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(Paperback)

By: Elizabeth C. Bunce

ISBN: 9781643753065
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2022
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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Amateur detective extraordinaire Myrtle Hardcastle is back for Book 3 in this Edgar Award-winning, cozy mystery series. Just as she was in Premeditated Myrtle (Book 1) and How to Get Away with Myrtle (Book 2), Myrtle is on the case again, tracking down a killer out for revenge amid the Christmas festivities in Victorian England.


(Hardback)

By: Kelly Barnhill

ISBN: 9781616205676
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch, Xan, rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey.


(Paperback)

By: Larry Watson

ISBN: 9781616206956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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Calvin Sidey is always ready to run, and it doesn't take much to set him in motion. As a young man, he ran from this block, from Gladstone, from Montana, from this country. From his family and the family business. He ran from sadness, and he ran from responsibility. If the gossip was true, he ran from the law.


(Paperback)

By: Ross Gay

ISBN: 9781643753287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Schutt

ISBN: 9781616207434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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(Hardback)

By: Mai Phan Que Nguyen

ISBN: 9781643752754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a propulsive and moving tale of wartime love, family, and loss, as an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Vit Nam War that will reverberate throughout each other's lives.


(Paperback)

By: Professor Bill Roorbach

ISBN: 9781616203320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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"Nine ... stories that cross a range of landscapes and generations to reveal the complex workings of the human heart"--


(Hardback)

By: Thrity Umrigar

ISBN: 9781616209957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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"The story of two Indian women, one a victim of a brutal crime and the other an Americanized journalist returning to India to cover the story, and the courage they inspire in each other"--


(Paperback)

By: Dr B Brett Finlay

ISBN: 9781616207380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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Groundbreaking studies have shown that an absence of certain of microbes in children may be at the root of some of the most prevalent childhood ailments. Written by two experts in the field, this book takes on our oversanitized culture, from pregnancy to birth to early childhood, and explains how we can have a healthier relationship with our microbes.


(Hardback)

By: Dave Boling

ISBN: 9781616204174
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited"--Copyright page.


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By: Karen Rivers

ISBN: 9781616205706
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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As Ish fights cancer, she dreams in vivid detail about the Martian adventures she's always known she'd have and makes unexpected discoveries about love, fate, and her place in the vast universe. In this story Karen Rivers has once again created an unforgettable narrator who will pull readers into her orbit keep them riveted until the last page.


(Hardback)

By: John Waters

ISBN: 9781616206352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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(Paperback)

By: Matti Friedman

ISBN: 9781616206918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the experience of a band of Israeli soldiers charged with holding a remote outpost in Lebanon during an unnamed war that foreshadowed the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.


(Hardback)

By: Hannah Tinti

ISBN: 9781643751993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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"A collection of never-before-published short stories by many of our most preeminent authors as well as up-and-coming superstars. Published in partnership with the beloved literary radio program and live show Selected Shorts"--


(Paperback)

By: Jack O'Connell

ISBN: 9781565126787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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Gritty noir fiction, mind-bending fantasy, and medical thriller combine in a gothic tale of a young coma patient whose real cure may lie in Limbo, a comic book world into which he had been drawn at the time of his accident.


(Paperback)

By: Maria Padian

ISBN: 9781616207458
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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On the same night college freshman Haley sustains a career-ending concussion on the soccer field, her bookish roommate Jenny arrives home shell-shocked from a wild party. The next morning, on the other side of campus, Jordan brags to his housemate, Richard, about the cute freshman he hooked up with. When Jenny formally accuses Jordan of rape, gossip spreads like wildfire through the campus.


(Paperback)

By: Tom McAllister

ISBN: 9781616207427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."


(Paperback)

By: Gabriel Bump

ISBN: 9781643750859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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A visceral, vivid, and urgent novel about a young black man growing up on Chicagos South Side an arresting debut from a sparkling new literary talent.


(Hardback)

By: Elizabeth C. Bunce

ISBN: 9781616209216
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2022
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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Amateur Detective Myrtle Hardcastle must solve the mystery of a long-lost heiress and track down a possible murderer lurking in the halls of the Royal Swinburne Hospital before her father, a patient there, becomes the killers next victim in Book 4 of the Edgar Awardwinning mystery series.