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I am convinced that most people do not grow up our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias. On Mother's Day, Maya Angelou's tender letter to the daughter she never had

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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore Happy Valentine’s Day! Remember us? We love you... and we are open until 9pm note: masks are required, this photo was taken pre-COVID - thank you for keeping our employees and your fellow browsers safe

Hope is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -... And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm - I’ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me. - EMILY DICKINSON "Hope is the thing with feathers"

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We are so excited to introduce to you: ‘The Curious Reader’, a new book about books from Mental Floss. Surprising facts about the world’s most famous authors and their literary works. Pre-order https://bit.ly/3d71PZe *Warning: Will likely lead to buying more books.*

Happy Halloween! #greenapplebooks #happyhalloween #quarantineoween

Back in stock: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong! Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen https://www.greenapplebooks.com/book/9781984820365... A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human. Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocativeand its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world. #minorfeelings #greenapplebooks

In two weeks! Join us on Friday, November 13 at 7pm PST when Patrick Earl Ryan discusses his award-winning debut story collection, If We Were Electric, with Martin Pousson on Zoom! http://ow.ly/rvX850C1HVN Selected by Roxane Gay for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction!... If We Were Electric's twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical, muddy and exquisite, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities, about people on the outside who don't fit in, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. #greenapplebooks #ifwewereelectric

The Apple-a-Month Club: New Fiction, Delivered to Your Door https://www.greenapplebooks.com/subscribe We often hear that customers come to Green Apple to find the book they're looking for but stay for hours to peruse the books we recommend. But if you live far away, have schedules that inhibit your ability to read hundreds of handwritten index cards before selecting your next book, or are looking for a perfect perennial gift for the bibliophile in your life: The Apple-a-Month... Club is here for you. Here's how it works: We pore over stacks of soon-to-be-released fiction to find the paperback original we're most excited about. The only guiding policy is that every book we pick will be new, fiction and what we think will be appealing to all types of readers. Why take the risk? Well, we're hoping you might discover something you never would have picked up elsewhere. You can then look forward to getting a new book with a handwritten note about why we love it in the mail once a month. As publication dates vary, so will the delivery date -- that's part of the fun. Photo: Lisa Church

"The Convert" from poet Nate Klug's new collection "Hosts and Guests." Join us in one week on Thursday, November 5 at 5pm when Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain read from their new collections, Hosts and Guests and Rain in Plural, on Zoom! http://ow.ly/iK7250C1jpj... --Praise for Hosts and Guests-- "Nate Klug's Hosts and Guests is a fine book full of rich nuance, complex emotions, and sharp observations. These are poems replete with hosts and guests from a wide range of ecosystems in which Horace, Rihanna, Leviticus, Dickinson, and even Pikachu and Pokémon Go make smooth appearances. Hosts and Guests is a book that feels as though, in Klug's own words, 'day's first words // arrive like nets, flung / from somewhere behind // our heads.' These are beautifully crafted, contemplative poems that stay with you long after you've read them."Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of Living Weapon: Poems #greenapplebooks #nateklug #poetrynight

In two weeks! Join us on Thursday, November 12 at 5pm PDT when Valzhyna Mort discusses her latest collection, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, with Carolyn Forché on Zoom! http://ow.ly/7sSn50C1HQ1 With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort’s Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge t...he collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology? #greenapplebooks #poetrynight

Available now! Come To Light signed by award-winning artist and author Paul Madonna https://bit.ly/3kCCKpP... Get your hands on COME TO LIGHT, Paul Madonna’s electrifying mystery novel full of unexpected plot twists, lively characters, and over one hundred lush drawings. Presented in an innovative three-volume boxed set, Come to Light is a gripping page-turner that weaves an intoxicating tale of love, murder, books and art. Available now at our 506 Clement Street location or have them shipped from our site https://bit.ly/3kCCKpP *be sure and request a signed copy Cheers!

Quarantine-O-Ween on Clement Street is in full swing! We have received great entries in our Coloring Showcase so far. They are on display in the (Seedstore/Busvan) window at 212 Clement St.

We’re going to go ahead and name names here. Someone’s been busy signing books for you and the someone is award-winning artist and author Paul Madonna https://bit.ly/3kCCKpP... Get your hands on COME TO LIGHT, Paul Madonna’s electrifying mystery novel full of unexpected plot twists, lively characters, and over one hundred lush drawings. Presented in an innovative three-volume boxed set, Come to Light is a gripping page-turner that weaves an intoxicating tale of love, murder, books and art. Available now at our 506 Clement Street location or have them shipped from our site https://bit.ly/3kCCKpP *be sure and request a signed copy

T O N I G H T! Join us at 6pm PDT when July Westhale joins us to read from and celebrate her new collection, Via Negativa, with MK Chavez on Zoom! https://www.greenapplebooks.com//virtual-event-july-westha... --Praise for Via Negativa-- In this stunning work, Westhale (Trailor Trash) interrogates the vocabulary used to speak about desire, the divine, and literature. Presented as a series of linked lyric pieces, the book spans a range of forms, including lyric fragments, single strophes, and prose poems, gracefully unified by an ongoing concern with the damage done by language, as well as its redemptive potential...With subtlety and skill, Westhale reminds the reader that sensory experience is irrevocably changed once it is relayed in language. -Publishers Weekly, starred review #greenapplebooks #julywesthale #vianegativa #poetrynight

We're working on warming things up a little this Holiday Season https://www.bonfire.com/green-apple-books-holiday/

The Sacrifice of Darkness By Roxane Gay + Tracy Lynne Oliver https://www.greenapplebooks.com/book/9781684156245 Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby adapt Gay’s New York Times bestelling short story We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness as a full length graphic novel, expanding and further developing the unforgettable world where the sun no longer shines.... When I was a young girl, my husband’s father flew an air machine into the sun. Since then, the days have been dark, the nights bright. Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver ,and Rebecca Kirby adapt Gay’s New York Times bestselling short story We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness as a full-length graphic novel, expanding an unforgettable world where a tragic event forever bathes the world in darkness. Follow one woman’s powerful journey through this new landscape as she discovers love, family, and the true light in a world seemingly robbed of any. As she challenges notions of identity, guilt, and survival she’ll find that no matter the darkness, there remains sources of hope that can pierce the veil.