Algonquin Books imprint: 445 books
by Fiona Mozley
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
**FINALIST FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
**The Guardian Best Books of 2017 * December Indie Next Pick * Amazon Best of the Month * Amazon Debut Spotlight * PEOPLE Magazine BOOK OF THE WEEK**
“Beguiling . . . A lyrical and mythic work . . . Mozley’s sheer storytelling confidence sends the...
Damnation Island
Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” --New York Journal of Books
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals, quickly became,...
Butter
A Rich History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
“Edifying from every point of view--historical, cultural, and culinary.” —David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes
It’s a culinary catalyst, an agent of change, a gastronomic rock star. Ubiquitous in the world’s most fabulous cuisines, butter is boss. Here, it finally...
Give Sorrow Words
A Father's Passage Through Grief
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 1996
When Tom Crider's only child, Gretchen, died in an apartment fire at age twenty-one, there seemed to be no answers to his questions. Now Tom Crider has written the book he searched for in his grief and couldn't find, one that offers--without sermons or certainty--companionship in agony and an exploration...
Courting Mr. Lincoln
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
**A page-turning novel about the brilliant, melancholic future president and the two people who knew him best: his handsome and charming confidant (and roommate), Joshua Speed, and the spirited young debutante Mary Todd.
A Washington Post Bestseller
A May Indie Next Pick
An Apple Books Best...
Seaweed Chronicles
A World at the Water's Edge
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
“You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great storyteller that you find yourself following along eagerly.” —Mark Kurlansky
“Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth,” writes Susan Hand...
The Happiest People in the World
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
“[A] dark and funny satire . . . Infidelities, secret identities and double-crosses . . . Reflects the absurdity of any country obsessed with spying on its own people.” —The Wall Street Journal
Take the format of a spy thriller, shape it around real-life incidents involving international...
Of All the Gin Joints
Stumbling through Hollywood History
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem, and a frothy mix of forty cocktail recipes.
Humphrey Bogart got himself arrested for protecting his drinking buddies, who happened to be a pair of stuffed pandas. Ava Gardner would water-ski...
Our Noise
The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Merge Records defies everything you’ve heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is a lesson in how to make and market great music on a human scale. The fact that the company is prospering in a failing industry is something of a miracle. Yet two of their bands...
Furious Cool
Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
“Addictively readable . . . Someday, when fewer people know Richard Pryor’s name, Furious Cool will be the best defense against the worst sort of forgetting--the kind that involves who we are now, who we loved once, and why.” —Esquire
Richard Pryor was arguably the single most influential...
by Harold Holzer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
President Lincoln used his own weapons—his words— to fight the Civil War as brilliantly as any general who ever took the field. In Lincoln on War, historian Harold Holzer gathers and interprets Lincoln’s speeches, letters, memoranda, orders, telegrams, and casual remarks, organizing them chronologically...
The Medic
Life and Death in the Last Days of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Leo Litwak was a university student when he joined the Army to fight in World War II, "a na've, callow eighteen-year-old son prepared to join other soldier boys being hauled off to war." In 1944 he found himself in Belgium, in the middle of the waning European war, a medic trained to save...
The Statesman and the Storyteller
John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In a dual biography covering the last ten years of the lives of friends and contemporaries, writer Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and statesman John Hay (who served as secretary of state under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt), The Statesman and the Storyteller not only provides...
The Receptionist
An Education at The New Yorker
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous...