Algonquin Books

  • Last Days of Café Leila

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    “A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan.” –Adriana Trigiani

    Set against the backdrop of Iran’s rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of fo

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    • Author: Bijan, Donia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: April 17 2018
    • ISBN10: 1616208031
    • Language: English
  • The Road from Gap Creek

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    One of America’s most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weavin

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    • Author: Morgan, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: March 25 2014
    • ISBN10: 1616203781
    • Language: English
  • Clean Air

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    In this postapocalyptic story of mystery, suspense, grief, and loss, a girl processes her mother’s death as a serial killer’s presence makes her already dangerous world even more deadly.

    The climate

    • Author: Blake, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: January 31, 2023
    • ISBN10: 164375341X
    • Language: English
  • An American Marriage

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    A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK

    A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM

    OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELEC

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    • Author: Jones, Tayari
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: February 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 1616208775
    • Language: English
  • Big Girl, Small Town

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    “An immensely lovable debut novel . . . It’s the kind of magic you’ll feel lucky to find.” –Ron Charles, The Washington Post

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
    FINALIST FOR THE IRISH BOOK

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    • Author: Gallen, Michelle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: December 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 1643750895
    • Language: English
  • The Darwin Affair

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    Dive into this edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, as London’s Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field investigates a string of unspeakable crimes set off by the controversial publication On the[more below]

    • Author: Mason, Tim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: June 23 2020
    • ISBN10: 1643750461
    • Language: English
  • At the Edge of the Haight

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    The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver

    “What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’

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    • Author: Seligman, Katherine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 19 2021
    • ISBN10: 1643752081
    • Language: English
  • Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories

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    An exquisite collection of haunting, magical stories from Newbery Medalist Kelly Barnhill

    When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in “Mrs. Sorense

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    • Author: Barnhill, Kelly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: March 12 2019
    • ISBN10: 1616209240
    • Language: English
  • Dirty Work

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    Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangers–one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the… [more below]

    • Author: Brown, Larry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 247
    • Publish Date: March 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 1565125630
    • Language: English
  • A Friend of the Family

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    The New York Times bestseller that “unfolds with suspense worthy of Hitchcock . . . Grodstein is a terrific storyteller.” —The New York Times Book Review

    Pre-order author Lauren Grodstein’s new simpl

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    • Author: Grodstein, Lauren
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: November 09 2010
    • ISBN10: 1616200170
    • Language: English
  • Yo!

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    “Charming and funny . . . Mesmerizing . . . Wonderful.” USA Today Yolanda Garc?–Yo, for short–is the literary one in the family. Her first published novel, in which uses as characters practically … [more below]

    • Author: Alvarez, Julia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: April 09 2019
    • ISBN10: 1616209496
    • Language: English
  • Gap Creek (Oprah’s Book Club)

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    A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah’s Book Club Pick

    Young Julie Harmon works “hard as a man,” they say, so hard that at times she’s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs

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    • Author: Morgan, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: August 21 2012
    • ISBN10: 1616201762
    • Language: English
  • Mudbound (Movie Tie-In)

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    The 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

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    • Author: Jordan, Hillary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: October 31 2017
    • ISBN10: 1616208414
    • Language: English
  • Dinner with Buddha

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    If life is a journey–with detours, paths from which to choose, and myriad roadblocks to overcome–then Otto Ringling is most certainly on the journey of a lifetime. His first fifty or so years were p… [more below]

    • Author: Merullo, Roland
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 26 2016
    • ISBN10: 1616205997
    • Language: English
  • The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

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    In The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (releasing June 24, 2016 as a Netflix Original Film titled The Fundamentals of Caring, starring Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez), Jonathan Evison, author of the n

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    • Author: Evison, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 07 2013
    • ISBN10: 1616203153
    • Language: English
  • Bobcat & Other Stories

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    “Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection.”
    –Entertainment Weekly

    Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreig

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    • Author: Lee, Rebecca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: June 11 2013
    • ISBN10: 1616201738
    • Language: English
  • The Atomic Weight of Love

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    In her sweeping debut novel, Elizabeth J. Church takes us from the World War II years in Chicago to the vast sun-parched canyons of New Mexico in the 1970s as we follow the journey of a driven, spirit… [more below]

    • Author: Church, Elizabeth J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: March 07 2017
    • ISBN10: 161620690X
    • Language: English
  • The Watery Part of the World

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    Michael Parker’s vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by… [more below]

    • Author: Parker, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 05 2012
    • ISBN10: 1616201436
    • Language: English
  • Joe

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    “Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.” —The Washington Post Book World

    Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by Davi

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    • Author: Brown, Larry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 345
    • Publish Date: September 30 2003
    • ISBN10: 1565124138
    • Language: English
  • Tiny Love: The Complete Stories

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    “Larry Brown wrote the way the best singers sing: with honesty, grit, and the kind of raw emotion that stabs you right in the heart. He was a singular American treasure.” –Tim McGraw

    A career-spannin

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    • Author: Brown, Larry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: November 26 2019
    • ISBN10: 1616209755
    • Language: English
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