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Bastards of the Reagan Era is a challenge, confronting realities that frame an America often made invisible. Within these poems, we see the city as distant lover, we hear “the sound that comes from all / the hurt & want that leads a man to turn his back to the world.” We see that and we see each reason why we return to what pains us.
The Luxe is the first book in the New York Times bestselling Luxe series by Anna Godbersen.
A romantic, heart-felt, and whimsical novel about letting go of the past, figuring out what you want in your future, and staying in the moment before it passes you by.
Weeks ago, Andre Cobb received a much-needed liver transplant.
Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors’ Choice. Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Alexander Skarsgård
Announcing the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, North America's oldest annual literary prize.
Richard Siken’s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him.
A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians?Ķ
$16.00ISBN: 9781400078776Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Vintage - March 14th, 2006From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss.
$15.95ISBN: 9780345804341Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Anchor - June 30th, 2020In this Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
$25.99ISBN: 9780063078499Availability: Normally we can get this book to the store for you in a day or two. During the seasonal rush, this might not be possible.Published: William Morrow - April 13th, 2021“Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written.
$9.99ISBN: 9780061478789Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Greenwillow Books - April 22nd, 2008Diana Wynne Jones's entrancing, classic fantasy novel is filled with surprises at every turn.
$16.99ISBN: 9780618871711Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Mariner Books - June 5th, 2007CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist •
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award •
Nominated for the GLAAD Medi
$28.00ISBN: 9781538754276Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Grand Central Publishing - May 11th, 2021Fans of Patti Smith's Just Kids and Rob Lowe's StoriesI Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member.
Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St.$24.99ISBN: 9781684156252Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Archaia - September 15th, 2020The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great anti-war books.
An American classic and one of the world’s seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to$17.00ISBN: 9781501115073Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Washington Square Press - April 5th, 2016A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove.
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend.