Algonquin Books

  • Elmet

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    FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

    Don’t miss Fiona Mozley’s new novel, Hot Stew, which is available now!

    The family thought the little house they had made themselves in Elmet, a corner of Yorkshire, was

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    • Author: Mozley, Fiona
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: December 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 1616208422
    • Language: English
  • A House Is a Body: Stories

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    Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

    A House Is a Body will not simply be talk

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    • Author: Swamy, Shruti
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: July 27 2021
    • ISBN10: 164375145X
    • Language: English
  • Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

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    A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021

    “Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and dit

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    • Author: Thompson, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: March 29 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643752537
    • Language: English
  • Pump: A Natural History of the Heart

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    “Fascinating . . . Surprising entertainment, combining deep learning with dad jokes . . . [Schutt] is a natural teacher with an easy way with metaphor.”–The Wall Street Journal

    In this lively, unexpec

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    • Author: Schutt, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643753231
    • Language: English
  • Who Says You’re Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned

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    “An original, compelling, and provocative exploration of ethical issues in our society, with thoughtful and balanced commentary. I have not seen anything like it.” –Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’[more below]

    • Author: Appel, Jacob M.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 08 2019
    • ISBN10: 1616209224
    • Language: English
  • The Complicities

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    • Author: D’Erasmo, Stacey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643753940
    • Language: English
  • The New Naturals

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    Critically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia.

    An abandoned resta

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    • Author: Bump, Gabriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643755331
    • Language: English
  • Believe in the World: Wisdom for Grown-Ups from Children’s Books

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    An inspiring and delightful illustrated collection of quotations from a diverse range of our most beloved children’s books that will help teach all of us how to live in the world today, perfect for gi[more below]

    • Author: Gash, Amy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: August 20 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643755536
    • Language: English
  • Beep

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    An ebullient, funny, and hugely original novel told from the perspective of Beep, a squirrel monkey who–with the help of a brilliant young girl– forges the way forward for a planet in crisis.​[more below]

    • Author: Roorbach, Bill
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643755617
    • Language: English
  • Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

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    On this imperiled planet, nature’s magic still exists, often in the places we least expect it.

    Night Magic is a glorious celebration of the dark! New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann He

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    • Author: Henion, Leigh Ann
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 24 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643753363
    • Language: English
  • Mama: A Queer Black Woman’s Story of a Family Lost and Found

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    In this searing and uplifting memoir, a young Black queer woman fresh out of college adopts her baby brother after their incarcerated mother dies, determined to create the kind of family she never had[more below]

    • Author: Hargrove, Nikkya
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643751581
    • Language: English
  • Nightbloom

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    From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick His Only Wife, this moving novel about the unbreakable power of female friendship follows two estranged women in Ghana who reconnect in a crisis.

    When Selasi

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    • Author: Medie, Peace Adzo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: June 11 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643756303
    • Language: English
  • Babe in the Woods: Or, the Art of Getting Lost

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    From acclaimed painter Julie Heffernan, a wholly original and visually stunning four-color graphic work of autofiction about a young mother who–lost overnight on a hike with her infant son–experienc[more below]

    • Author: Heffernan, Julie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643755595
    • Language: English
  • Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together

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    In this inspiring self-help handbook, a trans activist dares us to be the change we want to see–both out in the world, and amongst our closest connections.

    Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade

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    • Author: Spade, Dean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: January 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 164375646X
    • Language: English
  • The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts

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    From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye, Louis Bayard, comes Atonement meets The Paris Wife, a brilliantly original, profoundly empathetic story about Oscar Wilde’s wife Constance and their t[more below]

    • Author: Bayard, Louis
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 17 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643755307
    • Language: English
  • Silver Alert

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    Herb’s charmed life with his dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan, in her seventies, now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. The one br… [more below]

    • Author: Smith, Lee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643755803
    • Language: English
  • Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

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    From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of somethin[more below]

    • Author: Schutt, Bill
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 13 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643751786
    • Language: English
  • A Grandmother Begins the Story

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    From award-winning M?tis author Michelle Porter, a powerfully funny and moving story told not just by five generations of M?tis women, but also by the land, the bison that surround them, and two utter[more below]

    • Author: Porter, Michelle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: August 27 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643755196
    • Language: English
  • American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond

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    “America is the world’s biggest haunted house and American Scary is the only travel guide you need. I loved this book.”
    –Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted Hou
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    • Author: Dauber, Jeremy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643753568
    • Language: English
  • The Museum of Failures

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    From the bestselling author of The Space Between Us comes a powerful story about family secrets, a mother’s power, and the importance of forgiveness.

    When Remy Wadia left India for the United States,

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    • Author: Umrigar, Thrity
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: September 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643755439
    • Language: English
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