasporic identity politics and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost." —Xochitl Gonzalez, The TODAY Show


Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse By Melissa Lozada-Oliva Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9781662601651
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Published: Astra House - September 27th, 2022

NOW IN PAPERBACK FEATURING A SHORT STORY FROM THE FORTHCOMING COLLECTION BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT, JESUS IS ALIVE

"A macabre love story that casts an inquisitive eye on Latinidad, womanhood, and celebrity worship."
—Keely Weiss, Harper's Bazaar

"Melissa Lozada-Oliva's surreal novel-in-verse is sure to delight and surprise readers . . . 


9th Ave: Celebrating Katherine Min's The Fetishist

This event will be held at our 1231 9th Ave store in the Inner Sunset.

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The Fetishist By Katherine Min Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593713655
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - January 9th, 2024

In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings.


9th Ave: Sarah Ghazal Ali with Zeina Hashem Beck

This event will be held at our 1231 9th Ave location in the Inner Sunset. 

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Theophanies By Sarah Ghazal Ali Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781949944587
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Published: Alice James Books - January 16th, 2024

Moving between the scriptures of the Qur'an and the Bible, these poems explore the complexities and spectacles of gender, faith, and family by unraveling the age-old idea that seeing is believing. Navigating both scripture and culture, the poems in Theophanies work to spin miracles from the mundanities of desire and violence.


O (Penguin Poets) By Zeina Hashem Beck Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780143136897
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Published: Penguin Books - July 5th, 2022

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 

O is so full of music and passion for life . . . Zeina Hashem Beck’s poems unfold the abundance of our world.” —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
 


9th Ave: Inci Atrek with Nina LaCour

This event will take place at our 1231 9th Ave location in the Inner Sunset.

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Holiday Country: A Novel By İnci Atrek Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250889461
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Published: Flatiron Books - January 9th, 2024

A seductive and lyrical debut following a young woman’s dangerous summer romance during an idyllic vacation on the Aegean coast

"A gorgeous exploration." —Raven Leilani, author of Luster

"A book full of pleasures." —Kirkus


9th Ave: Kliph Nesteroff with Irene Tu

This event will be held at our 1231 9th Ave location in the Inner Sunset.

Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars By Kliph Nesteroff Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781419760983
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Published: Abrams Press - November 28th, 2023

From the preeminent historian of modern comedy comes an expansive history of showbiz and the culture wars
 
There is a common belief that we live in unprecedented times, that people are too sensitive today, that nobody objected to the actions of actors, comedians, and filmmakers in the past.


We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy By Kliph Nesteroff Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781982103057
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Published: Simon & Schuster - February 15th, 2022

A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire

From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy.

It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill’s stand-up routine: “My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York.


The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy By Kliph Nesteroff Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780802125682
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Published: Grove Press - November 8th, 2016

Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph.


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