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Water for Elephants 1 Nonfiction What You See in the Dark 2 Birds and Birding 28 Cardboard Gods 3 Biography and Memoir 28–30 When Tito Loved Clara 4 Contemporary Issues 30 Lincoln on War 5 Education 31 The Nature Principle 6–7 Food and Wine 31–32 Something for Nothing 8 Gardening 32–33 Man with a Pan 9 Gift Books 33–34 Silver Sparrow 10 History/African American 34 The Watery Part of the World 11 History/Maritime 34 Wicked Bugs 12–13 History/WWII 34 Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger 14 Jewish Interest 35 Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs 15 Language and Writing 35 I Thought You Were Dead 16 Music 35 The Frozen Rabbi 17 Nature Writing 36 Julia Alvarez Paperbacks 18–19 Parenting 36 Pets and Animals 36–37 Algonquin Book Club 20–21 Poetry 37 Book Group Picks/New in Paperback 23–25 Popular Culture 37 Recent Fiction 26 Popular Science 37 Recent Nonfiction 27 Reference 38 Spirituality 38 Sports 38–39 Follow Algonquin Books Travel and Adventure 39–40 Blog: www.algonquinbooksblog.com True Crime 40 Facebook: facebook.com/algonquinbooks Weather 40 Twitter: twitter.com/AlgonquinBooks Web Site: www.algonquin.com Women’s Studies 40 A complete online catalog, downloadable author photos, WWII/Memoir 40 tour schedules, and promotional materials are available. We regularly update our site with national media reports, seasonal promotions, special author features, exclusive Paperback Fiction, by Author 41–43 content, and contest giveaways. Hardcover Fiction, by Author 43–44 Index, by Title 45–46 Publicity Contacts Index, by Author 46–47 Online media requests: Michael Taeckens, Ordering Information 48 Online & Paperback Marketing Director [email protected] All other media requests: Kelly Bowen, Publicity Manager Credits [email protected] Cover: Thomas Baril/Getty Images; page 1: Lynne Harty; page 2: Stuart Bernstein; page 3: Jenny wilker; page 4: Brad Newman; page 5: marketing Contact Don Pollard; page 7: Robert Burroughs; page 8: Erin Anthony; Craig Popelars, Marketing Director: page 9: Peter Vadnai; Page 10: Amilcar; page 11: Julie Babler; page 13: K. C. Kratt; page 14: Roger Haile; page 15: Joanna Jeanne Lende; [email protected] page 16: Doug Matthewson; page 17: Sabrina Jones; page 19: Bill Eichner Algonquin Books Announces 2 Movie Tie-in Editions Trade paperback movie tie-in: $14.95 Mass market movie tie-in: $7.99 NO. 73070 ISBN 978-1-61620-070-1 NO. 73071 ISBN 978-1-61620-071-8 NO. 26372 12-copy trade paperback MTI ﬂ oor display: $179.40 • ISBN 978-0-7611-6372-5 On-Sale Date: MARCH 1, 2011

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 1 11/5/10 6:23 PM Mnl a ue Muñoz JOSH WILKER W hAT You See in the Dark CARDBOARD GODS Ael Nov An All-american tale

I n this cinematic debut novel, desire turns deadly in a small California town “A ‘baseball-loving loner’ deciphers his complicated childhood through his old where scenes of Psycho are being filmed. box of trading cards . . . Wilker’s book is as nostalgically intoxicating as the gum that sweetened his card-collecting youth.” —Entertainment Weekly akersfield, California, in the late 1950s is a dusty, quiet town too far from Los Angeles to share that he 1970s was a decade marked by Vietnam, Watergate, Bcity’s energy yet close enough to Hollywood to fill counterculture, sexual liberation, and stadium rock. its citizens with the kinds of dreams they discover in the TFor author Josh Wilker, it was a time spent navigat- darkness of the movie theater. For Teresa, a young, aspiring ing a challenging childhood in which only his prized baseball singer who works at a shoe store, dreams lie in the music card collection could give him unfailing faith that a winning her mother shared with her, plaintive songs of love and season would one day present itself. longing. In Dan Watson, the most desirable young man in Wilker shares his heartbreakingly comic childhood, set Bakersfield, she believes she has found someone to help her adrift by hippie parents harboring utopian dreams, an- realize those dreams. chored by brotherly love, and buoyed by an obsession with When a famous actress arrives from Hollywood with a our national pastime. In pitch-perfect prose, Wilker tells great and already legendary director, local gossip about Teresa his unconventional story through the cards he collected, and Dan gives way to speculation about the celebrated visi- whose full-color images—of Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, Tom tors, there to work on what will become an iconic, ground- Seaver, Wade Boggs, and many lesser-known players—open breaking film of madness and murder at a roadside motel. each chapter and become the means for expressing all the No one anticipates how the ill-fated love affair between Dan fears, hopes, bewilderment, passions, and dreams of child- and Teresa will soon rival anything the director could ever hood. Cardboard Gods announces the arrival of a talented put on the screen. new voice in the stadium of big-league memoirs. This thoroughly original work is intense and fascinating in its juxtapositions of tenderness and menace, violence and “Poignant and vivid . . . If you love the writing of Dave Eggers March or Augusten Burroughs, you just may love Cardboard Gods, regret, played out in a town on the brink of change. Fiction too. I did.” —Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed 272 pages, 5 ½" x 8 ¼" Pr aise for Manuel Muñoz’s work: ISBN 978-1-56512-533-9 “Wilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references $23.95 HARDCOVER “Moving and tender . . . Muñoz writes elegantly and sympatheti- than a season of Family Guy — everything from Louis L’Amour No. 72533 westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You’ll love this us/can/om cally . . . A softly glowing, melancholy beauty that . . . makes [his stories] universal.” —The New York Times Book Review book.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune • National publicity “I couldn’t put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns • Debut fiction promotional excerpt “Muñoz has created a wholly authentic vision . . . A gifted and sensitive writer.” — Los Angeles Times Goodwin’s Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in • 10-city author tour the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, • Promotional book trailer Manuel Muñoz is the author of two short story collections, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the ’70s.” • Online marketing and advertising the most recent of which, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, was a —The Boston Herald • Author Spotlight feature on Algonquin finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Web site He teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Josh Wilker writes about his life and his childhood base- • National advertising, including ball cards at www.cardboardgods.net. Since his first posting in the New York Times Book Review is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, and in 2008 was awarded the prestigious Whiting 2006, his site has been featured in the New York Times and the THE FAITH HEALER OF oLIVE AVENUE Writers’ Award. Find him online at www.manuel-munoz.com. Chicago Sun-Times and on ESPN.com. He is a winner of the ISBN 978-1-56512-532-5 Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction and has an MFA NO. 72532 from Vermont College. He lives with his wife in Chicago.

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 2 11/5/10 6:23 PM JOSH WILKER CARDBOARD GODS Al n Al -aMERICAN tale

“A ‘baseball-loving loner’ deciphers his complicated childhood through his old box of trading cards . . . Wilker’s book is as nostalgically intoxicating as the gum A

that sweetened his card-collecting youth.” —Entertainment Weekly l g

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counterculture, sexual liberation, and stadium rock. n For author Josh Wilker, it was a time spent navigat- T q ing a challenging childhood in which only his prized baseball card collection could give him unfailing faith that a winning u

season would one day present itself. i Wilker shares his heartbreakingly comic childhood, set n

adrift by hippie parents harboring utopian dreams, an- P chored by brotherly love, and buoyed by an obsession with our national pastime. In pitch-perfect prose, Wilker tells a

his unconventional story through the cards he collected, a

whose full-color images—of Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, Tom e

Seaver, Wade Boggs, and many lesser-known players—open r each chapter and become the means for expressing all the b fears, hopes, bewilderment, passions, and dreams of child- b hood. Cardboard Gods announces the arrival of a talented new voice in the stadium of big-league memoirs. c k

“ Poignant and vivid . . . If you love the writing of Dave Eggers or Augusten Burroughs, you just may love Cardboard Gods, Mharcrc too. I did.” —Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed Memmooiir/r/SpSortsports 256 pages,pages, 6" 6" x 9"x 9" “Wilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references ISBN4-color 978-1-61620-069-5 throughout than a season of Family Guy — everything from Louis L’Amour $15.95ISBN 978-1-61620-069-5 Trade Paper with flaps westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You’ll love this N$15.95o. 73069 Trade Paper No. 73069 book.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune us/can/om us/can/om

“I couldn’t put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns •E -Nationalbook available publicity Goodwin’s Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in •$ 15.955-city author tour ISBN 978-1-61620-073-2 the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, • Online marketing and too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the ’70s.” • Nationaladvertising publicity campaign —The Boston Herald • 5-cityAuthor author Spotlight tour feature on Algonquin Web site • Online marketing and Josh Wilker writes about his life and his childhood base- • advertisingNewsletter co-op campaign ball cards at www.cardboardgods.net. Since his first posting in • ATruthorade paper Spotlight terms feature on 2006, his site has been featured in the New York Times and the • AlgonquinAuthor Web Web site: site Chicago Sun-Times and on ESPN.com. He is a winner of the • www.cardboardgods.netNewsletter co-op Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction and has an MFA • Trade paper terms from Vermont College. He lives with his wife in Chicago. • Author Web site: www.cardboardgods.net

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 3 11/11/10 3:51 PM Jon Michaud When Tito Loved Clara Ae Nov l

“ In this deeply affecting and exquisitely written novel, Jon Michaud explores the nature of love and family—and weaves a tale that will forever linger in the imagination.” —David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z

lara Lugo grew up in a home that would have rattled the most grounded of children. Through brains and Cdetermination, she has long since slipped the bonds of her confiningD ominican neighborhood in the northern reaches of Manhattan. Now she tries to live a settled profes- sional life with her American husband and son in the sub- urbs of New Jersey—often thwarted by her constellation of relatives who don’t understand her gringa ways. Her mostly happy life is disrupted, however, when Tito, a former boyfriend from fifteen years earlier, reappears. Something has impeded his passage into adulthood. His mother calls him An Unfinished Man. He still carries a torch for Clara; and she harbors a secret from their past. Their reacquaintance sets in motion an unraveling of both of their lives and reveals what the cost of assimilation—or the ab- sence of it—has meant for each of them. This immensely entertaining novel—filled with wit and compassion—marks the debut of a fine writer.

“ Jon Michaud . . . made me laugh while he was breaking my March heart. His novel is a joy, a treasure, and a triumph.” Fiction —Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family 352 pages, 5 ½" x 8 ¼" ISBN 978-1-56512-949-8 “Jon Michaud’s openhearted, soulful novel is a love story . . . $23.95 Hardcover but that’s not all it is: it’s also a multigenerational portrait of No. 72949 a family and the community around it; a joint meditation on us/can/om contemporary manhood and, even more powerfully, contempo- E-book available rary womanhood; and a collection of delicately paced, astutely $23.95 observed scenes that illuminate the way that people hide and ISBN 978-1-61620-055-8 reveal, hurt and heal.” —Ben Greenman, author of What He’s • National publicity Poised to Do and Please Step Back • Debut fiction promotional excerpt • 8-city author tour Jon Michaud is the head librarian at the New Yorker and is • Online marketing and a regular contributor to NewYorker.com. He lives in Maplewood, advertising campaign New Jersey, with his wife and their two sons. • Author Spotlight feature on Algonquin Web site • National advertising, including the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 4 11/11/10 5:04 PM edited by HAROLD HOLZER LINCOLN ON WAR OUR GREATEST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF SPEAKS TO AMERICA

“Holzer . . . [is] the Muhammad Ali of Lincoln biographers. His command of Lincoln — the man, the politician, the orator — is unmatched.” — Chicago Tribune

resident Lincoln used his own weapons—his words— to fi ght the Civil War as brilliantly as any general Pwho ever took the fi eld. In Lincoln on War, historian Harold Holzer gathers and interprets Lincoln’s speeches, letters, memoranda, orders, telegrams, and casual remarks, organizing them chronologically and allowing readers to experience Lincoln’s growth from an eager young Indian War offi cer to a middle-aged dove congressman to a surprisingly hardened and determined hawk as the Union’s commander- in-chief. We observe a man willing to sacrifi ce life and treasure in unprecedented quantities, to risk wounding the pride of vain generals, and even to mislead the public if it meant the preservation of an unbreakable union of states, the destruction of slavery, and the restoration of America as an example to inspire the world. This volume covers strategy; tactics; the endless hiring, sustaining, motivating, and dismissal of commanders; military discipline; and military technology. Modern commanders-in-chief have repeatedly quoted

APRIL Lincoln to justify their own wars, so it behooves us as citizens BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY/CIVIL WAR to know Lincoln’s record well. From masterpieces such as the 320 pages, 6" x 9" Gettysburg Address to lesser-known meditations on God’s ISBN 978-1-56512-378-6 purposes, Lincoln on War is the ﬁ rst book to highlight exclu- $24.95 HARDCOVER NO. 72378 sively Lincoln’s sublime and enduring words on war. WORLD

E-BOOK AVAILABLE HAROLD HOLZER is one of the country’s leading authori- $24.95 ties on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil ISBN 978-1-61620-060-2 War era. He has published over thirty books, including “The New York Times” Complete Civil War (Black Dog and Leventhal), and • National publicity is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Lincoln • 6-city author tour Prize and the National Humanities Medal. He lectures widely, ap- • National radio satellite tour pears on television frequently, and has written for the New York • National advertising, including Times, American Heritage, and America’s Civil War. Most re- the New York Times Book Review cently he served as co-chair of the United States Abraham Lincoln • Online marketing and advertising Bicentennial Commission and is senior vice president for external

LINCOLN AS I KNEW HIM affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Find him ISBN 978-1-56512-681-7 online at www.haroldholzer.com. NO. 72681

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 5 11/11/10 3:59 PM Te hauthor of the bestselling book Last Child in the Woods, which identified nature-deficit disorder in our children — and started an international movement to reconnect kids with the natural world — now offers evidence that when adults live a nature-balanced existence, they can be smarter, healthier, more creative, and happier.

the nature principle rchai rd louv

Huanm Restoration and “Te futureh will belong to the nature-smart—those individuals, families, businesses, the end of Nature-Deficit Disorder and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world, and who balance the virtual with the real . . . A growing body of knowledge describes the restorative power of nature, its impact on health, on our senses, and on our ability to live fulfilled lives. This is the right moment to incorporate theory in day-to-day practice.”—from The Nature Principle

n his groundbreaking new book, Richard Louv asserts that our society has developed such “ The more high-tech an outsized faith in technology that we have yet to fully realize or even adequately study how Ihuman capacities are enhanced through the power of the natural world. The Nature Principle we become, the more presents a compelling case that a conscious reconnection to nature can make us whole again and that the future will belong to nature-smart individuals, families, businesses, and communi- nature we need.” ties. Supported by evidence from emerging empirical and theoretical research and eye-opening —Richard Louv anecdotes, Louv shows that when we tap into the restorative powers of the natural world we can boost mental acuity and creativity, heal illness, increase immunity, broaden our compassion, and strengthen human bonds. As he says in his introduction, The Nature Principle is “about the power of living in nature—not with it, but in it. The twenty-first century will be the century of human restoration in the natural world.” Louv has created a powerful call to action and a clearly marked road map to a healthier, more sustainable existence for us all. This timely, inspiring, and important work will give readers re- newed hope while challenging them to rethink the way they live.

