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9th Ave: Carvell Wallace

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

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Another Word for Love: A Memoir By Carvell Wallace Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780374237820
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Published: MCD - May 14th, 2024

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.

In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in America.


The Sixth Man By Andre Iguodala, Carvell Wallace Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525533993
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Published: Blue Rider Press - June 16th, 2020

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the Golden State Warriors, that documents his rise to fame in the world of basketball and of business.


9th Ave: Sally Wen Mao

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

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Ninetails: Nine Tales By Sally Wen Mao Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143137894
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Published: Penguin Books - May 28th, 2024

A "sumptious and lively" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (Kelly Link).


The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems By Sally Wen Mao Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644452370
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Published: Graywolf Press - August 1st, 2023

*FINALIST FOR THE 2023 MAYA ANGELOU BOOK AWARD *

A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice” (Morgan Parker)


9th Ave: Kate Flannery with Laura Albert

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

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Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles By Kate Flannery Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250339461
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - May 14th, 2024

Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent college graduate and what happens when her feminist ideals meet the real world.


Sarah: A Novel By JT LeRoy, Billy Corgan (Foreword by) Cover Image
By JT LeRoy, Billy Corgan (Foreword by)
$14.99
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ISBN: 9780062641250
Published: Harper Perennial - August 23rd, 2016

National Bestseller

Featuring a foreword by Billy Corgan

“JT LeRoy’s masterful imagination, command of story, and easy sense of the mythological are a rare combination that demands attention.” — Toronto Star


9th Ave: Paul Yamazaki with Vanessa Martini

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

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Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale By Paul Yamazaki, Rick Simonson (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Paul Yamazaki, Rick Simonson (Foreword by)
$13.95
ISBN: 9781958846698
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Published: Ode Books - May 8th, 2024

Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind.

Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco; the care and prowess of his approach to book buying; his upbringing in a Japanese American family in Southern California and moving to San Fran


9th Ave: Zoe Schlanger

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

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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth By Zoë Schlanger Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780063073852
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Published: Harper - May 7th, 2024

“A masterpiece of science writing.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

“Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful.” –Ed Yong, author of An Immense World


9th Ave: Sylvia Brownrigg with Anne Raeff

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

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The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found By Sylvia Brownrigg Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781640096561
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Published: Counterpoint - April 23rd, 2024

Sylvia Brownrigg's “wise, intimate, and deliciously entertaining memoir" (Carol Edgarian) reconstructs a poignant story of fathers lost and found


Pages For Her: A Novel By Sylvia Brownrigg Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781640090545
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Published: Counterpoint - July 10th, 2018

Two women reunite decades after their passionate affair in this “nuanced, assured, and razor-sharp” novel about motherhood, womanhood, and “what it means to be alive” ( Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train).

“A complex portrait of two women’s sexuality.”


Pages for You: A Novel By Sylvia Brownrigg Cover Image
$20.00
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ISBN: 9780312420048
Published: Picador - April 6th, 2002

Winner of a 2002 Lambda Literary Award


9th Ave: Yukiko Tominaga with Carol Edgarian

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

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See Loss See Also Love: A Novel By Yukiko Tominaga Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781668031674
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Published: Scribner - May 7th, 2024

A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her son between worlds with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law as she wrestles with grief, loss, and—strangest of all—joy.

Shortly after her husband Levi’s untimely death, Kyoko decides to raise their young son, Alex, in San Francisco, rather than return to Japan


Vera: A Novel By Carol Edgarian Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781501157530
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Published: Scribner - March 1st, 2022

New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers “an all-encompassing and enthralling” (Oprah Daily) novel featuring an unforgettable heroine coming of age in the aftermath of catastrophe, and her quest for love and reinvention.

Meet Vera Johnson, fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco’s most lege


9th Ave: Helen Benedict with Katherine Seligman

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

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The Good Deed By Helen Benedict Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781636281124
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Published: Red Hen Press - April 9th, 2024

Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece By Helen Benedict, Eyad Awwadawnan Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781804440018
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Published: Footnote Press - October 18th, 2022

The stories of refugees who fled violence or persecution only to become trapped in the worst refugee camps in Europe.

Helen Benedict, award-winning British-American professor of journalism at Columbia University, teams up with Syrian writer and refugee, Eyad Awwadawnan, to present the stories of five refugees who have endured long and dangerous journeys from the Middle East and Afric


At the Edge of the Haight By Katherine Seligman Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781643752082
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Published: Algonquin Books - October 19th, 2021

The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver

“What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy.


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