Algonquin Books: 449 books
The Music of Wild Birds
An Illustrated, Annotated, and Opinionated Guide to Fifty Birds and Their Songs
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
One hundred years ago, F. Schuyler Mathews, an erudite naturalist and birder, theorized that birds sing first for love of music, and second for love of the lady. To expand on his theory, he actually scored the songs of birds in the wild. His charming text and bird-by-bird annotations were compiled...
Ribbon of Sand
The Amazing Convergence of the Ocean and the Outer Banks
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1992
Wind, currents, tides, and sand. Kingsnakes and rice rats. The disappearance of the Lost Colony, the raids of the pirate Blackbeard, and the Wright brothers' first attempts at flight. The Outer Banks is a place like no other.
by Deborah Copaken Kogan, Deborah Copaken Kogan
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
When a deep-seated memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago disappearance of her childhood friend April Cassidy. Driven to investigate, Elizabeth discovers a thirty-five-year-old newspaper article revealing the details that had been hidden from her as a child—shocking...
A Craftsman's Legacy
Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A book for makers, for seekers of all kinds, an exhilarating look into the heart and soul of artisans—and how their collective wisdom can inspire us all.
"Despite our technological advances, we’re busier than ever, our lives more frazzled. That’s why the handmade object, created with...
Very California
Travels Through the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
A fisherman on the Santa Monica Pier. The vineyards of Napa Valley. Surfers in Malibu. An Indian village in Yosemite and the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset. Artist Diana Gessler captures the color and character of our third largest and most populous state. In lively watercolors, sketches, and stories,...
by Jill McCorkle
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Jo Spencer is a girl who knows what to be and how to be it-straight-A student, cheerleader, May Queen, popular and cute and virginal, and in perfect control. But halfway through her first year in college in the early seventies, her carefully normal life explodes and she comes completely undone. In...
The Opposite of Hate
A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
“Brilliantly illustrates the immense and disarming power of changing course and driving not toward division, but toward civility and mutual respect.” --Ms. magazine
As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN, Sally Kohn has made a career out of bridging intractable political differences....
by Joanna Luloff
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
“There is a smudge where my memory is supposed to be.”
Claire wakes in a hospital room in the Florida Keys. She has no idea how she got there or why. The loss of so many memories is paralyzing. Some things she can piece together by looking at old photos saved by her husband, Charlie, and...
Seasoned in the South
Recipes from Crook's Corner and from Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
This expanded edition of Bill Smith's acclaimed cookbook features seasonal menus, like Supper at the Beach, Fourth of July Picnic, A Christmas Eve Supper, New Year's Day Brunch, along with twenty tantalizing new recipes.
Crook’s Corner has gained national renown since it opened its doors...
As Good as Gone
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
“Honest, warm, humane, and at times shocking, As Good as Gone is an achievement of empathy and dignity.” —Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
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...
The Beach at Galle Road
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
When rumors of civil war between the ruling Sinhalese and the Tamils in the northern sector of Sri Lanka reach those who live in the south, somehow it seems not to be happening in their own country. At least not until Janaki’s sister, Lakshmi—now a refugee whose husband, a Tamil, has disappeared—comes...
Loving Every Child
Wisdom for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Born in Poland in 1878, educator, physician, and legendary child advocate Janusz Korczak believed that simply understanding children is the key to being able to take care of them. It’s a basic premise too often overlooked.
This collection of one hundred quotations and passages from Korczak’s...
by Dori Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Dori Sanders' first novel, CLOVER was a smash hit. Now, with HER OWN PLACE, Dori Sanders tells a story about ordinary people taking part in a transformation of heart and mind--in the South, in the nation. "Resonates as powerfully as an old hymn."--Kirkus Reviews; "Like a ripe summer...
by Sylvia Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Tom Pate can't leave the family farm behind fast enough. Drag racing his candy-apple-red 1955 Chevy Bel Air is just the first step in a journey that will lead him far from home in his search for a bigger track, a better ride, and a better, faster future. Tom's younger brother Zack tries desperately...