May Nature/health, body, mind 320 pages, 6" x 9" “In The Nature Principle, Rich Louv has given us once again exactly the book we most need, for ISBN 978-1-56512-581-0 now and for all time. Our expanding species hasn’t a chance to continue living well and happily $24.95 Hardcover in a finite world unless we adapt our hungry lives to the rest of nature better than we have. This No. 72581 world elegant, original, good-humored, and stunningly thorough work shows us our way home in the world: it is no less than a new Law of Nature, and we had better pay attention.” E-book available —Robert Michael Pyle, $24.95 ISBN 978-1-61620-075-6 author of The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland and Mariposa Road

• 12-city national tour • Prepublication advertising, including richard louv is a journalist and the author of seven books about the connections between family, nature, and community. His most recent book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature- • National radio satellite tour Shelf Awareness, Publishers Weekly, Ingram Advance, Baker & Taylor Forecast Deficit Disorder, has been translated into nine languages and published in thirteen countries. Louv is the • National advertising campaign, including the New York Times Book Review • Extensive online promotions and advertising chairman and cofounder of the Children and Nature Network (www.childrenandnature.org) and was campaign awarded the Audubon Medal, presented by the National Audubon Society, in 2008. Find him online at • Promotional brochure www.richardlouv.com.

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 6 11/5/10 6:23 PM richard louv

“ The future will belong to the nature-smart—those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world, and who balance the virtual with the real . . . A growing body of knowledge describes the restorative power of nature, its impact on health, on our senses, and on our ability to live fulfilled lives. This is the right moment to incorporate theory in day-to-day practice.” —from The Nature Principle

n his groundbreaking new book, Richard Louv asserts that our society has developed such an outsized faith in technology that we have yet to fully realize or even adequately study how Ihuman capacities are enhanced through the power of the natural world. The Nature Principle presents a compelling case that a conscious reconnection to nature can make us whole again and that the future will belong to nature-smart individuals, families, businesses, and communi- ties. Supported by evidence from emerging empirical and theoretical research and eye-opening anecdotes, Louv shows that when we tap into the restorative powers of the natural world we can boost mental acuity and creativity, heal illness, increase immunity, broaden our compassion, and strengthen human bonds. As he says in his introduction, The Nature Principle is “about the power of living in nature—not with it, but in it. The twenty-first century will be the century of human restoration in the natural world.” Louv has created a powerful call to action and a clearly marked road map to a healthier, more sustainable existence for us all. This timely, inspiring, and important work will give readers re- newed hope while challenging them to rethink the way they live.

“ In The Nature Principle, Rich Louv has given us once again exactly the book we most need, for now and for all time. Our expanding species hasn’t a chance to continue living well and happily in a finite world unless we adapt our hungry lives to the rest of nature better than we have. This elegant, original, good-humored, and stunningly thorough work shows us our way home in the world: it is no less than a new Law of Nature, and we had better pay attention.” —Robert Michael Pyle, author of The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland and Mariposa Road

richard louv is a journalist and the author of seven books about the connections between family, nature, and community. His most recent book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature- Deficit Disorder, has been translated into nine languages and published in thirteen countries. Louv is the chairman and cofounder of the Children and Nature Network (www.childrenandnature.org) and was awarded the Audubon Medal, presented by the National Audubon Society, in 2008. Find him online at www.richardlouv.com.

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 7 11/11/10 5:05 PM David Anthony edited by John Donohue Something for Nothing Man with a Pan A Novel the culinary adventures of fathers “Funny, sly, gritty, and hugely entertaining . . . Kind of James Lee Burke who cook for their families A crossed with John Cheever, but utterly sharp and distinctive in its own right. Look who’s making dinner! Twenty-one of our favorite writers and chefs l This is a fantastic, big-time book.” — Martin Clark, author of The Many expound upon the joys—and perils—of feeding their families.

g Aspects of Mobile Home Living and The Legal Limit

o ario Batali’s kids gobble up monkfish liver

n artin Anderson has a racehorse, a deep-sea and foie gras for breakfast. Peter Kaminsky’s fishing boat, a vacation home in Tahoe, and a q Mdaughters won’t eat anything at all. Mark Caddy in the garage. But his life is in freefall. Bittman reveals the four stages of learning to cook. u M It’s the 1970s, and with the arrival of the oil crisis and Stephen King offers tips about what to cook when you i gas rationing, his small aircraft business is tanking, as is don’t feel like cooking. Mark Kurlansky would love a n his extravagant suburban lifestyle. Martin keeps many woman to feed him, just once. Jesse Sheidlower searches

secrets from his wife, such as his mounting debt and his for the words to describe his vegetarianism to his kids. P penchant for sneaking into neighborhood homes and And Jim Harrison shows how good food and wine trump a making off with small keepsakes. So when he’s given the expensive cars and houses.

a opportunity to clear his debt by using one of his planes More men cook now than ever before, and this is the

e to make a few drug runs between California and Mexico, first book to celebrate those good eggs who toil behind the

r Martin doesn’t think twice . . . or at all, for that matter. stove, trying to nourish and please. Their culinary adven- Things quickly spiral out of control when Martin’s

b tures are accompanied by over sixty family-tested reci- simple plan lands him in the midst of gun-toting Mexican pes, time-saving tips, and cookbook recommendations as b thugs. After a narcotics agent arrives on his doorstep, he well as an array of New Yorker cartoons. Interviews with c becomes increasingly paranoid, both about the police homestyle heroes cooking all across America—a fireman k and about his associates in the drug world—a feeling from Brooklyn, a football coach in Atlanta, a lawyer in

that seems justified when he stumbles upon the scene of Philadelphia, a bond trader in Los Angeles—add to the O a brutal double murder. Martin wants out, but he wants mix.

r june his money, too. What emerges is a book not just about food but about Fiction Deeply funny and suspenseful, David Anthony’s novel i our changing families. It offers a newfound community 352 pages, 5.5" x 8.25" g is a perfect snapshot of the excesses of American culture. for any man who proudly dons an apron and inspiration ISBN 978-1-61620-022-0

i $13.95 Trade Paper original “Both brutal and elegant . . . The book is set during the for those who have yet to pick up the spatula. n No. 73022 Nixon era gas crisis, but the parallels between that time and World John Donohue, an editor at the New Yorker, has been a ours are obvious, and compelling; as this terrific cautionary E-book available tale makes clear, Martin Anderson’s bad decisions might passionate about food all his life. He worked at a retail fish l $13.95 have been ours, might still be ours.” market when he was in college and was a short-order cook ISBN 978-1-61620-061-9 —Brock Clarke, author of Exley and An Arsonist’s Guide to after graduation. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two • National publicity and promotion Writers’ Homes in New England daughters. He blogs about the cooking he does for his family at • 6-city author tour www.stayatstovedad.com. • Debut fiction promotional excerpt David Anthony grew up in the Bay Area. He is an asso- • Online marketing and advertising ciate professor of early American literature in the Department campaign of English at SIU-Carbondale. This is his first novel. • National advertising, including the New York Times Book Review • Author Spotlight feature on Algonquin Web site

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 8 11/5/10 6:23 PM edited by JOHN DONOHUE MAN WITH A PAN THE CULINARY ADVENTURES OF FATHERS WHO COOK FOR THEIR FAMILIES

Look who’s making dinner! Twenty-one of our favorite writers and chefs A expound upon the joys—and perils—of feeding their families. L G

ario Batali’s kids gobble up monkﬁ sh liver O

and foie gras for breakfast. Peter Kaminsky’s N

Mdaughters won’t eat anything at all. Mark Q Bittman reveals the four stages of learning to cook. Stephen King offers tips about what to cook when you U don’t feel like cooking. Mark Kurlansky would love a I woman to feed him, just once. Jesse Sheidlower searches N

for the words to describe his vegetarianism to his kids. P And Jim Harrison shows how good food and wine trump expensive cars and houses. A

More men cook now than ever before, and this is the P

ﬁ rst book to celebrate those good eggs who toil behind the E

stove, trying to nourish and please. Their culinary adven- R

tures are accompanied by over sixty family-tested reci- B pes, time-saving tips, and cookbook recommendations as A well as an array of New Yorker cartoons. Interviews with homestyle heroes cooking all across America—a ﬁ reman C from Brooklyn, a football coach in Atlanta, a lawyer in K

Philadelphia, a bond trader in Los Angeles—add to the O mix. MAY What emerges is a book not just about food but about FOOD & WINE R I our changing families. It offers a newfound community 320 pages, 6" x 9"

for any man who proudly dons an apron and inspiration Line drawings & cartoons throughout G I N for those who have yet to pick up the spatula. ISBN 978-1-56512-985-6 $15.95 TRADE PAPER ORIGINAL NO. 72985 JOHN DONOHUE, an editor at the New Yorker, has been WORLD A passionate about food all his life. He worked at a retail ﬁ sh E-BOOK AVAILABLE market when he was in college and was a short-order cook $15.95 L

after graduation. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two ISBN 978-1-61620-064-0 daughters. He blogs about the cooking he does for his family at www.stayatstovedad.com. • First serial sold to Playboy • National publicity • National radio satellite tour • National advertising, including the New Yorker • Online marketing • Shipping for Father’s Day • Trade paper terms

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 9 11/11/10 4:01 PM Tayari Jones Michael Parker Silver sparrow The Watery Part A Novel of the World “ Jones is a master, and Silver Girl is a revelation, alive with meaning, heartbreak, and hope.” — Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark and Termite

ith the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari of Serena WJones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families—the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich yet flawed characters—the father, the two mothers, the grandmother, and the uncle—she reveals the joy, as well as the destruction, they brought to one another’s lives. At the heart of it all are the two lives at stake, and like the best writers—think Toni Morrison with The Bluest Eye— Jones portrays the fragility of these young girls with raw authenticity as they seek love, demand attention, and try to imagine themselves as women.

May “ Silver Sparrow brings to mind John Irving in the ways it Fiction makes an epic story out of ordinary lives. The good, the bad, 352 pages, 5 ½" x 8 ¼" and the ugly all happen in this marvelously moving tale. ISBN 978-1-56512-990-0 $19.95 hardcover Read this book! I can’t say it any more plainly than that.” No. 72990 —Victor LaValle, author of Big Machine world x 8 ¼"

E-book available Praise for tayari jones’s previous work: $19.95 “Jones has impressed book reviewers, won literary awards, ISBN 978-1-61620-066-4 and gained readers the old-fashioned way: with meaningful, • National publicity well-crafted novels about multifaceted characters.” —Essence ble • 9-city author tour “One of the most important writers of her generation, able to • Online marketing and advertising campaign stand confidently alongside such heralded young black authors as Edwidge Danticat, Colson Whitehead and ZZ Packer.” • Author Spotlight feature on Algonquin blog and Web site — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • ABA Winter Institute author appearance Tayari Jones is the author of two previous novels. Jones holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. She serves on the MFA faculty at Rutgers and blogs on writing at w ww.tayari jones.com/blog.

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“ Present and past, history and imagination—all are seamlessly intertwined in this remarkable novel. Michael Parker is a n ovelist of immense talent.” —Ron Rash, author of Serena

ichael Parker has created a wholly original world from two known facts: (1) Theodosia Burr MAlston, daughter of the controversial vice president Aaron Burr, disappeared in 1813 while en route by schooner from South Carolina to New York; and (2) in 1970, two elderly white women and one black man were the last townspeople to leave a small barrier island off the coast of North Carolina. I n this fiction based on historical fact, Parker weaves a tale of adventure and longing as he charts one hundred and fifty years in the life and death of an island and its inhabitants— the descendants of Theodosia Burr Alston and those of the freed man whose family would be forever tethered to hers. I t’s a tale of pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, that takes place on a tiny island battered by storms, infested with mosquitoes, and cut off from the world—as difficult to get to as it is impossible to leave for those who call it home. From Theodosia’s capture at sea to the passionate lives of her great-great-great-granddaughters to the tender story of the black man who cares for them all April Fiction his days, this is an inspired novel about love, trust, and the 272 pages, 5 ½" x 8 ¼" often tortuous bonds of family and community. ISBN 978-1-56512-682-4 $23.95 Hardcover “ There’s a big-hearted fearlessness in Michael Parker’s work No. 72682 that, quite honestly, I envy.” —Colum McCann, winner of the world National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin E-book available $23.95 Michael Parker is the author of four previous novels ISBN 978-1-61620-056-5 and two books of short stories. Winner of the Hobson Prize • National publicity for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the North • National advertising in Carolina Award for Literature, and an NEA fellowship, he has been BookPage and Bookforum published in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, • 7-city author tour and others. He is a professor in the MFA Writing Program at the • Online marketing and advertising University of North Carolina at Greensboro. • Author Spotlight feature on Algonquin Web site

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 11 11/11/10 4:07 PM In a follow-up to her wildly successful New York Times bestseller Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart tackles the insects, worms, and spiders that have tormented humankind for centuries.

