Algonquin Books imprint: 445 books
Dimestore
A Writer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”—The New York Times Book Review
“This is Smith at her finest.”—Library Journal, starred review
Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith’s...
How I Shed My Skin
Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America’s schools could no longer be segregated by race. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and...
Something to Declare
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
“Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom.” —Los Angeles Times
From the internationally acclaimed author of the bestselling novels In the Time of the...
Work Hard. Be Nice.
How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to...
Fleeing Fundamentalism
A Minister's Wife Examines Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
At a time when the distance between church and state is narrowing and the teaching of intelligent design is being proposed for our classrooms, it is startling and provocative to hear the reasoned voice of a dissident from inside the church. For Carlene Cross, arriving at this shift in belief was a...
Cobb
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 1996
A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hollywood motion picture. Now in paperback, the biography that baseball fans all across the country have been talking about. Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes...
Dust Bowl Girls
The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
**“A thrilling, cinematic story. I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend.” —Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of *Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
The Boys in the Boat* meets A League of Their Own in...
When the Giants Were Giants
Bill Terry and the Golden Age of New York Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
This is the story of a forgotten Giant--the man Baseball Magazine called in 1930 "baseball's greatest first baseman"--Bill Terry. Brought up from proverty and the obscurity of semipro ball in the South by the famed "Little Napoleon," manager John McGraw of the Giants, Terry developed...
Smartbomb
The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
What started as a game of Pong, with little blips dancing across a computer screen, has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry that is changing the future, making inroads into virtually all aspects of our culture.Who are the minds behind this revolution? How did it happen? Where is it headed?
In...
Minding the Store
A Big Story about a Small Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
**“I really enjoyed this book. In fact, I could go for a second helping!”—Amy Sedaris
“Entrepreneurs will learn a thing or two about translating a dream into thoughtful business growth, and everyone will laugh, cry, and nod along with a woman who has chosen to live an extraordinary...
The Lost History of Stars
A Novel By The Author Of Guernica
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
From a forgotten moment in history comes an inspiring novel about finding strength and courage in the most unimaginable places.
In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their farm by...
by Tayari Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION**
**“A...
by Tayari Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage
“A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones’s skill for wry understatement never wavers.”
—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. Tayari...
We Love You, Charlie Freeman
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This shattering novel is filled with storytelling sleight of hand. What appears to be a story of mothers and daughters, of sisterhood put to the test, of adolescent love and grown-up misconduct, and of history’s long reach, becomes a provocative and compelling exploration of America’s failure to find a language to talk about race.