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Book Cover for: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture, Jenny Odell

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

Jenny Odell
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Tuesday, March 7, 7PM: Booksmith & The Long Now Foundation present Jenny Odell for SAVING TIME at SFJAZZ, an evening on long-term thinking we cannot WAIT to absorb. Details: https://t.co/Wo01CwITX5 https://t.co/xk6urlymPp

Paperback, 2024

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Hospital Book

Lisa Brown
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Tonight at 5PM (early start time!) we welcome @lisabrowndraws for THE HOSPITAL BOOK and @jdowningartist for NIGHT IN THE CITY. Please join us for what promises to be a delightful evening! https://t.co/nROceHNtYH https://t.co/0VEPZ0v61N

Hardcover, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley

Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley
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Monday, 5/8, 7PM: Cleyvis Natera celebrates the paperback launch of NERUDA ON THE PARK. She'll be in conversation with Leila Mottley (NIGHTCRAWLING). This one will be amazing—join us! https://t.co/XqRVXWeKdD https://t.co/LRtB8sDlMI

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Hysterical: A Memoir, Elissa Bassist

Hysterical: A Memoir

Elissa Bassist
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Events this week: Wednesday 10/26, 7PM: Elissa Bassist, creator and editor of The Rumpus' "Funny Women" column, discusses HYSTERICAL, with Tracy Clark-Flory. Join us! https://t.co/nlAcsO8lWS https://t.co/6rUTqySKmi

Hardcover, 2022

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, Patrick Radden Keefe

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe
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Friday, 7/8, at 7PM in Berkeley, we've got Patrick Radden Keefe discussing ROGUES with Jonah Weiner. Tickets are still on sale but going fast! https://t.co/bEdiQcddHu https://t.co/dHPXDI3eQk

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Chilean Poet, Alejandro Zambra

Chilean Poet

Alejandro Zambra
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Rachel Cusk / The Country Life: a funny-as-hell 90s redress of Jane Eyre Leone Ross / Popisho: a chef is tasked by the Gods to make one perfect meal for everyone on an island in the span of 20 years Alejandro Zambra / Chilean Poet: a perfect novel about family https://t.co/R0itJXEz8E

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: In the Heights: Finding Home, Lin-Manuel Miranda

In the Heights: Finding Home

Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Folks, we're thrilled to welcome LIN MANUEL MIRANDA with Quiara Alegría Hudes & Jeremy McCarter on June 15th for IN THE HEIGHTS: FINDING HOME. Tickets on sale now, all the details here: https://t.co/7U2tRjOqTV https://t.co/WLprEWLsET

Hardcover, 2021

$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, Dean Rader

Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly

Dean Rader
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Thursday, 5/4, 7PM: Dean Rader and Paula J. Birnbaum discuss their new books, BEFORE THE BORDERLESS, and SCULPTING A LIFE. Please join us for what promises to be a stimulating evening! https://t.co/jWYE0GIYad https://t.co/FY9E1Rl2Jb

Hardcover, 2023

$36.00$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Very Cold People, Sarah Manguso

Very Cold People

Sarah Manguso
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Tonight at 6PST, 300 ARGUMENTS author Sarah Manguso discusses her debut novel, VERY COLD PEOPLE, with Heido Julavits! Free with RVSP—please join us! https://www.booksmith.com/event/sarah-manguso https://t.co/lNqfM40OkP

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Recitatif: A Story, Toni Morrison

Recitatif: A Story

Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison / Recitatif: Morrison's only short story! forward by Zadie Smith! Dave Eggers / The Every: a book about a dystopian reality that we’re kind of already living in Yoko Tawada / Scattered All Over the Earth: Wind in the Willows on acid https://t.co/JdbGNq8vfJ

Hardcover, 2022

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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