The latest from our very own local authors Local Poetry Browse All See all items Staff Pick She Lives Here Kristina Cotis Hamlett Current price: $15.00 Kristina Hamlett's debut collection of poetry and prose, She Lives Here, moves toward a jubilant celebration of womanhood, Blackness, strength, and finding your own kind of joy. ... innocence Baldeep Pooni Current price: $16.99 What is innocence? Innocence is there Everywhere Perhaps it is the deepest depths Perhaps it is a recollection of existence Perhaps it is change Perhaps it is the essence ABOUT INNOCENCE ... Tomorrow Ruined Today (Dead Books Trilogy) Ryan Kent, Brett Lloyd Current price: $15.00 Ryan Kent and Brett Lloyd played shows together in different unknown bands, each as the respective vocalist. They got along well, and wrote many words that were often shouted over microphones more than they were read. ... Doomstead Days Brian Teare Current price: $17.95 WINNER of the 2020 FOUR QUARTETS PRIZE LONGLISTED for the 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY FINALIST for the the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST for the KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD ... Lingering in the Margins: A River City Poets Anthology Joanna Lee (Editor) Current price: $15.00 This is what we found: editing is hard work, friends. Setting out with the intention to support and publish less-experienced poets, we somehow never anticipated that poets who did have pages of publication credits would also want to be a part of this new endeavor. ... Traveling the River Hope Whitby Current price: $16.00 Growing up in rural, southern Virginia, Hope Whitby planted marigolds in the garden with her mother, canoed the Nottoway River with her father, and waited for the bookmobile on the porch with her sisters Vicky and Kelly. ... Yabo Alexis De Veaux Current price: $15.00 Fiction. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian General Fiction. See YABO... like a Mingus composition: Pentecostal, blues-inflected, full of wit and that deep literacy of the black diaspora. ... Of Water and Other Soft Constructions Heidi Heidi Current price: $20.00 No description available. Glass Harmonica Geoff Bouvier Current price: $14.00 Poetry. When does the song become the singer? Is the instrument the conduit of the song, or of the one who sings? ... Dominant Genes Sj Sindu Current price: $9.95 DOMINANT GENES, the new hybrid collection from Stonewall Honor author and Lambda Literary Award finalist SJ Sindu, is equal parts power and astonishing beauty, tenderness and shimmering anger, poetry and lyric essays interwoven in a gorgeous exploration of family, heritage, and the construction o ... Local Fiction Browse All See all items Discounted Let's No One Get Hurt: A Novel Jon Pineda Previous price: $20.00 Current price: $17.00 “An inventive and powerful coming of age story about the search for community and all the ways our ties to one another come undone. Jon Pineda has a poet’s eye for the details of this vivid, haunting landscape, and he brings it blazingly to life.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. ... Yellow Wife: A Novel Sadeqa Johnson Current price: $17.00 From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick! *A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor* ... Crooked Hallelujah Kelli Jo Ford Current price: $16.00 A book that you want to share with everyone you know and one that you are desperate to keep in your own possession. A masterful debut and a new and thrilling voice for readers across the globe. --Sarah Jessica Parker, on Instagram ... Nine Shiny Objects: A Novel Brian Castleberry Current price: $16.99 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION ... SEVEN ELEVEN, The Complete Files Dennis Ray Balk Current price: $34.00 SEVEN ELEVEN, The Complete Files is a collection of short stories, stunning graphic visuals and theoretical science embedded in conspiracies and passed to the reader by a consortium of characters. An experimental genre of storytelling; the Exhibition Novel. ... The Light of a Cuban Son Lorenzo Chavez Current price: $19.99 In this semi-autobiographical novel set in mid 20th century Cuba, Lorenzo Chavez reveals the moving story of a boy determined to stay true to who he is and find happiness against all odds. ... Other Fires Lenore H. Gay Current price: $16.95 Joss and Phil's already rocky marriage is fragmented when Phil is injured in a devastating fire and diagnosed with Capgras delusion--a misidentification syndrome in which a person becomes convinced that a loved one has been replaced by an identical imposter. ... Razorblade Tears: A Novel S. A. Cosby Current price: $17.99 *INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer • New York Times Notable Book • NPR’s Best Books of 2021 • Washington Post’s Best Thriller and Mystery Books of the Year • TIME ... The Adventures of a Black Hand Full of Moondust N. Coe Copes Current price: $25.00 TRUST GOD ONLY & WALK IN BLIND FAITH- ALONE for more than 5 years in silence. Maybe I was set up to die that way. A freak accident, perhaps. That's how it would have looked. Someone expected that, and with expectations that low and miserable, I never worried about someone like that. ... The Merciful Jon Sealy Current price: $17.95 Jon Sealy's The Merciful is a scathing morality play that explores a cast of small-town characters surrounding a deadly hit and run in coastal South Carolina. ... Discounted Moon Water Pam Webber Previous price: $17.95 Current price: $16.95 A tale of multigenerational