Wicked Bugs Aytwam S e rt

Teh Lous That Conquered Napoleon’s Army “T o date, over one million species of insects have been described worldwide. It is estimated and Other Diabolical Insects that there are ten quintillion insects alive on the planet right now, which means that for each one of us, there are two hundred million of them. If you arranged all living things on earth into a pyramid, almost all of it would be made up of insects, spiders, and the like— animals and people would take up only a small section in one corner of the pyramid. We are seriously outnumbered.” —from Wicked Bugs

n this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes—creatures Ithat infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the world’s most painful hornet, to the flies that transmit deadly diseases, to millipedes that stop traffic, to the “bookworms” that devour libraries, to the Japanese beetles munching on your roses, Wicked Bugs delves into the extraordinary powers of six- and eight-legged creatures. With wit, style, and exacting research, Stewart has uncovered the most terrifying and titil- lating stories of bugs gone wild. It’s an A to Z of insect enemies, interspersed with sections that explore bugs with kinky sex lives (“She’s Just Not That Into You”), creatures lurking in the cup- May Natural History board (“Fear No Weevil”), insects eating your tomatoes (“Gardener’s Dirty Dozen”), and phobias Illustrations throughout, 2-color that feed our (sometimes) irrational responses to bugs (“Have No Fear”). 288 pages, 5 ½" x 7" Intricate and strangely beautiful etchings and drawings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs capture ISBN 978-1-56512-960-3 diabolical bugs of all shapes and sizes in this mixture of history, science, murder, and intrigue $18.95 Paper over Board No. 72960 that begins—but doesn’t end—in your own backyard. worlD

E-book available Pr r Wiaise fo cked Plants: $18.95 ISBN 978-1-61620-063-3 “Bram Stoker meets Agatha Christie in this sophisticated little brew of botanical bogeymen.” —NPR.org, Best Books of 2009 8-copy counter display: $151.60 ISBN 978-0-7611-6542-2 “Deliciously eerie . . . Entertaining, informative—and a little unsettling.” —Los Angeles Times No. 26542 “Dangerously addictive.” —O: The Oprah Magazine

• National publicity and advertising “Everything about this brilliant, fascinating, and often quite funny hardcover screams buy me.” • Promotional book trailer —Omnivoracious.com • 15-city author tour • National radio satellite tour Amy Stewart is the bestselling author of five books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. • CBS Sunday Morning segment Her essays and commentaries have appeared on NPR, in the New York Times, and in Fine Gardening, • Online marketing and advertising campaign where she is a contributing editor. Stewart is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellow- • Author Spotlight feature on Algonquin blog and Web site ship and the American Horticultural Society’s 2010 Book Award. She lives in Eureka, California, where • Newsletter co-op she and her husband own an antiquarian bookstore. Find her online at www.amystewart.com and at WICKED PLANTS www.gardenrant.com. ISBN 978-1-56512-683-1 NO. 72683

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 12 11/5/10 6:23 PM In a follow-up to her wildly successful New York Times bestseller Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart tackles the insects, worms, and spiders that have tormented humankind for centuries.

W iCKED Bugs Amy Stewart

n this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes—creatures Ithat infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the world’s most painful hornet, to the flies that transmit deadly diseases, to millipedes that stop traffic, to the “bookworms” that devour libraries, to the Japanese beetles munching on your roses, Wicked Bugs delves into the extraordinary powers of six- and eight-legged creatures. With wit, style, and exacting research, Stewart has uncovered the most terrifying and titil- lating stories of bugs gone wild. It’s an A to Z of insect enemies, interspersed with sections that explore bugs with kinky sex lives (“She’s Just Not That Into You”), creatures lurking in the cup- board (“Fear No Weevil”), insects eating your tomatoes (“Gardener’s Dirty Dozen”), and phobias that feed our (sometimes) irrational responses to bugs (“Have No Fear”). Intricate and strangely beautiful etchings and drawings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs capture diabolical bugs of all shapes and sizes in this mixture of history, science, murder, and intrigue that begins—but doesn’t end—in your own backyard.

Pr r Wiaise fo cked Plants:

“Bram Stoker meets Agatha Christie in this sophisticated little brew of botanical bogeymen.” —NPR.org, Best Books of 2009

“Deliciously eerie . . . Entertaining, informative—and a little unsettling.” —Los Angeles Times

“Dangerously addictive.” —O: The Oprah Magazine

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 13 11/5/10 6:23 PM LEE SMITH MRS. DARCY AND THE BLUE-EYED STRANGER NEW AND SELECTED STORIES A A L

L “A marvelous panorama of Smith’s achievement over four decades. It’s funny, G G shrewd, and heartbreaking—often all three at once.” —AARP magazine O O N Q ee Smith is a “teller of tales for tale tellers to ad- N mire and envy . . . [and] a reader’s dream” (Houston Q L Chronicle). A celebrated and bestselling writer with U U a dozen novels under her name, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and The Last Girls, she is just as widely I I N N recognized for her exceptional short stories. Here, in Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, Smith collects seven P P brand-new stories along with seven of her favorites from A A three earlier collections. The result? A book of dazzling richness. As the New York Times Book Review put it, “In al- P P most every one of [her stories] there is a moment of vision, E E or love, or unclothed wonder that transforms something R R plain into something transcendent.” B B “ Lee Smith has long had a reputation as a master of the short A A story, and her new collection . . . galvanizes that reputation C C . . . Smith offers the grit of the domestic scene, the power of K K the written word, and the transcendent beauty of women

as friends, lovers, daughters and mothers.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune A SHANNON RAVENEL BOOK MAY “ Smith’s heroines ﬁ nd strength in the moments that push us FICTION all forward.” —People, four stars 368 pages, 5 ½" x 8 ¼" ISBN 978-1-61620-049-7 “ Smith’s character-driven tales are funny, touching and $13.95 TRADE PAPER resonant, with a quirky honesty. A southern-fried charmer!” NO. 73049 US/CAN/OM —Family Circle

E-BOOK AVAILABLE $13.95 LEE SMITH is the author of fi fteen previous books of fi ction— ISBN 978-1-61620-058-9 three collections of short stories and a dozen novels, including the bestsellers Fair and Tender Ladies and The Last Girls, winner of the • Regional author events Southern Book Critics Circle Award for fi ction. The recipient of • “Under the Algonquin the 1999 Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy Umbrella” beach read of Arts and Letters, she lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. promotion • Online marketing and advertising campaign For other books by Lee Smith see pages 25, 43. • Trade paper terms

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 14 11/11/10 4:10 PM HEATHER LENDE TAKE GOOD CARE OF THE GARDEN AND THE DOGS Fi, aFm ly riendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska A l

“ Lende writes emotionally but never sentimentally, giving us the best Alaska g

memoir of late, maybe the best ever.” —Booklist (starred review) o n he Alaskan landscape—so vast, dramatic, and q unbelievable—may be the reason the people in Haines, Alaska (population 2,400), so often discuss u

T i the meaning of life. Heather Lende thinks it helps make life mean more. Since her bestselling first book, If You Lived n

Here, I’d Know Your Name, a near-fatal bicycle accident has P given Lende a few more reasons to consider matters both

spiritual and temporal. Her idea of spirituality is rooted in a

community, and here she explores faith and forgiveness, a

loss and devotion—as well as raising totem poles, canning e salmon, and other distinctly Alaskan adventures. Lende’s r irrepressible spirit, her wry humor, and her commitment to b living a life on the edge of the world resonate on every page. Like her own mother’s last wish—take good care of the gar- b

den and dogs—Lende’s writing, so honest and unadorned, c

deepens our understanding of what links all humanity. k

“ Lende has a knack for subtly illuminating the remarkable in the commonplace, the transcendence in tragedy . . . Her

voice, which alternates between folksy and formal, playful and April prayerful, entertaining and elegiac, is reminiscent of Garrison Memoir/Spirituality Keillor, Krista Tippett, Tom Bodett, Kathleen Norris and 304 pages, 5 ½" x 8 ¼" Anne Lamott.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune ISBN 978-1-61620-051-0 $14.95 Trade Paper “The book is full of vivid characters . . . [Lende] has a simple, No. 73051 chatty style most readers will find oddly comforting. Life world does, in fact, go on.” —Los Angeles Times E-book available $14.95 “Here is the real thing — good old-fashioned American values ISBN 978-1-61620-065-7 coming from small-town Alaska.” —The Boston Globe •n A Indie Next selection in hardcover • Regional author events Heather Lende has contributed to the Christian Science • Online marketing and advertising Monitor, NPR’s Morning Edition, the New York Times, the campaign Washington Post, and Alaska magazine. She also writes an online • Trade paper terms column for the Alaska Dispatch. Her Web site is www.heather-

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 15 11/11/10 4:15 PM Pete Nelson I Thought You Were Dead A Love Story

“A recent No. 1 Indie Next Pick, [this] novel about the bonds between dogs and

A humans is heartfelt and nostalgic . . . Stella’s wisdom sets the luckless Paul on a

l brighter life path. It’s her nobility . . . that gives the story its power.” —USA Today g

o or Paul Gustavson, life is a succession of obstacles, a

n minefield of mistakes to stumble through. His wife

q Fhas left him, his father has suffered a stroke, his girl- friend is dating another man, he has impotency issues, and u his overachieving brother invested his parents’ money in i stocks that tanked. Still, Paul has his friends at Bay State n bar, a steady line of cocktails, and Stella.

P S tella is Paul’s dog. She listens with compassion to all his complaints about the injustices of life and gives him bet- a ter counsel than any human could. Their relationship is at

a the heart of this poignantly funny and deeply moving story

e about a man trying to fix his past in order to save his future. r “A delight . . . Yes, Stella talks. And the conversations are so b charming and matter-of-fact that it hardly seems worth ask-

b ing from whence this special power comes.” —Bark magazine

c “A truly outstanding talking-dog story . . . With exquisite tone

k control, [Nelson] has given us a story that’s sweet and loving but never sentimental . . . Graceful, gratifying.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Mh arc Fiction “Stella the dog is always charming. And there’s a dignity and 288 pages, 5 ½" x 8 ¼" gravity to Paul’s affection for her . . . Their friendship [is] one ISBN 978-1-61620-048-0 $13.95 Trade Paper of the best ever put down on paper.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch No. 73048 “Airy and almost miraculous . . . It’s very wise about the way world devotion—between animals and people, between people and E-book available $13.95 people—can keep us going.” —Chattanooga Times Free Press ISBN 978-1-61620-057-2 Pete Nelson is the author of several books, among them •1 Indie# Next selection in hardcover Left for Dead, a work of nonfiction. He is not the Pete Nelson who writes about tree houses, but he likes them nonetheless. He lives • Readers Round Table edition with reader’s guide in Westchester County, New York. and special features • Online marketing and advertising campaign • Trade paper terms • Available on HighBridge Audio

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“A recent No. 1 Indie Next Pick, [this] novel about the bonds between dogs and “ [An] extraordinary story . . . recounted by Stern with manic virtuosity . . . The humans is heartfelt and nostalgic . . . Stella’s wisdom sets the luckless Paul on a voracious pace lets Stern spill a hundred years of vivid Jewish history onto the A l brighter life path. It’s her nobility . . . that gives the story its power.” —USA Today page . . . He writes with piercing zeal.” —The New York Times Book Review g or Paul Gustavson, life is a succession of obstacles, a ward-winning novelist Steve Stern’s exhilarating o n q minefield of mistakes to stumble through. His wife epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century Fhas left him, his father has suffered a stroke, his girl- Arabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a base- friend is dating another man, he has impotency issues, and ment freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the his overachieving brother invested his parents’ money in twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable u stocks that tanked. Still, Paul has his friends at Bay State teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and i bar, a steady line of cocktails, and Stella. brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous—as n

Stella is Paul’s dog. She listens with compassion to all his is this brilliant novel, now in paperback. P complaints about the injustices of life and gives him bet-

“ Among the wonders awaiting the reader of Steve Stern’s exu- a ter counsel than any human could. Their relationship is at berant new novel . . . is one of sheer logistics: How did he get P the heart of this poignantly funny and deeply moving story all of this in here? The book’s 370 pages are packed to bursting about a man trying to fix his past in order to save his future. with epic adventure and hysterical comedy, with grim poi- e

gnancy and pointed satire, as Stern repeatedly shifts time and r “A delight . . . Yes, Stella talks. And the conversations are so

tone to craft a wildly entertaining tale.” —The Washington Post b charming and matter-of-fact that it hardly seems worth ask- Book World ing from whence this special power comes.” —Bark magazine A

“In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first book, younger c 25th “A truly outstanding talking-dog story . . . With exquisite tone Jewish writers have run with a similar shtick . . . In Jonathan Anniversary control, [Nelson] has given us a story that’s sweet and loving k Volume Safran Foer, you see Stern’s fanciful English, in Nicole Krauss but never sentimental . . . Graceful, gratifying.” —Milwaukee his magic realism, in Michael Chabon his updated golems and Journal Sentinel gun-toting shtarkers. But Stern was there first, and with The June “Stella the dog is always charming. And there’s a dignity and Frozen Rabbi it feels like he may be last too: This is a novel so Fiction gravity to Paul’s affection for her . . . Their friendship [is] one rich, full, funny, dense and exhausting, it feels like there may 400 pages, 5 ½" x 8 ¼" of the best ever put down on paper.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch be no more Steve Stern books left to write—by him, or anyone ISBN 978-1-61620-052-7 else.” —The Toronto Globe and Mail $13.95 Trade Paper “Airy and almost miraculous . . . It’s very wise about the way No. 73052 devotion—between animals and people, between people and “A funny, profound and virtuosic work . . . This fast-paced romp world people—can keep us going.” —Chattanooga Times Free Press through history . . . is a rare enchantment.” —San Francisco E-book available Chronicle $13.95 ISBN 978-1-61620-067-1 Pete Nelson is the author of several books, among them “[A] wonderfully entertaining, inventive new novel that evokes Left for Dead, a work of nonfiction. He is not the Pete Nelson who • National advertising Amy Bloom, Michael Chabon and Isaac Bashevis Singer . . . writes about tree houses, but he likes them nonetheless. He lives • 4-city author tour Laugh-out-loud funny, the sort of humor that takes you by in Westchester County, New York. • Online marketing and surprise.” —NPR.org advertising campaign • Readers Round Table edition Steve Stern, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, is with reader’s guide and the author of several previous novels and novellas. He teaches at special features Skidmore College in upstate New York. • Trade paper terms

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 17 11/5/10 6:23 PM Julia Alvarez in Paperback

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l he works of this award-winning poet and

g novelist are rich with the language and influ- o Tences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her n youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing q just as they have shaped her life. In these seventy-five

u autobiographical poems, Alvarez’s clear voice sings out

i in every line. Here, in the middle of her life, she looks

n back as a way of understanding and celebrating the

P woman she has become.

“ Charming and intense at the same time, Alvarez writes a candidly of epic concerns and everyday realities in this

a unfailingly lucid collection of autobiographical poems.”

