Oh, and his sidekick and only friend is a cube of sentient goo.
Events
June 2018
presents Vigilance is No Orchard, an experimental poem sequence inspired by a famous garden now in ruin.
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Thursday, June 21, 2018 - 7:30pm
$16.95
ISBN: 9781937658823
Availability: Most titles are on our shelves or avaialble within 1-5 days.
Published: Nightboat Books - March 1st, 2018
An experimental poem sequence inspired by a famous garden now in ruin. In Vigilance is No Orchard, Hazel White records her haunting romance with the Valentine Garden, created by landscape architect Isabelle Greene in the foothills of Santa Barbara, California. Jealous of its maker's power to affect a dynamic experience of space, White tries to make language play faithfully in the game coursing between the body and Greene's fiercely stirring landscape. Both the poems and the constructed landscape they describe are complex and explorative, never simplified.
Presents Sprig the Rescue Pig, nspired by the true story of a feisty swine who escapes a delivery truck and ends up at an animal sanctuary, this gently humorous tale introduces kids to an intelligent, inquisitive, and very appealing pig.
"May Sprig help people to see what wonderful individuals pigs truly are."--Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig, Tamed & Untamed, and The Soul of an Octopus
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Saturday, June 23, 2018 - 4:00pm
$17.99
ISBN: 9780998862309
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Published: Stone Pier Press - March 15th, 2018
Things aren't looking good for Sprig, who is packed into a fast-moving truck with dozens of other pigs. He doesn't know where they're going but his nose knows there's something better out there.
So with one dramatic leap, or really more of a tumble, Sprig sets out on a pig-centered adventure that leads him to his new best friend, a girl named Rory. Inspired by true events, this light-hearted tale introduces kids to an intelligent and inquisitive pig who finds his way to an animal sanctuary.
July 2018
Reading from their recent respective volumes Yeah No and Oil Spell, and introduced by Lyn Hejinian.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 7:00pm
$17.95
ISBN: 9781632430557
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Published: Omnidawn - February 1st, 2018
Jane Gregory's mystifying second collection begins with a "Knock knock," inviting the reader into a realmwhere "Everything is a pattern / of yesses and no." Within these pages we find Gregory constructing a multivalent world—ripe with struggle, prophecy, and, by the end, a resemblance of hope. Using her highly-tuned sensibility throughout, Gregory guides us through the anxieties of this journey by inventing new and enigmatic forms filled with sonic experimentation and polyphony.
present Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Book 2: The Middle-Route Run
Nimona meets Adventure Time in this full-color graphic novel as a singing skeleton continues to search for his origins alongside his gelatin monster sidekick!
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Sunday, July 29, 2018 - 3:00pm
$14.99
ISBN: 9780399556173
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers - July 24th, 2018
Rickety Stitch is a walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel, the only animated skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul. He has no idea who he used to be when he was covered in a living, breathing sack of meat and skin. His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams, an epic bard's tale that could also explain the old fog covering the comical fantasy land of Eem...
August 2018
presents The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, a sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
"A fascinating account of one of our country's great historical mysteries. Fast-paced and wonderfully written, with plenty of surprising turns along the way, The Secret Token is a delight."--Nathaniel Philbrick
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Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 7:30pm
$29.95
ISBN: 9780385542012
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Published: Doubleday Books - June 5th, 2018
In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish England's first foothold in the New World. But when the colony's leader, John White, returned to Roanoke from a resupply mission, his settlers were nowhere to be found. They left behind only a single clue--a "secret token" carved into a tree. Neither White nor any other European laid eyes on the colonists again.
Presents Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.
"A wondrous, action-packed journey to discover the secret lives of bees, flowers, and the unconventional men and women who study them. This book really is the buzz about bees, and it's destined to become a natural history classic."--Stephen Buchmann, author of The Reason for Flowers
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Friday, August 3, 2018 - 7:30pm
$27.00
ISBN: 9780465052615
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Published: Basic Books - July 10th, 2018
Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds. In Buzz, the beloved Thor Hanson takes us on a journey that begins 125 million years ago, when a wasp first dared to feed pollen to its young. From honeybees and bumbles to lesser-known diggers, miners, leafcutters, and masons, bees have long been central to our harvests, our mythologies, and our very existence.
Presenting Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish. One boy's search for his father leads him to Puerto Rico in this moving middle grade novel, for fans of Ghost and See You in the Cosmos.
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Saturday, August 25, 2018 - 4:00pm
$16.99
ISBN: 9781101997260
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Published: Viking Books for Young Readers - August 21st, 2018
Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only in the eighth grade, you're both a threat and a target.
Reads from The Second Life of Ava Rivers, "a deftly written examination of familial relationships, trauma, and post-adolescence."-- Kirkus
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Sunday, August 26, 2018 - 3:00pm
$17.99
ISBN: 9780451478306
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Published: Razorbill - August 28th, 2018
Eighteen-year-old Vera, eager to start college and escape the celebrity her family has endured since her twin's disappearance twelve years earlier, finds her world turned upside-down again when Ava returns.
Ava's disappearance was the crack in the Rivers family glacier. I wish I could explain to you how we were before, but I can't, because the before is so filmy and shadowed with the after.
September 2018
Celebrating Ivy + Bean #11: One Big Happy Family.
Ivy + Bean are back--and they're funnier than ever!
Saturday, September 8, 2018 - 10:00am
$14.99
ISBN: 9781452164007
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Chronicle Books - August 28th, 2018
Meet author Annie Barrows and illustrator Sophie Blackall at a special launch celebration of the latest volume in the hit series.
reads from her debut novel, Kickdown, a taut and moving novel of a family's struggle to sustain their land when fracking comes to the contemporary American West.
"Deep, true, achingly pure, as stripped of glamour and pretense as the beautiful desolation it describes. With an unflinching eye for the unsettling political and environmental issues of our time, Clarren captures perfectly the heartland of our country and the hearts of those whose old answers have suddenly failed them--they are all strangers to themselves, full of wonder and worry, wild impulses, inarticulate feelings. Kickdown is what life sounds like when we give up the search for who we thought we were supposed to be, and begin the search for our own true humanity."--Karen Fisher, author of A Sudden Country, Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 7:30pm
$24.99
ISBN: 9781628729672
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Published: Arcade Publishing - September 5th, 2018
When Jackie Dunbar's father dies, she takes a leave from medical school and goes back to the family cattle ranch in Colorado to set affairs in order. But what she finds derails her: the Dunbar ranch is bankrupt, her sister is having a nervous breakdown, and the oil and gas industry has changed the landscape of this small western town both literally and figuratively, tempting her to sell a gas lease to save the family land.
October 2018
reads from The Shape of the Ruins, his highly anticipated, deeply personal masterpiece that is being heralded as the most ambitious novel of his career.
"A highly sophisticated, fast-moving political thriller set in Colombia and an excellent read."--Alan Furst
"One of the great novels of recent years."--Mario Vargas Llosa
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 7:30pm
$27.00
ISBN: 9780735211148
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Riverhead Books - September 25th, 2018
The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings.