Workman Publishing: 463 books

A visit from an angel changes the life of a grieving widower in this “deeply touching love story” by the award-winning author of The Last First Day (Booklist).   In the four months since Conrad Morrissey’s beloved wife, Rose, died, he has let her cherished garden slide into neglect, just as...

A “lively” memoir of a woman finding the cure for her broken heart in the world of ballroom dancing (Booklist).   Maria Finn’s husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons.   It turned out that tango had a lot to teach about understanding...

“Explores the simmering rage passed through four generations of emotionally stunted southern ‘ladies’ . . . A nearly perfect first novel . . . deeply moving” (Kirkus Reviews).   In 1959, seven-year-old Sarah Grissom is the victim of a prank. Her brother and her cousins pretend there’s...

A young woman from Brooklyn “looks at her rocky childhood growing up with a beautiful, drug-addicted mom” in this remarkable memoir (Vanity Fair).   Felicia Sullivan’s mother disappeared on the night Felicia graduated from college. The daughter would go on to receive an Ivy League education...

A “wondrous” novel of a marriage in the Appalachian Mountains, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Gap Creek (San Antonio Express-News). Ginny and Tom have a lot in common—a love of the land, and fathers who fought in the Civil War. Tom’s father died, but Ginny’s father...

A big-hearted novel of a Southern woman’s trials and tribulations: “Kincaid’s voice is a true original” (Alice Hoffman, bestselling author of The Rules of Magic). When Bobby died in a car wreck with another woman at his side, Verbena was left with five kids, a small house, and a big...

This novel of a Japanese-American family is “a tender tale of secrecy and obligation, introducing us to a Hawaii the tourists never see” (Glamour). When Spencer Fujii’s grandparents arrived in Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century, they brought Japanese customs with them. Five decades...

A “vividly detailed” memoir of traveling to the formerly forbidden country and exploring life and culture in Hanoi (Kirkus Reviews). For years after the Vietnam War, Americans were unable to visit the country, so once tourist visas became available, young Dana Sachs eagerly applied. Born...

“It soon becomes clear that this book isn’t just about an athletic race. It’s also about the human race” (Bloomberg Businessweek).   Having run in more than six hundred races over the span of fifty-five years, Ed Ayres is a legendary distance runner—and this book is his urgent exploration...

An award-winning author’s reconstruction of her grandmother’s life “takes us deep into the lore of history as well as family” (Sven Birkerts). Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father’s terrible melancholy: He’d lost his mother when he was a little boy....

“An old-fashioned novel . . . Elegantly wrought, hard-headed and tenderhearted about the world of actors and theater” (Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay).   When Robert, Patrick, and Irene met in New York City in the late 1970s,...

A “masterpiece” about a withdrawn husband, a desperate wife, and the young Japanese woman who is hired to break down the walls between them (Robert Goolrick). Thomas Tessler has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut the world out for the past three years. His wife, Silke, lives right...

“Funny and propulsive” short stories blending black humor and sharply intelligent imagination (Sam Lipsyte, author of The Fun Parts).   In twelve virtuosic stories, Sean Beaudoin trains his absurdist’s eye on the ridiculous perplexities of adult life. From muddling through after the apocalypse...

A mysterious visitor changes the fortunes of a struggling Nebraska town in this “novel full of hope, humor and singular characters” (Parade). Wilma Porter runs the only bed and breakfast in Ebb, Nebraska, and knows everyone in the small town. She also knows their troubles. Calvin Millet,...