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BK YA Not? Book Group: Pointe

08/16/2014 - 1:00pm

All book group picks are 10% off!

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Pointe (Hardcover)

By Brandy Colbert
$17.99
ISBN: 9780399160349
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers - April 10th, 2014

Theo is better now.

She’s eating again, dating guys who are almost appropriate, and well on her way to becoming an elite ballet dancer. But when her oldest friend, Donovan, returns home after spending four long years with his kidnapper, Theo starts reliving memories about his abduction—and his abductor.

BK Midnight Murakami: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

08/11/2014 - 10:30pm

This event will take place at our Brooklyn location. Calling all Murakami fans! Come and read your favorite passage from any of his books as we count down the hours until the release of his newest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Those wishing to read should email brooklyn@wordbookstores.com with their selection so we can avoid duplicates. The event starts at 10:30 p.m. and a pre-paid pre-order of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, either in-store or online, is necessary to attend.

We're excited to announce that WORD will have a small number of super-limited-edition signed copies of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki that will only be available to attendees! We'll have a raffle and winners will receive a signed copy when they pick up their pre-order at midnight -- you must be present to win (and also to eat donuts and drink wine).

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel (Hardcover)

By Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translated by)
$25.95
ISBN: 9780385352109
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Published: Knopf - August 12th, 2014

A New York Times #1 Bestseller
A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's best books of the year

Bk Music Writing Book Group: Read for a Brand New Beat

10/11/2014 - 3:00pm

All book group picks are 10% off!

Ready for a Brand New Beat: How

Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America (Paperback)

By Mark Kurlansky
$16.00
ISBN: 9781594632730
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Published: Riverhead Books - July 2014

Can a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William “Mickey” Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote “Dancing in the Street.” The song was recorded at Motown’s Hitsville USA Studio by Martha and the Vandellas, with lead singer Martha Reeves arranging her own vocals.

BK Classics Book Group: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

12/13/2014 - 12:00pm

All book group picks are 10% off!

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)

By Hannah Arendt, Amos Elon (Introduction by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143039884
Availability: In stock at Brooklyn or Jersey City -- click for more details
Published: Penguin Classics - September 22nd, 2006

The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism
 

BK Classics Book Group: Silent Spring

11/08/2014 - 12:00pm

All book group picks are 10% off!

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Silent Spring (Paperback)

By Rachel Carson, Linda Lear (Introduction by), Edward O. Wilson (Afterword by)
$15.99
ISBN: 9780618249060
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Published: Mariner Books - October 22nd, 2002

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.

BK Classics Book Group: Black Boy

10/11/2014 - 12:00pm

All book group picks are 10% off!

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Black Boy (Paperback)

By Richard Wright
$16.99
ISBN: 9780061130243
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - March 27th, 2007

Richard Wright's powerful and eloquent memoir of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South—at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment, Black Boy is a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.

BK Classics Book Group: On Dreams & A Room of One's Own

09/20/2014 - 12:00pm

All group picks are 10% off!

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A Room of One's Own (Paperback)

By Virginia Woolf
$13.99
ISBN: 9780156787338
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Published: Mariner Books - December 27th, 1989

Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society

 

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed.

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On Dreams (the Standard) (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) (Paperback)

By Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor), Peter Gay (Introduction by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393001440
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - January 17th, 1990

On Dreams was the result. He succeeded admirably: the theory of the dream as distorted wish fulfillment is there, as are, in full deployment, the mechanisms of the dream work. Without doubt, Freud was always his own best popularizer.

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