Emi Yagi

David Boyd

Lucy North

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

A Novel

"Diary of a Void advances one of the most passionate cases I've ever read for female interiority, for women's creative pulse and rich inner life." ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker

"Always expect the unexpected when you're not expecting." ―Sloane Crosley

A woman in Tokyo avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant in this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about the mother of all deceptions, for fans of Convenience Store Woman and Breasts and Eggs

When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that as the only woman at her new workplace--a manufacturer of cardboard tubes--she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her coworkers' dirty cups--because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is . . . Ms. Shibata is not pregnant.

Pregnant Ms. Shibata doesn't have to serve coffee to anyone. Pregnant Ms. Shibata isn't forced to work overtime. Pregnant Ms. Shibata rests, watches TV, takes long baths, and even joins an aerobics class for expectant mothers. She's finally being treated by her colleagues as more than a hollow core. But she has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Before long, it becomes all-absorbing, and with the help of towel-stuffed shirts and a diary app that tracks every stage of her "pregnancy," the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve.

Surreal and absurdist, and with a winning matter-of-factness, a light touch, and a refreshing sensitivity to mental health, Diary of a Void will keep you turning the pages to see just how far Ms. Shibata will carry her deception for the sake of women, and especially working mothers, everywhere.

Diary of a Void

8fd4b222-fa5f-48d7-aa32-0ef4c87b294e-1

Yukito Ayatsuji

Ho-Ling Wong

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

"Ayatsuji's brilliant and richly atmospheric puzzle will appeal to fans of golden age whodunits... Every word counts, leading up to a jaw-dropping but logical reveal" — Publishers Weekly A hugely enjoyable, page-turning murder mystery sure to appeal to fans of Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, and Agatha Christie, with one of the best and most-satisfying conclusions you'll ever read. A classic in Japan, available in English for the first time. From The New York Times Book Review: "Read Yukito Ayatsuji’s landmark mystery, The Decagon House Murders, and discover a real depth of feeling beneath the fiendish foul play. Taking its cues from Agatha Christie’s locked-room classic And Then There Were None, the setup is this: The members of a university detective-fiction club, each nicknamed for a favorite crime writer (Poe, Carr, Orczy, Van Queen, Leroux and — yes — Christie), spend a week on remote Tsunojima Island, attracted to the place, and its eerie 10-sided house, because of a spate of murders that transpired the year before. That collective curiosity will, of course, be their undoing. As the students approach Tsunojima in a hired fishing boat, 'the sunlight shining down turned the rippling waves to silver. The island lay ahead of them, wrapped in a misty veil of dust,' its sheer, dark cliffs rising straight out of the sea, accessible by one small inlet. There is no electricity on the island, and no telephones, either. A fresh round of violent deaths begins, and Ayatsuji’s skillful, furious pacing propels the narrative. As the students are picked off one by one, he weaves in the story of the mainland investigation of the earlier murders. This is a homage to Golden Age detective fiction, but it’s also unabashed entertainment."

The Decagon House Murders

8cb51a2d-d1fc-4e52-870c-93fe63a7221f-1

Hanif Abdurraqib

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

On Basketball and Ascension

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America “Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jump shot,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.” There’s Always This Year is a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus—whether it’s basketball, or music, or performance—Hanif Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.

There's Always This Year

654c930a-514e-40b7-8157-86a03b52f9a2-0

Eve L. Ewing

Essays

In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism that resonates profoundly. In the wake of the nightclub attacks in Paris, he recalls how he sought refuge as a teenager in music, at shows, and wonders whether the next generation of young Muslims will not be afforded that opportunity now. While discussing the everyday threat to the lives of black Americans, Willis-Abdurraqib recounts the first time he was ordered to the ground by police officers: for attempting to enter his own car. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others--along with original, previously unreleased essays--Willis-Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

063d2742-ed24-4e6f-a049-c65ffbd0e16d-1

Patrick Rothfuss

Signed first hardcover printing -2007
beveling to front right cover as pictured 
Otherwise is superb condition 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

First Hardcover Printing 2007

The Name of the Wind SIGNED 

4bbb0418-8425-4259-ad3a-ce9320ba8854-1

Signed by the legend himself 
First Edition Hardcover 2014

First Hardcover Printing

Living in the abandoned tunnel system beneath the University, the enigmatic Auri reflects on her bittersweet life while making unique observations about the broken world she would survive. By the best-selling author of The Name of the Wind. 100,000 first printing.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things SIGNED

a0774252-7296-4ba7-af07-081ea1620280-1

First Hardcover Printing, April 2007.
Rare collector’s Item.
Mild top page crimping shown in picture 3.
First book in The Kingkiller Chronicles

2007 Special Fabio Dustcover Variant

The Name of the Wind

Katie H

Katie H

@katiehopbooks

Books Listed

Following

Followers

Emi Yagi; David Boyd; Lucy North

Diary of a Void

Yukito Ayatsuji; Ho-Ling Wong

The Decagon House Murders

Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year

Hanif Abdurraqib; Eve L. Ewing

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Patrick Rothfuss

The Name of the Wind SIGNED

Patrick Rothfuss

The Slow Regard of Silent Things SIGNED

Patrick Rothfuss

The Name of the Wind

Get The App

Browse by categories

Emi Yagi; David Boyd; Lucy North

Diary of a Void

Yukito Ayatsuji; Ho-Ling Wong

The Decagon House Murders

Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year

Hanif Abdurraqib; Eve L. Ewing

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Patrick Rothfuss

The Name of the Wind SIGNED

Patrick Rothfuss

The Slow Regard of Silent Things SIGNED

Patrick Rothfuss

The Name of the Wind

Get The App