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From Baby Blue Eyes to Silver Bells, from Abelia to Zinnia, every flower tells a story. Gardening writer Diana Wells knows them all. Here she presents one hundred well-known garden favorites and the...

A perfect leek from France. Flavorful zucchini from Italy. An infamous potato from Ireland, and a humble lentil from Ethiopia. 100 Vegetables offers a veritable cornucopia of vegetables and stories...

The winner of the National Book Award returns with a moving story of a family of women drawn together by the trials of the times. The women in the Hand family are no strangers to either controversy...

The New York Times bestseller that "unfolds with suspense worthy of Hitchcock . . . Grodstein is a terrific storyteller." --The New York Times Book Review Pre-order author Lauren Grodstein's new...

Catch Me If You Can meets The Great Gatsby meets Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief in this captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur...

From award-winning Métis author Michelle Porter, a powerfully funny and moving story told not just by five generations of Métis women, but also by the land, the bison that surround them, and two...

From award-winning M?tis author Michelle Porter, a powerfully funning and moving story told not just by five generations of M?tis women, but also by the land, the bison that surround them, and two...

With a foreword by David Halberstam. He spoke out against player trading. He banned Pete Rose from baseball for gambling. He even asked sports fans to clean up their acts. Bart Giamatti was...

Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction ?A House Is a Body will not simply be...

The language [takes] on a musicality that is in sharp contrast to the bleak setting . . . refreshing . . . a strong debut. ?New York Times Book Review ?Subramanian writes with empathy and exuberance,...

For fans of Behold the Dreamers, comes a compelling novel about a tightly bound Nigerian family living in Florida and the wounds that get passed down from generation to generation, from the author of...

Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice caf? a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; she, a...

In her first story collection in over eight years, National Book Award winner Ellen Gilchrist presents readers with ten different scenarios in which people dealing with forces beyond their control...

A Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * The Washington Post *Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. magazine * The Millions *...

"A poetic debut which masterfully intertwines themes of familial love, friendship, class, prejudice and trauma with psychological acuity and wit." ─ The 2023 Booker Prize Judges I lived for and...

They were smart. Sassy. Daring. Exotic. Eclectic. Sexy. And influential. One could call them the first divas--and they ran absolutely wild. They were poets, actresses, singers, artists, journalists,...

"America is the world's biggest haunted house and American Scary is the only travel guide you need. I loved this book." --Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted...

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM OPRAH?S BOOK CLUB 2018...

"Funny, profound . . . a seductive book with a payoff on every page."--People A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel,...

At The Edge Of Theaight - 9781643752082Author: Katherine SeligmanPublisher: Algonquin BooksPublication Date: Oct 19, 2021Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

An ebullient, funny, and hugely original novel told from the perspective of Beep, a squirrel monkey who--with the help of a brilliant young girl-- forges the way forward for a planet in crisis...

An inspiring and delightful illustrated collection of quotations from a diverse range of our most beloved children's books that will help teach all of us how to live in the world today, perfect for...

Better Faster Farther : How Running Changed Everything We Know about WomenAuthor: Maggie MertensPublisher: Algonquin BooksPublication Date: Jun 18, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Big Fish: A Novel Of Mythic ProportionsAuthor: Daniel WallacePublisher: Algonquin BooksPublication Date: May 15, 2012Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

?Darkly hilarious . . . Wildly entertaining.? ?The Guardian Meet Majella O?Neill, a heroine like no other, in this captivating Irish debut that has been called Milkman meets Derry Girls Majella is...

Bite : An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to HumansAuthor: Bill SchuttPublisher: Algonquin BooksPublication Date: Aug 13, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Hope is hard to come by in the hard-luck town of Willow Creek. Sam Pickett and five young men are about to change that. Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the...

"Chilling, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. I urge you to read it." --SISTER HELEN PREJEAN, author of Dead Man Walking CHARGED WITH THE RAPE AND MURDER of a nine-year-old girl in 1984, Kirk...

"Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection." --Entertainment Weekly Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both...

The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a...