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9th Ave: Lizzie O'Shea

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.

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Lizzie O'Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology.

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Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology (Hardcover)

By Lizzie O'Shea
$27.95
ISBN: 9781788734301
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Published: Verso - May 14th, 2019

A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow.

9th Ave: T.J. Mitchell & Judy Melinek

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Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell discuss their new novel, First Cut.

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First Cut (Hardcover)

By Judy Melinek M. D., T. J. Mitchell
$26.99
ISBN: 9781335008305
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Published: Hanover Square Press - January 7th, 2020

"Scalpel sharp."--Kathy Reichs

A hard-nosed medical examiner. A suspicious case. An underworld plot only she saw coming.

9th Ave: Deb Olin Unferth and Rita Bullwinkel

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Deb Olin Unferth discusses her new novel, Barn 8, with Rita Bullwinkel.

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Barn 8: A Novel (Paperback)

By Deb Olin Unferth
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644450154
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Published: Graywolf Press - March 3rd, 2020

An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers

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Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories (Paperback)

By Deb Olin Unferth
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555977689
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Published: Graywolf Press - March 21st, 2017

“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice—each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What an important and exciting talent.”—George Saunders

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Belly Up (Paperback)

By Rita Bullwinkel
$14.95
ISBN: 9780998518435
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Published: Strange Object - November 15th, 2016

Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given and what their bodies require to be sustained.

9th Ave: Emily Nemens

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Emily Nemens discusses her new novel The Cactus League.

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The Cactus League: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Emily Nemens
$27.00
ISBN: 9780374117948
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - February 4th, 2020

An explosive, character-driven odyssey through the world of baseball from Emily Nemens, the editor of The Paris Review

9th Ave: Jenny Offill

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Jenny Offill discusses her new novel Weather.

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Weather: A novel (Hardcover)

By Jenny Offill
$23.95
ISBN: 9780385351102
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Published: Knopf - February 11th, 2020

From the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis

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Dept. of Speculation (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Jenny Offill
$15.95
ISBN: 9780345806871
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Published: Vintage - October 7th, 2014

From the acclaimed author of Last Things comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage--a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.

ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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Last Things (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Jenny Offill
$14.95
ISBN: 9781101872079
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Published: Vintage - March 17th, 2015

To eight-year-old Grace Davitt, the world is full of strange wonders. Through the eyes of her mother, Anna—an ornithologist who speaks five languages—their small lakeside town in Vermont becomes a glittering mystery filled with secret tongues, monsters in the lake, and birthday parties for the Earth.

9th Ave: Amina Cain and Rita Bullwinkel

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Amina Cain discusses her new novel, Indelicacy, with Rita Bullwinkel.

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Indelicacy: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Amina Cain
$25.00
ISBN: 9780374148379
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - February 11th, 2020

A ghostly feminist fable, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams.

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Creature (Paperback)

By Amina Cain
$16.00
ISBN: 9780984469383
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Published: Dorothy a Publishing Project - November 1st, 2013

Fiction. "Amina Cain is a beautiful writer. Like the girl in the rear view mirror in your backseat, quiet, looking out the window half smiling, then not, then glancing at you, curious to her. That is how her thoughts and words make me feel, like clouds hanging with jets, and knowing love is pure."--Thurston Moore

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Belly Up (Paperback)

By Rita Bullwinkel
$14.95
ISBN: 9780998518435
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Published: Strange Object - November 15th, 2016

Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given and what their bodies require to be sustained.

9th Ave: Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon

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Garth Greenwell discusses his new novel, Cleanness, with R.O. Kwon.

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Cleanness (Hardcover)

By Garth Greenwell
$26.00
ISBN: 9780374124588
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - January 14th, 2020

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire

Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song.

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What Belongs to You: A Novel (Paperback)

By Garth Greenwell
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250117892
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Published: Picador - December 20th, 2016

Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction • A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction • A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Taite Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • A Finalist for the Green Carnation Prize • A New York Time

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The Incendiaries: A Novel (Paperback)

By R. O. Kwon
$16.00
ISBN: 9780735213906
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Published: Riverhead Books - July 30th, 2019

Now a National Bestseller

"Religion, politics, and love collide in this slim but powerful novel reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, with menace and mystery lurking in every corner." --People Magazine

9th Ave: Miranda Popkey and Rachel Khong

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Miranda Popkey discusses her debut novel Topics of Conversation with Rachel Khong.

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Topics of Conversation: A novel (Hardcover)

By Miranda Popkey
$24.00
ISBN: 9780525656289
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Published: Knopf - January 7th, 2020

For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill--a compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction

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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

9th Ave: E.J. Koh

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E.J. Koh discusses her new memoir The Magical Language of Others.

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The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By E. J. Koh
$22.95
ISBN: 9781947793385
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Published: Tin House Books - January 7th, 2020

The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself abandoned and adrift in a world made strange by her mother's absence.

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