9th Ave: D. Watkins
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D. Watkins discusses his new book We Speak For Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America.
Praise for We Speak for Ourselves
From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, with searing conviction and full compassion, D. Watkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their raw, intimate stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE
O MAGAZINE BEST SUMMER BOOK
Told by the man who lived it, The Cook Up is a riveting look inside the Baltimore drug trade as portrayed in the hit HBO series, The Wire.Email or call for priceISBN: 9781510716391Availability: Not Available to Order. Call or email for used stock availability.Published: Hot Books - September 27th, 2016A New York Times Best Seller!
To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American political era, dissolving the divisions of the past.9th Ave: Jenny Odell
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Jenny Odell discusses her new book, How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention.
Praise for How To Do Nothing
$25.99ISBN: 9781612197494Availability: Coming Soon. Pre-Order Now!Published: Melville House - April 9th, 2019A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world
9th Ave: James Polchin
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James Polchin discusses his new book Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall.
About Indecent Advances
$26.00ISBN: 9781640091894Availability: Coming Soon. Pre-Order Now!Published: Counterpoint LLC - June 4th, 2019A skillful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the relationship between the media and popular culture in the portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall.
9th Ave: Ocean Vuong
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Ocean Vuong discusses his new novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.
Praise for On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
$26.00ISBN: 9780525562023Availability: Coming Soon. Pre-Order Now!Published: Penguin Press - June 4th, 2019Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.
$16.00ISBN: 9781556594953Availability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 5th, 2016One of the most celebrated poetry books of the year:
9th Ave: Julia Phillips
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Julia Phillips discusses her new novel, Disappearing Earth.
Praise for Disappearing Earth
$26.95ISBN: 9780525520412Availability: Coming Soon. Pre-Order Now!Published: Knopf - May 14th, 2019"Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester
"A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart
Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer.9th Ave: Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
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Editors Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos discuss Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture.
Praise for Original Plumbing
$34.95ISBN: 9781936932597Availability: Coming Soon. Pre-Order Now!Published: Amethyst Editions - May 14th, 2019Independently published from 2009 to 2019, Original Plumbing grew from a Bay Area zine to a nationally acclaimed print quarterly dedicated to trans men.
9th Ave: Voice of Witness: Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America
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Editors Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman discuss Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America with Lauren Markham.
About Solito, Solita
$19.95ISBN: 9781608466184Availability: Coming Soon. Pre-Order Now!Published: Haymarket Books - April 16th, 2019They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells--in their own words--the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States.
$16.00ISBN: 9781101906200Availability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.Published: Broadway Books - May 22nd, 2018The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.
9th Ave: Heather Hansman
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Heather Hansman discusses her new book, Down River: Into the Future of Water in the West.
Praise for Down River
$25.00ISBN: 9780226432670Availability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.Published: University of Chicago Press - March 19th, 2019The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country, as it provides water for 33 million people.9th Ave: Pamela Nadell
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Pamela Nadell discusses her new book, America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today.
About America's Jewish Women
$28.95ISBN: 9780393651232Availability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 5th, 2019What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S.
9th Ave: California Wildfires Benefit
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$16.00ISBN: 9780985288389Availability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.Published: Poetic Matrix Press - February 13th, 2013Rabbit is a trickster in Cherokee stories. He makes wagers, he talks his way out of being eaten and he is generally an unreliable being. I've always had a soft spot for him. He is thought to be an inspiration for the Brer Rabbit stories. It's also been said that the Cherokee got him from other South Eastern traditions which may or may not be true.
$20.00ISBN: 9781771314855Availability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.Published: Brick Books - September 2018Both "grave and brave, serious and hilarious"--new poems from a Governor General's Award-winning poet.
$14.95ISBN: 9781941209165Availability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.Published: Press 53 - April 24th, 2015In Rebecca Foust's splendid book-length sonnet sequence, Paradise Drive, we come upon a Pilgrim contemplating the deadly sins while hiding out in the bathrooms at some of Marin County, California's swankiest parties. As the Pilgrim swaggers into an idiosyncratic, believable, frail spirituality, her unmediated, un-medicated new life emerges.
$18.95ISBN: 9780998514062Availability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.Published: Red Mountain Press - May 15th, 2018Poetry. California Studies. From thistles and fossils, to the inner workings of spacecraft, the poems in A DIFFERENT PHYSICS move with lyric power through natural and figurative landscapes, to worlds of cultural and intellectual models. A slide rule carries us from grief back to innocence. A silicon wafer for microchips reflects sexual politics and art history.
$14.95ISBN: 9781945665080Availability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.Published: Manic D Press - May 2018In her first full-length collection of poems, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; the accuracy and flaws of memory abound.
$16.00ISBN: 9781532364129Availability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.Published: Three Mile Harbor Press - May 2018Poetry. "The reach of these graceful, ambitious poems ranges across stars, cities, storms. Their music is both political and deeply private, braiding the two undersongs together in challenging and sometimes wrenching poetry. These are poems to be savored and remembered, touchstones of a felt world."--Eavan Boland.
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