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Wednesday, September 15th 2021
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The City of Chicago has announced new guidelines, and will now require masks to be worn indoors regardless of vaccination status beginning Friday, August 20th.
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It has been one year since the murder of George Floyd, and one year since Unabridged Bookstore made a year-long commitment to each month support and contribute to organizations that work towards achieving racial justice in America, as well as promoting social, environmental and economic justice. From June 2020 thru May 2021, Unabridged Bookstore has contributed over $22,000 to 21 different organizations, and we are now re-dedicating our ongoing commitment to support these kinds of organizations each month. Thank you for joining us in this commitment.
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To honor the Black Lives Matter movement, and as part of our commitment to promoting the work of activists & organizations engaged in the fight for environmental justice and against systemic racism, social injustice, hunger, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia, we are contributing to Transgender Law Center and Affinity Chicago this month. Click above to read more about each organization and how they work to achieve meaningful and lasting change in our community, then make your own contribution! For more info about previous months' partnerships, and to read our full statement, click here!
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With his succinct prose and crystalline characterizations, Philip Dean Walker once again evokes the 1980s through the diamond-shattering effects of AIDS among the famous and infamous
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Blending mythology and memory, Saga Boy follows a young Black immigrant's vibrant personal metamorphosis
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In Harlem Shuffle, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author Colson Whitehead takes us on a wild ride in pursuit of the American dream. It is Harlem, 1959, and Ray Carney is just trying to provide for his family, an “upstanding” businessman selling used furniture out of his shop on bustling 125th Street, yet not adverse to selling the odd piece of stolen goods that may have just fallen off the truck (he’s “only slightly bent when it comes to being crooked.”) But Ray can’t quite wrest free of his criminal roots, getting further entangled in the schemes of his cousin Freddie, and drawn further into a world of grudges and payback and con jobs and heists that never go as planned, discovering just how much grabbing a piece of the American dream will cost him. The world of NYC and Harlem in the early 1960’s is all perfectly recreated here in loving detail, and readers will be captivated by a Dickensian-cast of colorful, idiosyncratic characters--con men and two-bit hustlers, uptown hoods and the downtown powers-that-be, corrupt police officers and regular folks just trying to get by. The dialogue, plotting, pacing, storytelling, imagery—it all works, a love letter to Harlem that also serves as a morality tale about the elusive promise of getting ahead in America. Wildly entertaining and a joy to read, Ed loved and highly recommends!
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In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic.
She practices . . . camouflage, except that instead of adapting to its environment, Williams's imagination, by remaining true to itself, reveals new colorations in the ecology around her.
-A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review
Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen's failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at a "resort" on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call "Big Girl."
In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. What will Khristen and Jeffrey, the precocious ten-year-old boy she meets there, learn from this "gabby seditious lot, in the worst of health but with kamikaze hearts, an army of the aged and ill, determined to refresh, through crackpot violence, a plundered earth"?
Rivetingly strange and beautiful, and delivered with Williams's searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is their intertwined tale of paradise lost and of their reasons--against all reasonableness--to try and recover something of it.
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An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history fizzing with ideas about colonization, empire-building, and the eternal human quest for domination.
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From a bestselling and award-winning author, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could really talk to the animals
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One woman. One day. One decision. A blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer." (Bernardine Evaristo)
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I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words that talking openly can't handle.
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The Mexico we hear of in the news, the drug cartels, migration and senseless violence, is rich soil for Herrera's moving stories of people who live in this reality but also live in the timeless realm of myth, epic and fairy tale
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The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a major voice in American literature
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Reimagines nineties adolescence in a queer and trans coming-of-age tale like no other. An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia, dysmorphia and dysphoria, this novel puzzles through the weird, ever-evasive questions of growing up.
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From the author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.
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A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing and reveling in pleasure and pain as a lifetime of chaotic and grotesque sense memories wash over and envelop him
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Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives.
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What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist presents his radical and subversive answer in a work of speculative fiction
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Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence
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America remains more divided than at any time in decades. At the heart of this national crisis is the fear of a darkening America--a country in which there is no longer a predominant white majority
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A brilliant scholar imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers
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Through storytelling rhymes and vulnerable narratives in conversation with both contemporary Hip-Hop culture and systemic anti-Blackness, 808s & Otherworlds pieces together a speculative reality where Blackfolk are simultaneously superhuman and dehumanized
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By acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller's linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender
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After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer returns to three places he has lived—Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL—to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury
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A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court’s most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart
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For years Renkl's columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in this sparkling new collection
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Join "America’s funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson) on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet
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A world-renowned folklorist reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman
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Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided We're Going to Need More Wine? Well, this time you and I are going to turn to our friend the bartender and ask, You Got Anything Stronger? I promise to continue to make you laugh, but with this round, the stakes get higher as the conversation goes deeper
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A debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer's family and life
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3, 2, 1... inhale, deep. From the Victorian infirmary and the sex clubs of the 1970s, poppers vapour has released the queer potential inside us all
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When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest--and the growing darkness in herself...
