Algonquin Books
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Nightbloom
$18.99 Add to cartFrom 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- Author: Medie, Peace Adzo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1643756303
- Language: English
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Babe in the Woods: Or, the Art of Getting Lost
$28.99 Add to cartFrom 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
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Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
$19.99 Add to cartIn 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- Author: Spade, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 164375646X
- Language: English
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The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
$29.00 Add to cartFrom 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
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Silver Alert
$17.99 Add to cartHerb’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
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Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
$31.00 Add to cartFrom 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
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A Grandmother Begins the Story
$19.99 Add to cartFrom 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
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American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond
$32.00 Add to cart“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… [more below]- Author: Dauber, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1643753568
- Language: English
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The Museum of Failures
$19.99 Add to cartFrom 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,- Author: Umrigar, Thrity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1643755439
- Language: English
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Inciting Joy: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes a “brilliant” intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection (Ada Lim?n, U.S. poet laureate).
In these g- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1643753959
- Language: English
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
$21.99 Add to cart“Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” —New York Journal of Books
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lun… [more below]- Author: Horn, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209356
- Language: English
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A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
$19.99 Add to cartWith a foreword by David Halberstam. He spoke out against player trading. He banned Pete Rose from baseball for gambling. He even asked sports fans to clean up their acts. Bart Giamatti was baseball’s… [more below]
- Author: Robson, Kenneth S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 04 1998
- ISBN10: 1565121929
- Language: English
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The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. … [more below]
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1643756354
- Language: English
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Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light
$16.95 Add to cartThirty-two writers share their observations and revelations about the world’s most seductive city.
“Whether you have lived in Paris or not, this captivating collection will transport you there.” –Na- Author: Rowlands, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1565129539
- Language: English
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Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War
$17.99 Read more“A beautiful and powerfully affecting portrait of a boyhood in a military family.” –Phil Klay, author of Missionaries and the National Book Award-winning Redeployment
As a child, Jerad Alexander l… [more below]- Author: Alexander, Jerad W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1643753258
- Language: English
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Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
$16.95 Add to cart“This book will inspire people to work with and for their neighbors in all kinds of ways!” –Bill McKibben, author of Falter
Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take an activ- Author: Lende, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1643751409
- Language: English
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Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden
$16.95 Add to cartIn conversation with William Baldwin. Emily Whaley’s garden on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, may be the most visited private garden in the country. And no wonder. It is the life’s work … [more below]
- Author: Whaley, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1616208457
- Language: English
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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
$16.99 Add to cartIt was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hun… [more below]
- Author: Jobb, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1616205350
- Language: English
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The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age
$18.99 Add to cartFor many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child i… [more below]
- Author: Louv, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 17 2012
- ISBN10: 161620141X
- Language: English
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Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes
$30.00 Add to cart“Mike Keiser followed his instincts to build courses that speak to golf as a rugged adventure. Steve Goodwin’s spirited book will speak to the golfing soul in you.” –Lorne Rubenstein, columnist for T… [more below]
- Author: Goodwin, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1565129814
- Language: English
