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BK Storytime with Shanon Morris

01/13/2019 - 3:30pm

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

MC Veggie Fresh Rocks the Mic is a story of a young girl named Clementine who is having trouble writing her Healthy Hero Election speech. Her annoying twin brothers, Basil and Sage, are no help. But one thing she does know: she has to beat Edgar and his Junk Food Friends. Just when she is about to give up, Clementine discovers her talent for rapping. She becomes MC Veggie Fresh and rocks the mic like a pro at the Healthy Hero Election.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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MC Veggie Fresh Rocks the Mic (Paperback)

By Shanon Morris, Merve Terzi (Illustrator)
$14.99
ISBN: 9781732582101
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Shanon Morris - November 6th, 2018

Oh no, Clementine is in trouble What is she going to write for her Healthy Hero Election speech tomorrow? Her annoying twin brothers Basil and Sage are no help. But one thing she does know, she has to beat Edgar and his Junk Food Friends. Just when she is about to give up, Clementine discovers her talent for rapping.

WORD BK Presents: Ben Philippe and Ibi Zoboi for THE FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN TEENAGER

01/10/2019 - 7:30pm

 

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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager (Hardcover)

By Ben Philippe
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062824110
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Balzer + Bray - January 8th, 2019

A hilarious YA contemporary realistic novel about a witty Black French Canadian teen who moves to Austin, Texas, and experiences the joys, clichés, and awkward humiliations of the American high school experience—including falling in love. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon, When Dimple Met Rishi, and John Green.

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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (Hardcover)

By Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062698728
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Balzer + Bray - January 8th, 2019

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America.

Event Voucher for Ben Philippe and Ibi Zoboi

$5.00
SKU: teenvoucher

$5 admission to this event at our Brooklyn store. Your $5 voucher can be used toward anything in store, including The Field Guide to the North American Teenager. Please note that if you purchase a copy of the book from WORD at the event or via pre-order there is no need to purchase a voucher. 
 

WORD Presents: Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes for THE SPECTRAL CITY

11/29/2018 - 7:30pm

In turn-of-the-century New York City, the police have an off-the-books spiritual go-to when it comes to solving puzzling corporeal crimes…Her name is Eve Whitby, the 19-year-old gifted medium and leader of The Ghost Precinct. Working with the diligent but skeptical Lieutenant Horowitz, as well as a group of fellow psychics and wayward ghosts, Eve solves New York’s most disturbing crimes as only a medium of her ability can. But even Eve is unsettled by her department’s latest mystery.

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The Spectral City (Paperback)

By Leanna Renee Hieber
$15.00
ISBN: 9781635730616
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Kensington Publishing Corporation - November 27th, 2018

"Solving crime isn't only for the living.



In turn-of-the century New York City, the police have an off-the-books spiritual go-to when it comes to solving puzzling corporeal crimes. . .

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Boroughs of the Dead: New York City Ghost Stories (Paperback)

By Andrea Janes
$9.99
ISBN: 9781466366916
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform - September 26th, 2011

"Like the best of the pulps, the narratives are creepy, darkly comical and elegantly composed, with lovingly detailed descriptions of place and an ample whiff of lurid decay." - Fangoria BOROUGHS OF THE DEAD is a collection of ten short horror stories set in and around New York City. Beneath its modern facade, New York City teems with dark secrets, faded spirits, and unnameable horrors.

WORD Presents: Chaya Bhuvaneswar and Rakesh Satyal for WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS

11/17/2018 - 3:00pm

In luminous, vivid, searingly honest prose, the stories in White Dancing Elephants center on the experiences of diverse women of color—cunning, bold, and resolute—facing sexual harassment and racial violence, as well as the violence women inflict upon each other. One woman’s miscarriage is juxtaposed against the story of the Buddha’s birth. Another cheats with her best friend’s husband, only to discover it’s her friend she most yearns for.

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White Dancing Elephants (Paperback)

By Chaya Bhuvaneswar
$16.95
ISBN: 9781945814617
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Dzanc Books - October 9th, 2018

Best Books of 2018 Kirkus Reviews (debut and short fiction categories)

Best Books of 2018, Entropy Magazine

A Book Club selection for The Wing, Rebel Women's Lit and Bookish.com

35 over 35 Debut Fiction Award

Finalist for the 2019 PEN American Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

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No One Can Pronounce My Name: A Novel (Paperback)

By Rakesh Satyal
$16.00
ISBN: 9781250112125
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Picador - May 8th, 2018

One of Goodreads’ Best Books of the Month
One of BuzzFeed’s 31 Incredible New Books You Need to Read This Spring
One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the Year

A HUMOROUS AND TENDER MULTIGENERATIONAL NOVEL ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND OUTSIDERS—THOSE TRYING TO FIND THEIR PLACE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AND WITHIN THEIR OWN FAMILIES

Small Business Saturday Storytime with Raakee Mirchandani

11/24/2018 - 11:00am
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Super Satya Saves the Day (Hardcover)

By Raakhee Mirchandani
$19.95
ISBN: 9781643071176
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Bharat Babies - October 2nd, 2018

Super Satya is ready to have a super day, including finally conquering the tallest slide in Hoboken. But her day takes a not-so-super turn when she realizes her superhero cape is stuck at the dry cleaner. Will she be able to face her fears, help her friends, and be the true hero everyone knows she is?

