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Founded in 1983, Algonquin Books started as a small Southern house but quickly garnered national attention for publishing authors such as Julia Alvarez, Kaye Gibbons, Robert Morgan, and Lee Smith. In 1989, Algonquin was acquired by Workman Publishing. Algonquin is recognized internationally as a literary publishing house with numerous fiction and nonfiction bestsellers and award winners. Algonquin Young Readers is a new imprint that features books for readers seven to seventeen. |
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Our Wild Calling
How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives—and Save Theirs
by Richard Louv
Pub Date 05 Nov 2019
we are animals in a world of animals.” —Bill McKibben, author of Falter
Richard Louv’s landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect children...
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Our Wild Calling
Richard Louv
Our Wild Calling
How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives—and Save Theirs
by Richard Louv
Pub Date 05 Nov 2019
we are animals in a world of animals.” —Bill McKibben, author of Falter
Richard Louv’s landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect children...
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Pub Date 29 Oct 2019
Ordinary Girls is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira Díaz found herself caught between extremes: as her family split apart and...
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Ordinary Girls
Jaquira Díaz
Pub Date 29 Oct 2019
Ordinary Girls is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira Díaz found herself caught between extremes: as her family split apart and...
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Pub Date 05 Nov 2019
—Michelle Obama
In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times...
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Mighty Justice
Dovey Johnson Roundtree; Katie McCabe
Pub Date 05 Nov 2019
—Michelle Obama
In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times...
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Pub Date 04 Feb 2020
“This book is astonishing. You’ll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you’ll tip willingly into this world Bump offers you, because what appears again and again are spectacular beams of light also called love, also called hope, also called family. Gabriel Bump has established himself as a stunning talent to be reckoned with.” —Maaza Mengiste...
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Everywhere You Don't Belong
Gabriel Bump
Pub Date 04 Feb 2020
“This book is astonishing. You’ll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you’ll tip willingly into this world Bump offers you, because what appears again and again are spectacular beams of light also called love, also called hope, also called family. Gabriel Bump has established himself as a stunning talent to be reckoned with.” —Maaza Mengiste...
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Pub Date 27 Aug 2019
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Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?
Brock Clarke
Pub Date 27 Aug 2019
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Who Says You're Dead?
Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
by Jacob M. Appel
Pub Date 08 Oct 2019
Who Says You're Dead? brings the most challenging and unsettling ethics controversies from contemporary science and medicine to the proverbial water cooler. Drawing upon the author’s two...
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Who Says You're Dead?
Jacob M. Appel
Who Says You're Dead?
Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
by Jacob M. Appel
Pub Date 08 Oct 2019
Who Says You're Dead? brings the most challenging and unsettling ethics controversies from contemporary science and medicine to the proverbial water cooler. Drawing upon the author’s two...
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Pub Date 02 Jan 2019
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Spring 2019 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a short preview of each novel.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Louis Bayard, author of Courting Mr. Lincoln, discusses how even though 9,100 books have been written about our...
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The Algonquin Reader: Spring 2019
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub Date 02 Jan 2019
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Spring 2019 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a short preview of each novel.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Louis Bayard, author of Courting Mr. Lincoln, discusses how even though 9,100 books have been written about our...
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Pub Date 09 Jul 2019
After a global economic collapse and failure of the electrical grid, amid escalating chaos, Carson, a high school teacher of history who sees history bearing out its lessons all around him, heads west on foot toward Beatrix, a woman he met and fell...
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The Lightest Object in the Universe
Kimi Eisele
Pub Date 09 Jul 2019
After a global economic collapse and failure of the electrical grid, amid escalating chaos, Carson, a high school teacher of history who sees history bearing out its lessons all around him, heads west on foot toward Beatrix, a woman he met and fell...
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Pub Date 31 Jul 2018
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Fall 2018 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a short preview of each novel. The books featured in this issue are:
The Collector's Apprentice by B. A. Shapiro
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
Other People's Love...
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The Algonquin Reader: Fall 2018
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub Date 31 Jul 2018
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Fall 2018 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a short preview of each novel. The books featured in this issue are:
The Collector's Apprentice by B. A. Shapiro
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
Other People's Love...
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Pub Date 29 Nov 2017
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Spring 2018 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a short preview of each novel. The books featured in this issue are:
The Optimistic Decade by Heather Abel
On Sale May 2018
Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories...
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The Algonquin Reader: Spring 2018
Algonquin Books
Pub Date 29 Nov 2017
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Spring 2018 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a short preview of each novel. The books featured in this issue are:
The Optimistic Decade by Heather Abel
On Sale May 2018
Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories...
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Pub Date 09 May 2017
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Fall 2017 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a preview of each novel. The books featured in this issue are:
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
On Sale August 2017
The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst
On Sale...
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The Algonquin Reader: Fall 2017
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub Date 09 May 2017
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Fall 2017 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a preview of each novel. The books featured in this issue are:
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
On Sale August 2017
The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst
On Sale...
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Pub Date 11 Oct 2016
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Spring 2017 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a preview of each novel.
Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein
On Sale March 2017
The Last Days of Café Leila by Donia Bijan
On Sale April 2017
When the English...
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The Algonquin Reader: Spring 2017
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub Date 11 Oct 2016
Get an inside look at Algonquin’s outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Spring 2017 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a preview of each novel.
Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein
On Sale March 2017
The Last Days of Café Leila by Donia Bijan
On Sale April 2017
When the English...
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—Cosmopolitan
A Recommended Summer Read from Entertainment Weekly * Bustle * Nylon * Cosmopolitan
"How do you escape your childhood, emotionally, actually? This compelling mystery has a rare depth of psychological and emotional truth. It will engage your heart.” —Delia Ephron, New York Times bestselling author...
