Algonquin Books: 449 books
by John Waters
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
**From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and all who seek happiness and success on their own terms.
So what if you have talent? Then what?**
When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School...
Imperfect Harmony
Finding Happiness Singing with Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
For Stacy Horn, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir—the Choral Society of Grace Church in New York—never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. She’s not particularly religious, and her voice is not exceptional...
by Bob Tarte
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
In Bob Tarte's home, pandemonium is the order of the day, and animals literally rule the roost—thirty-nine of them at last count. Whether it's the knot-tying African grey parrot, or the overweight cat who's trained Bob to hold her water bowl just above the floor, or the nightmarish duck who challenges...
by Mary-Lou Weisman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Ah travel! New scenery, exciting adventures, time alone with a loved one. Truth is, travel can make or break a relationship. Just negotiating when to leave for the airport can be tricky: she insists on arriving hours ahead of flight time, he likes the excitement of a photo finish. But as Mary-Lou...
by Ari L. Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In a cluttered room in an abandoned coat factory in lower Manhattan, a group of musicians comes together each week to make music. Some are old, some are young, all have come late to music or come back to it after a long absence. This is the Late Starters Orchestra--the bona fide amateur string orchestra...
How to Spell Chanukah...And Other Holiday Dilemmas
18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Ring in the holiday with eighteen writers who extol, excoriate, and expand our understanding of this most merry of Jewish festivals as they offer up funny, irreverent, and, yes, even nostalgic takes on a holiday that holds a special place in Jewish hearts . . . and stomachs.
Pieces by Jonathan...
Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
Fresh out of college and following a brief and disastrous stint playing minor league baseball, David Goodwillie moves to New York intent on making his mark as a writer.
Arriving in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, Goodwillie quickly falls into one implausible job after another. He becomes a private...
What My Mother Gave Me
Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original...
Last Child in the Woods
Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
The Book That Launched an International Movement
“An absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe
“It rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer
“I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are,” reports...
Dinner with Edward
A Story of an Unexpected Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
“I loved every moment of this book . . . Everyone deserves their own Edward--and everyone deserves to read this book.” —Susannah Cahalan, bestselling author of Brain on Fire
When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready...
The Nature Principle
Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child in the Woods, urges us to change our vision of the future, suggesting that if we reconceive environmentalism...
A Tender Struggle
Story of a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
“A story about love, marriage, compromise, parenthood and the difference between the life one imagined and reality.”*
Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer, a California-bred feminist, surfer, and aspiring journalist, met Ismail Suayah, sincere, passionate, kind, yet from a very different world....
Dori Sanders' Country Cooking
Recipes and Stories from the Family Farm Stand
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2003
Here is a book as delightful to read as it is to cook from. Dori Sanders' recipes include not only new interpretations of old-time favorites such as Spoon Bread, Chicken and Dumplings, Corn Bread, and Buttermilk Biscuits, but also her "Cooking for Northerners"--original dishes such as Winter...
by Amy Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
**The Essential, New York Times–Bestselling Guide to Botany and Booze
“A book that makes familiar drinks seem new again . . . Through this horticultural lens, a mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants.”—NPR's Morning Edition
“Amy Stewart has a way of making gardening seem...