Books on the Park

9th Ave: Kid Congo Powers with Penelope Houston

Cover of Kid Congo Powers' memoir, Some New Kind of Kick. The cover is a black and white photo of Powers, dark black hair across his face, a button down shirt open to show his chest, dark jeans with a belt and metal paraphernalia, his arms in a statuesque pose holding his torso and behind his head. The title is written in acid green script to the right of the photo.

Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir By Kid Congo Powers, Chris Campion (With) Cover Image

Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Kid Congo Powers, Chris Campion (With)
$29.00
ISBN: 9780306828027
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Published: Hachette Books - October 18th, 2022

An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican-American in 1970s Los Angeles through his rise in the glam rock and punk rock scenes.

Kid Congo Powers has been described as a “legendary guitarist and paragon of cool” with “the greatest resume ever of anyone in rock music." That u

9th Ave: Laura Warrell

Cover of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell. The top 3/4 of the cover are a painting on a pink and orange background, with an outline of two figures in black brush strokes embracing one another. The title is written in bold black lettering in the bottom 1/4 of the cover.

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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Laura Warrell
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593316443
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Published: Pantheon - September 27th, 2022

GMA BUZZ PICK • Passion and risk, fathers and daughters, wives and single women, jazz and soul: a "gorgeously written debut" (Celeste Ng, best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere) about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, told by the women who love Circus Palmer—trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man—as they ultimately discover the power of

9th Ave: Jennifer Lewis with Anita Felicelli


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The New Low (Paperback)

By Jennifer Lewis
$21.00
ISBN: 9781955239325
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(This book cannot be returned nor exchanged.)
Published: Nomadic Press - October 15th, 2022

Like a hanging mobile, the stories in THE NEW LOW move around each other, creating ever-changing insights between its characters. Each of whom struggle with identity, addictions, judgments, and life's contradictions.

Fiction

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Love Songs for a Lost Continent (Paperback)

By Anita Felicelli
$16.00
ISBN: 9781945233043
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Published: Stillhouse Press - October 1st, 2018

"This is the book we needed to read yesterday... a book we will still be reading tomorrow."
- Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick and Sons and Other Flammable Objects

9th Ave: Angie Cruz with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Cover of Angie Cruz's How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. The cover is a honey mustard yellow, with a pencil drawing of a feminine figure holding water glass. The water, and the lips and blouse of the figure, are all a cornflower blue.

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How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Angie Cruz
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250208453
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Published: Flatiron Books - September 13th, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK · REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVER

From GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana, an electrifying new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story

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The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Ingrid Rojas Contreras
$30.00
ISBN: 9780385546669
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Published: Doubleday - July 12th, 2022

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, VULTURE, PEOPLE, BOSTON GLOBE, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE, & MORE

9th Ave: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson with Carolina De Robertis

Cover of Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's My Monticello. The cover has a painting of a red-orange sky with a light green and turquoise lawn, and outline of the plantation of Monticello is painted in white.

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My Monticello: Fiction (Hardcover)

By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250807151
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - October 5th, 2021

“A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle

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My Monticello: Fiction (Paperback)

By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250848536
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - October 11th, 2022

“A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle

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The President and the Frog: A novel (Hardcover)

By Carolina De Robertis
$24.95
ISBN: 9780593318416
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Published: Knopf - August 3rd, 2021

A "sublime and gripping novel ... about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing" (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe), from the acclaimed author of Cantoras.

9th Ave: Khentrul Rinpoche with Paloma Lopez Landry


The Power of Mind: A Tibetan Monk's Guide to Finding Freedom in Every Challenge By Khentrul Lodrö T'hayé Rinpoche, Paloma Lopez Landry (Translated by), Paloma Lopez Landry (Editor), Ibby Caputo (Editor), Paul Gustafson (Editor) Cover Image

The Power of Mind: A Tibetan Monk's Guide to Finding Freedom in Every Challenge (Paperback)

By Khentrul Lodrö T'hayé Rinpoche, Paloma Lopez Landry (Translated by), Paloma Lopez Landry (Editor), Ibby Caputo (Editor), Paul Gustafson (Editor)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781645470878
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Published: Shambhala - September 6th, 2022

A modern guide to lojong—ancient Buddhist techniques for transforming all circumstances, including  pain, anxiety, and stress, into mental well-being that benefits us and the people around us.

9th Ave: Lubna Safi with Nathalie Khankan


Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems By Lubna Safi, Rachel Mennies (Foreword by) Cover Image

Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems (Hardcover)

By Lubna Safi, Rachel Mennies (Foreword by)
$21.95
ISBN: 9781682831397
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Published: Texas Tech University Press - August 2nd, 2022

Your Blue and the Quiet Lament records the textures of grief after a cousin's murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative of arrest, imprisonment, and torture in Syria and interweave the difficulties a family experiences in the diaspora.

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Quiet Orient Riot (Paperback)

By Nathalie Khankan
$19.75
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ISBN: 9781632430830
Published: Omnidawn - November 7th, 2020

Quiet Orient Riot is an exploration of the tendons of motherhood, its mutinies and munificences. It is also a book of births and the politics of birth-regimes. Recounting a journey to bear a Palestinian child in the occupied Palestinian territory, the poems conjure up maternity as forecast, tally, weapon; its many filtrations through liturgical command and demographic anxiety.

9th Ave: Will Alexander


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Refractive Africa (Paperback)

By Will Alexander
$15.95
ISBN: 9780811230278
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Published: New Directions - November 2nd, 2021

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the California Book Award in Poetry

Three kinetically distilled long poems by the singular American poet who “transfigures ‘thought’ into a weave of lexical magic” (Philip Lamantia)

 

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The Combustion Cycle (Paperback)

By Will Alexander
$25.00
ISBN: 9781931824965
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Published: Roof Books - March 15th, 2021

Poetry. African & African American Studies. A long-distance runner extraordinaire, Will Alexander parses and devours information, code and arcana lest they parse and devour him, parse and devour us. What but deep seas and distant galaxies would make such a demand his extended soliloquies implicitly ask and overtly answer.

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Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63 (City Lights Pocket Poets #63) (Paperback)

By Will Alexander
$16.95
ISBN: 9780872868700
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Published: City Lights Books - November 29th, 2022

From Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where C saire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexander's status as one of the most unique and innovative voices in contemporary poetry.

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