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c “Brave and vivid . . . Seventy-five poems express wonder,

k anger, grief and joy in clear, accessible narratives.” —The Miami Herald April 176 pages, 5 ½" x 8 ¼" • Trade paper terms ISBN 978-1-61620-072-5 • April is National Poetry Month $13.95 Trade Paper • Co-promotion with launch No. 73072 of Algonquin Book Club

Juli a Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, two books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eight books for children and young adults. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature in 2007 from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the 2002 Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the 2000 Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library’s 1996 program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, From John Donne to Julia Alvarez.” A writer-in-residence at Middlebury College, Alvarez and her husband, Bill Eichner, established Alta Gracia, an organic coffee farm–literacy arts center, in her homeland, the Dominican Republic.

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 18 11/11/10 5:33 PM IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES On November 25, 1960, three beautiful sisters were found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a ﬁ fty-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The ofﬁ cial state newspaper reported their deaths as accidental. It did not explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. In this extraordinary novel of courage, love, and the human cost of political oppression, the voices of all four sisters—Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé—speak across the decades to tell their stories. “ A gorgeous, sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion.” —People “ Imagination and history in sublime combination . . . Read this book for the novel it is. Read this book for the place it takes you. Read this book and take courage.” —The Denver Post

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-976-4 • No. 72976 • $13.95 • A National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Selection

HOW THE GARCÍA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS In Julia Alvarez’s beloved ﬁ rst novel, the García sisters and their family ﬂ ee from their home in the Dominican Republic to New York City in 1960. For the sisters it is both liberating and excruciating being caught between the old world and the new. This exhilarating novel sets the García girls free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home—and not at home—in America. “ Subtle . . . Powerful . . . Reveals the intricacies of family, the impact of culture and place, and the profound power of language.” —The San Diego Tribune

“ A clear-eyed look at the insecurity and yearning for a sense of belonging that are a part of the immigrant experience . . . Movingly told.” —The Washington Post Book World

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-975-7 • No. 72975 • $13.95

SAVING THE WORLD Alvarez spins a riveting tale of two women living two hundred years apart. While writer Alma Huebner is researching a new novel, she ﬁ nds her real story in a little-known but staggering historical footnote: in 1803, Don Francisco Balmis embarked on a two-year sea voyage to rescue the New World from smallpox. Accompanying him were twenty-two orphan boys, acting as live carriers, and their guardian, Isabel Sendales y Gómez. As Alma digs deeper into Isabel’s life, she ﬁ nd the power to commit an act as life-saving as Isabel’s. “ Remarkable . . . Depicts the need to belong to something greater and more enduring than ourselves.” —The Washington Post Book Word

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-558-2 • No. 72558 • $13.95

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 19 11/11/10 4:38 PM WELCOME TO THE CLUB!

Booksellers, you can now fi nd and promote more great book club titles by joining the ALGONQUIN BOOK CLUB. Choose from a wide selection of fi ction and nonfi ction paperback titles—picked for their popularity, widespread critical acclaim, and power to provoke discussion. Each includes a reader’s guide with discussion points, author interviews, original essays, or other special features.

IN-STORE PROMOTIONS: • Book Club signage • Give-away Algonquin Book Club brochures with details about each title • Newsletter co-op • Shelf-talkers • Author call-ins to book clubs

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS: Every three months an Algonquin author will be interviewed by a notable literary fi gure for a live discussion simultaneously webcast from a participating bookstore. Our fi rst event, in March 2011, will feature Edwidge Danticat in conversation with Julia Alvarez about In the Time of the Butterfl ies.

The Algonquin Book Club and online events will be supported through national advertising, point-of-purchase materials, special terms for participating bookstores, and our very active social media accounts.

For more information, please visit us at www.algonquinbookclub.com or ask your sales rep for details.

Books for a well-read life.

ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 20 11/11/10 4:40 PM “ Memorable characters, provocative topics, universal themes, and quality writing are just some of the reasons Algonquin titles make great book club selections.” —KATHY CARRUS, Book Club Facilitator, Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, IL

“ Algonquin and book clubs: the intersection of absolutely appealing books and the most avid readers around!” —EMILY CROWE, Odyssey Bookshop, S. Hadley, MA

“ A great book club discussion will always happen when Algonquin is on the table.” —DEBRA LINN,Books & Books, Miami Beach, FL

ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 21 11/11/10 4:43 PM These READERS ROUND TABLE paperback editions provide complementary discussion questions, author interviews, or notes from the author. Readers guides for these and other Book Group Picks /New in Paperback titles are also available online at www.algonquin.com/etcetera/readers-guides.

Caroline Leavitt Hillary Jordan Pictures of You mudBound “ A magically written, heartbreakingly honest snapshot of the people we leave Jordan’s indelible portrait of two families caught up in the racial hatred of a small behind and those we can’t let go, a portrait of the full spectrum of the human Southern town in the 1940s earned the prestigious Bellwether Prize for fi ction. heart. Caroline leavitt is one of those fabulous, incisive writers you read and then ask yourself, Where has she been all my life?” —JODI PICOULt “ [A] supremely readable debut novel . . . Packed with drama. Pick it up, then pass it on.” —People, four stars Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-631-2 • No. 72631 • $13.95 Trade Paper Original Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-677-0 • No. 72677 • $13.95 Paper Lauren Grodstein Brock Clarke A friend of the fAmilY An Arsonist’s guide to writers’ This riveting story of a suburban tragedy charts a father’s fall from grace. homes in new englAnd “ stunning . . . An unqualifi ed success . . . [grodstein] has written a novel that In the league of such contemporary classics as A Confederacy of Dunces and will leave her reader sitting up, sifting the evidence in the dead of night.” The World According to Garp, here is an utterly original story about truth and —The Boston Globe honesty, life and the imagination. “ unfolds . . . with suspense worthy of hitchcock . . . [grodstein] is a terrifi c “Funny, profound . . . A seductive book with a payoff on every page.” —People storyteller.” —The New York Times Book Review Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-614-5 • No. 72614 • $13.95 Paper Fiction • ISBN 978-1-61620-017-6 • No. 73017 • $13.95 Paper

Heidi W. Durrow Roland Merullo the girl who fell from the skY BreAkfAst with BuddhA Cynicism yields to amazement when a confi rmed skeptic fi nds himself on a This searing portrait of a young biracial girl coping with society’s ideas of race six-day road trip with an enigmatic crimson-robed holy man. and class is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for fi ction addressing issues of social injustice. “ enlightenment meets On the Road in this witty, insightful novel.” —The Boston Sunday Globe “ stunning . . . What makes Durrow’s novel soar is her masterful sense of voice, her assured, nuanced handling of complex racial issues—and her heart.” Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-616-9 • No. 72616 • $13.95 Paper —The Christian Science Monitor

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-61620-015-2 • No. 73015 • $13.95 Paper Kate Maloy everY lAst cuckoo Betsy Carter A wise and gratifying novel about a woman who gracefully accepts a surprising the Puzzle king new role in life just when she thinks her best years are behind her. “ skillfully using ties to her own family, Carter weaves a compelling story and “ truly engrossing . . . An excellent book club selection; highly recommended.” a rich, multilayered novel around three Jewish sisters and deftly captures the —Library Journal squalor and bustle of early 20th century new york . . . A fi ne novel with twists and turns and pieces that interlock tightly. The Puzzle king is Carter at her Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-675-6 • No. 72675 • $13.95 Paper best.” —The Miami Herald Joseph Skibell Fiction • ISBN 978-1-61620-016-9 • No. 73016 • $13.95 Paper A Blessing on the moon Stanley Gordon West Not since Art Speigelman’s Maus has a work so powerfully evoked one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century with such daring originality. Blind Your Ponies “ A compelling tour de force, a surreal but thoroughly accessible page-turner.” This feel-good story about the citizens of Willow Creek, Montana, is an inspiring —Houston Chronicle tale of overcoming adversity told with humor and compassion. Fiction • ISBN 978-1-61620-018-3 • No. 73018 • $13.95 Paper Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-984-9 • No. 72984 • $14.95 Paper

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Sara Gruen WATER FOR ELEPHANTS When Jacob Jankowski is tossed by fate onto a rickety Depression-era circus train, he enters a world that is both his salvation and a living hell. It is there that he falls in love with Marlena, the equestrian star married to the maniacal ringmaster, and where he meets Rosie, the untrainable elephant, who becomes the most surprising character of all.

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-560-5 • No. 72560 • $14.95 Paper • A #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller with over three million copies in print

Robert Goolrick A RELIABLE WIFE “ A fabulous up-to-the-last-minute page-turner about love, lust, lies, deception, heartbreak and resiliency.” —The Miami Herald “ A killer debut novel . . . Suspenseful and erotic . . . [A] chillingly engrossing plot . . . Good to the riveting end.” —USA Today

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-977-1 • No. 72977 • $14.95 Paper • A #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller with 800,000 copies in print

Nina de Gramont GOSSIP OF THE STARLINGS “ De Gramont’s debut novel is the kind of smart and riveting read that fans of a certain kind of campus drama—think Donna Tartt’s The Secret History—will devour.” —People, four stars

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-676-3 • No. 72676 • $13.95 Paper

Carolyn Jourdan HEART IN THE RIGHT PLACE • A Family Circle Book of the Month • An Elle magazine Reader’s Prize winner • A Book Sense reading group pick “Heartwarming and hilarious . . . You’ll fall in love with this story about family, community, and coming home.” —The Satellite Sisters Radio Show

Memoir • ISBN 978-1-56512-613-8 • No. 72613 • $14.95 Paper

Lewis Nordan WOLF WHISTLE “ An immense and wall-shattering display of talent . . . And at its very center lies one of the most senseless and well-publicized crimes in American history: the murder of Emmett Till.” —The Nation

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-110-2 • No. 72110 • $13.95 Paper

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Sara Gruen Ariel Sabar wAter for elePhAnts mY fAther’s PArAdise When Jacob Jankowski is tossed by fate onto a rickety Depression-era circus A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past train, he enters a world that is both his salvation and a living hell. It is there “ An engaging account of a wonderful, enlightening journey, a voyage with that he falls in love with Marlena, the equestrian star married to the maniacal the power to move readers deeply even as it stretches across differences of ringmaster, and where he meets Rosie, the untrainable elephant, who becomes culture, family, and memory.” —The Christian Science Monitor the most surprising character of all. Memoir • ISBN 978-1-56512-933-7 • No. 72933 • $14.95 Paper Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-560-5 • No. 72560 • $14.95 Paper • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography • A #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller with over three million copies in print Deborah Copaken Kogan Robert Goolrick Between here And APril A reliABle wife “ the perfect book club book . . . An amalgamation of autobiography, true “ A fabulous up-to-the-last-minute page-turner about love, lust, lies, crime and melodrama . . . the story is so engaging . . . A credit to the deception, heartbreak and resiliency.” —The Miami Herald narrator’s wonderfully appealing voice: funny, frustrated, likable, totally “ A killer debut novel . . . suspenseful and erotic . . . [A] chillingly engrossing candid about her desires and failings.” —The Washington Post plot . . . good to the riveting end.” —USA Today Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-932-0 • No. 72932 • $13.95 Paper

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-977-1 • No. 72977 • $14.95 Paper • A #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller with 800,000 copies in print Suzanne Berne the ghost At the tABle Nina de Gramont “ A witty, moving and psychologically astute story about siblings and gossiP of the stArlings the disparate ways they remember common experiences from childhood . . . “ De gramont’s debut novel is the kind of smart and riveting read that Wholly engaging, the perfect spark for launching a rich conversation fans of a certain kind of campus drama—think Donna tartt’s The Secret around your own table.” —The Washington Post Book World History—will devour.” —People, four stars Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-579-7 • No. 72579 • $13.95 Paper

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-676-3 • No. 72676 • $13.95 Paper Jill McCorkle Carolyn Jourdan ferris BeAch heArt in the right PlAce “ Call Ferris Beach fi ne. Call it enchanting, touching, funny, tragic, sensitive, evocative, moving. Call it any synonym for wonderful, and • A Family Circle Book of the Month you still won’t be doing it justice.” —The Houston Post • An Elle magazine Reader’s Prize winner • A Book Sense reading group pick “ Delightful . . . A novel about family secrets, identity crises, and mother- daughter standoffs.” —Vogue “heartwarming and hilarious . . . you’ll fall in love with this story about family, community, and coming home.” —The Satellite Sisters Radio Show Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-931-3 • No. 72931 • $13.95 Paper

Memoir • ISBN 978-1-56512-613-8 • No. 72613 • $14.95 Paper Lee Smith Lewis Nordan on AgAte hill wolf whistle A sweeping saga that follows Molly Petree, an orphan of the Civil War, on a journey through love, betrayal, motherhood, and murder. “ An immense and wall-shattering display of talent . . . And at its very center lies one of the most senseless and well-publicized crimes in American “ the willful Molly is no hot-house fl ower, and her determination to live her history: the murder of emmett till.” —The Nation own life—for better or worse—is the driving force of this powerful novel.” —USA Today Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-110-2 • No. 72110 • $13.95 Paper Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-577-3 • No. 72577 • $13.95 Paper

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Brock Clarke Suzanne Berne eXleY missing lucile “ Another literary high-wire performance by a novelist who is establishing Memories of the Grandmother i Never knew himself as a unique voice in contemporary fi ction . . . A seriously playful novel “ A lovely, melancholic biography of her grandmother . . . [Missing Lucile is] a about the interweave of literature and life.” —kirkus Reviews, starred review lyrical character sketch, vivid even through the smoky glass of time.” “ unfolds like a murder-mystery without a real murder . . . it explores —kirkus Reviews memory, pain, loss, love and longing with a fresh, lively structure and “ suzanne Berne intuits her way into her grandmother’s life, creating a story and with a cast of characters both painfully charming and exquisitely fl awed.” at the same time reminding us that all storytelling involves a delicate piecing —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette together of fact and rich imagination. A beautiful and subtle piece of writing.” —JOAN WICKERShAM, author of The Suicide index Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-608-4 • No. 72608 • $24.95 Hardcover Memoir • ISBN 978-1-56512-625-1 • No. 72625 • $23.95 Hardcover Jonathan Evison west of here Jay Varner “ A novel of stunning sweep—part adventure tale, part bittersweet modern comedy. Along the way, West of Here lays bare the surprising web of nothing left to Burn connections that tie us to our ancestors, the ‘trappings of history’ that bind A powerful story of three generations of men bound together by the fi res that have us inexorably to the great myths of the past, even as our future fragments burned throughout their family and their small Pennsylvania town. DAN ChAON, author of Await Your Reply and scatters.” — “ unadorned but vivid . . . Painful and poignant . . . varner reminds us that few “ intelligent, insightful, poignant, funny, endlessly entertaining and lives, even those we think we know best, are easily understood.” —USA Today perpetually thought-provoking. Jonathan evison is a major new voice in American fi ction.” —DAVID LISS, author of Whiskey Rebels Memoir • ISBN 978-1-56512-609-1 • No. 72609 • $23.95 Hardcover

