Algonquin Books
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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 Add to cartIn 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
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All the Little Bird-Hearts
$18.99 Add to cart“A poetic debut which masterfully intertwines themes of familial love, friendship, class, prejudice and trauma with psychological acuity and wit.” ─ The 2023 Booker Prize Judges
I lived for and- Author: Lloyd-Barlow, Viktoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643756613
- Language: English
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Lawn Boy
$17.99 Add to cartOne of the American Library Association’s Top 10 Most Banned Books for the past two years, this award-winning coming-of-age novel takes readers into the heart and humor of a young man determined to ac… [more below]
- Author: Evison, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 19, 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209232
- Language: English
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
$19.99 Add to cartNamed A Great American Novel by The Atlantic!
From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is “poignant…powerf- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 156512975X
- Language: English
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Distant Sons
$29.00 Add to cartThe paths of two young men collide and spark unexpected violence in a Wisconsin town where three boys went missing in the 1970s in this “intricate, haunting novel” (Michael Koryta, author of An Honest… [more below]
- Author: Johnston, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753592
- Language: English
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks: 10th Anniversary Edition
$28.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling guide to botany and booze celebrates its 10th anniversary with an updated edition—now including a guide to planting your very own cocktail garden to go with more than f
- Author: Stewart, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1616200464
- Language: English
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of The Saroyan International Prize for Writing, the John Burroughs Medal, and the National Outdoor Book Award in Natural History Literature
“Brilliant.” —The New York Review of Books
“Exquisi- Author: Bailey, Elisabeth Tova
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 161620642X
- Language: English
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Calling for a Blanket Dance
$17.99 Add to cartA moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity.
Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the- Author: Hokeah, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753916
- Language: English
