Algonquin Books

  • The Christmas Letters

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    In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. It’s a down-home Christmas story abo… [more below]

    • Author: Smith, Lee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: August 19 2002
    • ISBN10: 156512376X
    • Language: English
  • The Collector’s Apprentice

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    Don’t miss B. A. Shapiro’s new novel, Metropolis, available now!

    “A clever and complex tale of art fraud, theft, scandal, murder, and revenge.” Publishers WeeklyIn this surprising, noirish page-tur

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    • Author: Shapiro, B. A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: June 11 2019
    • ISBN10: 1616209801
    • Language: English
  • Courting Mr. Lincoln

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    “Riveting . . . Enticing.” —The Washington Post
    Exquisite.” —People
    “A triumph of a novel.” –Bookreporter.com
    “Rich, fascinating, and romantic.” —Newsday

    A Washington Post Bestseller * A Indie

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    • Author: Bayard, Louis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: February 11 2020
    • ISBN10: 1643750445
    • Language: English
  • The Muralist

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    Don’t miss B. A. Shapiro’s new novel, Metropolis, available now!

    “Vibrant and suspenseful . . . Like The Art Forger, this new story takes us into the heart of what it means to be an artist.” —The W

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    • Author: Shapiro, B. A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: October 11 2016
    • ISBN10: 1616206438
    • Language: English
  • Guests on Earth

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    “Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the grace and insight that distinguish her work.” –Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Hair

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    • Author: Smith, Lee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: May 13 2014
    • ISBN10: 1616203803
    • Language: English
  • Ellen Foster (Oprah’s Book Club)

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    “Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy.”
    –Alice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review

    “When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.” With that opening sentence we enter

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    • Author: Gibbons, Kaye
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 17 2012
    • ISBN10: 1616203021
    • Language: English
  • Dust Child

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    The author of the award-winning The Mountains Sing returns with a suspenseful and moving saga of wartime love, family, loss, and redemption set in Việt Nam.

    In 1969, sisters Trang and Qu&#7923

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    • Author: Nguyen, Mai Phan Que
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643755781
    • Language: English
  • Let’s Get Back to the Party

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    “A gorgeously written meditation on being a gay man in America now . . . A raw and captivating debut.” –BookPage

    Recommended by: O, the Oprah Magazine * BuzzFeed * The Millions * Cosmopolitan * Elect

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    • Author: Salih, Zak
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643752073
    • Language: English
  • Sugar Run

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    “A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.” –Lauren Groff, author of Florida

    In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when sh

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    • Author: Maren, Mesha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 08 2019
    • ISBN10: 161620981X
    • Language: English
  • The Poet’s House

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    In this warm and witty story, a young woman gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dramatic group of writers.​

    Carla is stuck. In her twenties and working for a landscaper, she’s

    • Author: Thompson, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 03, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643753924
    • Language: English
  • The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

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    “You know a book is good when you actually welcome one of those howling days of wind and sleet that makes going out next to impossible.” —The New York Times

    In The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart takes us

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    • Author: Stewart, Amy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 223
    • Publish Date: March 11 2005
    • ISBN10: 1565124685
    • Language: English
  • Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Rolling Stone * BookPage * Amazon * Rough Trade
    Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence

    ” A] riveting and inspiring history of punk’s hard-fought

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    • Author: Mohr, Tim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: September 03 2019
    • ISBN10: 1616209798
    • Language: English
  • The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books

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    “A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended.”
    –Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist

    Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

    A thousan

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    • Author: Friedman, Matti
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 14 2013
    • ISBN10: 1616202785
    • Language: English
  • Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

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    By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most [more below]

    • Author: Diamond, Cheryl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: June 14 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643752510
    • Language: English
  • Legends of the North Cascades

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    • Author: Evison, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: January 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643752480
    • Language: English
  • Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories

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    “Lovers of the short story, rejoice! There’s something for everyone in this anniversary collection . . . The collection makes the argument that time and again, it is stories that save us.” –Booklist

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    • Author: Tinti, Hannah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: March 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643751999
    • Language: English
  • Good Kings, Bad Kings

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    Bellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum’s powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers–alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy–except that they live in an institution for

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    • Author: Nussbaum, Susan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: November 12 2013
    • ISBN10: 1616203250
    • Language: English
  • Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge

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    “You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great storyteller that you find yourself following along eagerly.” –Mark Kurlansky

    “Seaweed is ancient and b

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    • Author: Shetterly, Susan Hand
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: August 07 2018
    • ISBN10: 1616205741
    • Language: English
  • What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

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    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    “I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” –Dan Rather
    “A tonic for our times . . . Rather’s writing shows why he has w[more below]

    • Author: Rather, Dan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 03 2019
    • ISBN10: 1616209941
    • Language: English
  • West of Here

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    At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous futu… [more below]

    • Author: Evison, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: January 31 2012
    • ISBN10: 1616200820
    • Language: English
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