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-952-8 • No. 72952 • $24.95 Hardcover Elisabeth Tova Bailey Joseph Skibell the sound of A wild snAil eAting A curABle romAntic “[Bailey] is a marvelous writer, and the marriage of science and poetic mysticism “ Brilliant . . . Astonishingly original . . . What life on earth might actually that characterizes this small volume is magical. it’s a book to treasure in mean.” —DARA hORN this high-tech, high-energy era, a reminder that the things we overlook are sometimes the things that can save us.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “A young man falls in love, befriends sigmund Freud, and learns that the object of his desire may be possessed by the ghost of his ex-wife—all in the “ Moving and beautiful . . . Funny and sweet and wise and profound.” opening chapters of Joseph skibell’s wonderfully surreal new novel. the —JANE hAMILtON story of passion, faith, and fate that follows is both funny and thoughtful.” Natural History/Memoir • ISBN 978-1-56512-606-0 • No. 72606 • $18.95 Hardcover —Parade

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-929-0 • No. 72929 • $26.95 Hardcover Penelope Rowlands Anthony De Sa PAris wAs ours BArnAcle love Thirty-two Writers Reﬂ ect on the City of Light “ Anthony De sa moves with skill and ingenuity between folk tale, myth and In the spirit of Paris to the Moon and Under the Tuscan Sun comes a wonderfully narratives of contemporary displacement. the tone is spare and elegiac; the revealing anthology about the fateful allure of one of the world’s most stories are fi lled with carefully chosen details and sharply drawn characters. seductive cities. they have immense emotional and truthful power.” —COLM tÓIBÍN Travel/Essays • ISBN 978-1-56512-953-5 • No. 72953 • $15.95 “ intelligent yet passionate . . . A double-layered, twice as effective, doubly Trade Paper Original with Flaps meaningful story . . . A beautiful musical piece stating and repeating its profoundly moving melody.” —Booklist, starred review

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-926-9 • No. 72926 • $13.95 Trade Paper Original

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Brock Clarke Suzanne Berne eXleY missing lucile “ Another literary high-wire performance by a novelist who is establishing Memories of the Grandmother i Never knew himself as a unique voice in contemporary fi ction . . . A seriously playful novel “ A lovely, melancholic biography of her grandmother . . . [Missing Lucile is] a about the interweave of literature and life.” —kirkus Reviews, starred review lyrical character sketch, vivid even through the smoky glass of time.” “ unfolds like a murder-mystery without a real murder . . . it explores —kirkus Reviews memory, pain, loss, love and longing with a fresh, lively structure and “ suzanne Berne intuits her way into her grandmother’s life, creating a story and with a cast of characters both painfully charming and exquisitely fl awed.” at the same time reminding us that all storytelling involves a delicate piecing —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette together of fact and rich imagination. A beautiful and subtle piece of writing.” —JOAN WICKERShAM, author of The Suicide index Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-608-4 • No. 72608 • $24.95 Hardcover Memoir • ISBN 978-1-56512-625-1 • No. 72625 • $23.95 Hardcover Jonathan Evison west of here Jay Varner “ A novel of stunning sweep—part adventure tale, part bittersweet modern comedy. Along the way, West of Here lays bare the surprising web of nothing left to Burn connections that tie us to our ancestors, the ‘trappings of history’ that bind A powerful story of three generations of men bound together by the fi res that have us inexorably to the great myths of the past, even as our future fragments burned throughout their family and their small Pennsylvania town. AN ChAON, author of Await Your Reply and scatters.” —D “ unadorned but vivid . . . Painful and poignant . . . varner reminds us that few “ intelligent, insightful, poignant, funny, endlessly entertaining and lives, even those we think we know best, are easily understood.” —USA Today perpetually thought-provoking. Jonathan evison is a major new voice in American fi ction.” —DAVID LISS, author of Whiskey Rebels Memoir • ISBN 978-1-56512-609-1 • No. 72609 • $23.95 Hardcover

Fiction • ISBN 978-1-56512-926-9 • No. 72926 • $13.95 Trade Paper Original

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ABCH_SPRING11.3PP.indd 27 11/5/10 6:24 PM The Music of Wild Birds bIoGrapHy & Hardcover illustrated and adapted by and paperback Judy Pelikan memoIr F. Schuyler Mathews, a natu- nonfIctIon ralist and astute birder, spent years scoring the songs of For complete listings, wild birds. He explains why please visit our birds sing, how each bird’s online catalog at character is refl ected in its www.algonquin.com. song, and how great com- posers and poets have incor- porated these songs in their bIrds & works. This useful guide is fi lled with fascinating facts, Lincoln as I Knew Him bIrdInG anecdotes, and over eighty Gossip, Tributes, and full-color illustrations. Revelations from His Best Return of the osprey a discovery channel book club Friends and Worst Enemies A Season of Birds, Flight, selection edited by Harold Holzer and Wonder ISBN 978-1-56512-271-0, No. 72271 by david Gessner $18.95 HardCover, 2004 First-hand anecdotes and recollections strip away a book-of-the-month club selection Boone the myths and legends ISBN 978-1-56512-254-3, No. 72254 by robert Morgan $23.95 HardCover, 2001 to uncover the authentic The defi nitive biography abraham Lincoln. that transforms a mythic “[A] revelatory little book.” american hero into a fl esh- —Parade Magazine and-blood man. “Wonderfully thorough . . . “ Morgan stakes a fresh claim even the most well-read of on the life of famed 18th- Lincoln lovers is sure to fi nd century frontiersman Daniel something they have never Boone . . . [A] passionate read before.” —The Civil and authoritative bio.” War News —Entertainment Weekly ISBN 978-1-56512-681-7, No. 72681 “Revelatory.” —The Boston $13.95 PaPer, 2009 Globe John Gardner 100 Birds and How “Stunning.” —The Dallas Literary Outlaw Songbirds in They Got Their names Morning News Your Garden by diana Wells by Barry Silesky ISBN 978-1-56512-615-2, No. 72615 Fifth edition updated illustrated by Lauren Jarrett $18.95 PaPer, 2008 The fi rst full-scale biography and expanded an indispensable companion of one of america’s most by John K. Terres to the fi eld guides, here are famous and controversial introduction by one hundred stories that writers. roger Tory Peterson explore the myths, legends, a SHaNNoN raveNeL BooK “Whether you consider your- literature, etymology, history, ISBN 978-1-56512-218-5, No. 72218 $24.95 HardCover, 2004 self primarily a gardener or and avian passions associated a birder . . . you will love the with our fi ne-feathered updated and expanded friends. version of a classic.” “A delightfully interesting —Omaha World-Herald pocket-sized hardcover book “The next time you are to take along on a nature invited to someone’s house, trip. Packed with facts . . . It forego the usual gifts of makes for an entertaining fl owers or wine, and instead and absorbing 297 pages.” bring your host a copy of —The Washington Post [this book] . . . [It’s] a real a garden book club selection wonder.” ISBN 978-1-56512-281-9, No. 72281 Lucky Girl —Attaché (u.S. Airways) $18.95 HardCover, 2001 by Mei-Ling Hopgood a country homes and gardens Gertrude Stein book club selection “ An award-winning writer In Words and Pictures ISBN 978-1-56512-044-0, No. 72044 recounts her experience edited by renate Stendhal $14.95 PaPer, 1994 as one of the fi rst Chinese babies adopted in the West “A revelatory combination of and her surprising trail quotes, quips and 360 photos back to the rural Taiwanese of Stein and her wildly bril- family who gave her away liant circle.” —Elle . . . A great book.” —Good ISBN 978-0-945575-99-3, No. 71599 Housekeeping $19.95 PaPer, 1994 • Winner of the Lambda Award ISBN 978-1-56512-982-5, No. 72982 $13.95 PaPer, 2010

28 | Backlist nonfiction Algonquin Books Solo Somehow Form a Family The Next Better Place My Adventures in the Air Stories That Are Mostly True Memories of My Misspent by Clyde Edgerton by Tony Earley Youth by Michael C. Keith “[A] spare, heartfelt celebra- A Shannon Ravenel Book ISBN 978-1-56512-302-1, NO. 72302 tion of the flying life.” ISBN 978-1-56512-436-3, No. 72436 $22.95 HARDCOVER, 2001 $13.95 paper, 2004 —The New York Times A SHANNON RAVENEL BOOK ISBN 978-1-56512-546-9, No. 72546 $12.95 Paper, 2006

In My Father’s Shadow A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles by Chris Welles Feder “To say that Welles Feder’s new memoir . . . goes a long way in enlarging our Hold Me Tight and The End of the World as knowledge of both father Tango Me Home We Know It and daughter is an under- by Maria Finn Scenes from a Life statement. Her book fleshes “A gracefully rendered mem- by Robert Goolrick out details that were once Tab Hunter Confidential oir . . . Refreshingly candid “[An] unnerving, elegantly sketchy . . . and provides The Making of a Movie Star analyses of her choices and us with information and by Tab Hunter crafted memoir . . . Morbidly a vivid cast of friends and insight that simply no other with Eddie Muller funny.” —Entertainment book on Welles contains.” dance partners . . . Finn Weekly “A mesmerizing account of demystifies the illustrious —Cineaste “Captivating . . . Barbed and [Hunter’s] Candide-like world of tango with wry yet canny, with a sharp eye “Poignant . . . Feder’s story journey through Hollywood.” reverent insight.” —Kirkus for the infliction of pain.” suggests that sitting in stern —The New York Times Book Reviews —The New York Times judgment of Welles isn’t Review “Hold Me Tight and Tango quite right, nor is whistling “Impressive . . . A coura- “[A] wry and unblinkered Me Home is beautifully past his failings as an artist geous and successful work.” memoir.” —The Washington told. Maria Finn relays her and a man. If we understand —People his plight, we ought to afford Post adventures in the world of tango with excitement, wit, “An exquisite memoir that him some pity, the way she “A gleeful romp.” and insight.” —Robert everyone should read.” did in time.” —Newsweek —Entertainment Weekly Farris Thompson, —Minneapolis Star Tribune “Captivating . . . In My Father’s A Book-of-the-Month Club, Doubleday author of Tango: The Art Book Club, InsightOut, and Quality “A gifted writer[’s] . . . memo- Shadow is a testament to a Paperback Book Club Selection History of Love daughter’s love for a father rable account of his terribly ISBN 978-1-56512-548-3, No. 72548 ISBN 978-1-56512-517-9, No. 72517 flawed family . . . Searing . . . who also happened to be $14.95 Paper, 2006 $13.95 Paper, 2009 a temperamental genius.” It stays with you.” —Chicago Sun-Times Billy Ray’s Farm Seemed Like a Good Idea —USA Today essays by Larry Brown at the Time ISBN 978-1-56512-602-2, No. 72602 “Feder presents a fuller, more $13.95 Paper, 2008 a shannon ravenel book by David Goodwillie essential portrait of the man ISBN 978-1-56512-481-3, No. 72481 ISBN 978-1-56512-167-6, NO. 72167 $23.95 Hardcover, 2007 than has ever been published $22.95 HARDCOVER, 2001 “In his breakout first book, . . . before . . . [A] tender and a breathless, humor-tinged elegant work . . . Highly My Life as a Boy account of postcollegiate life Sins and Needles recommended.” —Library A Woman’s Story in the fast lane, David Good A Story of Spiritual Mending Journal, starred by Kim Chernin willie takes an unflinching by Ray Materson and Melanie Materson ISBN 978-1-56512-599-5, No. 72599 ISBN 978-1-56512-163-8, no. 72163 look back at life in New York $24.95 Hardcover, 2009 $16.95 hardcover, 1997 City during that time.” —Elle One man’s victory over A Twist of Lemmon “An astonishingly entertain- drugs, alcohol, and impris- Truth onment, and his emergence A Tribute to My Father ing book . . . A rollicking Four Stories I Am Finally as a celebrated artist. With by Chris Lemmon tale that is laugh-out-loud Old Enough to Tell funny and, somehow, fiercely fifty full-color illustrations foreword by Kevin Spacey by Ellen Douglas poetic. A wondrous debut.” of Materson’s stunning art- a book-of-the-month club, literary ISBN 978-1-56512-214-7, No. 72214 —Stephen J. Dubner, work. guild, and doubleday book club $18.95 hardcover, 1998 selection coauthor of Freakonomics ISBN 978-1-56512-340-3, NO. 72340 $20.95 HARDCOVER, 2002 ISBN 978-1-56512-480-6, No. 72480 ISBN 978-1-56512-465-3, No. 72465 $22.95 Hardcover, 2006 $23.95 Hardcover, 2006

