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Creative Quest (Hardcover)

By Questlove

$22.39

ISBN: 9780062670557

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Published: Ecco - April 24th, 2018

 

How to be creative, for people who don’t believe in books on how to be creative. Questlove unpacks the (many, varied) processes of the artists he’s known and worked with. His advice is interspersed with stories from his life and fascinating dissections of what makes a creative piece work, from The Wizard of Oz to Norm Macdonald’s jokes to Da Vinci to D’Angelo. At the very least you’ll come away with a great
playlist.

Kate

Wade in the Water: Poems (Hardcover)

By Tracy K. Smith

$24.00

ISBN: 9781555978136

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Published: Graywolf Press - April 3rd, 2018

 

Tracy K. Smith brings her incredible craft and compassionate eye to the job of US Poet Laureate. Her latest collection explores both our current political moment and our complicated national history, featuring the environmental destruction wreaked by Dupont, police brutality, racial inequality, political unrest, womanhood and motherhood, and an especially moving piece created from letters from black soldiers in the Civil War. These poems are luminous and illuminating, timely and timeless. Pick it up.

 

Kate

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World (Hardcover)

By Mackenzi Lee, Petra Eriksson (Illustrator)

$19.99

ISBN: 9781419729256

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Published: Abrams Image - March 13th, 2018

 

Celebrate women's history month with this hilarious & inspiring collection of women! From warriors to scientists, business moguls to revolutionaries, this book brings to light the massive impact women have had on a history that has largely written them out. Plus, the illustrations are GORGEOUS!

Kate

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)

By Hanif Abdurraqib

$16.99

ISBN: 9781937512651

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Published: Two Dollar Radio - November 7th, 2017

Like the music he writes about, Hanif Abdurraqib's essay collection is by turns novel and nostalgic, euphoric and poignant, contemplative and raw. A moving examination of the way pop culture ties into the current state of our nation--and how it affects us on a personal level.

 

Kate

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book (Hardcover)

By Jomny Sun

$15.99

ISBN: 9780062569028

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Published: Harper Perennial - June 27th, 2017

As a bookseller, I read a lot of books. I’ve read a whole heap of staff-pick-able ones in the past few months. But this little aliebn has stayed with me since July; I've read and re-read it and found something new every time. Funny, poignant, and earnest, this book about a lonely alien his animal friends offers plenty of insight on what it means to be human.

Kate

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks (Paperback)

By Terry Tempest Williams

$18.00

ISBN: 9781250132147

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Published: Picador USA - July 3rd, 2017

Tempest Williams is one of my favorite writers (and a fellow Utahn!), and she's at her finest in this collection of essays on America's National Parks. They are personal and political, informative and immediate, a reflection on our messy relationship with wild spaces that's by turns heartbreaking and uplifting. If you're looking for a book to inspire you to get outside this summer, this is the one!