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Virtual Event: Bett Williams and Juli Delgado Lopera


Join us on Wedneday, October 14 at 7pm PST when Bett Williams joins us to discuss her new book, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey, with Juli Delgado Lopera.

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The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey (Paperback)

By Bett Williams
$19.95
ISBN: 9781948340311
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Published: Dottir Press - September 1st, 2020

A hot lesbian living in the American Southwest decides to grow her own psychoactive mushrooms. "You'll never guess what happens next "...In general, this is a balm. It is the polar opposite of that Michael Pollan book.

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Fiebre Tropical (Paperback)

By Juli Delgado Lopera
$17.95
ISBN: 9781936932757
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Published: Amethyst Editions - March 4th, 2020

Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager's coming-of-age and coming out as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism.

Virtual Event: Aarti Namdev Shahani and Shanthi Sekaran

Join us on Monday, October 5 at 7pm PST when Aarti Namdev Shahani discusses her memoir, Here We Are, with authro Shanthi Sekaran on Zoom!

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Here We Are: To Migrate To America... It's the Boldest Act of One's Life (Paperback)

By Aarti Namdev Shahani
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250204745
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Published: Celadon Books - October 6th, 2020

Here We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family's American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani.

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Lucky Boy (Paperback)

By Shanthi Sekaran
$16.00
ISBN: 9781101982266
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - September 5th, 2017

A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy.

“Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People

Virtual Event: Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Marcelo Hernadez Castillo

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Living Weapon: Poems (Hardcover)

By Rowan Ricardo Phillips
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ISBN: 9780374191993
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - February 18th, 2020

Award-winning essayist and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry in Living Weapon.

. . . and we’d do this again
And again and again, without ever
Knowing we were the weapon ourselves,
Stronger than steel, story, and hydrogen.
— from "Even Homer Nods"

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Cenzontle (A. Poulin #40) (Paperback)

By Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Brenda Shaughnessy (Foreword by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9781942683537
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Published: BOA Editions - April 10th, 2018

Winner of the 2019 GLCA New Writers Award
An NPR Best Book of 2018

Virtual Event: Sophie Yanow and Suzy Exposito


Join us on Thursday, September 10 at 5pm PDT when Sophie Yanow launches her new graphic novel, The Contradictions, with Suzy Exposito on Zoom!

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The Contradictions (Paperback)

By Sophie Yanow
$24.95
ISBN: 9781770464070
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Published: Drawn and Quarterly - September 8th, 2020

The Eisner Award–winning story about a student figuring out radical politics in a messy world

Virtual Event: Eula Biss and Aleksandar Hemon



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Having and Being Had (Hardcover)

By Eula Biss
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525537458
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 1st, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

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My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You (Paperback)

By Aleksandar Hemon
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250619648
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Published: Picador - July 28th, 2020

Two books in one in a flip dos-à-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon’s parents’ immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author’s family, friends, and childhood in Sarajevo

Virtual Event: Yamile Saied Méndez and Kate T. Parker

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Furia (Hardcover)

By Yamile Saied Méndez
$17.95
ISBN: 9781616209919
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Published: Algonquin Young Readers - September 15th, 2020

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK
Recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal

One of BuzzFeed's Must-Read YA Books of 2020
A Best Book of the Year: Cosmopolitan * Kirkus Reviews * SheReads * New York Public Library 

“An engrossing #OwnVoices novel.&rd

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Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves (Paperback)

By Kate T. Parker
$17.95
ISBN: 9780761189138
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Published: Workman Publishing Company - March 7th, 2017

Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy.

Virtual Event: Henri Cole and Forrest Gander

Join us on Friday, September 4 at 6pm PST when Henri Cole is joined by Forrest Gander to read from and discuss his latest collection of poetry, Blizzard, on Zoom!

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Blizzard: Poems (Hardcover)

By Henri Cole
$24.00
ISBN: 9780374114381
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - September 1st, 2020

Henri Cole, one of our greatest poets, explores the discordant nature of our condition on earth in Blizzard, his tenth collection.

“An artist of the greatest gifts.” —Louise Glück

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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

Virtual Event: francine j. harris


Join us on Wenesday, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom!

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Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems (Hardcover)

By francine j. harris
$25.00
ISBN: 9780374168841
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - August 4th, 2020

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRY

The poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique, and myth, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness, aging, landscape and artistic tradition.

Virtual Event: Kazim Ali, Gillian Conoley, and Brian Teare


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The Voice of Sheila Chandra (Paperback)

By Kazim Ali
$17.95
ISBN: 9781948579124
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Published: Alice James Books - October 6th, 2020

Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There's an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back.

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A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New & Selected Poems (Paperback)

By Gillian Conoley
$19.95
ISBN: 9781643620114
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Published: Nightboat Books - October 15th, 2019

WINNER of the 39TH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD IN POETRY

FINALIST for the 89TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD IN POETRY

SHORTLISTED for the 2019 GOLDEN POPPY BOOK AWARD IN POETRY

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Doomstead Days (Paperback)

By Brian Teare
$17.95
ISBN: 9781643620022
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Published: Nightboat Books - April 2nd, 2019

WINNER of the 2020 FOUR QUARTETS PRIZE

LONGLISTED for the 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY

FINALIST for the the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

FINALIST for the KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD

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