Algonquin Books
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The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
$19.99 Read moreIn 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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Woman at 1,000 Degrees
$17.99 Add to cart“THE HOTTEST NEW BOOK FROM ICELAND IS WOMAN AT 1,000 DEGREES . . . What a story it is, one worth reading to further understand the complexity of World War II–and to enjoy the quick wit of a woman you… [more below]
- Author: Helgason, Hallgrímur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 161620866X
- 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
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Creatures
$15.95 Read more” A] kaleidoscopic narrative . . . Tenacious, wildly original, and full of insight.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“An alluring, atmospheric debut.” —People A Belletrist Book Club Pick A Most Anticipa- Author: Van Meter, Crissy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1643750836
- Language: English
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This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
$18.99 Add to cart“Evison’s writing crackles on the page.”*
With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail alone on an Alaskan cruise that- Author: Evison, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1616206012
- Language: English
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Perpetual West
$16.99 Read more”Stunning . . . A forceful addition to the literature of the U.S.-Mexican border and its ongoing history of tragedy and joy.”
“Suspenseful,
–Jennifer Clement, The New York Times Book Review- Author: Maren, Mesha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753401
- Language: English
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Coal Black Horse
$13.95 Add to cartWhen Robey Childs’s mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring … [more below]
- Author: Olmstead, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 229
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 1565126017
- Language: English
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Secret Son
$16.95 Add to cartRaised by his mother in a one-room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has always had big dreams of living another life in another world. Suddenly his dreams are within reach when he di… [more below]
- Author: Lalami, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1565129792
- Language: English
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I Am the Light of This World
$17.99 Read moreThe searing and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes the course of a young man’s life.
In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl–a loner, a dreamer, a lo- Author: Parker, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1643755358
- Language: English
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Our Short History
$15.95 Add to cartHow can a woman learn to let go of the people she loves the most? “Lauren Grodstein breaks your heart, then miraculously pieces it back together so it’s bigger–and stronger–than before.” –Celeste N… [more below]
- Author: Grodstein, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1616208015
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Heaven
$21.99 Add to cart“The language takes] on a musicality that is in sharp contrast to the bleak setting . . . refreshing . . . a strong debut.”
“Subramanian writes with empathy and exuberan
–New York Times Book Review- Author: Subramanian, Mathangi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1643750429
- Language: English
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As Good as Gone
$16.95 Add to cart“Honest, warm, humane, and at times shocking, As Good as Gone is an achievement of empathy and dignity.” –Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
Calvin Sidey is always ready to run, and it d- Author: Watson, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1616206950
- Language: English
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Life After Life
$15.95 Add to cart“Gorgeously written . . . McCorkle’s greatest gift is in illuminating the countless tiny moments that make up our time on Earth.”–O: The Oprah Magazine
Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on- Author: McCorkle, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1616203226
- Language: English
