King's Books

Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)

By Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)

$20.00

ISBN: 9780802128256

Availability: Backordered

Published: Grove Press - June 12th, 2018

If you've ever felt like an alien on earth, you will love this absurd, sparkling book. What shapes a life? What gives it meaning? Who gets to decide what is meaningful? I was charmed by this book's details, its brevity that says so much. Convenience Store Woman won Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature in 2016; it is a blessing that Sayaka Murata's novel (her tenth) is available to us now, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. [Tanya]

Who Is Vera Kelly? (Paperback)

By Rosalie Knecht

$15.95

ISBN: 9781947793019

Availability: Backordered

Published: Tin House Books - June 12th, 2018

Growing up queer in the 50s, being a spy in 60s Buenos Aires. I loved Vera from page 1. An unprecedented kind of spy novel. More like this, please, I didn't want it to end! [Tanya]

Not Here (Paperback)

By Hieu Minh Nguyen

$16.99

ISBN: 9781566895095

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Published: Coffee House Press - April 10th, 2018

I'm ready to call it. Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen is the best poetry book of 2018. [Kenny]

Only Killers and Thieves: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Paul Howarth

$26.99

ISBN: 9780062690968

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Published: Harper - February 6th, 2018

This is a Western by way of Australia but reminiscent of our own history of geography and genocide. Its rendering of grief and guilt sticks with you. [Raissa]

How to Love (Paperback)

By Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason Deantonis (Illustrator)

$9.95

ISBN: 9781937006884

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Published: Parallax Press - December 1st, 2014

This book is small but it's packed with wisdom. These short lessons will revolutionize how you see your loved ones. Full of new ideas as well as reminders. [Karen]

Lonesome Dove (Paperback)

By Larry McMurtry

$18.99

ISBN: 9781439195260

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Published: Simon & Schuster - June 15th, 2010

In this epic there's room under the sky for characters taciturn and loyal, loving and illogical, searching, settling, surviving. If you read only one Western, this should be it. [Raissa]

Stray City: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Chelsey Johnson

$25.99

ISBN: 9780062666680

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Published: Custom House - March 20th, 2018

A funny and moving debut that has a lot to say about our families—chosen and otherwise. [Karen]

Wade in the Water: Poems (Hardcover)

By Tracy K. Smith

$24.00

ISBN: 9781555978136

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Published: Graywolf Press - April 3rd, 2018

Tracy K. Smith taught me how to love poetry. Wade in the Water is her first new book of poems since Life on Mars won a Pulitzer Prize. Buy these poems. Make a home for them. Love them. [Kenny]

Heart Berries: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Terese Marie Mailhot

$23.00

ISBN: 9781619023345

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Published: Counterpoint LLC - February 6th, 2018

A once-in-a-lifetime kind of book. Frank & full of love & forceful & free. Over & over this book made me stop in my tracks—completely stunned by its beauty. [Kenny]

Breathless (Paperback)

By Beverly Jenkins

$7.99

ISBN: 9780062389022

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Published: Avon - January 31st, 2017

Beverly Jenkins is a great historical novelist, and she likes to highlight overlooked stories. So educational!