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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 23 Apr 2019
From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln, the page-turning and...
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Courting Mr. Lincoln
Louis Bayard
Pub Date 23 Apr 2019
From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln, the page-turning and...
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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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Pub Date 19 Mar 2019
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
Pub Date 19 Mar 2019
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 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
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 12 Feb 2019
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
Pub Date 12 Feb 2019
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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Pub Date 27 Nov 2018
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 peace of mind he needs to create. As he wanders...
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The Museum of Modern Love
Heather Rose
Pub Date 27 Nov 2018
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 peace of mind he needs to create. As he wanders...
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Pub Date 22 Jan 2019
Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called “astonishing,” “dazzling,” and...
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The Current
Tim Johnston
Pub Date 22 Jan 2019
Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called “astonishing,” “dazzling,” and...
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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 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 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
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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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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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It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including...
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The Collector’s Apprentice
B. A. Shapiro
It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including...
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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
“Original and inspiring . . . Mr. Mohr has written an important work of Cold War cultural history.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Wildly entertaining . . . A thrilling tale . . . A joy in the way it brings back punk’s fury and...
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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
“Original and inspiring . . . Mr. Mohr has written an important work of Cold War cultural history.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Wildly entertaining . . . A thrilling tale . . . A joy in the way it brings back punk’s fury and...
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Meet Rainy Cain, a tough, smart seventeen-year-old whose primary instinct is survival. That instinct is tested when her life is upended by the sudden appearance of her father, Sam, who she...
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Blood Highway
Gina Wohlsdorf
Meet Rainy Cain, a tough, smart seventeen-year-old whose primary instinct is survival. That instinct is tested when her life is upended by the sudden appearance of her father, Sam, who she...
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In the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen’s debut collection, the people of Glass, a picturesque village on the rugged English coast, are haunted by longings and deeply held secrets...
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Other People's Love Affairs
D. Wystan Owen
In the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen’s debut collection, the people of Glass, a picturesque village on the rugged English coast, are haunted by longings and deeply held secrets...
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Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
“Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth,” writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. “Why wouldn’t seaweeds be a...
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Seaweed Chronicles
Susan Hand Shetterly
Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
“Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth,” writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. “Why wouldn’t seaweeds be a...
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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
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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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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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
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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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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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
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State
Cutter Wood
Pub Date 17 Apr 2018
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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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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.