Algonquin Books Backlist nonfiction | 29 A Boy I Once Knew contemporary What a Teacher Learned from Her Student Issues by Elizabeth Stone An Insightout Book Club Selection The M Word ISBN 978-1-56512-315-1, NO. 72315 Writers on Same-Sex Marriage $19.95 HARDCOVER, 2002 edited by Kathy Pories “Witty, wise reading . . . [this] timely anthology argues, with energy and heart, that all Americans, gay or straight, should have the right to marry. Contributors include marquee names and The Boy Who Loved new talent working in fic- My Father’s Paradise tion, memoir and satire.” Tornadoes A Son’s Search for —Publishers Weekly A Mother’s Story His Family’s Past by Randi Davenport ISBN 978-1-56512-454-7, NO. 72454 by Ariel Sabar $12.95 PAPER, 2004 “A gripping memoir of moth- “An engaging account of erly love and absolute devo- Talking About Death a wonderful, enlighten- tion.” —Kirkus Reviews by Virginia Morris The Beggar King and the ing journey, a voyage with Secret of Happiness the power to move readers “An unforgettable memoir of Virginia Morris has con- A True Story deeply even as it stretches a shattered family, a moth- fronted her deepest fears, by Joel ben Izzy across differences of culture, er’s abiding love, and the and with sensitivity and family, and memory.” —The frightening permutations of compassion, she gives us the “It’s really the only important Christian Science Monitor the human mind.” —Elle vocabulary, the tools, and story there is—a story about the information we need to “Excellent . . . A compelling “This is her gripping account finding light within dark- confront our own. ness . . . What a gift, what a read. Told with novelistic of that unrelenting battle. It blessing, funny, brilliant, attention to narrative and isn’t a medical thriller that “A wake-up call on the need wise.” —Anne Lamott detail, but its heart is Ariel’s climaxes with an 11th-hour to approach death con heart, that of a son searching cure. The light of its happy sciously . . . Morris makes “Invites readers to see their with love for the meaning ending burns low, but in this the strong case that the end own lives as stories, over- of his relationship with his courageous mother’s eyes it of life can be one of our flowing with meaning and father.” —The Providence shines as bright as the sun.” most beautiful experiences, never predictable.” —San (RI) Journal —The Boston Globe if we prepare for it.” Francisco Chronicle —Los Angeles Times ISBN 978-1-56512-512-4, No. 72512 “A powerful story of the “[A] powerful new memoir.” meaning of family and tradi- —Winston-Salem Journal ISBN 978-1-56512-437-0, NO. 72437 $12.95 Paper, 2005 $14.95 PAPER, 2004 tion inside a little-known • A Book Sense selection “Davenport delivers a beauti- culture.” —San Francisco • A Reader’s Digest Editor’s fully written, much-needed Side Effects Pick in HC Chronicle memoir that sheds light on A Bestselling Drug on Trial “Remarkable . . . A moving the ways mental illness can by Alison Bass The Americano story about the near-death reverse the orbit of a fam- Fighting with Castro for “The riveting story of how of an ancient language ily and ultimately, how the Cuba’s Freedom one of the world’s largest and the tiny flicker of life efforts of one mother helped by Aran Shetterly drug companies and a few that remains in it.” —The rebuild a life and family university researchers on its “William Morgan was a figure Washington Post Book World she thought she had lost.” payroll suppressed evidence straight out of Hemingway. ISBN 978-1-56512-933-7, NO. 72933 —ForeWord that a top-selling anti . . . Was [he] a double agent $14.95 PAPER, 2009 “Davenport writes poignantly depressant might actually working for Castro? Was he a ISBN 978-1-56512-490-5, NO. 72490 . . . [Her] memoir is intensely be dangerous in adolescents. CIA man? . . . Another seamy $25.95 hardcover, 2008 thorough and affecting.” It’s also the very human mystery of the Cold War.” • Winner of the National —Publishers Weekly story of how two courageous —Kirkus Reviews Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography ISBN 978-1-56512-611-4, No. 72611 and persistent women made $23.95 Hardcover, 2010 sure the world learned about “Filled with the suspense of • Readers Guide included a blockbuster war movie, it.” —Marcia Angell, offering new and insightful MD, former Editor in Chief, perspective into the political the New England Journal climate of 1950s Cuba.” of Medicine, and author of —Publishers Weekly, The Truth About the Drug starred Companies: How They ISBN 978-1-56512-458-5, No. 72458 Deceive Us and What To Do $24.95 Hardcover, 2007 About It ISBN 978-1-56512-553-7, No. 72553 $24.95 Hardcover, 2008

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Work Hard. Be Nice. The Soul of a Doctor How Two Inspired Teachers Educating Esmé Harvard Medical Students Created the Most Promising Face Life and Death 52 Loaves Diary of a Teacher’s First Year Schools in America One Man’s Relentless Pursuit by esmé raji codell edited by Susan Pories, Md, by Jay Mathews Sachin H. Jain, and Gordon of Truth, Meaning, and a foreword by Katherine Paterson Perfect Crust The bestselling story of the Harper, Md afterword by Jim Trelease by William alexander young men who founded a “A guidebook for humanity The book heralded by the wildly successful nationwide “ What Zen and the Art of New York Times as “the gold and compassion . . . This network of public charter book should be required Motorcycle Maintenance standard,” now expanded for schools called the Knowledge did for, well, motorcycles, a new generation of readers. reading for all medical is Power Program (KIPP). students, doctors, patients, William Alexander’s 52 Loaves will do for bread . . . �★ New foreword by Katherine “Inspiring.” —BILL gATES and those of us who will be Paterson, author of Bridge to patients someday. In short, That is, his story takes you “Interesting, encouraging, Terabithia for everyone.” so deeply into the literal uplifting . . . An entertaining reality of the staff of life that �★ All new guide for teachers —ALICE HOFFmAN book, as well as a learning you effortlessly pop out into and teachers-to-be ISBN 978-1-56512-507-0, No. 72507 experience.” —EdNews.org $12.95 PaPer, 2006 the mystic. I can think of no “At turns entertaining, higher praise than that!” “Tracks a triumph in urban damning, and heartbreak- —PETER REINHART , author education . . . A vivid ing, the diary is a testament of Peter Reinhart’s Artisan account of two young men to the very best and worst Breads Every Day who transform themselves of teaching—to the small from ‘terrible’ fi rst-year “Nitpicking obsessiveness miracles that occur in the teachers into visionaries.” was never so appetizing classroom every day, as well —USA Today . . . A-.” —Entertainment as the deadening bureau- ISBN 978-1-56512-516-2, No. 72516 Weekly cracies . . . A must-read.” $14.95 PaPer, 2009 —NEA Today “Alexander’s breathless, witty • A New York Times Bestseller memoir is a joy to read. “ The imagination and irrev- It’s equal parts fact and erent wit she brought to edu- Be the Dream fun . . . Alexander is wildly cation make this bristling Prep for Prep Graduates entertaining on the page, journal well worth reading.” Share Their Stories dropping clever one-liners —Entertainment Weekly compiled and introduced in the form of footnotes and by Gary Simons ISBN 978-1-56512-935-1, No. 72935 parenthetical afterthoughts $12.95 PaPer, 2009 with a foreword by throughout.” —The Boston Marian Wright edelman The Children in In Code Globe “[This] is the American Room E4 A Mathematical Journey ISBN 978-1-56512-583-4, No. 72583 dream in fl esh and blood— American Education on Trial $23.95 Hardcover, 2010 by Sarah Flannery a chronicle of how to make by Susan eaton with david Flannery things go right in this coun- “Timely and important.” Southern Belly “What every aspiring young try.” —JONATHAN ALTER, —The Washington Post The Ultimate Food Lover’s scientist and mathemati- Newsweek Senior Editor Book World Companion to the South cian needs: love, humor, by John T. edge ISBN 978-1-56512-417-2, No. 72417 “A vital, informative, impor- inspiration and . . . a copy $12.95 PaPer, 2003 tant book about public edu- John T. edge reveals a South of this book.” —RICHARD ISBN 978-1-56512-416-5, No. 72416 hidden in plain sight in this mANKIEWICZ, author of $23.95 Hardcover, 2003 cation in the U.S.” —NPR’s Morning Edition fully updated and expanded The Story of Mathematics edition, with recipes ISBN 978-1-56512-377-9, No. 72377 “A great read and a call to throughout. $13.95 PaPer, 2002 arms.” —New York Newsday ISBN 978-1-56512-547-6, No. 72547 ISBN 978-1-56512-617-6, No. 72617 $14.95 PaPer, 2007 $14.95 PaPer, 2009

Algonquin Books Backlist nonfiction | 31 The Botantist and the Gardening Vintner How Wine Was Saved for the World by Christy Campbell “A taut, suspense-filled account . . . There’s a sweaty urgency to [this] tale, as one wine region after another falls victim to the plague, with science hot on the trail.” —The New York Times ISBN 978-1-56512-528-5, No. 72528 Seasoned in the South $14.95 Paper, 2006 Recipes from Crook’s Corner and from Home Hemingway & Bailey’s by Bill Smith Bartending Guide to Wicked Plants Flower Confidential Great American Writers A new and expanded paper- The Weed That Killed The Good, the Bad, and by Edward Hemingway and back edition. Structured Lincoln’s Mother and Other the Beautiful Mark Bailey around the seasons, it offers Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart up delicious recipes— by Amy Stewart Award-winning author Forty-three classic American from Tomato and Water “Culling legend and citing Amy Stewart takes readers writers. Forty-three classic melon Salad to Fried Green science, Stewart’s fact-filled, on an around-the-world, cocktails. Tomatoes with Sweet Corn A-to-Z compendium of behind-the-scenes look at and Lemon Beurre Blanc to “Civilization finally has a nature’s worst offenders the flower industry and Honeysuckle Sorbet. book that makes you want offers practical and tanta- how it has sought—for to both drink and read!” “Makes you want to get up, lizing composite views of better or worse—to achieve —Sebastian Junger right now, and cook some- toxic, irritating, prickly, and perfection. “A wittily illustrated rogue’s thing.” —The Charlotte all-around ill-mannered “A book every flower lover gallery of literary lushes, Observer plants.” —Booklist should read . . . [Stewart] with cocktail recipes to let “Southern with a French “This captivating page-turner gives lessons in botany and you drink in their foot- twist.” —The Denver Post is a walk on the dark side big business, history and steps.” —Men’s Journal ISBN 978-1-56512-550-6, No. 72550 of plants as entertaining as horticulture. She enlightens A Reader’s Subscription Book Club $13.95 Paper, 2006 any best-selling whodunit.” and entertains; she poses and Quality Paperback Book Club questions and offers opin- Selection —Houston Chronicle ions. And she does it with ISBN 978-1-56512-482-0, No. 72482 “Wickedly delicious story style.” —New York Newsday $15.95 Hardcover, 2006 telling.” —The Columbus ISBN 978-1-56512-603-9, No. 72603 Dispatch Party Receipts from $13.95 Paper, 2008 the Charleston Junior “Deliciously eerie . . . ISBN 978-1-56512-438-7, No. 72438 League Entertaining, informative— $23.95 Hardcover, 2007 Hors d’oeuvres • Savories and a little unsettling.” • A New York Times Bestseller • Sweets —Los Angeles Times edited by ISBN 978-1-56512-683-1, No. 72683 The Earth Moved Linda Glick Conway $18.95 Paper over Board, 2009 On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms A Book-of-the-Month Club, Good • A New York Times Bestseller Cook Club, and Country Homes and • An AHS Best Book by Amy Stewart Gardens selection Dori Sanders’ “[Rachel] Carson’s legacy ISBN 978-0-945575-84-9, No. 71584 Country Cooking From the Ground Up is proof that science books $13.95 comb-bound, 1993 The Story of a First Garden Recipes and Stories from matter, that good prose can • Over 200,000 copies in print the Family Farm Stand by Amy Stewart change the world. On its Candyfreak by Dori Sanders “A rich feast of a book that own scale, Stewart’s book celebrates the extraordinarily paddles along in Carson’s A Journey through the Over one hundred fresh, satisfying joys of making wake.” —The Boston Globe Chocolate Underbelly delicious recipes and a bushel and keeping a garden.” of America of family stories. “Stewart’s fascination with —Kirkus Reviews by Steve Almond a literary guild and a rodale press her subject is infectious, her ISBN 978-1-56512-240-6, NO. 72240 a quality paperback book club book club selection writing as simple and sleek $18.95 HARDCOVER, 2000 selection ISBN 978-1-56512-385-4, NO. 72385 as the earthworm itself.” ISBN 978-1-56512-421-9, NO. 72421 $15.95 PAPER, 2003 —San Francisco Chronicle $21.95 HARDCOVER, 2004 A Discovery Channel Book Club Dinner at Miss Lady’s Selection Memories and Recipes ISBN 978-1-56512-468-4, No. 72468 from a Southern Childhood $12.95 Paper, 2005 by Luann Landon ISBN 978-1-56512-227-7, No. 72227 $19.95 HARDCOVER, 1999

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Lives of the Trees 100 Flowers and How An Uncommon History They Got Their names The $64 Tomato What the Dormouse Said by diana Wells by diana Wells How One Man Nearly Lost Lessons for Grown-ups from illustrated by Ippy Patterson His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, Children’s Books “Wells portrays 100 trees, and Endured an Existential collected by amy Gash beginning with acacia and From abelia to zinnia, one Crisis in the Quest for the illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan ending with yew, in a tree hundred well-known garden favorites and the stories Perfect Garden with a foreword by Judith viorst album containing lovely by William alexander drawings and pithy essays. behind their names. Wisdom and whimsy from Cinnamon, ginkgo, ‘small a garden book club selection “A wry memoir in which more than two hundred of and spiny’ frankincense, ISBN 978-1-56512-138-6, No. 72138 every reader who’s spent our best-loved children’s mahogany, osage orange, $17.95 HardCover, 1997 way more to grow a plant books, from Beatrix Potter sycamore — all are succinct- • 140,000 copies in print than he could purchase it to Harry Potter. ly described and celebrated for at the supermarket will “Charming.” —The New in this warmly informa- recognize his own successes, York Times tive, fun-to-browse book failures and foibles.” of colorful tree histories.” —San Francisco Chronicle “By turns humorous, per- —Booklist verse, nonsensical and “Money, sex, aging. That’s insightful, the words will jog “You’ll learn all sorts of real gardening!” more than a few memories.” delectable lore and legend, —New York Observer —Publishers Weekly history and science . . . ISBN 978-1-56512-557-5, No. 72557 ISBN 978-1-56512-451-6, No. 72451 [Wells] has proved her knack $13.95 PaPer, 2007 $9.95 PaPer, 2004 for digging up the quirky, Gardener’s Latin and here she is deeply rooted Rising to the occasion . . . oh, the wonders you A Lexicon A Practical Companion for will tuck in every nook and by Bill Neal the Occasionally Perplexed cranny of your noggin.” A Rose by Any name introduction by Barbara damrosch by edith Hazard and —Chicago Tribune The Little-Known Lore and Wallace Pinfold “Wells has assembled a widely Deep-Rooted History of This charming volume pro- “A witty cross between an encompassing look at how Rose Names vides gardeners with brief, etiquette book and a scout tightly mankind is bound to by douglas Brenner and clear defi nitions and terms manual . . . This is a truly these providers and protec- Stephen Scanniello that combine to form the essential book purchase.” tors of the planet.” —The names of a seemingly infi - “Covering social and cultural —Wilson Library Bulletin Cleveland Plain Dealer history, technology, art, nite number of plant species. It’s a sprightly bouquet of ISBN 978-1-56512-329-8, No. 72329 ISBN 978-1-56512-491-2, No. 72491 and science, A Rose by Any $12.95 PaPer, 2001 $19.95 PaPer, 2009 Name proves that a whole little-known horticultural facts and fables, and the world can be found within Singing for Your Supper the petals of a single rose.” wisdom of gardeners from Entertaining Ways to Be —Martha Stewart Living virgil to vita Sackville-West. a Perfect Guest “Highly entertaining . . . each “An engaging and informa- by edith Hazard tive guide.” —The Garden of its illuminating chapters ISBN 978-1-56512-090-7, No. 72090 Book Club reads almost like a mini $15.95 HardCover, 1996 biography, albeit of a plant.” “nifty . . . pithy explanations —Town and Country of words that confront every out on the Porch ISBN 978-1-56512-518-6, No. 72518 plant tag reader.” An Evocation in Words and $19.95 HardCover, 2009 —New York Times Book Pictures Review Introductory text by a garden book club selection reynolds Price ISBN 978-1-56512-384-7 No. 72384 “The soul of the Southern $10.95 PaPer, 2003 porch has been captured.” —The Atlanta Journal- Constitution ISBN 978-0-945575-93-1, No. 71593 $18.95 HardCover, 1992

