Algonquin Books
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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
$17.99 Add to cart“A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise.” –Junot Diaz
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami- Author: Lalami, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 28, 2017
- ISBN10: 1616207507
- Language: English
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
$16.99$13.59 Read moreThe Book That Launched an International Movement
“An absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe
“It rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer
“I like to play indoors b
- Author: Louv, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 22, 2008
- ISBN10: 156512605X
- Language: English
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Afterlife
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garc? Girls Lost Their Accents comes “a stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has b
- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: 6-Apr-21
- ISBN10: 1643751360
- Language: English
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
$29.00 Add to cartA haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot’s genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mothe… [more below]
- Author: Nguon, Chantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: 20-Feb-24
- ISBN10: 1643753495
- Language: English
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Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir
$28.00 Read moreA moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult–and the deep understanding of the natural world that helped her find freedom.
My family prepared me- Author: Dowd, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1643751859
- Language: English
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The Leavers
$19.99 Add to cartThis award-winning debut and 2017 National Book Award finalist–by the author of the new novel Memory Piece–is a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, a… [more below]
- Author: Ko, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 161620804X
- Language: English
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The Nightingale Affair
$28.00 Add to cartIn this twisty Victorian detective thriller from the author of The Darwin Affair, Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer with a sinister signature targeting Florence Nightingale’s nurses in Cri… [more below]
- Author: Mason, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1643750399
- Language: English
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Calling for a Blanket Dance
$27.00 Add to cartWinner of the PEN America/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * Finalist for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize * Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
“A profound
- Author: Hokeah, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1643751476
- Language: English
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Silver Alert
$27.00 Read more“Smith’s latest is as delicious as a slice of key lime pie – and gone just as fast.” ―People
“It’s very different and it’s very special and it’s very good! I loved it.” –Dolly Parton A- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643752413
- Language: English
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities
$29.00 Add to cartA tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on … [more below]
- Author: Morrow-Cribbs, Briony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1565126831
- Language: English
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Why We Swim
$18.99 Add to cart“A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book.” –Rebecca Skloot, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
We swim in freezing Arctic wat… [more below]- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1643751379
- Language: English
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It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move on
$24.00 Add to cartOne of The Boston Globe‘s Best Books of 2023 * “I’m sitting here, in awe, trying to wrap my head around how Malaika conjured something so vibrant and timely and fun (and even flirty) while also being
- Author: Jabali, Malaika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643752642
- Language: English
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
$28.00 Add to cartGreat American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garc? Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads l
- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1643753843
- Language: English
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The Mountains Sing
$19.99 Add to cartThis “moving and riveting” book shares a layered, epic, multigenerational story of the Vietnam war and its aftermath (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer)
With- Author: Nguyen, Mai Phan Que
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1643751352
- Language: English
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Hbcu Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience
$29.00 Read moreIn this joyous collection of essays about historically Black colleges and universities–edited by the host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, Ayesha Rascoe–alumni both famous and up-and-coming write te… [more below]
- Author: Rascoe, Ayesha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 164375386X
- Language: English
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The Book of Delights: Essays
$28.00 Add to cartAs Heard on NPR’s This American Life: The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America’s most original and observant writers, award-… [more below]
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1616207922
- Language: English
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Your Utopia: Stories
$18.99 Add to cart“Chung builds out her stories with imagination, absurdity and a dry sense of humor, all applied with X-Acto knife precision.” ―Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times Book Review
“Bora Chung’s sto- Author: Chung, Bora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1643756214
- Language: English
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Lark Ascending
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Southern Book Prize for Fiction * Winner of a Nautilus Award (Gold)
A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future that Margaret Renkl (Late Migrati- Author: House, Silas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753932
- Language: English
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Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
$35.00 Add to cart“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising account, Hannah Carlson turns the pocket inside out and out tumble pocket watches, coins, pistols, and… [more below]
- Author: Carlson, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1643751549
- Language: English
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Old Crimes: And Other Stories
$27.00 Add to cartBeloved author Jill McCorkle delivers a collection of masterful stories that are as complex as novels–deeply perceptive, funny, and tragic in equal measure–about crimes large and small.
McCorkle, a- Author: McCorkle, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09, 2024
- ISBN10: 1616209739
- Language: English
