Books on the Park

9th Ave: Selby Wynn Schwartz with Celeste Chan

Cover of Selby Wynn Schwartz's After Sappho. The cover is royal blue with paintings of feminine figures in the style of Greek pottery painting in dark orange, white, and black, sitting in a circle around the book's title. The top right corner in white writing reads "The Booker Prize 2022"

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After Sappho: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Selby Wynn Schwartz
$28.95
ISBN: 9781324092315
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Published: Liveright - January 24th, 2023

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE
A Guardian Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection

“A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams."
—Jacob Brogan, Washington Post

The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance) By Selby Wynn Schwartz Cover Image

The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance) (Paperback)

By Selby Wynn Schwartz
Not available to order
ISBN: 9780472054091
Published: University of Michigan Press - March 15th, 2019

9th Ave: Patricia Engel with Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

Cover of Patricia Engel's The Faraway World. The cover is beige with colorful silhouettes of birds flying across it. The title and author name are in thin black text down the center.

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The Faraway World: Stories (Hardcover)

By Patricia Engel
$26.00
ISBN: 9781982159528
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - January 24th, 2023

*A New York Times Editors’ Choice*

From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick, comes a “rich and compelling” (The Washington Post) collection of ten exquisite, award-winning short stories set across the Americas and linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, a

9th Ave: Anne K. Yoder with Rita Bullwinkel

Cover of Anne Yoder's The Enhancers. The cover is an abstract painting with a mostly lavender background, with some spots of orange and blue. The title is written in white transparent letters diagonally across the cover.

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The Enhancers (Paperback)

By Anne K. Yoder
$20.00
ISBN: 9781950987252
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(This book cannot be returned nor exchanged.)
Published: Meekling Press - October 4th, 2022

THE ENHANCERS is a polyvocal novel that follows three teenage friends coming of age in a techno-pharmaceutical society. Hannah is born and raised in a town whose industry revolves around Lumena Corp., maker of the supplement Valedictorian.

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Belly Up (Paperback)

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

Fiction. 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: Beverly Burch and Robert Thomas

 

Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series ) By Robert Thomas Cover Image

Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series ) (Paperback)

By Robert Thomas
$15.95
ISBN: 9780887486913
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Published: Carnegie Mellon University Press - February 21st, 2023

A fresh and modern take on one of the most classic poetic forms in the Western literary tradition.
 
“What if creatures in other galaxies / have a vague sense that something is missing, / but don’t know it’s Little Richard, Shakespeare, / and cornbread with plum jam?” In this collection, Robert Thomas presents eighty nontraditional sonnets that explo

Leave Me a Little Want By Beverly Burch Cover Image

Leave Me a Little Want (Paperback)

By Beverly Burch
$17.00
ISBN: 9781947896581
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Published: Terrapin Books - October 17th, 2022

9th Ave: Grant Faulkner with Melanie Abrams

Cover of The Art of Brevity by Grant Faulkner. The cover is white with a paragraph of text--short, translucent sentences--in the center of the cover, with the words THE ART OF BREVITY bolded sporadically across the cover.

The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story By Grant Faulkner, Megan Giddings (Foreword by) Cover Image

The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story (Paperback)

By Grant Faulkner, Megan Giddings (Foreword by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780826364739
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Published: University of New Mexico Press - February 15th, 2023

With increased compression, every word, every sentence matters more. A writer must learn how to form narratives around caesuras and crevices instead of strings of connections, to move a story through the symbolic weight of images, to master the power of suggestion.

The Joy of Cannabis: 75 Ways to Amplify Your Life Through the Science and Magic of Cannabis By Melanie Abrams, Larry Smith Cover Image

The Joy of Cannabis: 75 Ways to Amplify Your Life Through the Science and Magic of Cannabis (Hardcover)

By Melanie Abrams, Larry Smith
$29.99
ISBN: 9781728273181
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Published: Sourcebooks - January 10th, 2023

A sophisticated and humorous cannabis book to enhance your life and promote self-care through the science and magic of weed.

9th Ave: Tawanda Mulalu with Richie Hofmann and Amy Shimshon-Santo

Cover of Tawanda Mulalu's collection, Please make me pretty, I don't want to die. The cover is an oil painting of a black horse with wild eyes, being clung to around the neck by a naked white woman with long red hair.

Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems By Tawanda Mulalu Cover Image

Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems (Paperback)

By Tawanda Mulalu
$19.95
ISBN: 9780691239033
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Published: Princeton University Press - September 13th, 2022

The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry

Please make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor.

A Hundred Lovers: Poems By Richie Hofmann Cover Image

A Hundred Lovers: Poems (Hardcover)

By Richie Hofmann
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593320983
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Published: Knopf - February 8th, 2022

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed collection Second Empire.
 

Catastrophic Molting By Amy Shimshon-Santo Cover Image

Catastrophic Molting (Paperback)

By Amy Shimshon-Santo
$16.00
ISBN: 9781953447272
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Published: Flowersong Press - September 16th, 2022

Catastrophic Molting is the collective ritual of loss and regeneration experienced by sea elephants (Mirounga Angustirostris) along the California coast. While molting, the mirounga rest together on the shore, and fast to preserve their energy. Collective resting creates social protection during times when they are most vulnerable.

9th Ave: Tina Cane with Tongo Eisen-Martin and Kim Shuck

Cover of Year of the Murder Hornet by Tina Cane. The cover is a black and white photo of two kids standing on a lawn in front of a house, wearing costumes and face masks. The title has a bright yellow background.

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Year of the Murder Hornet (Paperback)

By Tina Cane
$19.00
ISBN: 9781949776126
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(This book cannot be returned nor exchanged.)
Published: Veliz Books - May 15th, 2022

Catalogue, essay, lament, YEAR OF THE MURDER HORNET, Tina Cane's new poetry collection, is a work born of tension. Juxtaposing the personal and the political, these poems navigate the uneasy terrain of the self amid an increasingly tumultuous and fragmented world.

Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets #62) By Tongo Eisen-Martin Cover Image

Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets #62) (Paperback)

By Tongo Eisen-Martin
$15.95
ISBN: 9780872868755
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Published: City Lights Books - September 21st, 2021

2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance

2022 California Book Award Finalist

Politically astute, filled with wisdom and great humanity, this is poetry meant to conjure a healing and provoke a confrontation, an invitation to a journey through Black America.

Deer Trails: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 7 By Kim Shuck Cover Image

Deer Trails: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 7 (Paperback)

By Kim Shuck
$13.95
ISBN: 9781931404181
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Published: City Lights Books - July 30th, 2019

2019 NCIBA Golden Poppy Award Winner - Poetry

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San Francisco's 7th poet laureate--a Native American and native San Franciscan--explores urban space and the natural world.

9th Ave: Kristin Ann Hass with Robert Hass

Cover of Kristin Ann Hass' book, Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices. The cover has a statue of Robert E. Lee atop a horse. The title is in bold red letters on top, and the subtitle is written down the right hand side.

Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices By Kristin Hass Cover Image

Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Hardcover)

By Kristin Hass
$25.95
ISBN: 9780807006719
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Published: Beacon Press - January 24th, 2023

A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future

9th Ave: Linda Kinstler with Isaac Chotiner

Cover of Linda Kinstler's book, Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends. The cover has clips of black and white photographs, court documents, and newspapers, in horizontal cut outs across the cream colored cover.

Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends By Linda Kinstler Cover Image

Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends (Hardcover)

By Linda Kinstler
$29.00
ISBN: 9781541702592
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Published: PublicAffairs - August 23rd, 2022

In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot.

9th Ave: Masha Rumer and Alina Adams

Cover of Masha Rumer's book Parenting with an Accent: How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children. The cover has a bright blue background with magnetic letters from the English alphabet around the border.

Parenting with an Accent: How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children By Masha Rumer Cover Image

Parenting with an Accent: How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children (Paperback)

By Masha Rumer
$17.95
ISBN: 9780807007303
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Published: Beacon Press - October 4th, 2022

A blend of on-the-ground reporting and personal anecdotes that weaves a tapestry of the immigrant experience, multicultural parenting, and identity in the US

My Mother's Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region By Alina Adams Cover Image

My Mother's Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region (Paperback)

By Alina Adams
$17.95
ISBN: 9781736499030
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Published: History Through Fiction LLC - November 15th, 2022

With his dying breath, Lena's father asks his family a cryptic question: "You couldn't tell, could you?" After his passing, Lena stumbles upon the answer that changes her life forever.

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