love, hate, sex, faith, and resilience, Moon Water is the standalone sequel to Webber's best-selling first novel, The Wiregrass. ... Yellow Wife: A Novel Sadeqa Johnson Current price: $17.00 From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick! *A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor* ... The Edge of America Jon Sealy Current price: $17.95 1984. Miami. Enter the high-stakes world of South Florida's drug culture, where a businessman with CIA ties is about to risk it all.Bobby West is on the edge. ... Local Nonfiction Browse All See all items The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail Kristen Green Current price: $30.00 The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs ... There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things Valley Haggard Current price: $20.00 There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things tells the story of a young woman, driven by the siren song of wretched excess, who must take the world apart before she is able to put it back together again. ... Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru Catherine Baab-Muguira Current price: $18.00 Finalist for the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award Winner of the International Poe Festival’s Saturday “Visiter” Award As seen in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun ... Memoirs of a Classroom Guinea Pig Miss Piglet St. Benedict Current price: $25.00 I'd come as a surprise to the school's second-grade teacher, Ms. Highland, who'd adopted my mother from a guinea pig rescue center and somehow without anyone realizing that she was female and already well into a pregnancy. ... Sister Cities: A Story of Friendship Between Virginia and Mali Ana Edwards, Robin Poulton Current price: $19.95 Most early African Virginians came from the lands of the medieval Empire of Mali, founded by the original Lion King. Since the first Africans arrived in 1619, Virginia's history has been linked to Africa and to Mali. ... Inheritance David Gerson Current price: $15.00 Lost and Found by David Gerson reveals the vulnerability and inner strength that it takes to grow up gay and Jewish in the South. ... The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South Chip Jones Current price: $19.99 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. ... Sister Cities: A Story of Friendship Between Virginia and Mali Ana Edwards, Robin Poulton Current price: $19.95 Most early African Virginians came from the lands of the medieval Empire of Mali, founded by the original Lion King. Since the first Africans arrived in 1619, Virginia's history has been linked to Africa and to Mali. ... Wild Woman - Memoir in Pieces Cindy Cunningham Current price: $15.00 Cindy Cunningham's memoir, Wild Woman: Memoir in Pieces is the story of how a precocious child, raised by the Bible and emotionally absent parents, survives a violation that steals her youth and sends her on a journey of bad boys and dangerous girls, mental institutions, losing her daughter, and ... Browse for
Staff Pick She Lives Here Kristina Cotis Hamlett Current price: $15.00 Kristina Hamlett's debut collection of poetry and prose, She Lives Here, moves toward a jubilant celebration of womanhood, Blackness, strength, and finding your own kind of joy. ...
innocence Baldeep Pooni Current price: $16.99 What is innocence? Innocence is there Everywhere Perhaps it is the deepest depths Perhaps it is a recollection of existence Perhaps it is change Perhaps it is the essence ABOUT INNOCENCE ...
Tomorrow Ruined Today (Dead Books Trilogy) Ryan Kent, Brett Lloyd Current price: $15.00 Ryan Kent and Brett Lloyd played shows together in different unknown bands, each as the respective vocalist. They got along well, and wrote many words that were often shouted over microphones more than they were read. ...
Doomstead Days Brian Teare Current price: $17.95 WINNER of the 2020 FOUR QUARTETS PRIZE LONGLISTED for the 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY FINALIST for the the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST for the KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD ...
Lingering in the Margins: A River City Poets Anthology Joanna Lee (Editor) Current price: $15.00 This is what we found: editing is hard work, friends. Setting out with the intention to support and publish less-experienced poets, we somehow never anticipated that poets who did have pages of publication credits would also want to be a part of this new endeavor. ...
Traveling the River Hope Whitby Current price: $16.00 Growing up in rural, southern Virginia, Hope Whitby planted marigolds in the garden with her mother, canoed the Nottoway River with her father, and waited for the bookmobile on the porch with her sisters Vicky and Kelly. ...
Yabo Alexis De Veaux Current price: $15.00 Fiction. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian General Fiction. See YABO... like a Mingus composition: Pentecostal, blues-inflected, full of wit and that deep literacy of the black diaspora. ...
Glass Harmonica Geoff Bouvier Current price: $14.00 Poetry. When does the song become the singer? Is the instrument the conduit of the song, or of the one who sings? ...
Dominant Genes Sj Sindu Current price: $9.95 DOMINANT GENES, the new hybrid collection from Stonewall Honor author and Lambda Literary Award finalist SJ Sindu, is equal parts power and astonishing beauty, tenderness and shimmering anger, poetry and lyric essays interwoven in a gorgeous exploration of family, heritage, and the construction o ...