Algonquin Books Backlist nonfiction | 33 History/ History/ african Maritime american

Love, Loss, and Mother of the Bride What I Wore The Dream, the Reality, the by Ilene Beckerman Search for a Perfect Dress Ilene “Gingy” Beckerman’s by Ilene Beckerman beloved and bestselling “Pithy wit and cute drawings book has been adapted for sketch the happy tears, the stage by Nora and Delia bittersweet memories and In the Wake of Madness Ephron. The star-studded flares of anxiety that a On the Road to Freedom The Murderous Voyage of the Off-Broadway show is daughter’s wedding elicits.” Whaleship Sharon A Guided Tour of the Civil receiving rave reviews, as —The Dallas Morning News by Joan Druett did the book: Rights Trail “An account that is sweetly by Charles E. Cobb Jr. “A nautical murder mystery.” “Illuminates the experience sentimental and brutally —USA Today of an entire generation of honest, touching and Award-winning journalist women . . . This small gem of witty—in short, a true gem.” and 1960s civil rights worker “A genuine nautical thriller, a book is worthy of a Tiffany —Publishers Weekly, starred Charles E. Cobb Jr. takes a page-turner.” —Richard box.” —The New York Times ISBN 978-1-56512-476-9, No. 72476 us on a pilgrimage through Zacks, author of The Pirate Book Review $10.95 Paper, 2005 the heart of the civil rights Hunter era. This essential piece of ISBN 978-1-56512-435-6, NO. 72435 “Ilene Beckerman’s sleek little American history is also $14.95 PAPER, 2004 memoir . . . strikes a star- a useful travel guide with tling chord . . . Unsettling maps, photographs, and and oddly powerful.” sidebars of background History/ WWII —People history, newspaper coverage, ISBN 978-1-56512-475-2, No. 72475 and firsthand interviews. On American Soil $10.95 Paper, 2005 How Justice Became a “Charlie Cobb was in the Casualty of World War II heart of the Southern move- by Jack Hamann ment and one of its keenest observers. Now he takes us “An Emmy-winning journalist there in this exciting and sets the record straight about inspiring tour. His book is the death of an Italian POW rich with history, drama, during WWII . . . A welcome and emotion.” —Howard piece of military history, Makeovers at the Beauty Zinn, author of A People’s adroitly balancing racism Counter of Happiness History of the United States and legal questions in one by Ilene Beckerman story.” —Kirkus Reviews “Cobb brings alive America’s last good war and its many ISBN 978-1-56512-394-6, No. 72394 Beckerman addresses what $24.95 Hardcover, 2005 really matters in life in a heroes, unsung as well as book that captures all the famous.” —Hodding World War II in the What We Do for Love wisdom, humor, and candor Carter III of her bestselling illustrated Mediterranean, 1942– by Ilene Beckerman “The great strength of this memoir Love, Loss, and 1945 book is that it is the story “This savory little truffle What I Wore. by Carlo D’Este turns out to be surprisingly of people and not simply a introduction by poignant, laced with the bitter, “Cuts to the heart of the repetition of dates and a list- John S. D. Eisenhower female experience.” ing of places and events. Put the rueful, and the sweet.” ISBN 978-0-945575-04-7, No. 71504 —Good Housekeeping —Chicago Tribune this book on your must-read $22.95 hardcover, 1990 ISBN 978-1-56512-374-8, No. 72374 list!” —Julian Bond, a book-of-the-month club selection $15.95 Hardcover, 2005 chairman of the NAACP ISBN 978-1-56512-180-5, No. 72180 A Frozen Hell $14.95 hardcover, 1997 a Black expressions book club The Russo-Finnish Winter selection War of 1939–1940 ISBN 978-1-56512-439-4, No. 72439 $18.95 Paper, 2007 by William Trotter a history book club Selection ISBN 978-1-56512-249-9, No. 72249 $15.95 PAPER, 1999

34 | Backlist nonfiction Algonquin Books Jewish Language & MUSIC Interest Writing

How to Spell Chanukah 18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights edited by Emily Franklin Our Noise The Story of Merge Records, Eighteen Jewish writers extol, the Indie Label That Got Big excoriate, and expand our and Stayed Small understanding of this most by John Cook with Outwitting History merry of Jewish holidays. Something to Declare The Amazing Adventures of a nonfiction essays Mac McCaughan and Man Who Rescued a Million “The book’s essays—from by Julia Alvarez Laura Ballance Yiddish Books funny to poignant—explore ISBN 978-1-56512-193-5, no. 72193 introduction by Ryan Adams what it’s like to celebrate $20.95 hardcover, 1998 by Aaron Lansky “[A] rich piece of music Hanukkah in a culture h i s t o r y . ” —Newsweek “A marvelous yarn, loaded where Christmas is ubiqui- with near-calamitous adven- tous.” —USA Today “A primer for anyone who tures and characters as mem- cares enough about music to “Funny, irreverent or touch- orable as Singer creations.” not only make records, but ing, 30- and 40-somethings —New York Post also remain relevant and sol- recall Hanukkas past . . . vent.” —Los Angeles Times “What began as a quixotic Hilarious.” —Hadassah journey was also a picaresque ISBN 978-1-56512-624-4, NO. 72624 ISBN 978-1-56512-538-4, No. 72538 $18.95 PAPER, 2009 romp, a detective story, a $19.95 Hardcover, 2007 profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world. Lansky’s extraordinary storytelling conveys the daunting task he set for himself.” —The Boston Sunday Globe “The real reason to read the book is to remind yourself First Words of the value of a great idea, Earliest Writing from Favorite Jewish or otherwise, (even if Contemporary Authors you are the only person who collected and edited has it or believes in it) and by Paul Mandelbaum the impact of enthusiasm on a quality paperback book club and productivity . . . The stories writer’s digest book club selection ISBN 978-1-56512-272-7, NO. 72272 here fill up your spirit.” $16.95 PAPER, 2000 Little Blues Book —Minneapolis Star Tribune The Jew Store by Brian Robertson ISBN 978-1-56512-513-1, No. 72513 by Stella Suberman illustrations by R. Crumb $13.95 Paper, 2005 Making Whoopee In the 1920s the Bronsons Words of Love for Lovers Famed underground illus- ISBN 978-1-56512-429-5, No. 72429 became the first Jews ever $24.95 Hardcover, 2004 of Words trator R. Crumb’s portraits to live in the small town of by Evan Morris of blues masters accompany • Bound-in Reader’s Guide Concordia, Tennessee. This blues lyrics and lore. • 75,000 copies in print With wry wit and a wealth intimate family memoir ISBN 978-1-56512-137-9, NO. 72137 speaks to the immigrant of word love, Evan Morris, $9.95 PAPER, 1996 Shalom Y’all experience of millions of a.k.a. the Word Detective, Images of Jewish Life in the Americans. traces the often surprising American South origins and evolution of the The Essential Klezmer photographs by Bill Aron “Suberman tells her family’s language of love. a music lover’s guide by story with compassion and Seth Rogovoy text by Vicki Reikes Fox ISBN 978-1-56512-350-2, NO. 72350 foreword by Alfred Uhry humor, in the process bring- $15.95 HARDCOVER, 2004 ISBN 978-1-56512-244-4, NO. 72244 ing to life an obscure bit of $15.95 paper, 2000 a traditions book club selection Jewish-American history.” ISBN 978-1-56512-355-7, NO. 72355 $24.95 HARDCOVER, 10” x 10”, 2002 —Chicago Tribune ISBN 978-1-56512-330-4, No. 72330 $13.95 Paper, 1998

Algonquin Books Backlist nonfiction | 35 Nature Parenting Pets & Writing Animals

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading by Esmé Raji Codell “An exuberant treasure trove for parents . . . The book is First Dogs UPDATED AND EXPANDED American Presidents and The Sound of a Wild akin to having one’s own Last Child in the Woods personal children’s librar- Their Best Friends Snail Eating by Roy Rowan and by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Saving Our Children from ian at one’s fingertips.” Nature-Deficit Disorder —Publishers Weekly, starred Brooke Janis “An exquisite meditation on by Richard Louv a book-of-the-month club and a A lighthearted romp the restorative connection children’s book-of-the-month through American his- In his landmark work, club selection between nature and humans tory, packed with drawings . . . The writing is pristine Richard Louv brings together ISBN 978-1-56512-308-3, NO. 72308 cutting-edge studies that $18.95 paper, 2003 and paintings from early and clear, with sentences of America, plus photographs, stunning lyrical beauty that point to direct exposure to nature as essential for a Loving Every Child starting with Abraham I read over and over again Lincoln’s Fido. Not only did . . . Bailey’s slim book is as child’s healthy physical and Wisdom for Parents emotional development. the words of Janusz Korczak these four-footed goodwill richly layered as the soil ambassadors humanize their she lays down in the snail’s edited by Sandra Joseph “[The] international move- foreword by Ari L. Goldman distinguished masters, they terrarium: loamy, potent, ment to ‘leave no child offered them a little uncon- and regenerative.” —The inside’ . . . has been the “Korczak’s insights are ditional love in a loveless Huffington Post focus of Capitol Hill hear- profound . . . in this perfect town. First Dogs gives dog “A small, short book filled ings, state legislative action, inspirational gift book.” lovers and history lovers a with an enormous amount grass-roots projects, a U.S. —Publishers Weekly, new angle on presidential of natural history and sci- Forest Service initiative starred history and is more fun than ence about snails . . . An to get more children into “This book is filled with sim- you can shake a stick (or acknowledgment of an the woods and a national ple commonsense truisms rubber bone) at. effort to promote a ‘green individual’s determination about child rearing.” “It’s the charming photos that to recover and regain life hour’ in each day . . . The —The Boston Globe increased activism has been make First Dogs so appeal- with humor and insight.” ISBN 978-1-56512-489-9, No. 72489 ing.” —USA Today —Library Journal partly inspired by a best- $10.95 Hardcover, 2007 ISBN 978-1-56512-606-0, No. 72606 selling book, Last Child in “Succeeds in keeping the tail $18.95 Hardcover, 2010 the Woods, and its author, The Dinner Diaries of trivia wagging the dog of Richard Louv.” —The Raising Whole Wheat Kids in American history. This one Settled in the Wild Washington Post a White Bread World is fur keeps.” —People Notes from the Edge of Town “This book is an absolute by Betsy Block “Rowan intertwines anec- by Susan Hand Shetterly must-read for parents.” “Betsy Block has done an dotes and dozens of photo- “[A] lovely book, a gather- —The Boston Globe amazing job of giving graphs with hard-to-stop- ing of 26 essays that probe, A Discovery Channel Book Club and creative tips, nutritional reading stories that track the ponder, and celebrate life progressive book club selection information, and relating canine legacy on America’s and landscape on ‘the edge ISBN 978-1-56512-605-3, No. 72605 her adventures on the road democracy.” —St. Louis $14.95 Paper, 2008 of town’ . . . In a succession to feeding her family in a Post-Dispatch of wise, quiet, attentive ISBN 978-1-56512-936-8, No. 72936 The Big Turnoff more healthful way. The pieces, Shetterly introduces book is funny, honest, and $9.95 Paper, 2009 Confessions of a TV-Addicted us to a world resplendent full of excellent advice that Mom Trying to Raise a with wild things . . . Like any mother will appreciate.” TV-Free Kid Annie Dillard, Shetterly —NELL NEWMAN, by Ellen Currey-Wilson slows herself down and cofounder and president of takes the time first to really “An entertaining, inspiring Newman’s Own Organics apprehend these things, and decidedly countercul- ISBN 978-1-56512-570-4, No. 72570 and then to evoke them for tural account of parenting $14.95 Paper, 2008 us.” —National Geographic in a media-crazy world.” Traveler —Kirkus Reviews ISBN 978-1-56512-618-3, No. 72618 ISBN 978-1-56512-539-1, No. 72539 $21.95 Hardcover, 2009 $24.95 Hardcover, 2007

