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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 16 Oct 2018
“Dazzling and seductive, a tour de force, The Collector’s Apprentice is an exhilarating tale of shifting identities, desire, and intrigue set between 1920s Paris and Philadelphia.”—Dawn Tripp, bestselling author of Georgia
It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds...
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The Collector’s Apprentice
B. A. Shapiro
Pub Date 16 Oct 2018
“Dazzling and seductive, a tour de force, The Collector’s Apprentice is an exhilarating tale of shifting identities, desire, and intrigue set between 1920s Paris and Philadelphia.”—Dawn Tripp, bestselling author of Georgia
It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds...
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Pub Date 08 Jan 2019
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Sugar Run
Mesha Maren
Pub Date 08 Jan 2019
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Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
An ancient, and vital, part of nature’s ecosystem, seaweed is now emerging as an increasingly important source of food in a world faced with diminishing natural resources.
In Seaweed Chronicles, acclaimed nature writer Susan Hand Shetterly opens a window into the world of this fascinating organism by providing an...
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Seaweed Chronicles
Susan Hand Shetterly
Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
An ancient, and vital, part of nature’s ecosystem, seaweed is now emerging as an increasingly important source of food in a world faced with diminishing natural resources.
In Seaweed Chronicles, acclaimed nature writer Susan Hand Shetterly opens a window into the world of this fascinating organism by providing an...
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Tasting the Past
The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine
by Kevin Begos
Pub Date 12 Jun 2018
A chance encounter with an obscure vintage made near Jerusalem leads journalist Kevin Begos to seek the origins of wine. What he discovers is a whole world of forgotten grapes, each with distinctive tastes and aromas, as well as the archaeologists, chemists, and botanists who are deciphering wine down to molecules of flavor. The characters in Tasting the...
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Tasting the Past
Kevin Begos
Tasting the Past
The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine
by Kevin Begos
Pub Date 12 Jun 2018
A chance encounter with an obscure vintage made near Jerusalem leads journalist Kevin Begos to seek the origins of wine. What he discovers is a whole world of forgotten grapes, each with distinctive tastes and aromas, as well as the archaeologists, chemists, and botanists who are deciphering wine down to molecules of flavor. The characters in Tasting the...
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Burning Down the Haus
Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by Tim Mohr
Pub Date 11 Sep 2018
“The true story of how teenage kicks turned into political opposition. With meticulous research and impassioned prose, Tim Mohr brings to life the saga of a bunch of East German punk...
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Burning Down the Haus
Tim Mohr
Burning Down the Haus
Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by Tim Mohr
Pub Date 11 Sep 2018
“The true story of how teenage kicks turned into political opposition. With meticulous research and impassioned prose, Tim Mohr brings to life the saga of a bunch of East German punk...
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Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
A gripping, surprising, and sexy thriller with a big, pounding heart, Blood Highway takes a seventeen-year-old girl on a brutal journey into adulthood on a road trip that threatens to kill...
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Blood Highway
Gina Wohlsdorf
Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
A gripping, surprising, and sexy thriller with a big, pounding heart, Blood Highway takes a seventeen-year-old girl on a brutal journey into adulthood on a road trip that threatens to kill...
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Pub Date 21 Aug 2018
In the classic tradition of fiction by James Joyce, William Trevor, and Elizabeth Strout, these interconnected stories will strike a deep and resounding emotional chord.
In the ten...
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Other People's Love Affairs
D. Wystan Owen
Pub Date 21 Aug 2018
In the classic tradition of fiction by James Joyce, William Trevor, and Elizabeth Strout, these interconnected stories will strike a deep and resounding emotional chord.
In the ten...
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Pub Date 26 Jun 2018
Claire wakes in a hospital room in the Florida Keys. She has no idea how she got there or why. The loss of so many memories is paralyzing. Some things she can piece together by looking at old photos saved by her husband, Charlie, and her best friend, Rachel, and by combing through boxes of letters and...
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Remind Me Again What Happened
Joanna Luloff
Pub Date 26 Jun 2018
Claire wakes in a hospital room in the Florida Keys. She has no idea how she got there or why. The loss of so many memories is paralyzing. Some things she can piece together by looking at old photos saved by her husband, Charlie, and her best friend, Rachel, and by combing through boxes of letters and...
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Damnation Island
Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
by Stacy Horn
Pub Date 15 May 2018
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
On a two-mile stretch of land in New York’s East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . .
Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then...
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Damnation Island
Stacy Horn
Damnation Island
Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
by Stacy Horn
Pub Date 15 May 2018
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
On a two-mile stretch of land in New York’s East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . .
Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then...
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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
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 05 Jun 2018
In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love.
In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher...
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Southernmost
Silas House
Pub Date 05 Jun 2018
In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love.
In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher...
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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
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
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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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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This entertaining and assured debut novel about a utopian summer camp and its charismatic leader asks smart questions about good intentions gone terribly wrong.
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The Optimistic Decade
Heather Abel
This entertaining and assured debut novel about a utopian summer camp and its charismatic leader asks smart questions about good intentions gone terribly wrong.
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Pub Date 17 Apr 2018
When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest—her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car—and the residents of Anna Maria Island, with few facts to fuel their...
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State
Cutter Wood
Pub Date 17 Apr 2018
When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest—her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car—and the residents of Anna Maria Island, with few facts to fuel their...
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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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Lawn Boy
Jonathan Evison
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How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? That is just one question Christopher Swann explores in this compulsively readable debut, a...
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Shadow of the Lions
Christopher Swann
How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? That is just one question Christopher Swann explores in this compulsively readable debut, a...
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Nine Irish Lives
The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
by Mark Bailey
Pub Date 06 Mar 2018
—Timothy Egan, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Irishman
In this...
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Nine Irish Lives
Mark Bailey
Nine Irish Lives
The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
by Mark Bailey
Pub Date 06 Mar 2018
—Timothy Egan, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Irishman
In this...
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From an acclaimed and original writer comes a new collection of stories bursting with absurdist plot twists and laced with trenchant wit. Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England and Exley, among other novels, now offers up bite-sized morsels of his trademark social satire that will have readers laughing, and perhaps...
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The Price of the Haircut
Brock Clarke
From an acclaimed and original writer comes a new collection of stories bursting with absurdist plot twists and laced with trenchant wit. Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England and Exley, among other novels, now offers up bite-sized morsels of his trademark social satire that will have readers laughing, and perhaps...
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When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.” In “Open the Door and the Light Pours Through,” a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. “Dreadful Young Ladies” demonstrates the strength and power—known and...
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Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories
Kelly Barnhill
When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.” In “Open the Door and the Light Pours Through,” a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. “Dreadful Young Ladies” demonstrates the strength and power—known and...
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION
“Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable.” —USA Today
“A tense and timely love story . . . Packed with brave questions about race and class.” —People
“Compelling.” —The Washington Post
“Epic...
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION
“Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable.” —USA Today
“A tense and timely love story . . . Packed with brave questions about race and class.” —People
“Compelling.” —The Washington Post
“Epic...
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Pub Date 23 Jan 2018
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The Milk Lady of Bangalore
Shoba Narayan
Pub Date 23 Jan 2018
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“I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade. It’s pretty...
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Woman at 1,000 Degrees
Hallgrímur Helgason
“I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade. It’s pretty...
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Real Food/Fake Food
Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do about It
by Larry Olmsted
Pub Date 12 Jul 2016
You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from sawdust. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn't. Fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets. Award-winning food journalist and travel writer Larry Olmsted exposes this pervasive and dangerous fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting...
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Real Food/Fake Food
Larry Olmsted
Real Food/Fake Food
Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do about It
by Larry Olmsted
Pub Date 12 Jul 2016
You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from sawdust. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn't. Fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets. Award-winning food journalist and travel writer Larry Olmsted exposes this pervasive and dangerous fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting...
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In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, C. Morgan Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane...
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The Floating World
C. Morgan Babst
In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, C. Morgan Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane...
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Budapest: gorgeous city of secrets, with ties to a shadowy, bloody past. It is to this enigmatic European capital that a young American...
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Strangers in Budapest
Jessica Keener
Budapest: gorgeous city of secrets, with ties to a shadowy, bloody past. It is to this enigmatic European capital that a young American...
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The family thought the little house they had made themselves in Elmet, a corner of Yorkshire, was theirs, that their peaceful, self-sufficient life was safe. Cathy and Daniel roamed the woods freely, occasionally visiting a local woman for some schooling, living outside all conventions. Their father built things and hunted, working with his hands; sometimes...
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Elmet
Fiona Mozley
The family thought the little house they had made themselves in Elmet, a corner of Yorkshire, was theirs, that their peaceful, self-sufficient life was safe. Cathy and Daniel roamed the woods freely, occasionally visiting a local woman for some schooling, living outside all conventions. Their father built things and hunted, working with his hands; sometimes...
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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.
