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Albany Book Festival

Welcome to the 4th annual Albany Book Festival, presented by the NYS Writers Institute at the University at Albany, featuring world-renowned authors, local authors, and online workshops on writing and publishing. Stay tuned for more information on the event schedule, online workshops, and more!

Events subject to change

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Writers Insitute @ RPI: Richard Russo: McKinney Contest Guest Speaker

The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life Cover Image

The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life (Hardcover)

By Richard Russo

$25.95

ISBN: 9781524733513

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Published: Knopf - May 8th, 2018

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The Writer's Institute, UAlbany, and The Book House bring you The First Annual Book Festival.

Authors will be added as they are announced.

Please visit https://www.albanybookfestival.com for details and schedules.

Wicked Musical Tie-in Edition: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Cover Image

Wicked Musical Tie-in Edition: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Paperback)

By Gregory Maguire

$16.00

ISBN: 9780060745905

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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - March 2nd, 2004

Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas Cover Image

Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas (Hardcover)

By Mark Kurlansky

$29.00

ISBN: 9781632863829

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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - May 8th, 2018

Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life Cover Image

Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life (Hardcover)

By Radha Agrawal

$19.95

ISBN: 9781523502059

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Published: Workman Publishing Company - September 4th, 2018

Call Me American: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Abdi Nor Iftin

$26.95

ISBN: 9781524732196

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Published: Knopf - June 19th, 2018

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RPI: Writers Institute welcomes Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award for the novel, Charming Billy (1998), is the author most recently of the novel, Someone (2013), the story of one woman’s “ordinary” life across the decades of the 20th century in an Irish-American enclave in Brooklyn, New York. Someone was named a “Best Book of the Year” by NPR, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.

Someone: A Novel (Paperback)

By Alice McDermott

$17.00

ISBN: 9781250055361

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Published: Picador - October 7th, 2014

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BH OFFSITE: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand signs copies of her new book: Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World

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Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World Cover Image

Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World (Hardcover)

By Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Weil (With), Hillary Rodham Clinton (Foreword by)

$26.00

ISBN: 9780804179072

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Published: Ballantine Books - September 9th, 2014

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RPI: Lydia Davis Reading and McKinney Writing Contest Award Ceremony

Lydia Davis, short story author and translator

Can't and Won't: Stories (Hardcover)

By Lydia Davis

$26.00

ISBN: 9780374118587

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - April 8th, 2014

Two American Scenes (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets) Cover Image

Two American Scenes (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets) (Paperback)

By Lydia Davis, Eliot Weinberger

$10.95

ISBN: 9780811220415

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Published: New Directions - March 26th, 2013

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis Cover Image

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Paperback)

By Lydia Davis

$25.00

ISBN: 9780312655396

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Published: Picador - October 26th, 2010

Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Cover Image

Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback)

By Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis (Translated by), Lydia Davis (Introduction by), Lydia Davis (Notes by)

$17.00

ISBN: 9780143106494

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Published: Penguin Classics - October 4th, 2011

Break It Down: Stories (FSG Classics) Cover Image

Break It Down: Stories (FSG Classics) (Paperback)

By Lydia Davis

$16.00

ISBN: 9780374531447

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Published: Picador - September 16th, 2008

Varieties of Disturbance: Stories Cover Image

Varieties of Disturbance: Stories (Paperback)

By Lydia Davis

$16.00

ISBN: 9780374281731

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Published: Picador - May 15th, 2007

The End of the Story: A Novel Cover Image

The End of the Story: A Novel (Paperback)

By Lydia Davis

$16.00

ISBN: 9780312423711

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Published: Picador - July 1st, 2004

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant test: Stories Cover Image

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant test: Stories (Paperback)

By Lydia Davis

$16.00

ISBN: 9780312420567

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Published: Picador - September 1st, 2002

Almost No Memory: Stories (Paperback)

By Lydia Davis

$16.00

ISBN: 9780312420550

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(This book cannot be returned.)

Published: Picador - September 8th, 2001

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Cover Image

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback)

By Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translated by), Lydia Davis (Introduction by), Lydia Davis (Notes by), Christopher Prendergast (Editor)

$20.00

ISBN: 9780142437964

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Published: Penguin Classics - November 30th, 2004

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Offsite: Carolyn Forché at the NYS Writers Institute

Carolyn Forché is one of those writers/speakers that you just don't want to miss!

Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 Cover Image

Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (Paperback)

By Carolyn Forché (Editor), Duncan Wu (Editor)

$29.95

ISBN: 9780393340426

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - January 27th, 2014

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Offsite: NYS Writers Institute welcomes Chris Bohjalian, bestselling novelist

The Light in the Ruins (Hardcover)

By Chris Bohjalian

$25.95

ISBN: 9780385534819

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Published: Doubleday Books - July 9th, 2013

Published 7/2013; Pre-Order Now

The Sandcastle Girls (Vintage Contemporaries) Cover Image

The Sandcastle Girls (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Chris Bohjalian

$16.95

ISBN: 9780307743916

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Published: Vintage - April 16th, 2013

The Night Strangers: A Novel Cover Image

The Night Strangers: A Novel (Paperback)

By Chris Bohjalian

$17.00

ISBN: 9780307395009

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Published: Crown - April 24th, 2012

The Night Strangers: A Novel (Paperback)

By Chris Bohjalian

$17.00

ISBN: 9780307395009

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Published: Crown - April 24th, 2012

Secrets of Eden: A Novel (Paperback)

By Chris Bohjalian

$17.00

ISBN: 9780307394989

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Published: Crown - February 1st, 2011

Skeletons at the Feast: A Novel Cover Image

Skeletons at the Feast: A Novel (Paperback)

By Chris Bohjalian

$17.00

ISBN: 9780307394965

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Published: Crown - February 10th, 2009

Before You Know Kindness (Vintage Contemporaries) Cover Image

Before You Know Kindness (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Chris Bohjalian

$16.00

ISBN: 9781400031658

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Published: Vintage - August 9th, 2005

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Offsite: Marilynne Robinson Reading and McKinney Award Ceremony

Biotech Auditorium (RPI)

Housekeeping: A Novel (Paperback)

By Marilynne Robinson

$16.00

ISBN: 9780312424091

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Published: Picador - November 1st, 2004

Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Cover Image

Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel (Paperback)

By Marilynne Robinson

$17.00

ISBN: 9780312424404

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Published: Picador - January 10th, 2006

The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought Cover Image

The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (Paperback)

By Marilynne Robinson

$18.00

ISBN: 9780312425326

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Published: Picador - November 1st, 2005

Home (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Cover Image

Home (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel (Paperback)

By Marilynne Robinson

$17.00

ISBN: 9780312428549

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Published: Picador - September 1st, 2009

When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays Cover Image

When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays (Paperback)

By Marilynne Robinson

$17.00

ISBN: 9781250024053

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Published: Picador - January 29th, 2013

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