Algonquin Books imprint: 445 books
by Ari L. Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In a cluttered room in an abandoned coat factory in lower Manhattan, a group of musicians comes together each week to make music. Some are old, some are young, all have come late to music or come back to it after a long absence. This is the Late Starters Orchestra--the bona fide amateur string orchestra...
How to Spell Chanukah...And Other Holiday Dilemmas
18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Ring in the holiday with eighteen writers who extol, excoriate, and expand our understanding of this most merry of Jewish festivals as they offer up funny, irreverent, and, yes, even nostalgic takes on a holiday that holds a special place in Jewish hearts . . . and stomachs.
Pieces by Jonathan...
Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
Fresh out of college and following a brief and disastrous stint playing minor league baseball, David Goodwillie moves to New York intent on making his mark as a writer.
Arriving in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, Goodwillie quickly falls into one implausible job after another. He becomes a private...
What My Mother Gave Me
Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original...
Last Child in the Woods
Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
The Book That Launched an International Movement
“An absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe
“It rivals Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer
“I like to play indoors better ’cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are,” reports...
Dinner with Edward
A Story of an Unexpected Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
“I loved every moment of this book . . . Everyone deserves their own Edward--and everyone deserves to read this book.” —Susannah Cahalan, bestselling author of Brain on Fire
When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready...
The Nature Principle
Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child in the Woods, urges us to change our vision of the future, suggesting that if we reconceive environmentalism...
A Tender Struggle
Story of a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
“A story about love, marriage, compromise, parenthood and the difference between the life one imagined and reality.”*
Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer, a California-bred feminist, surfer, and aspiring journalist, met Ismail Suayah, sincere, passionate, kind, yet from a very different world....
Dori Sanders' Country Cooking
Recipes and Stories from the Family Farm Stand
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2003
Here is a book as delightful to read as it is to cook from. Dori Sanders' recipes include not only new interpretations of old-time favorites such as Spoon Bread, Chicken and Dumplings, Corn Bread, and Buttermilk Biscuits, but also her "Cooking for Northerners"--original dishes such as Winter...
by Amy Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
**The Essential, New York Times–Bestselling Guide to Botany and Booze
“A book that makes familiar drinks seem new again . . . Through this horticultural lens, a mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants.”—NPR's Morning Edition
“Amy Stewart has a way of making gardening seem...
by John Donohue
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Look who’s making dinner! Twenty-one of our favorite writers and chefs expound upon the joys—and perils—of feeding their families.
Mario Batali’s kids gobble up monkfish liver and foie gras. Peter Kaminsky’s youngest daughter won’t eat anything at all. Mark Bittman reveals the four...
Southern Belly
A Food Lover's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
John T. Edge, "the Faulkner of Southern food" (the Miami Herald), reveals a South hidden in plain sight, where restaurants boast family pedigrees and serve supremely local specialties found nowhere else. From backdoor home kitchens to cinder-block cafés, he introduces you to cooks who have...
Last Bite
A Novel of Culinary Romance
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
After ending a bad relationship, Casey Costello, an executive chef at a morning television show, swears off men. Who has the time anyway? She's busy overseeing a rambunctious food-prep crew in a kitchen the size of a closet; trying to please high-maintenance celebrity guest chefs; and dealing with...
Pie Every Day
Recipes and Slices of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 1997
PIE EVERY DAY will convince even beginning cooks that, with very little fuss or trouble, delicious, filling, nutritious pies can indeed be offered up at the family table every day. Includes a comprehensive chapter on crust-making. "Witty . . . beautiful, as sweet as you know what, I ate it up."--The...