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER! WORD Presents Marla Hamburg Kennedy in conversation with Phillip Lopate for Brooklyn Photographs Now

11/15/2018 - 7:30pm

CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER!

Please stay tuned to social media, our newsletter, and our website for a rescheduled event date in 2019.

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Brooklyn Photographs Now (Hardcover)

By Marla Hamburg Kennedy, Philip Lopate (Contributions by), Anne Pasternak (Contributions by)
$55.00
ISBN: 9780847862382
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Rizzoli - September 18th, 2018

Brooklyn has seen exponential change over the past fifteen years, and this book presents the best work of the photographers from all over the world who have been capturing those changes and movements in cityscapes, portraits, vignettes, and process-oriented photography.

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Portrait Inside My Head: Essays (Paperback)

By Phillip Lopate
$15.00
ISBN: 9781451696301
Availability: Special Order: Please email for availability
Published: Simon & Schuster - February 25th, 2014

"Immensely readable essays.... Phillip Lopate] remains 'a storyteller at heart' who can liven up any subject with nimble anecdotes from his life....Delightful" (The New York Times Book Review).

At the Inkwell: Biography Night

11/14/2018 - 7:00pm

 

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Norman Mailer: A Double Life (Paperback)

By J. Michael Lennon
$20.00
ISBN: 9781439150214
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 28th, 2014

The "glorious...sweeping, full-scale biography" of Norman Mailer, the famous novelist, journalist, and public figure: "There's not a paragraph in this enormous book that doesn't contain a nugget of something you...wish you had known" (The New York Times).

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Sam Shepard: A Life (Paperback)

By John J. Winters
$16.95
ISBN: 9781619029736
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Counterpoint LLC - March 20th, 2018

"John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of America's foremost Renaissance man of letters." --Kelly Horan, coauthor of Devotion and Defiance

WORD Presents: Anna Snoekstra and Tori Telfer for THE SPITE GAME

11/08/2018 - 7:30pm

Everyone does bad things when no one is watching, and no one captures that more aptly than Anna Snoekstra. Her thrillers are known for being intense, unique, and utterly creepy, able to paint portraits of human desperation with terrifying accuracy (and the occasional edge of freaky dolls). In her twisted third novel, The Spite Game, Snoekstra further unnerves readers, telling the story of a girl bullied in high school whose favorite game is exacting sweet, vicious revenge.

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The Spite Game (Paperback)

By Anna Snoekstra
$15.99
ISBN: 9780778369967
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Mira Books - October 30th, 2018

Everyone does bad things when no one is watchingMercilessly bullied in high school, Ava knows she needs to put the past behind her and move on, but she can't--not until she's exacted precise, catastrophic revenge on the people who hurt her the most.First, she watches Saanvi. Flawlessly chic and working hard at a top architectural firm, Saanvi has it all together on the surface.

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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)

By Tori Telfer
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062433732
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Harper Perennial - October 10th, 2017

Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column “Lady Killers,” this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages.

Event Voucher for THE SPITE GAME

$5.00
SKU: spitevoucher

$5 admission to this event at our Brooklyn store. Your $5 voucher can be used toward anything in store, including The Spite Game. Please note that if you purchase a copy of the book from WORD there is no need to purchase a voucher. 
 

WORD Presents: M. Dean with Leslie Stein for I AM YOUNG

11/06/2018 - 7:30pm

Join us in Brooklyn as we celebrate the release of cartoonist M. Dean's gorgeous, lusciously illustrated new book I Am Young. This series of character-driven, musically minded stories is as graphically sophisticated as it is emotionally acute. Tied together by one central narrative about two teenagers who meet and fall in love after a Beatles concert in 1964, I Am Young explores how relationships evolve — both interpersonally as well as our individual and collective relationships with the culture around us.

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I Am Young (Hardcover)

By M. Dean
$19.99
ISBN: 9781683961390
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Fantagraphics Books - November 20th, 2018

This story is told in dual perspective by Miriam (a second-generation Iranian immigrant living in Edinburgh with her family) and George (a visitor from Wales). Their relationship throughout the decades mirrors the Beatles's.

Event Voucher for I AM YOUNG with M. Dean

$5.00
SKU: youngvoucher

$5 admission to this event at our Brooklyn store. Your $5 voucher can be used toward anything in store, including I Am Young. Please note that if you purchase a copy of the book from WORD there is no need to purchase a voucher. 
 

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Present (Hardcover)

By Leslie Stein
$21.95
ISBN: 9781770462946
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Drawn and Quarterly - October 17th, 2017

A lyrical exploration of the city and memory, as drawn by a Vice cartoonist

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