Kevin's Picks

  Kevin holds a BA in poetry and a minor in Eastern philosophy from Georgia College. He has a passion for poetry, short stories and photography. He teaches creative writing seasonly for Duke Universities T.I.P program. Some of his favorite authors are Flannery O Connor, Ray Bradbury, Karen Russell, Aldous Huxley, Herman Hesse and Robert Bly. He enjoys hiking, folk music, and words such as husk, hymn, and hum.
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North American Lake Monsters By Nathan Ballingrud Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781618730602
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Published: Small Beer Press - July 16th, 2013

Brilliantly Haunting!One of the best things I have read this year. Ballingrud weaves tales that are both darkly luminous and disturbingly beautiful. Highly reccommended for fans of Karen Russell and Flannery O Connor.You will NOT find this book in any other store.Buy it! Trust me. 


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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution By Terence McKenna Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780553371307
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Published: Bantam - January 1st, 1993

Facinating! A must read for anyonw interested in the way in which drugs have shaped human evolution!


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Vampires in the Lemon Grove: And Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) By Karen Russell Cover Image
$16.00
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ISBN: 9780307947475
Published: Vintage - January 14th, 2014

A masterfully crafted collection of short stories by one of America's best emerging young writers! Her debut novel was nominatd for the Pulitzer prize. This girl has an imagination that will make your head spin. My favorite book of 2012 thus far! 


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Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries) By Karen Russell Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780307276681
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Published: Vintage - July 26th, 2011

This is her debut novel. It almost won the Pulitzer Prize. She is only 31. Enough Said.  


St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Vintage Contemporaries) By Karen Russell Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780307276674
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Published: Vintage - August 14th, 2007

Brilliantly unique and haunting! Russell is one the best emerging young writers of our generation. Her debut novel Swamplandia nearly won the Pulitzer prize. These stories are like dreams that never leave... --Kevin 


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Nine Stories By J. D. Salinger Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9780316769501
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 1st, 1991

Powerful stories from the author of the cult classic The Catcher in the Rye. Great Stuff! Great Price.


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DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences By Rick Strassman, M.D. Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780892819270
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Published: Park Street Press - December 1st, 2000

DMT. It is realased in you brain when you are born and when you die. It is also the most powerful hallucinogen in the world. See that happens when this doctor injects it directly into his subjects bloodstream. You might be surprised.


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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics) By Stephen Mitchell, Lao Tzu Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9780061142666
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - September 5th, 2006

This book changed my life! You should probaly have it on you at all times.


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The Complete Stories (FSG Classics) By Flannery O'Connor, Robert Giroux (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Flannery O'Connor, Robert Giroux (Introduction by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780374515362
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - January 1st, 1971

A poweful collection of stories by the master of Southern Gothic Lit!!


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Steppenwolf: A Novel By Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton (Translated by) Cover Image
By Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton (Translated by)
$18.99
ISBN: 9780312278670
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Published: Picador - December 6th, 2002

WOW!


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The Martian Chronicles By Ray Bradbury Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9781451678192
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 17th, 2012

Exceedingly beautiful, smart, and poetic.


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Island By Aldous Huxley Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780061561795
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - October 20th, 2009

Huxly's Uptopian novel as opposed to his more well known dystopian Brave New World.


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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780060850524
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - October 17th, 2006

If you have not read it you are doing it wrong.


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The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology By Robert Bly Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780060924201
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Published: Harper Perennial - August 4th, 1993

One of the best and most diverse collections of poetry out there. In this beautifully organized anthlogy you will find everything from Homer to Bob Dylan!


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East of Eden By John Steinbeck Cover Image
$21.00
ISBN: 9780142004234
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Published: Penguin Books - June 18th, 2003

This is a very long book.I have read it three times......Just sayin. 


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Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition) By John Steinbeck Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780142000670
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Published: Penguin Books - January 8th, 2002

One of the best "short" stories ever written!If you have not read it you are doing it wrong. 


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Tenth of December: Stories By George Saunders Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812984255
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - January 7th, 2014

Some of the most powerful and intense short stories I have read in years! The New York Times called this "The best book you will read all year. I Highley recommend this collection!" --Kevin


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North American Lake Monsters By Nathan Ballingrud Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781618730602
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Published: Small Beer Press - July 16th, 2013

Powerfully engaging and haunting! These stories are in many ways beautifully horrifying. I highly recommend this Asheville Local's first collection! I was blown away. --Kevin


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A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel By Wiley Cash Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062088239
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - January 22nd, 2013

A powerful debut novel from Asheville local Wiley Cash! This book will keep you on the edge of your seat. Think rattlesnakes, churches, and guns.... Very much in the southern gothic style of Flannery O' Connor


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The Swing Girl By Katherine Soniat Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9780807138946
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Published: LSU Press - September 12th, 2011

A Powerful collection of poems from one of Asheville's best poets!! I highly recommend it! READ LOCAL POETRY.


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The Kept: A Novel By James Scott Cover Image
$25.99
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ISBN: 9780062236739
Published: Harper - January 7th, 2014

A powerful debut by an extremly talented writer. Ron Rash, a local favorite, calls James Scott "a bright new voice in American" and I agree. The Kept is filled with lyrical language and powerful imagery that will stick with you for days! I expect big things from Scott!