Discounted Let's No One Get Hurt: A Novel Jon Pineda Previous price: $20.00 Current price: $17.00 “An inventive and powerful coming of age story about the search for community and all the ways our ties to one another come undone. Jon Pineda has a poet’s eye for the details of this vivid, haunting landscape, and he brings it blazingly to life.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. ...
Yellow Wife: A Novel Sadeqa Johnson Current price: $17.00 From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick! *A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor* ...
Crooked Hallelujah Kelli Jo Ford Current price: $16.00 A book that you want to share with everyone you know and one that you are desperate to keep in your own possession. A masterful debut and a new and thrilling voice for readers across the globe. --Sarah Jessica Parker, on Instagram ...
Nine Shiny Objects: A Novel Brian Castleberry Current price: $16.99 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION ...
SEVEN ELEVEN, The Complete Files Dennis Ray Balk Current price: $34.00 SEVEN ELEVEN, The Complete Files is a collection of short stories, stunning graphic visuals and theoretical science embedded in conspiracies and passed to the reader by a consortium of characters. An experimental genre of storytelling; the Exhibition Novel. ...
The Light of a Cuban Son Lorenzo Chavez Current price: $19.99 In this semi-autobiographical novel set in mid 20th century Cuba, Lorenzo Chavez reveals the moving story of a boy determined to stay true to who he is and find happiness against all odds. ...
Other Fires Lenore H. Gay Current price: $16.95 Joss and Phil's already rocky marriage is fragmented when Phil is injured in a devastating fire and diagnosed with Capgras delusion--a misidentification syndrome in which a person becomes convinced that a loved one has been replaced by an identical imposter. ...
Razorblade Tears: A Novel S. A. Cosby Current price: $17.99 *INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer • New York Times Notable Book • NPR’s Best Books of 2021 • Washington Post’s Best Thriller and Mystery Books of the Year • TIME ...
The Adventures of a Black Hand Full of Moondust N. Coe Copes Current price: $25.00 TRUST GOD ONLY & WALK IN BLIND FAITH- ALONE for more than 5 years in silence. Maybe I was set up to die that way. A freak accident, perhaps. That's how it would have looked. Someone expected that, and with expectations that low and miserable, I never worried about someone like that. ...
The Merciful Jon Sealy Current price: $17.95 Jon Sealy's The Merciful is a scathing morality play that explores a cast of small-town characters surrounding a deadly hit and run in coastal South Carolina. ...
Discounted Moon Water Pam Webber Previous price: $17.95 Current price: $16.95 A tale of multigenerational love, hate, sex, faith, and resilience, Moon Water is the standalone sequel to Webber's best-selling first novel, The Wiregrass. ...
Yellow Wife: A Novel Sadeqa Johnson Current price: $17.00 From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick! *A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor* ...
The Edge of America Jon Sealy Current price: $17.95 1984. Miami. Enter the high-stakes world of South Florida's drug culture, where a businessman with CIA ties is about to risk it all.Bobby West is on the edge. ...
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail Kristen Green Current price: $30.00 The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs ...
There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things Valley Haggard Current price: $20.00 There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things tells the story of a young woman, driven by the siren song of wretched excess, who must take the world apart before she is able to put it back together again. ...
Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru Catherine Baab-Muguira Current price: $18.00 Finalist for the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award Winner of the International Poe Festival’s Saturday “Visiter” Award As seen in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun ...
Memoirs of a Classroom Guinea Pig Miss Piglet St. Benedict Current price: $25.00 I'd come as a surprise to the school's second-grade teacher, Ms. Highland, who'd adopted my mother from a guinea pig rescue center and somehow without anyone realizing that she was female and already well into a pregnancy. ...
Sister Cities: A Story of Friendship Between Virginia and Mali Ana Edwards, Robin Poulton Current price: $19.95 Most early African Virginians came from the lands of the medieval Empire of Mali, founded by the original Lion King. Since the first Africans arrived in 1619, Virginia's history has been linked to Africa and to Mali. ...
Inheritance David Gerson Current price: $15.00 Lost and Found by David Gerson reveals the vulnerability and inner strength that it takes to grow up gay and Jewish in the South. ...
The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South Chip Jones Current price: $19.99 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. ...
Sister Cities: A Story of Friendship Between Virginia and Mali Ana Edwards, Robin Poulton Current price: $19.95 Most early African Virginians came from the lands of the medieval Empire of Mali, founded by the original Lion King. Since the first Africans arrived in 1619, Virginia's history has been linked to Africa and to Mali. ...
Wild Woman - Memoir in Pieces Cindy Cunningham Current price: $15.00 Cindy Cunningham's memoir, Wild Woman: Memoir in Pieces is the story of how a precocious child, raised by the Bible and emotionally absent parents, survives a violation that steals her youth and sends her on a journey of bad boys and dangerous girls, mental institutions, losing her daughter, and ...