Derry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the lake, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest. Frank, the man who raised them after their families abandoned them, says it's for their own good. After all, the world isn't safe for people with magic. And Derry feels safe--most of the time.
Until the night her eldest sister disappears. Jane and Derry swore to each other that they'd never go into the forest, not after their last trip ended in blood, but Derry is sure she saw Jane walk into the trees. When another sibling goes missing and Frank's true colors start to show, feeling safe is no longer an option. Derry will risk anything to protect the family she has left. Even if that means returning to the forest that has started calling to Derry in her missing siblings' voices.
As Derry spends more time amidst the trees, her magic grows more powerful . . . and so does the darkness inside her, the viciousness she wants to pretend doesn't exist. But saving her siblings from the forest and from Frank might mean embracing the darkness. And that just might be the most dangerous thing of all.
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Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a neo-noir tale of warring vampire clans, drug cartels, and young love set in an alternate present day Mexico City. When street kid Domingo encounters Atl, daughter of an ancient vampire clan that has just been decimated by its rivals, he is helplessly drawn to her. But even though Mexico City is hostile to vampires, and she is on the run, Atl doesn't need a knight in shining armor. Or so she believes. Certain Dark Things is an imaginative work of supernatural horror, bloody and violent, but also tender and beautiful! Simeon recommends!
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An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century.
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For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in our culture—from recent art-world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis—is itself a practice of freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and company. On Freedom is an invigorating, essential book for challenging times.
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From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words—me too—and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history.
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Remember that there is no membership requirement to attend our meetings - just pick up your copy of the book in the shop, and come ready for friendly discussion!
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*A club where no one takes themself too seriously*
Join us in reading fun and exciting YA and New Adult books every 3rd Monday of the month. Grab a glass of your favorite wine and be ready to laugh, chat, and discuss the new new! Email unabridgedbookstore@gmail.com, for more info, or click here to sign up.
Join the Winers Book Club to discuss Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta on Wednesday, September 22nd at 7:30pm!
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A reading group focusing on literature through a queer lens, hosted monthly at Chicago’s premier bookstore for the LGBTQ+ community. Alternating between the “classics” of gay fiction and contemporary, historically underrepresented voices, we read to explore queer experience across literary genres and eras! Email matt@unabridgedbookstore.com for more info, or click here to sign up.
This month's selection: Real Life by Brandon Taylor! Join the Queer Book Club on Wednesday, Sep. 29th at 7:30pm!
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*A club for all things speculative – from Science Fiction, to Fantasy, and maybe even a pinch of Horror*
Join us every 1st Tuesday of the month for a serious discussion of cool speculative works, or to just geek out over the pewpewlaserbeam! From cutting edge to classics, the goal is to have fun and explore as far as exploration will go!
This month's selection: The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz! Join the Speculative Book Club on Tuesday, October 5th at 7:30pm!
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Join our Fiction Book Club in a monthly meeting to discuss a wide array of literary fiction. With an eclectic mix of authors, themes, periods, and styles, this group will explore both classic and contemporary literature. Email matt@unabridgedbookstore.com for more info, or click here to sign up.
Join the Fiction Book Club to discuss The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon on Wednesday, Oct. 6th at 7:30pm!
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Coming Soon!
Available next week:
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Available: 10/26/21
List Price: $50.00
20% Off Pre-Orders: $40.00!
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Available: 11/02/21
List Price: $100.00
20% Off Pre-Orders: $80.00!
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Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.
This year we are celebrating the life and legacy of Toni Morrison with a monthly reading initiative. Among her many honors, Morrison was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also the first black female editor at Random House before gaining acclaim for her own writing. This month's featured title is Love:
A spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town.
In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee, mistress: As Morrison’s protagonists stake their furious claim on Cosey’s memory and estate, using everything from intrigue to outright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny, erotic, and heartwrenching.
Each month we choose one of Morrison’s eleven novels to feature, and each month’s chosen title will be 10% off, so get a copy and read along! Read more or to order Love click here!
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