Akashic Books
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Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
$34.95 Read more“Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by contemporary poets from Africa, packaged together in beautiful boxed sets.” —New York Times Magazine
The limited-edi
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1617759503
- Language: English
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Seriously, Just Go to Sleep
$16.95 Read more“Now there’s a version, complete with more of the gorgeous, yet weirdly subversive illustrations . . . that you can read to your children . . . The best part? It’s still funny. The rhythms, the ploddi
- Author: Mansbach, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1617750786
- Language: English
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South of the Pumphouse
$17.95 Read more“[Claypool’s] characters’ escalating savagery culminates in a satisfyingly unsettling conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly
A dark, clever tale of two brothers, a fishing trip, misconceptions, drugs and mur
- Author: Claypool, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1933354062
- Language: English
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Lean on Me: A Children’s Picture Book
$16.95 Read more“Lean on me
When you’re not strong
And I’ll be your friend
I’ll help you carry on . . .”
Lean on Me is an endearing children’s picture book that beautifully demonstrates the power of friendship, base… [more below]- Series: Lyricpop
- Author: Withers, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1636141099
- Language: English
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Song for Night
$14.95 Add to cart“Chris Abani might be the most courageous writer working right now. There is no subject matter he finds daunting, no challenge he fears. Aside from that, he’s stunningly prolific and writes like an an
- Author: Abani, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1933354313
- Language: English
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Primus, Over the Electric Grapevine: Insight Into Primus and the World of Les Claypool
$19.95 Read moreIt’s a wild ride that’s vividly captured in Greg Prato’s excellent oral history . . . . —Bass Player Magazine
“A book about the highly strange San Franciscans Primus has been overdue for years, so Gr
- Author: Primus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1636140688
- Language: English
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Stay Positive: A Children’s Picture Book
$16.95 Add to cartSTAY POSITIVE is a charming children’s picture book based on The Hold Steady song of the same name. The title track of the band’s fourth album (released in 2008), “Stay Positive” is a call to arms
- Author: The Hold Steady
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141854
- Language: English
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Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
$32.95 Add to cart–A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year
–An Uncut Book of the Year
–Long-Listed for the Penderyn Music Book Prize
–A Louder Than War Book of the Year
–A Blitzed Magazine Book of the YearIn 1979, … [more below]
- Author: Rachel, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141897
- Language: English
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Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta
$26.95 Add to cartIN 1932, A JAMAICAN MAN NAMED LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL began leading nonviolent protests in Kingston, Jamaica, against British colonial rule. While history books rightly credit Mahatma Gandhi and Marti… [more below]
- Author: Howell, Bill Blade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141722
- Language: English
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Cocoa the Tour Dog: A Children’s Picture Book
$16.95 Add to cart#1 best-selling reggae artist Stick Figure (Scott Woodruff) and #1 New York Times best-selling author Adam Mansbach team up for a sweet, funny children’s picture book about a real-life rescue dog tur… [more below]
- Author: Stick Figure
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141757
- Language: English
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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
$17.95 Add to cart–Includes “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge,” winner of the World Fantasy Award
–Selected for the Locus Magazine 2023 Recommended Reading List
–“Rumpus Room” selected as finalist for a 2023 Bram Stoker- Author: Due, Tananarive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 163614179X
- Language: English
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The Reservoir: A Novella
$15.95 Add to cartNew paperback edition of The Reservoir from author, actor, and musician David Duchovny includes a bonus, brand-new short story, “The Scare Owl”
- Author: Duchovny, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 163614165X
- Language: English
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False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel
$16.95 Add to cartIn this gripping follow-up to The Reluctant King, the “Monarchy” of New York City’s Five Points is in total disarray, giving way to a bloody battle for the crown
- Author: K’Wan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141773
- Language: English
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Broke Heart Blues
$19.95 Add to cartIN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141145
- Language: English
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The Infinite Loop/El Lazo Infinito
$18.95 Add to cart“This bilingual edition displays poems in English and Spanish on facing pages, so readers can jump between languages, an additional draw to this dynamic collection.” —Booklist
Oneyda Gonz疝ez’s astou
- Author: González, Rigoberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1636141439
- Language: English
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Home: Social Essays
$20.95 Add to cart“Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro–and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights–not conditional favors.” —New York Times Book Review
In 2007, Akashic Books ushered A
- Series: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1933354674
- Language: English
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Boom Chicago Presents the 30 Most Important Years in Dutch History
$64.93 Add to cart“It’s kind of crazy, the impact on culture so many Boom Chicago alums have had. Boom was where I became my best comedic self: the excitement of Amsterdam, the freedom of that environment, the letting … [more below]
- Author: Moskos, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1636141676
- Language: English
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Dogtown: The Legend of the Z-Boys
$40.00 Read more“DogTown: The Legend of the Z-Boys is a stunning book that blends historic words and reports with a photo archive that has a golden shelf in the annals of skateboarding.” —SurferToday, One of the Be… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Glen E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1617756997
- Language: English
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The Jesus Lizard Book
$49.95 Add to cart“If you’re a Jesus Lizard fan or a David Yow devotee, you’re sure all over this. But even if you’ve never heard of the band, the book stands as one of the best ways to experience being in a tight, coh
- Author: Lizard, The Jesus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1617750808
- Language: English
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Against the Written Word: Toward a Universal Illiteracy
$17.95 Add to cart“Wielding the satiric tone of a Gen-X Jonathan Swift or leftist Andy Kaufman . . . Svenonius is an engaging companion . . . and he lands some scathing blows, as when he links internet porn to contempo
- Author: Svenonius, Ian F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1636140807
- Language: English
