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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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Pub Date 06 Aug 2019
Get a sneak peek of Algonquin's Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 fiction titles with the Algonquin Reader. Enjoy original essays by Crissy Van Meter (author of Creatures), Gabriel Bump (author of Everywhere You Don't Belong), and Brock Clarke (author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?), as well as excerpts from their new novels. This issue also includes a hilarious...
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The Algonquin Reader: Fall 2019
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Pub Date 06 Aug 2019
Get a sneak peek of Algonquin's Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 fiction titles with the Algonquin Reader. Enjoy original essays by Crissy Van Meter (author of Creatures), Gabriel Bump (author of Everywhere You Don't Belong), and Brock Clarke (author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?), as well as excerpts from their new novels. This issue also includes a hilarious...
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Pub Date 17 Mar 2020
“An epic account of Việt Nam’s painful 20th century history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN, author of The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The...
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The...
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The Mountains Sing
Que Mai Phan Nguyen
Pub Date 17 Mar 2020
“An epic account of Việt Nam’s painful 20th century history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN, author of The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The...
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The...
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Pub Date 07 Jan 2020
“Wiry, rhythmic, and wrenchingly beautiful, Creatures plumbs the sea-struck heart of a family fractured by longing and grief.” —Leni Zumas, bestselling author of Red Clocks
On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue...
On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue...
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Creatures
Crissy Van Meter
Pub Date 07 Jan 2020
“Wiry, rhythmic, and wrenchingly beautiful, Creatures plumbs the sea-struck heart of a family fractured by longing and grief.” —Leni Zumas, bestselling author of Red Clocks
On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue...
On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue...
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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
“Richard Louv has done it again. A remarkable book that will help everyone break away from their fixed gaze at the screens that dominate our lives and remember instead that 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...
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
“Richard Louv has done it again. A remarkable book that will help everyone break away from their fixed gaze at the screens that dominate our lives and remember instead that 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...
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
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 According to Time * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez
In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of...
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez
In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of...
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Ordinary Girls
Jaquira Díaz
Pub Date 29 Oct 2019
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 According to Time * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez
In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of...
“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez
In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of...
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Pub Date 05 Nov 2019
“Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history.”
—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...
—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
“Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history.”
—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...
—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
“A story in which anything and everything can happen, and mostly does. This is a book of many trips--across oceans, back to the past, and, most profoundly, into the infinite deep space of the human heart. Brock Clarke has given us a wonderful novel that bursts with all the meaty stuff of real life.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
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Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?
Brock Clarke
Pub Date 27 Aug 2019
“A story in which anything and everything can happen, and mostly does. This is a book of many trips--across oceans, back to the past, and, most profoundly, into the infinite deep space of the human heart. Brock Clarke has given us a wonderful novel that bursts with all the meaty stuff of real life.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
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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
“An original, compelling, and provocative exploration of ethical issues in our society. I have not seen anything like it.” —Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams
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...
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
“An original, compelling, and provocative exploration of ethical issues in our society. I have not seen anything like it.” —Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams
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...
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 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
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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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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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If the grid went down, how would you find someone on the other side of the country? How would you find hope?
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...
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
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If the grid went down, how would you find someone on the other side of the country? How would you find hope?
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...
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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“ONE PART MYSTERY, ONE MILLION PARTS AMAZING.”
—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...
—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
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“ONE PART MYSTERY, ONE MILLION PARTS AMAZING.”
—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...
—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
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“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.”
—The Washington Post As a young...
—The Wall Street Journal
“If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.”
—The Washington Post As a young...
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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
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“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.”
—The Washington Post As a young...
—The Wall Street Journal
“If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.”
—The Washington Post As a young...
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London circa 1860. An attempt on Queen Victoria’s life. A plot against evolutionist Charles Darwin. A madman on the loose. And a police detective made famous by Charles Dickens.
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...
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
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London circa 1860. An attempt on Queen Victoria’s life. A plot against evolutionist Charles Darwin. A madman on the loose. And a police detective made famous by Charles Dickens.
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...
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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"Michael Parker has captured a time, place, and sisterhood so perfectly it hurts to turn the last page. A riveting, atmospheric dream of a novel.” --Dominic Smith, author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the intense dynamic between the Stewart...
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
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"Michael Parker has captured a time, place, and sisterhood so perfectly it hurts to turn the last page. A riveting, atmospheric dream of a novel.” --Dominic Smith, author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the intense dynamic between the Stewart...
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
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A book for makers, for seekers of all kinds, an exhilarating look into the heart and soul of artisans—and how their collective wisdom can inspire us all.
"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...
"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
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A book for makers, for seekers of all kinds, an exhilarating look into the heart and soul of artisans—and how their collective wisdom can inspire us all.
"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...
"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 page-turning novel about the brilliant, melancholic future president and the two people who knew him best: his handsome and charming confidant (and roommate), Joshua Speed, and the spirited young debutante Mary Todd.
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 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
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A page-turning novel about the brilliant, melancholic future president and the two people who knew him best: his handsome and charming confidant (and roommate), Joshua Speed, and the spirited young debutante Mary Todd.
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
...
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
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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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Pub Date 05 Mar 2019
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Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it’s all true.
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...
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
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Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it’s all true.
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...
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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“Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us.” —Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate
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...
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
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“Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us.” —Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate
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...
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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Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called “astonishing,” “dazzling,” and “unforgettable” by critics, returns with The Current, a tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people.
In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root...
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
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Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called “astonishing,” “dazzling,” and “unforgettable” by critics, returns with The Current, a tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people.
In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root...
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
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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
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
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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“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 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...
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
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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 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...
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
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At a moment when we are facing an epidemic of incivility and hate—with divisive political speech, online trolling, and hate crimes escalating—popular CNN commentator Sally Kohn sets out to discover why we hate and how can stop it.
As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN, Sally Kohn has made a career out of bridging intractable political...
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
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
At a moment when we are facing an epidemic of incivility and hate—with divisive political speech, online trolling, and hate crimes escalating—popular CNN commentator Sally Kohn sets out to discover why we hate and how can stop it.
As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN, Sally Kohn has made a career out of bridging intractable political...
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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This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
An Amazon Editors’ Best Book of December 2018
“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...
“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
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
An Amazon Editors’ Best Book of December 2018
“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...
“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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