Books on the Park

9th Ave: Mesha Maren and Randal O'Wain

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Mesha Maren discusses her new novel, Sugar Run with Randal O'Wain.

Praise for Sugar Run

Sugar Run: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Mesha Maren

$29.65
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ISBN: 9781616206215

Published: Algonquin Books - January 8th, 2019

“A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida

In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison.

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CANCELLED: Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy

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Due to a scheduling conflict this event has been cancelled.

Praise for No Hard Feelings

No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work (Hardcover)

By Liz Fosslien, Mollie West Duffy

$27.00

ISBN: 9780525533832

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Published: Portfolio - February 5th, 2019

Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

Next Big Idea Club selection―chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season!"

"A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don't belong in the workplace."
--Susan Cain, author of Quiet

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CANCELLED: Fourteen Hills Presents Kimberly Reyes

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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

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9th Ave: Jen Beagin and Rita Bullwinkel

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Jen Beagin discusses her new novel, Vacuum in the Dark with Rita Bullwinkel.

Praise for Jen Beagin

Vacuum in the Dark: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jen Beagin

$27.50
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ISBN: 9781501182143

Published: Scribner - February 26th, 2019

From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a new hilarious, edgy, and brilliant one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.

Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico.

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.

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9th Ave: Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi, Forrest Gander, and Brenda Hillman

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Autobiography of Death (Paperback)

By Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi (Translated by)

$16.95

ISBN: 9780811227346

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Published: New Directions - November 27th, 2018

Kim Hyesoon’s poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean O’Brien, The Independent)

*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award*

Hardly War (Paperback)

By Don Mee Choi

$18.00

ISBN: 9781940696218

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Published: Wave Books - April 5th, 2016

Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage.

Be With (Paperback)

By Forrest Gander

$16.95

ISBN: 9780811226059

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Published: New Directions - August 28th, 2018

WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018

Forrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy

Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days (Wesleyan Poetry) (Hardcover)

By Brenda Hillman

$29.65
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ISBN: 9780819578051

Published: Wesleyan University Press - January 16th, 2018

Poetry of grief and sustenance from an award-winning poet

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9th Ave: Helen Oyeyemi and Stephen Sparks

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Helen Oyeyemi discusses her new novel, Gingerbread with Stephen Sparks.

About Gingerbread

Gingerbread: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Helen Oyeyemi

$27.00
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ISBN: 9781594634659

Published: Riverhead Books - March 5th, 2019

"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (Paperback)

By Helen Oyeyemi

$16.00

ISBN: 9781594634642

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Published: Riverhead Books - March 7th, 2017

"Transcendent." —The New York Times Book Review

"Flawless. . . another masterpiece from an author who seems incapable of writing anything that's less than brilliant." —NPR

From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Peaces comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories.

White is for Witching (Paperback)

By Helen Oyeyemi

$17.00

ISBN: 9781594633072

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Published: Riverhead Books - February 4th, 2014

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
One of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists
From the acclaimed author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces

Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel (Paperback)

By Helen Oyeyemi

$16.00

ISBN: 9781594633409

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Published: Riverhead Books - March 3rd, 2015

As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as “gloriously unsettling… evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel García Márquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson,” and already one of the year’s most widely acclaimed novels:

Mr. Fox (Paperback)

By Helen Oyeyemi

$17.00

ISBN: 9781594486180

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Published: Riverhead Books - November 6th, 2012

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction
One of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists

From the prizewinning young writer of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces comes a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration.

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9th Ave: Morgan Parker

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Morgan Parker discusses her new poetry collection Magical Negro.

Magical Negro (Paperback)

By Morgan Parker

$15.95

ISBN: 9781947793187

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Published: Tin House Books - February 5th, 2019

A National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Winner!

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce (Paperback)

By Morgan Parker

$15.95

ISBN: 9781941040539

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Published: Tin House Books - February 14th, 2017

A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017
One of Oprah Magazine's "Ten Best Books of 2017"

"This singular poetry collection is a dynamic meditation on the experience of, and societal narratives surrounding, contemporary black womanhood. . . . These exquisite poems defy categorization." —The New Yorker

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9th Ave: Richard Chiem and Sarah Etter

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Richard Chiem discusses his debut novel, King of Joy with Sarah Etter.

Praise for King of Joy

King of Joy (Paperback)

By Richard Chiem

$15.95

ISBN: 9781593763091

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Published: Soft Skull - March 5th, 2019

Named a Writer to Watch by the Los Angeles Times, Richard Chiem brings readers a novel that is equal parts sledgehammer and sweet song--a neon, pulsing portrait of grief, and an electrifying story of one woman's survival against all odds.