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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
Felicity McLean
—Cosmopolitan
A Recommended Summer Read from Entertainment Weekly * Bustle * Nylon * Cosmopolitan
"How do you escape your childhood, emotionally, actually? This compelling mystery has a rare depth of psychological and emotional truth. It will engage your heart.” —Delia Ephron, New York Times bestselling author...
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A Death in the Rainforest
How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
by Don Kulick
Pub Date 18 Jun 2019
“A profoundly human story about a seemingly exotic and strange place that really isn't so strange at all.” —Carl Hoffman, author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He...
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A Death in the Rainforest
Don Kulick
A Death in the Rainforest
How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
by Don Kulick
Pub Date 18 Jun 2019
“A profoundly human story about a seemingly exotic and strange place that really isn't so strange at all.” —Carl Hoffman, author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He...
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When Inspector Charles Field (based on the real London policeman immortalized by Dickens as Inspector Bucket in Bleak House) sets out to find who was behind the failed attempt on...
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The Darwin Affair
Tim Mason
When Inspector Charles Field (based on the real London policeman immortalized by Dickens as Inspector Bucket in Bleak House) sets out to find who was behind the failed attempt on...
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Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the intense dynamic between the Stewart...
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Prairie Fever
Michael Parker
Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the intense dynamic between the Stewart...
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A Craftsman’s Legacy
Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning
by Eric Gorges; Jon Sternfeld
Pub Date 07 May 2019
"Despite our technological advances, we’re busier than ever, our lives more frazzled. That’s why the handmade object, created with care and detail, embodying a history and a tradition, is enormously...
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A Craftsman’s Legacy
Eric Gorges; Jon Sternfeld
A Craftsman’s Legacy
Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning
by Eric Gorges; Jon Sternfeld
Pub Date 07 May 2019
"Despite our technological advances, we’re busier than ever, our lives more frazzled. That’s why the handmade object, created with care and detail, embodying a history and a tradition, is enormously...
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A Washington Post Bestseller
A May Indie Next Pick
An Apple Books Best of the Month for April
A People Magazine Best Book of the Week
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Courting Mr. Lincoln
Louis Bayard
A Washington Post Bestseller
A May Indie Next Pick
An Apple Books Best of the Month for April
A People Magazine Best Book of the Week
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A politically driven graffiti artist. A transgender Christian convert. A blind girl who loves to dance. A queer daughter of a hijabi union leader. These are some of the young women who live in a Bangalore slum known as Heaven, young women whom readers will come to love in the moving, atmospheric, and deeply inspiring debut, A People's History of Heaven.
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A People's History of Heaven
Mathangi Subramanian
A politically driven graffiti artist. A transgender Christian convert. A blind girl who loves to dance. A queer daughter of a hijabi union leader. These are some of the young women who live in a Bangalore slum known as Heaven, young women whom readers will come to love in the moving, atmospheric, and deeply inspiring debut, A People's History of Heaven.
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Pub Date 05 Mar 2019
The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, conceived during World War II by...
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Spies of No Country
Matti Friedman
Pub Date 05 Mar 2019
The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, conceived during World War II by...
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The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of...
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The Book of Delights
Ross Gay
The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of...
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In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root...
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The Current
Tim Johnston
In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root...
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Pub Date 16 May 2016
Get an inside look at Algonquin's outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Fall 2016 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a free preview of each novel.
Leave Me by Gayle Forman
On Sale September 2016
The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers
On Sale January 2017
Cruel Beautiful World by...
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The Algonquin Reader
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub Date 16 May 2016
Get an inside look at Algonquin's outstanding forthcoming fiction with the Fall 2016 Algonquin Reader. Discover the inspiration behind each book through an original essay by the author. Then enjoy a free preview of each novel.
Leave Me by Gayle Forman
On Sale September 2016
The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers
On Sale January 2017
Cruel Beautiful World by...
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In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison. When she’s released eighteen years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected...
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Sugar Run
Mesha Maren
In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison. When she’s released eighteen years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected...
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Pub Date 10 Apr 2018
As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN, Sally Kohn has made a career out of bridging intractable political...
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The Opposite of Hate
Sally Kohn
Pub Date 10 Apr 2018
As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN, Sally Kohn has made a career out of bridging intractable political...
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“Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity you must be fearless.” —from The Museum of Modern Love
Arky Levin has reached a dead end. Unexpectedly separated from his wife, he suddenly has the space he needs to work composing film scores—but none of the...
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The Museum of Modern Love
Heather Rose
“Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity you must be fearless.” —from The Museum of Modern Love
Arky Levin has reached a dead end. Unexpectedly separated from his wife, he suddenly has the space he needs to work composing film scores—but none of the...
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Pub Date 30 Oct 2018
In this charming graphic memoir, the founder of the iconic housewares shop Fishs Eddy recounts the ups and downs—and ups again—of starting a family business, starting a family, and staying true to one’s path while trying to make it in the Big City.
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Minding the Store
Julie Gaines
Pub Date 30 Oct 2018
In this charming graphic memoir, the founder of the iconic housewares shop Fishs Eddy recounts the ups and downs—and ups again—of starting a family business, starting a family, and staying true to one’s path while trying to make it in the Big City.
NOTE: The art in this e-galley is low res. To review the final, high-res art, please refer to the finished book.
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Algonquin Books
Founded in 1983, Algonquin Books started as a small Southern house but quickly garnered national attention for publishing authors such as Julia Alvarez, Kaye Gibbons, Robert Morgan, and Lee Smith. In 1989, Algonquin was acquired by Workman Publishing. Algonquin is recognized internationally as a literary publishing house with numerous fiction and nonfiction bestsellers and award winners. Algonquin Young Readers is a new imprint that features books for readers seven to seventeen.
