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New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)

This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.

Boom Chicago Presents the 30 Most Important Years in Dutch History

An exciting history of the improv group you’ve never heard of that changed comedy in America—this is the story of Boom Chicago in Amsterdam as told by its founders and most famous alumni! Featuring a foreword by Seth Meyers and a backword by Jordan Peele.

*While supplies last, paperbacks ordered through the website will include a bookplate SIGNED by Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld, Matt Diehl, and Saskia Maas!

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Music Is in Everything

A picture book based on Ziggy Marley’s popular song celebrating music’s many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves to laughter in the family kitchen.

*While supplies last, books ordered through the Akashic Books website will include a bookplate SIGNED by Ziggy Marley!

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Upcoming Events

Meryl Branch-McTiernan — Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)

6/11/26, 7:00pm

Meryl Branch-McTiernan presents What You Should Worry About, in conversation with Kurtlan Massarsky.

Jesse Malin — Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club (London, UK)

6/14/26, 2:00pm

Jesse Malin presents Almost Grown, in conversation with Allan Jones.

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