Algonquin Books: 449 books
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Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she’s distilled what she’s learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words: find the good....
Your Lovely Small Face
An Algonquin E-Short
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
“Your Lovely Small Face” is the story of an American who's just immigrated to Korea in a risky scheme to resurrect his shattered career, prepare a home for his wife and daughter (who have promised to follow as soon as he lays a suitable foundation), and help his wife launch her own entrepreneurial...
by Leon V. Driskell
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1993
Special Algonquin 10th Anniversary Edition. Set in the farmland of Owen County, Kentucky, PASSING THROUGH achieves that remarkable intimacy all fiction strives for. We watch the family of Pearl Thirwell White--"Mama Pearl"--move from comedy through tragedy, from bickering and broken hearts through...
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
**“Marvelously optimistic about the future of books and bookstores and the people who love both.”—**The Washington Post
A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession,...
French Dirt
The Story of a Garden in the South of France
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till.
Richard Goodman saw the ad in the paper: "SOUTHERN FRANCE: Stone house in Village near Nimes/Avignon/Uzes. 4 BR, 2 baths,...
What the Dormouse Said
Lessons for Grown-ups from Children's Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
This one-of-a-kind collection reminds weary adults not to lose sight of the values and virtues they learned as kids. Here are over three hundred quotations from over two hundred well-loved children's books, such as Charlotte's Web, Peter Pan, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Eloise, Sounder,...
by Aline Ohanesian
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather, Kemal Türkoglu, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But Kemal has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, an aging woman in a retirement...
Purple Hibiscus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
**“One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation.” —Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker
From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists**
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They...
The Transcriptionist
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
“Haunting and provocative . . . Rowland’s writing is compelling and masterful.” —Delia Ephron, author of The Lion Is In
Once, there were many transcriptionists at the Record, a behemoth New York City newspaper, but new technology has put most of them out of work. So now Lena, the last...
In My Father's Shadow
A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Out of all the many stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame—and, some would say, infamy—of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest American film, Citizen Kane. Many books have been written about him, detailing his achievements...
The Aleppo Codex
In Pursuit of One of the World's Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known...
Life Among Giants
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David “Lizard” Hochmeyer’s larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents’ deaths. It’s a journey laden with pro football stars, a master chef and his beautiful transvestite lover,...
by Larry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
NOW WITH A FOREWORD BY RON RASH AND AN APPRECIATION BY DWIGHT GARNER
“One of the finest books I know about blue-collar work in America, its rewards and frustrations . . . If you are among the tens of millions who have never read Brown, this is a perfect introduction.” —Dwight Garner,...
The Lady in the Palazzo
An Umbrian Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Marlena di Blasi seduced readers to fall in love with Venice, then Tuscany, with her popular and critically acclaimed books A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany. Now she takes readers on a journey into the heart of Orvieto, an ancient city in the less-trodden region of Umbria....