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2019 Pulitzer Prizes All winners in stock at Walden Pond Books |
2019 Hugo Award Nominees for Best Science Fiction Novel. All titles in stock at Walden Pond Books |
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Staff picks are tagged: "GREAT BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS FOR GREAT MOMS!" |
Walden Pond Books will be open on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27th. |
INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY:
- Saturday, April 27: Walden Pond Books will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day with an offering of unique and collectable artwork, vinyl, and special editions signed by notable authors produced just for Independent Bookstore Day - and available ONLY on Independent Bookstore Day, Saturday, April 27.
- We're also celebrating Independent Bookstore Day with our biggest sale of the year: ALL USED BOOKS WILL BE DISCOUNTED AT 25% OFF all day Saturday, April 27.
(The Independent Bookstore Day discount cannot be combined with other discounts, does not apply to vinyl or to books in the rare book room or rare book cabinet, and cannot be applied to store credit slips.)
WE BUY BOOKS!Are your books taking up more space in your home than they deserve? Moving? Need some cash for your books? Want to trade books you've read for books you haven't read? Bring us your books! We might not take all of them, but we'll pay cash or give you store credit for the ones we do want.
BOOK AWARD NEWS:
- Wednesday, May 1, 2019 through Tuesday, May 21, 2019: We will resume buying and trading books in May. We buy and trade books from 10:00 am through 3:00 pm during the first three weeks (21 days) of each month except April and December. We do NOT buy and trade books in April and December.
- Monday, April 15, 2019: The winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, Nonfiction, History, Biography, and Poetry have been announced.
- Tuesday, April 2, 2019: The nominees for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the year have been announced.
- Monday, March 4, 2019: The nominees for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction have been announced.
BOOKS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT:
Here's a list of a few outstanding new titles on our shelves at Walden Pond Books.
We've carefully picked the best of the best for your consideration.
The titles below are just a small sample. View more of our favorite books and staff picks on our web site at www.waldenpondbooks.com.
Drop by Walden Pond Books at 3316 Grand Avenue and browse. Or - if you see a book listed here or on our web site that you know you've just got to read immediately - call us at 510-832-4438 and we'll hold that title for you at the front counter or ship directly to your home.
- Fiction: Recently Released in Hardcover (Front Display)
- Fiction: Recently or Soon-to-be Released in Paperback (Aisle 1-B)
- Non-Fiction: Recently Released in Hardcover (Front Display)
- Non-Fiction: Recently or Soon-to-be Released in Paperback (Aisle 2-B)
(Scribner)Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Buzzfeed, Library Journal, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly.
HEAVY: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother. From his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi, to his time in New York as a college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. An unforgettable memoir that combines personal stories with piercing intellect to reflect both on the strife of American society and on Laymon's experiences with abuse.
"Heavy takes on the important work of exposing the damage done to America, especially its black population, by the failure to confront the myths, half-truths, and lies at the foundation of the success stories that the nation worships. In the process, Laymon dramatizes a very different route to victory: the quest to forge a self by speaking hard truths, resisting exploitation, and absorbing with grace the cost of being black in America while struggling to live a life of virtue...You won't be able to put this memoir down, but not because it is breezy reading. It is, in Laymon's multilayered word, heavy - packed with reminders of how black dreams get skewed and deferred yet are also pregnant with the possibility that a kind of redemption may lie in intimate grappling with black realities" - The Atlantic.
"A compelling record of American violence and family violence, and the wide, rutted embrace of family love. Kiese Laymon is a star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful. Heavy is at once a paean to the Deep South, a condemnation of our fat-averse culture, and a brilliantly rendered memoir of growing up black, and bookish, and entangled in a family that is as challenging as it is grounding." - NPR.
"One of the most important and intense books of the year because of the unyielding, profoundly original and utterly heartbreaking way it addresses and undermines expectations for what exactly it's like to possess and make use of a male black body in America. The book thunders as an indictment of hope, a condemnation of anyone ever looking forward." - The Los Angeles Times.
"A gorgeous, gutting book that's fueled by candor yet freighted with ambivalence. It's full of devotion and betrayal, euphoria and anguish, tender embraces and rough abuse. This generous, searching book explores all the forces that can stop even the most buoyant hopes from ever leaving the ground." - The New York Times.
- Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror: New in Paperback (Aisle 2-B)
- Mystery/Crime/Espionage Fiction: New in Paperback (Aisle 1-B)
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