9th Ave: Jessica Weisberg and Courtney Martin
This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.
Jessica Weisberg discusses her new book, Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Life, Love, Money and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed with Courtney Martin.
A delightful history of Americans' obsession with advice--from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners
$24.00ISBN: 9781580055796Availability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.Published: Seal Press - September 13th, 2016
9th Ave: Independent Bookstore Day 2018
These events are a part of 9th avenue's celebration of Independent Bookstore Day.
Events and Fun:
We're going to be doing lots of fun things throughout the day, with raffles every hour on the hour. See below for a detailed list of the day's festivities.
9th Ave: Julia Dixon Evans
This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.
Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel, How to Set Yourself on Fire.
PRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE
"It's not romantic," Torrey says. "It's physics. For every letter there is an equal and opposite, you know...letter."
9th Ave: Barbara Berman
This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.
Barbara Berman reads from her new poetry collection, Currents.
Praise for Currents
9th Ave: Jennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao
This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.
Jennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao join us on Tuesday June 12th to celebrate the release of their new collections, Moon: Letters, Poems, Maps and Sheep Machine.
Praise for Vi Khi Nao:
"Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures." --Carole Maso
House A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home, and vice versa?
CANCELLED Maria Hummel and Sara Houghteling
This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.
Unfortunately due to a family emergency this event has been cancelled. We will be recscheduling for August. Check back on this page for updates.
Praise for Still Lives
"It's a thrilling mystery that will leave you wondering which characters you can and can't trust... There's a twist at the end that still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good." --Reese Witherspoon (A Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection)
Motherland is inspired by stories from author Maria Hummel's father and his German childhood, and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years.
A sweeping and sensuous novel of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.
9th Ave: Rex Sorgatz and Robin Sloan
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Rex Sorgatz discusses his new book, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation, with Robin Sloan.
*One of Amazon's 20 Best Books of 2017*
Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Southern Living
In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
9th Ave: Kim Magowan
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Kim Magowan discusses her new story collection, Undoing.
Praise for Undoing
In Kim Magowan’s aptly titled debut short-story collection, Undoing, characters are frequently caught with their eyes on the past, trying to discern where it all went wrong, whether that concerns a marriage that survives infidelity only to fade later into oblivion or the premature termination of an affair.
9th Ave: Nona Caspers
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Nona Caspers discusses her new novel, The Fifth Woman.
Praise for The Fifth Woman
Years after Caspers's unnamed narrator loses her first lover in a tragic accident, she finds herself wondering, "What did she want from me? What are the things that matter?" In vivid, richly detailed vignettes, the book tracks the cyclical nature of grief and remembrance across a life fractured by loss.
9th Ave: Kent Harrington
This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.
Kent Harrington discusses his new novel, Last Ferry Home, with Kevin Hunsanger.
Praise for Kent Harrington
"No one writes about the heart of darkness like Kent Harrington" -Michael Connelly
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