Algonquin Books
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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
$16.95 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
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On the Line: Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union
$16.99 Read more“Lyrical . . . candid, clear-eyed and utterly engrossing, Pitkin’s writing couldn’t come at a better–or more necessary–time.” –Jessica Bruder, New York Times bestselling author of Nomadland
“A riv- Author: Pitkin, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753398
- Language: English
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Everywhere You Don’t Belong
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020
Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence “A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, bu- Author: Bump, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1643750852
- Language: English
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Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
$19.99 Add to cart“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”
Sixty-five extraordinary writers gr
–Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance- Author: Kinder, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1643751247
- Language: English
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If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
$18.99 Add to cart“Part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott, essayist and NPR commentator Heather Lende introduces readers to life in the town of Haines, Alaska . . . subtly reminding readers to embrace each day, each oppo… [more below]
- Author: Lende, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 156512524X
- Language: English
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French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
$19.99 Add to cartA story about dirt–and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till.
Richard Goodman saw the ad in the p- Author: Goodman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: April 05, 2002
- ISBN10: 1565123522
- Language: English
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Young Jane Young
$18.99 Add to cart“SLY, EXHILARATING . . . HILARIOUS.”
This is the story of five women . . . Meet Rachel Grossman.
—People (Book of the Week)
She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends- Author: Zevin, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01, 2018
- ISBN10: 1616208694
- Language: English
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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
$29.00 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
Rabia Chaudry–known- Author: Chaudry, Rabia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643750380
- Language: English
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The Art Forger
$18.99 Add to cart“[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices.” —Parade
“[A] nimble mystery.” –The New York Times Book Review “Gripping.” –O, The Oprah Magazine Almost twenty-five- Author: Shapiro, B. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 21, 2013
- ISBN10: 1616203161
- Language: English
