Algonquin Books imprint: 445 books
A Son of the Game
A Story of Golf and Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
This memoir “reveals the depth of [the author’s] love for golf, fatherhood, and his ancestral home—the Sandhills of North Carolina” (Curt Sampson).
Named Golf Book of the Year by the International Network of Golf, A Son of the Game is the story of how acclaimed golf writer James Dodson,...
New Orleans, Mon Amour
Twenty Years of Writings from the City
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
A “lovely collection” of essays by the NPR commentator about his beloved adopted city, both before and after Hurricane Katrina (Publishers Weekly).
NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has long written about the unique city he calls home. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his...
Pocket Kings
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A “highly entertaining” story of a frustrated novelist who finds fame, fortune—and trouble—in the world of online poker (The New York Times Book Review).
When Frank Dixon, a writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack...
Balls
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Set in Alabama, this is a “funny, entertaining novel about college football coaches and the women who love them” (Library Journal).
Balls is the story of the rise and fall of a Southern college football coach—told by his wife and the many other women in his orbit, from his mother, mother-in-law,...
Waking Up in Eden
In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
A woman journeys to Kauai to save Hawaii’s native plants: “Part history, part personal confession, part cautionary tale about environmental preservation” (Gioia Diliberto, author of Paris Without End).
One day, Lucinda Fleeson quit her big-city newspaper job, sold her suburban house,...
A Frozen Hell
The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939–1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The true story of the battle between Finland and Russia that erupted at the dawn of World War II.
On a November morning in 1939, Soviet bombers began attacking Helsinki, Finland. In the weeks that followed, the tiny Baltic republic would wage a war—the kind of war that spawns legends—against...
by Brandon W. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
“A gripping novel” of two North Korean teenage girls, and their harrowing journey as they escape the authoritarian state (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Before she met Il-sun in an orphanage, Gi was a hollow husk of a girl, broken from growing up in one of North Korea’s forced-labor camps. A...
In the Wake of Madness
The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2004
The true story of one of history’s most notorious mutinies is revealed in this riveting “nautical murder mystery” (USA Today).
In May 1841, the Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling ground of the northwestern Pacific. A year later, while most of the crew was out hunting,...
Some Survived
An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived through It
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2004
This true account by a WWII veteran taken prisoner by the Japanese “shows that the human spirit can soar like an eagle from the depths of hell on earth” (The Post and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina).
Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders...
Trooper Down!
Life and Death on the Highway Patrol
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A police reporter offers an up-close look inside the daily lives of North Carolina’s state troopers.
Like most law enforcement, their shifts can be filled with long stretches of tedium. They stay at the roadside, watching vehicles rush by, occasionally handing out a speeding ticket or pulling...
by W. J. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
A military historian’s “eminently readable” look at the strategy and tactics at Bunker Hill, Trenton, and other battles of the American Revolution (George F. Scheer, author of Rebels and Redcoats).
This groundbreaking study argues that the Americans did not simply outlast the British...
Nothing Left to Burn
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
A “painful and poignant” memoir of the author’s father, a heroic firefighter—and his grandfather, a serial arsonist (USA Today).
When Jay Varner, fresh out of college, returns home to central Pennsylvania to work for the local newspaper, he knows he will have to deal with the memories of...
The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
This inspiring memoir by a storyteller who lost his voice, and gained some unexpected wisdom, is “nothing less than a spiritual odyssey” (San Francisco Chronicle).
“Heartwarming and smart and wonderfully written,” this is that rare, magical book—a book that tells a good story, but...
The School of Beauty and Charm
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2001
A “tragically funny debut novel” about a Southern girl’s reckless rebellion (Library Journal).
Henry and Florida Peppers of Counterpoint, Georgia, are upstanding Baptist parents whose dearest wishes are to keep their asthmatic son, Roderick, alive—and keep their smart-ass daughter,...