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Small, Medium, and Large Stories: A Book Launch with Kij Johnson

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The Privilege of the Happy Ending: Small, Medium, and Large Stories By Kij Johnson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781618732118
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Published: Small Beer Press - October 24th, 2023

A surprising and exciting new collection of speculative and experimental stories that explore animal intelligences, gender, and the nature of stories.


The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe By Kij Johnson Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9780765391414
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Published: Tordotcom - August 16th, 2016

World Fantasy Award winner, Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, and Locus Award finalist for Best Novella, and one of NPR's Best Books of 2016

Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.


At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories By Kij Johnson Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781931520805
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Published: Small Beer Press - September 25th, 2012


A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running.


An Evening with Author Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Whitney Terrell at LPL's Booktoberfest

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Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel By Jonathan Lethem Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780062938824
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Published: Ecco - October 3rd, 2023

Named a Most Anticipated Book by: New York Times * Boston Globe * CrimeReads


An Evening with Author Nathan Hill at LPL's Booktoberfest

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Wellness: A novel By Nathan Hill Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593536117
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Published: Knopf - September 19th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together.


[UPDATED] On Poetry & Translation: An Evening with Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Megan Kaminski

UPDATE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Stanley Lombardo will be unable to join us this evening. Instead, Ceccagnoli will be reading a canto from Lombardo's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. The event will now also feature recordings of Antonella Anedda reciting her original work!

 

Historiae By Antonella Anedda, Susan Stewart (Translated by), Patrizio Ceccagnoli (Translated by) Cover Image
By Antonella Anedda, Susan Stewart (Translated by), Patrizio Ceccagnoli (Translated by)
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ISBN: 9781681376967
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Published: NYRB Poets - April 25th, 2023

Poems between natural and human history, private life and death, and about the crises of our century, from an acclaimed Italian poet.


Theme of Farewell and After-Poems: A Bilingual Edition By Milo De Angelis, Susan Stewart (Editor), Patrizio Ceccagnoli (Editor), Susan Stewart (Translated by), Patrizio Ceccagnoli (Translated by) Cover Image
By Milo De Angelis, Susan Stewart (Editor), Patrizio Ceccagnoli (Editor), Susan Stewart (Translated by), Patrizio Ceccagnoli (Translated by)
$39.60
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ISBN: 9780226020808
Published: University of Chicago Press - April 15th, 2013

Milo De Angelis, born in 1951, is one of the most important living Italian poets. With this volume, Susan Stewart and Patrizio Ceccagnoli bring to English readers for the first time a facing-page edition of his most recent work: his book-length elegy, Theme of Farewell, and the subsequent poems of That Wandering in the Darkness of Courtyards.


August Poetry Night with Melissa Fite Johnson, Lynne Jensen Lampe & Courtney LeBlanc

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Swing by the store on August 14 at 7 p.m. to enjoy a night of transcendent poetry, or, as Coleridge called it, the best words in the best order! Poetry Night will feature authors Melissa Fite Johnson from LFK, Lynne Jensen Lampe, and Courtney LeBlanc from Colombia, MO.

Green By Melissa Fite Johnson Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781736138601
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Published: Riot in Your Throat - May 1st, 2021

These poems tell the story of loss: loss of a father stolen by disease, loss of innocence. And while it could easily stop there this collection doesn't. Instead, it gathers strength and finds its voice and its fight. With wonder and awe and some well-placed anger, we see these poems emerge on the other side with a bit of hope and even happiness.



Talk Smack to a Hurricane By Lynne Jensen Lampe Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781895637076
Published: Ice Floe Press - September 20th, 2022

What happens to anger when no one’s to blame? Does psychiatry allow a


Her Whole Bright Life By Courtney LeBlanc Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781949342482
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Published: Write Bloody Publishing - April 4th, 2023

Her Whole Bright Life is a collection of poems that weave together the trauma and exhaustion of a life lived with disordered eating and the loss and grief of the death of the poet's father.


Local Author Book Launch: Celebrating "The Year of Second Chances" by Lara Avery

Local Author Book Launch: Celebrating The Year of Second Chances by Lara Avery
With conversation partner Bryn Greenwood

 

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The Year of Second Chances: A Novel By Lara Avery Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780063273757
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Published: William Morrow - August 22nd, 2023

In this dazzling debut, Lara Avery crafts a story about one woman's uplifting journey of possibility, second chances, and falling in love again…with lifeperfect for fans of P.S. I Love You.


[WAITING LIST ONLY] Katee Robert: Cruel Seduction Tour with Ana Huang and Sierra Simone

***Event was rescheduled to August 9, 2023***

Cruel Seduction (Dark Olympus) By Katee Robert Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781728262765
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Published: Sourcebooks Casablanca - August 8th, 2023

He was my enemy. My lover. My husband. And the one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy.

*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Aphrodite and Hephaestus (and Pandora and Adonis).*


Radiant Sin (Dark Olympus) By Katee Robert Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781728257006
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Published: Sourcebooks Casablanca - February 7th, 2023

There's nowhere more dangerous than Olympus...and no one more captivating than its golden god: Apollo. Keeper of secrets, master of his shining realm...and the only man I am powerless to deny.

*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Apollo and Cassandra.*


King of Pride By Ana Huang Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781957464121
Published: Boba Press - April 25th, 2023

She's his opposite in every way...and the greatest temptation he's ever known.


Reserved, controlled, and proper to a fault, Kai Young has neither the time nor inclination for chaos-and Isabella, with her purple hair and inappropriate jokes, is chaos personified.



Twisted Lies By Ana Huang Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781728274898
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Published: Bloom Books - September 27th, 2022

A fake-dating billionaire romance from New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Ana Huang.

Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman.


Priest By Sierra Simone Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781949364248
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Published: Bloom Books - March 15th, 2022

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sierra Simone comes her steamy, TikTok-famous Priest series, in which sinners and saints alike test the bonds of religion, love, and lust.

He's a priest, and here is his confession.


Sinner (Priest) By Sierra Simone Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781949364262
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Published: Bloom Books - March 15th, 2022

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sierra Simone comes her steamy, TikTok-famous Priest series, in which sinners and saints alike test the bonds of religion, love, and lust.

He leads a life of sin, and she's committed to a life of virtue.


Ice Ice Baby: Amy Brady in convo with Leslie VonHolten on the cool history of a hot commodity

You’ve tried going to the pool. You’ve tried ice cream. You’ve tried every brand of portable fan imaginable. This year, beat the heat with Ice.

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity By Amy Brady Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593422199
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - June 6th, 2023

The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation—from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today—and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet.


June Poetry Night ft. Carrie Nassif & Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Swing by the store on June 9 at 7 p.m. to enjoy a night of transcendent poetry, or, as Coleridge called it, the best words in the best order! Poetry Night will feature local poets Carrie Nassif and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg.


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lithopaedion By Carrie Nassif Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9798888381540
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Published: Finishing Line Press - March 10th, 2023

LITHOPAEDION is a poetry collection both visceral and tender. Named after a greek term meaning "stone baby," a lithopaedion is the result of an extremely rare condition in which the fetus of a failed ectopic or abdominal pregnancy cannot be reabsorbed by its mother's body; its tissues become calcified to prevent infection, sepsis, or death.


How Time Moves: New and Selected Poems By Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9781734247725
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Published: Meadowlark - October 12th, 2020

How Time Moves: New and Selected Poems brings together over 30 years of Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg's poetry on what it means to be human in a particular place, time, body, history, and story. "She is our teacher speaking from the sky, from the field, from the heartland," writes Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford.


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