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The Poem is Telling Me I Remember - Poems from Creative Growth Art Center

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The result of Creative Growth’s first poetry program, The Poem is Telling Me I Remember is a chapbook that features poems collectively composed by Creative Growth artists during 2019–20. The poetry program consists of unique collaborative writing workshops facilitated by poet-in-residence Lorraine Lupo and guest poet Kostas Anagnopoulos. Poems featured in the book are beautifully illustrated with art from the Creative Growth Studio. Proceeds from sales of the book support the program.

The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry; A Bilingual Edition (Hardcover)

By Paul Valéry, Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody (Translated by)

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ISBN: 9780374298487

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - April 14th, 2020

A fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century.

Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time (Hardcover)

By Ben Ehrenreich

$26.00

ISBN: 9781640093539

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Published: Counterpoint LLC - July 7th, 2020

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Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time.

To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America (Hardcover)

By Felicia Angeja Viator

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ISBN: 9780674976368

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Published: Harvard University Press - February 25th, 2020

How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis.

Cuppy and Stew: The Bombing of Flight 629, a Love Story (Paperback)

By Eric Goodman

$23.00

ISBN: 9781733386418

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Published: If SF Publishing - May 15th, 2020

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Fiction. Memoir. In November, 1955, a young man in Denver, Colorado, hid twenty-five sticks of dynamite and a crude timer in his mother's suitcase. In what the FBI would term the first example of American air piracy, United Flight 629 blew up twelve minutes after taking off, killing everyone aboard.

Life Events: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Karolina Waclawiak

$27.00

ISBN: 9780374186951

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - July 28th, 2020

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One of Buzzfeed's 29 Books We Couldn't Put Down This Year

“Every page of this novel is a point of no return; once you’ve read Karolina Waclawiak's Life Events, you will never see life, death, grief, and healing the same way.”—Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories (Hardcover)

By Laura van den Berg

$26.00

ISBN: 9780374102098

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - July 28th, 2020

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ONE OF TIME'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2020. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, the New York Public Library, Library Journal, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and Tor.com