Algonquin Books
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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
$19.99 Read more“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!” –Valerie Bertinelli
“My entire life I h- Author: Chaudry, Rabia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1643755382
- Language: English
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
$17.99 Read moreA true crime page-turner about a Victorian doctor, a serial killer ahead of his time, using poison for an international murder spree that kept ahead of the burgeoning field of forensics. “A tour de fo… [more below]
- Author: Jobb, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643752502
- Language: English
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Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives–And Save Theirs
$16.95 Add to cart“A book that offers hope.”
“A wondrous tapestry.”
—The New York Times Book Review
–Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel Audubon Medal winner Richard Louv’s landmark b- Author: Louv, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1643750844
- Language: English
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The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartA remarkable and inspiring true story that “stuns with raw beauty” about one woman’s resilience, her courageous journey to America, and her family’s lost way of life.
Finalist for the 2022 Dayton Lite- Author: Salh, Shugri Said
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1643752561
- Language: English
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Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court
$21.99 Add to cart“A star coach tells his inspiring tale . . . by the end of this engaging tale, you’ll realize why Williams is an unparalleled recruiter . . . He works as hard as anyone, and he knows how to tell a goo… [more below]
- Author: Crothers, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 161620107X
- Language: English
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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
$16.99 Add to cart“A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad ran
- Author: Weill, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753371
- Language: English
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Panther Baby
$16.95 Add to cartIn the 1960s he exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today he’s chair of their School of the Arts film division. Jamal Joseph’s personal odyssey–from the stre… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Jamal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1616201290
- Language: English
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Dimestore: A Writer’s Life
$15.95 Add to cart“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”–The New York Times Book Review
“This is Smith at her finest.”–Library Journal, star- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1616206462
- Language: English
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The Jew Store
$22.99 Add to cart“For a real bargain, while you’re making a living, you should make also a life.” –Aaron Bronson
In 1920, in small-town America, the ubiquitous dry goods store–suits and coats, shoes and hats, work- Author: Suberman, Stella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: September 14 2001
- ISBN10: 1565123301
- Language: English
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
$20.99 Add to cartFrom Thomas Jefferson’s birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America’s westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminat… [more below]
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1616201894
- Language: English
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do about It
$19.99 Add to cart“Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad–a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet.” –Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bib… [more below]
- Author: Olmsted, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1616207418
- Language: English
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The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
$19.99 Add to cartIn late 2006, Saket Soni, an Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coas… [more below]
- Author: Soni, Saket
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1643755757
- Language: English
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A Son of the Game
$21.99 Add to cartWhen acclaimed golf writer James Dodson leaves his home in Maine to revisit Pinehurst, North Carolina, where his father first taught him the game that would shape his life and career, he’s at a point
- Author: Dodson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 13, 2010
- ISBN10: 1565129784
- Language: English
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I Am Still with You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History
$27.00 Read moreIn this “epic and intimate” memoir (Margo Jefferson, author of Constructing a Nervous System), acclaimed writer Emmanuel Iduma returns to Nigeria to investigate the disappearance of his uncle and conf
- Author: Iduma, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643751018
- Language: English
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My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past
$19.99 Add to cartIn a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they w… [more below]
- Author: Sabar, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: October 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1565129334
- Language: English
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Love, Loss, and What I Wore
$17.99 Add to cart“Illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women . . . This small gem of a book is worthy of a Tiffany box.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A memoir every reader will wish to copy in h- Author: Beckerman, Ilene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1565124758
- Language: English
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Flower Confidential
$19.99 Add to cartAward-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought–for better or worse–to achieve perfection. She tracks down … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 18 2008
- ISBN10: 1565126033
- Language: English
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Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller that defined nature-deficit disorder and launched the international children-and-nature movement, Vitamin N (for “nature”) is a complete prescription f… [more below]
- Author: Louv, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1616205784
- Language: English
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The Current
$17.99 Add to cart“A first-rate thriller . . . Past and present merge in The Current, Tim Johnston’s atmospheric, exquisitely suspenseful novel of two murders separated by ten years.”
“Gripping
—The Washington Post- Author: Johnston, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209836
- Language: English
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Metropolis
$27.95 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of The Art Forger delivers a spellbinding and moving novel about what we hang on to, what we might need to let go, and how unexpected events can lead us to deeper
- Author: Shapiro, B. A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17, 2022
- ISBN10: 1616209585
- Language: English
