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Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

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Game World

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Launching Akashic’s new Black Sheep YA imprint, an adventure novel in a video game turned reality, with giant spiders, malevolent hummingbirds, a not-quite-yellow-brick road, and preteen children learning how to be heroes!

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Getting It Right

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Half-sisters Kara and Alex—one the biracial product of foster care, the other of dysfunctional privilege—struggle for redemption and forgiveness.

Glorious

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Award-winning novelist Bernice L. McFadden’s highly anticipated new historical novel set amidst the Harlem Renaissance.

TO ORDER THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF GLORIOUS, PLEASE SELECT “HARDCOVER” FROM THE DROP-DOWN MENU BELOW

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Go Fish

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The debut collection of Mr. Fish’s searing and hilarious political cartoons, featured in Harper’s, Truthdig, and elsewhere.

Gomer’s Song

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Award-winning poet Kwame Dawes explores the insidious nature of power and the limits of protest for Chris Abani’s Black Goat poetry series.

The Gospel of The Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels

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An oral history (with photographs) of the greatest American bar band of the twenty-first century

Note: This page is for the regular edition of The Gospel of the Hold Steady. To order the limited edition package, featuring the photo chapbook TJK on THS, click here.

For a $75 SIGNED copy of the book, please select “SIGNED BY THE BAND” in the drop-down menu below and click “ADD TO CART.” Or for an unsigned book at its regular price, please select “Unsigned.”

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Got

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The first title from The Armory, a new high-quality urban noir imprint edited by Kenji Jasper.

Grab Bag

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Cult novelist Dennis Cooper launches the third title of Little House on the Bowery, the Akashic series he is editing and promoting.

Grace

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The reissue of Elizabeth Nunez’s moving exploration into trust, family, redemption, and love.