Workman Publishing: 463 books
Dream Golf
The Making of Bandon Dunes
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The account of how one of America’s most beautiful golf resorts came to be is “a narrative gem” (James Dodson).
On a wild, windblown bluff high above the Pacific sits one of America’s premier golfing destinations, Bandon Dunes. Golf enthusiast Mike Keiser had the dream of building this...
Little Miss Strange
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
A girl grows up among Colorado hippies in this “powerful story about coming of age in the 1970s . . . An amazing book” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
Sarajean Henry lives with a Vietnam veteran she accepts as her father. When she comes home, Jimmy might be preparing dinner—or he might be shooting...
The Ghost of Milagro Creek
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
A story of love, death, and mystery that “shimmers with the light and landscape of New Mexico” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
Ignacia Vigil Romero, a full Jicarilla Apache and a curandera—a medicine woman, though some say a witch—begins this tale of star-crossed lovers . . .
The...
A Modern Dog's Life
How to Do the Best for Your Dog
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
An animal behavior expert “combines sensible information with charming wit [in] an entertaining guide for new and veteran dog owners” (Ken Foster, author of The Dogs Who Found Me).
What do dogs value? Why do they get so excited by their daily walks? And why do canines of different breeds...
Outwitting History
The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
This true story of a quest to save Jewish literature is “a detective story, a profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world” (The Boston Globe).
In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature—the physical remnant of Yiddish culture—was on the verge of extinction....
by Tess Ayers, Paul Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
This updated edition to the classic planner is “a chatty, humorous compendium of traditions, advice, and wedding details geared for same-sex couples” (Publishers Weekly).
Wedding planning is never easy—but for gay and lesbian couples, it presents unique challenges. On top of watching the...
Godforsaken Sea
Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
“The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing . . . As tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air.” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Godforsaken Sea is the hair-raising account of the world’s most demanding, dangerous, and deadly sailing race—following...
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...
Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese
Inside the Case That Rocked Our Faith in Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
An investigator in the infamous New York murder looks back on the Kitty Genovese case and examines its enduring legacy.
Fifty years after she was viciously attacked in Kew Gardens, Queens, the name of murder victim Kitty Genovese still conjures the ugly specter of American apathy. “37 Saw...
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...