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WORD Presents Elizabeth Gonzalez James

01/24/2024 - 7:00pm

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The Bullet Swallower: A Novel By Elizabeth Gonzalez James Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781668009321
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Published: Simon & Schuster - January 23rd, 2024

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.

In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men


WORD Presents Lexi Kent-Monning

11/01/2023 - 7:00pm

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The Burden Of Joy By Lexi Kent-Monning Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9798218263454
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Published: Rejection Letters - November 1st, 2023

Lexi Kent-Monning's debut novel, The Burden of Joy, is an incessant dagger to the heart. After Lexi's husband leaves her on Valentine's Day to join a commune that time forgot, her home stops belonging to her. Instead, she discovers a parade of dead animals, a man who turns her blue eyes green, true love in equal parts cocaine and MDMA, and a revolving door of solitude.


WORD Presents Nikki Vargas

11/07/2023 - 7:00pm

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Call You When I Land: A Memoir By Nikki Vargas Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9781335455093
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Published: Hanover Square Press - November 7th, 2023

"Colorful, vivid storytelling.... for anyone looking for a road to reinvention." --Kristin Newman

A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: Shondaland, Real Simple, Country Living, PureWow, Glamour, Forbes, Scary Mommy, The Daily Beast, Goodreads, The Everygirl, Zibby Mag, AFAR, and more


WORD Presents Matt Singer with Alison Willmore

10/24/2023 - 7:00pm

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Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780593540152
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - October 24th, 2023

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB.

You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.”


WORD Presents Kate Goldbeck and Julie Soto in conversation

09/11/2023 - 7:30pm

NEW VENUE at THREES BREWING GREENPOINT (113 Franklin St., 2 min walk from WORD Bookstores)

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You, Again: A Novel By Kate Goldbeck Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593448120
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback - September 12th, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This gender-swapped When Harry Met Sally retelling is for anyone who craves romance novels with realistic and flawed characters. Ari and Josh circle each other for years in the kind of delicious, slow-burn tension that only comes from a well-executed enemies-to-friends-to-lovers arc.”—NPR (Books We Love in 2023)


Forget Me Not By Julie Soto Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781538740880
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Published: Forever - July 11th, 2023

A wedding planner and her grumpy ex must work together to plan a celebrity event in this deliciously spicy and funny novel from Ali Hazelwood's "favorite writer." 

Ama Torres is an optimistic wedding planner who doesn’t believe in marriage. But weddings? They’re amazing.


WORD Presents Boomhouse and The Box: Mandy Suzanne Wong and Summer J. Hart in Conversation

10/03/2023 - 7:00pm

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The Box: A Novel By Mandy-Suzanne Wong Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781644452493
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Published: Graywolf Press - September 19th, 2023

A stylistically dazzling novel about objects, people, and the forces and seams between them.


Of course, each thing has its own sides to every story.


WORD Presents Maureen Lenker

09/15/2023 - 7:00pm

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From Entertainment Weekly writer Maureen Lee Lenker comes a swoony romantic comedy set in the world of 1930s film.

It Happened One Fight By Maureen Lenker Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781728267883
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Published: Sourcebooks Casablanca - July 11th, 2023

From Entertainment Weekly writer Maureen Lee Lenker comes a swoony romantic comedy set in the world of 1930s film.


WORD Presents Cassie Packard

09/15/2023 - 7:00pm

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What can we learn from great artists? When we hold their practices up to the light, what do we see - and how might those encounters reshape our own thinking about art?

Art Rules: How great artists think, create and work By Cassie Packard Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9780711270299
Availability: Available from our distributor; usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Frances Lincoln - September 12th, 2023

The best thing about rules is that you can break them: here are over 100 mantras for anyone interested in creating great art.

What can we learn from great artists? When we hold their practices up to the light, what do we see – and how might those encounters reshape our own thinking about art?

Delving into the attitudes, working practices and mantr


WORD Presents Four Way Books Fall Reading

09/14/2023 - 7:00pm

Join WORD in celebrating Four Way Books' Fall 2023 releases with readings from A.H. Jerriod Avant, Adrian Blevins, Michael Dumanis, Mary Slechta, & Daniel Tobin

 

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Muscadine (Stahlecker Selections) By A. H. Jerriod Avant Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781954245709
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Published: Four Way Books - September 15th, 2023

Paperback


Status Pending By Adrian Blevins Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781954245723
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Published: Four Way Books - September 15th, 2023

Hardcover


Creature (Stahlecker Selections) By Michael Dumanis Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781954245761
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Published: Four Way Books - September 15th, 2023

Creature is a complex poetics of vitality, and it immaculately cleaves: even as it underscores how living in an inherently inhospitable environment will dispossess us of the world and one another, making animal of man, it sutures the rent evolutionary tree, glorifying the interdependence of each extant thing.


Mulberry Street Stories (Kimbilio National Fiction Prize ) By Mary Slechta Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781954245747
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Published: Four Way Books - September 15th, 2023

In this electric collection, Mary Slechta brings magical realism and U.S. history to bear on the community of Mulberry Street— an African-American neighborhood with a disputed past. Is this enclave the result of white flight, a tenuous foothold for Southern transplants, or a sliver of the world that spun off during creation, once ruled by a god named Mr. Washington?


The Mansions By Daniel Tobin Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781954245600
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Published: Four Way Books - September 15th, 2023

From award-winning poet Daniel Tobin comes The Mansions, an epic trilogy of book-length poems which examines exemplary 20th-Century figures Georges Lemaître, Simone Weil, and Teilhard de Chardin, all at the crossroads of science, history, and religion.


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