King's Books

Swing Time (Hardcover)

By Zadie Smith

$27.00
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ISBN: 9781594203985

Published: Penguin Press - November 15th, 2016

Zadie Smith knows how to explore the complexities of human relationships. Moving back and forth in time effortlessly, this story follows two young brown girls who dream of being dancers, but deal with countless obstacles that threaten their success along the way. Nuanced and well written, Swing Time beautifully explores our insatiable desire for success and who we’ll sacrifice to get it. [Nicole]

Float (Hardcover)

By Anne Carson

$35.00

ISBN: 9781101946848

Availability: Backordered

Published: Knopf - October 25th, 2016

Anne Carson is one of our finest living poets. Her work is erudite and elegant while remaining intensely moving and personal. She is always innovative and new and Float is no exception. This box of twenty-two mini books is made to be taken apart and read in any order, poems, essays, plays, and more. It is dizzying and playful and always beautiful. [Kenny]

Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White (Hardcover)

By Melissa Sweet

$18.99

ISBN: 9780544319592

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Published: Clarion Books - October 4th, 2016

This engaging illustrated biography of E.B. White (Charlotte's Web, etc), uses cute illustrations, photos, ephemera, and personal letters to tell the story of one of our most iconic children's authors. I can't imagine a more fitting tribute. [sweet pea]

The Clothing of Books (Paperback)

By Jhumpa Lahiri

$8.95

ISBN: 9780525432753

Availability: Special Order

Published: Vintage - November 15th, 2016

An in-depth rumination on the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” This fascinating little book follows Lahiri’s thoughts on book covers as extensions of introduction, content, and identity. Fun to approach this book as a writer or a reader! [Nicole]

Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)

By Ocean Vuong

$16.00

ISBN: 9781556594953

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Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 5th, 2016

2016 has been a great year for poetry. I am in love with Tyehimba Jess's Olio, Mary Ruefle's My Private Property, and Daniel Bortzutzky's The Performance of Becoming Human, but the book all my friends are talking about is this one by Ocean Vuong. He is young, but his poems are wise, filled with grief and loss and humanity and memory and a love undestroyed by war. [Kenny]

Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure (Paperback)

By Ryan North

$23.00

ISBN: 9781101983300

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Published: Riverhead Books - June 7th, 2016

Would you let Juliet live? How about letting Juliet turn into a spinster pirate instead of ever meeting Romeo? Ryan North finally gives us liberty to re-write Shakespeare’s classic tale in this popular choose-your-own-adventure book. A ridiculously fun time is guaranteed with Romeo and/or Juliet, as well as To Be Or Not To Be.  [Nicole]

Heartless (Hardcover)

By Marissa Meyer

$22.99

ISBN: 9781250044655

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Published: Feiwel & Friends - November 8th, 2016

Tacoma’s own Marissa Meyer has taken the familiar world of Alice in Wonderland and put her own creative spin on it.  Appearances of both Wonderland favorites (Meyer’s Cheshire Cat is wonderfully snarky) and characters from fairy tale or nursery rhyme lure (like the repulsive Peter Peter and his beleaguered wife) provided a fun sort of literary scavenger hunt.  Anyone who likes magical worlds, colorful characters, and fairy tale retellings, will take delight in this twisty-turny reimagining full of tricks and surprises that belong to Meyer alone. [Lydia]

Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey (Hardcover)

By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translated by)

$24.00

ISBN: 9781609452926

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Published: Europa Editions - November 1st, 2016

I don't think there is a writer I've talked about more in 2016 than Elena Ferrante. Her Neapolitan novels are fiction at its best, fiery and fierce, brutal and beautiful. They are nearly perfect and I can't think of a customer I wouldn't recommend them to. Ferrante is an enigma, requesting anonymity from the world, so Frantumaglia is a huge gift. These essays and letters give us some access to her incredible mind and spirit. And anything she is willing to give, I will take. [Kenny]