Algonquin Books
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
$21.99 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Rolling Stone * BookPage * Amazon * Rough Trade
” A] riveting and inspiring history of punk’s hard-fought
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence- Author: Mohr, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209798
- Language: English
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The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books
$19.99 Add to cart“A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended.”
Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousan
–Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist- Author: Friedman, Matti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 1616202785
- Language: English
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Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
$16.99 Add to cartBy the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most … [more below]
- Author: Diamond, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1643752510
- Language: English
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Legends of the North Cascades
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Evison, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1643752480
- Language: English
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Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories
$19.95 Read more“Lovers of the short story, rejoice! There’s something for everyone in this anniversary collection . . . The collection makes the argument that time and again, it is stories that save us.” –Booklist
- Author: Tinti, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1643751999
- Language: English
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Good Kings, Bad Kings
$18.99 Add to cartBellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum’s powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers–alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy–except that they live in an institution for
- Author: Nussbaum, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1616203250
- Language: English
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Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge
$24.95 Add to cart“You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great storyteller that you find yourself following along eagerly.” –Mark Kurlansky
“Seaweed is ancient and b- Author: Shetterly, Susan Hand
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1616205741
- Language: English
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What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
$16.95 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” –Dan Rather
“A tonic for our times . . . Rather’s writing shows why he has w… [more below]- Author: Rather, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209941
- Language: English
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Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
$19.99 Read moreAn NPR Best Book of 2022 and Winner of a Nautilus Silver Book Award
“Stirring and unforgettable–a breathtaking adoption saga like no other.” —Robert Kolker, New York Times-bestselling author of Hid- Author: Hayasaki, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1643755366
- Language: English
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When She Woke
$18.99 Add to cartBellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line betw
- Author: Jordan, Hillary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 18, 2012
- ISBN10: 1616201932
- Language: English
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Boone: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of Daniel Boone is the story of America–its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny.
Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a fr- Series: Shannon Ravenel Books (Paperback)
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1565126157
- Language: English
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Mudbound
$18.99 Add to cartThe International Bestseller
Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards. In Jordan’s prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many- Author: Jordan, Hillary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1565126777
- Language: English
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Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
$28.00 Add to cartAs the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she’s distilled what she’s lear… [more below]
- Author: Lende, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1616201673
- Language: English
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His Only Wife
$18.99 Add to cartIn this smart, funny Reese’s Book Club pick and New York Times Notable Book, a young seamstress in Ghana agrees to an arranged marriage, only to realize that some compromises are too extreme to accept
- Author: Medie, Peace Adzo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1643751468
- Language: English
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We Love You, Charlie Freeman
$21.99 Add to cartA FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE 2017 YOUNG LIONS AWARD
Don’t miss Kaitlyn Greenidge’s second novel, Libertie, which is available now “A terrifically auspicious d- Author: Greenidge, Kaitlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1616206446
- Language: English
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Very Charleston: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Lowcountry Charm
$23.00 Add to cartCobblestone streets leading to perfectly preserved historic homes. Intricate wrought-iron gates opening to lush, fragrant gardens. A skyline of steeples and a river harbor bustling with schooners and … [more below]
- Author: Gessler, Diana Hollingsworth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 14 2003
- ISBN10: 1565123395
- Language: English
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Libertie
$16.95 Read moreA New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021 and Best Historical Fiction Pick
“A stunning look at what
A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, TIME, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor- Author: Greenidge, Kaitlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1643752588
- Language: English
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New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
$14.95 Read moreFor two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvani
- Author: Codrescu, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31, 2006
- ISBN10: 1565125053
- Language: English
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Descent
$18.99 Add to cart“Read this astonishing novel . . . The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston’s story.” –The Washington Post
Don’t miss DISTANT SONS, the new literary thriller from Tim Johnston, ava- Author: Johnston, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 161620477X
- Language: English
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives
$18.99 Add to cartPracticing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience a day in the life of a nurse working on a hospital’s busy cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, patients’ lives… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1616206020
- Language: English