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enslaved by Ducks Rock on by Bob Tarte An Offi ce Power Ballad by dan Kennedy “A laugh-out-loud chronicle The Woman I Kept to of what it means to bring Myself “A hilarious—and damning— animals—a blind turkey, an by Julia alvarez Greasy Rider insider’s memoir.” —Wired irascible rabbit, a lovesick ISBN 978-1-61620-072-5, No. 73072 Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil- “He’s effing hilarious. The dove—into your heart and $13.95 PaPer, 2010 Powered Car, and a book is not just laugh- home and make them part Cross-Country Search for out-loud funny; it’s snort- of the fabric of your life.” Poetry out Loud a Greener Future audibly-on-the-subway —MARTY BeCKeR, DVM, edited by by Greg Melville funny.” —Time Out Good Morning America robert alden rubin New York introduction by James earl Jones Full of surprising revelations “This rich and funny per- about sustainable measures “Kennedy’s style—hilarious, sonal account of Bob Tarte’s Poems that come alive when within our reach. paranoid and vulnerable— noticeably never-ending read aloud, with notes, “An entertaining combina- captures wonderfully (and largely inadvertent) introductions to basic poetic tion of On the Road and the absurdity of the cor- acquisition of pets will warm terms, and helpful hints. An Inconvenient Truth.” porate music industry.” your heart . . . For anyone a book-of-the-month club, Quality —The New York Times —Publishers Weekly who has ever opened heart PaPerback book club, and writer’s digest book club selection Book Review and home to an animal or “Fast-moving and darkly ISBN 978-1-56512-122-5, No. 72122 funny, Rock On should be experienced the love-hate $10.95 PaPer, 1995 “A hopeful, goodhearted . . . relationship of being owned road-trip-cum-search-for- a chart-topper.” —People, • 60,000 copies in print by pets.” —The Dallas America’s-energy-future.” four stars Morning News Love Poetry out Loud —Newsweek “Amazingly funny yet ISBN 978-1-56512-450-9, No. 72450 edited by ISBN 978-1-56512-595-7, No. 72595 p e r c e p t i v e . ” —USA Today $12.95 PaPer, 2004 $15.95 PaPer, 2008 robert alden rubin a Quality PaPerback book club • Named a Top 10 Book on the selection Fowl Weather “This sweet little book collects Environment by Booklist ISBN 978-1-56512-509-4, No. 72509 $14.95 PaPer, 2007 by Bob Tarte 100 poems ‘to stir the heart.’ Rubin provides annotation Smartbomb “[A] moving follow-up to and commentary, but if read- The Quest for Art, 2003’s Enslaved by Ducks . . . ers prefer no interference or Entertainment, and Big popuLar Tarte’s laughter-through- intrusion, it’s easy to stick Bucks in the Videogame tears approach is thera- to the original words alone Revolution scIence peutic and inspirational.” and still get a good measure by Heather Chaplin and —Entertainment Weekly of the silly and the sublime.” aaron ruby The Three-Pound ISBN 978-1-56512-502-5, No. 72502 —The Washington Post Book enigma “A voyeuristic, enjoyable $23.95 HardCover, 2007 World The Human Brain and the journey through the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries ISBN 978-1-56512-459-2, No. 72459 bizarre and fi scally fertile My Therapist’s Dog $14.95 PaPer, 2007 by Shannon Moffett Lessons in Unconditional Love subculture of an industry “An educational, behind- by diana Wells exploding in popularity and The Radiation Sonnets relevance . . . The writing the-scenes glimpse into the an insightful and true For My Love, in Sickness is quick and informative, efforts of neuroscientists to story of human and animal and in Health and the book is a smart read uncover the brain’s secrets.” natures, of loss and accep- by Jane Yolen for those who want to learn —Science News tance, and of the capacity of ISBN 978-1-56512-402-8, No. 72402 from the people who keep a SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN book club the human heart to heal. $14.95 HardCover, 2003 gamers so entertained.” main selection ISBN 978-1-56512-371-7, No. 72371 —Fast Company ISBN 978-1-56512-423-3, No. 72423 $16.95 HardCover, 2004 $24.95 HardCover, 2005 a NEW YORK TIMES editor’s Pick ISBN 978-1-56512-545-2, No. 72545 $13.95 PaPer, 2006

Algonquin Books Backlist nonfiction | 37 reference sports A Wonderful Life 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit edited by Cyrus M. Copeland foreword by Larry Gelbart An inspiring collection of fond farewells that celebrate the lives of some of the world’s greatest contributors to the arts, politics, sports, and letters. These uplifting tributes honor their subjects with wit, humor, and reverence. The Buddha and the REVISED AND EXPANDED ISBN 978-1-56512-511-7, No. 72511 Terrorist $22.95 Hardcover, 2006 by Satish Kumar Dream Golf foreword by Thomas Moore The Making of Bandon Dunes Hard Work by Stephen Goodwin spirituality “This kind of parable has a A Life On and Off the Court calming effect on the mind. by Roy Williams with “[A] very special book . . . [Dream Golf ] will appeal to Fleeing Fundamentalism The change in outlook from Tim Crothers anger to compassion is also foreword by John Grisham golfers and lovers of golf his- A Minister’s Wife Examines tory on multiple levels: as a Faith contagious, also powerful.” “A star coach tells his inspir- —Los Angeles Times crash course in golf-course by Carlene Cross ing tale . . . By the end of this architecture; as an insider’s An eloquent and compelling “[One of] the 10 best engaging tale, you’ll realize look at how golf holes are story about faith lost and spiritual books of 2006.” why Williams is an unparal- designed and constructed; regained. —Spirituality and Health leled recruiter . . . He works and as a surprisingly inspi- as hard as anyone, and he rational account of how a “[A] brave memoir . . . Elo “Eloquent and highly acces- knows how to tell a good golf course built the old- quent without self-pity . . . sible . . . A powerful statement story.” —Sports Illustrated fashioned way can inspire Chronicled with compassion of the power of nonviolence “Hard Work is a successful a ‘sense of the sublime’ in and spirit.” —Kirkus Reviews, and compassion.” —Tricycle coach’s memoir not because all who tread its fairways.” starred “Kumar neatly reworks an it provides a blueprint for —Booklist ISBN 978-1-56512-498-1, No. 72498 ancient allegory . . . This success but because it reveals ISBN 978-1-56512-981-8, No. 72981 $23.95 Hardcover, 2006 short piece hits its mark with the humiliations and inse- $24.95 Hardcover, 2010 studied grace.” —Publishers curities that have stoked The Accidental Buddhist Weekly Mindfulness, Enlightenment, Williams’ competitive fire and Sitting Still “A challenging story, beauti- and made him a basketball by Dinty W. Moore fully written, most pertinent coach.” —The Raleigh and relevant to our time.” News and Observer and ISBN 978-1-56512-142-3, No. 72142 $19.95 hardcover, 1997 —Deepak Chopra The Charlotte Observer “It has a lucid clarity and ISBN 978-1-56512-959-7, No. 72959 $24.95 Hardcover, 2009 Girl Meets God directness that speaks point- • A New York Times Bestseller On the Path to a Spiritual Life edly and movingly to our by Lauren F. Winner times. It should touch every heart that it meets.” Off the Deep End “Sharing Anne Lamott’s self- The Probably Insane Idea —Pico Iyer deprecating intensity and That I Could Swim My Way ISBN 978-1-56512-520-9, No. 72520 Stephen J. Dubner’s passion $12.95 Hardcover, 2006 through a Midlife Crisis—and for authenticity . . . [Winner] Qualify for the Olympics reveals herself through by W. Hodding Carter abundant, concrete, and ISBN 978-1-56512-564-3, No. 72564 often funny descriptions of $21.95 Hardcover, 2008 Cobb her life, inner and outer . . . A Biography A page-turning debut.” A Great and by Al Stump —Publishers Weekly, starred Glorious Game “The most revealing account ISBN 978-1-56512-309-0, NO. 72309 Baseball Writings of $23.95 HARDCOVER, 2002 A. Bartlett Giamatti we are ever likely to get of a edited by Kenneth S. Robson man who is on every sports with a foreword by historian’s short list of base- David Halberstam ball’s greatest players.” —The New York Times Book Review “Knowledgeable, precise . . . ISBN 978-1-56512-144-7, No. 72144 eloquent.” —The New York $15.95 Paper,1996 Times Book Review • A New York Times Notable Book ISBN 978-1-56512-192-8, No. 72192 • 115,000 copies in print $17.95 hardcover, 1998

38 | Backlist nonfiction Algonquin Books A Son of the Game A Story of Golf and Fatherhood by James Dodson “What do you get when you combine an engaging rites of passage story together with interesting golf history as relayed by a skilled storyteller? The answer would be A Son of the Game by James Dodson . . . A great gift for the golfing father or son.” —Golf Today ISBN 978-1-56512-978-8, No. 72978 $14.95 Paper, 2010 Very Washington DC ISBN 978-1-56512-506-3, No. 72506 The Lady in the Palazzo A Celebration of the History $24.95 hardcover, 2009 An Umbrian Love Story and Culture of America’s by Marlena de Blasi French Dirt The Story of a Garden Capital City “De Blasi[’s] . . . robust in the South of France written and illustrated travel appetite for life saturates by Richard Goodman by Diana Hollingsworth & Adventure the book.” —Entertainment Gessler Weekly “One of the most charming, perceptive and subtle books This fact-filled keep- “[This] cookbook writer does ever written about the sake offers all the his- for Umbria what Frances French by an American.” tory, beauty, and culture Mayes did for Tuscany.” —San Francisco Chronicle of America’s capital city. A picture-perfect guidebook, —Bloomberg.com ISBN 978-1-56512-352-6, NO. 72352 $13.00 PAPER WITH FLAPS, 2002 it’s as unique as the city “The latest gastronomic itself — with eye-catching adventure from the author of New Orleans, watercolors that capture the A Thousand Days in Venice charms of one of the most brings to life an Italian cul- Mon Amour Twenty Years of Writings visited destinations in the ture steeped in culinary tra- country. dition and social eccentric- from the City by Andrei Codrescu ISBN 978-1-56512-582-7, No. 72582 ity . . . Recipes are included.” $15.95 Hardcover, 2009 —Library Journal “Codrescu is in on everything ISBN 978-1-56512-610-7, No. 72610 fascinating about New Very California $14.95 Paper, 2008 Orleans, from its history Travels Through the ISBN 978-1-56512-473-8, No. 72473 to its music to its food . . . Golden State $23.95 Hardcover, 2007 He covers a great deal of written and illustrated by If You Lived Here, I’d ground—from the sacred to Diana Hollingsworth Gessler Know Your Name A Thousand Days the profane, angels to alli- Illustrates the color and News from Small-Town in Tuscany gators—sometimes within character of our third-largest Alaska A Bittersweet Adventure the same paragraph . . . With and most populous state in by Heather Lende by Marlena de Blasi New Orleans, Mon Amour, [he] has honored a great, watercolors and stories. “Who knew a writer could ISBN 978-1-56512-392-2, NO. 72392 $23.95 HARDCOVER, 2004 wounded American city.” ISBN 978-1-56512-285-7, NO. 72285 find so much human drama, $16.95 HARDCOVER, 2001 —Los Angeles Times simple pleasure and thorny Traveling While Married issues in such a remote ISBN 978-1-56512-505-6, No. 72505 Very New Orleans by Mary-Lou Weisman $14.00 Paper, 2006 place? If you like the stories A Celebration of History, with illustrations by Edward Koren on Prairie Home Companion Very Charleston Culture, and Cajun or Northern Exposure, you’ll The author of the bestselling A Celebration of History, Country Charm love some real news from My Middle-Aged Baby Book Culture, and Lowcountry written and illustrated by small-town Alaska.” turns her trademark humor Charm Diana Hollingsworth Gessler —USA Today to the pitfalls and pleasures written and illustrated by In vibrant watercolors and of traveling with the one ISBN 978-1-56512-524-7, No. 72524 Diana Hollingsworth Gessler detailed sketches, artist $12.95 Paper, 2006 you love. “A delightful mix—part Diana Gessler celebrates “Mary-Lou Weisman may hand-drawn photo album, the city, Cajun country, the just be the Erma Bombeck part map, part history people, and our history. of travel writing. For, like book—that takes readers ISBN 978-1-56512-447-9, No. 72447 Bombeck, she offers sage $16.95 Hardcover, 2006 on a memorable journey advice, generously laced through this unforgettable with frequent dollops of city.” —Luxury Living humor.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer ISBN 978-1-56512-339-7, NO. 72339 $15.95 HARDCOVER, 2003 ISBN 978-1-56512-319-9, NO. 72319 • 85,000 copies in print $16.95 HARDCOVER, 2003

Algonquin Books Backlist nonfiction | 39 At Sea in the City Weather WWii/Memoir New York from the Water’s Edge The Weather Wizard’s When It Was Our War by William Kornblum Cloud Book A Soldier’s Wife on the with a foreword by Pete Hamill A Unique Way to Predict Home Front “A masterful job of combining the Weather Accurately and by Stella Suberman Easily by Reading the Clouds history, sociology, literature, “A remarkable story that res- by Louis D. Rubin, Sr., memoir, a bit of sailing and onates with intelligence and and Jim Duncan a whiff of danger.” insight.” —Kirkus Reviews, with the assistance of —The Seattle Times/ starred Post-Intelligencer Hiram J. Herbert A shannon ravenel book ISBN 978-1-56512-265-9, No. 72265 A Rodale Press Book Club Selection ISBN 978-1-56512-403-5, NO. 72403 $23.95 Hardcover, 2002 ISBN 978-0-912697-10-9, No. 70710 $23.95 HARDCOVER, 2003 $8.95 paper, 1989 On Whale Island • 94,000 copies in print Notes from a Place Waking Up in Eden I Never Meant to Leave The Weather Wizard’s In Pursuit of an Impassioned by Daniel Hays 5-Year Weather Diary Life on an Imperiled Island ISBN 978-1-56512-345-8, No. 72345 The Weather Wizard’s 5-Year by Lucinda Fleeson $22.95 HARDCOVER, 2002 Weather Diary is a handy, “With a reporter’s skill for fact-filled way for weather unearthing and explaining Cuba Diaries watchers to record their complicated histories and An American Housewife observations and compare a travel writer’s keen eye in Havana daily entries from month and ear for the illuminating by Isadora Tattlin to month, and year to detail, Fleeson fills in the A Shannon Ravenel Book year, compiling a personal fantasy’s blank—and paints ISBN 978-1-56512-349-6, No. 72349 weather log. a multifaceted portrait $24.95 Hardcover, 2002 Full of straightforward of Paradise.” —National explanations of the way Geographic Traveler hurricanes, tornadoes, true crime fronts, winds, and other “Waking Up in Eden is more Some Survived pieces of the weather puzzle An Eyewitness Account of the than simply memoir or Bloodsworth fit together, the diary also Bataan Death March and the adventure tale. Fleeson’s by Tim Junkin features hundreds of facts, Men Who Lived Through It account is both a refresher figures, and bits of folk by Manny Lawton course in history, sociology, “Tried and convicted for a wisdom about meteorology, and anthropology, and a sadistic murder he did not “Shows that the human spirit weather lore, weather his- wake-up call to those who commit and then sentenced can soar like an eagle from tory, and color photographs care about conserving the to death, Bloodsworth is an the depths of hell on earth.” of the ten basic cloud types. earth’s endangered flora and American Josef K., an icon —Charleston News & Courier ISBN 978-0-945575-85-6, No. 71585 fauna.” —ForeWord of a system that failed him— ISBN 978-1-56512-434-9, NO. 72434 $13.95 wire-o-bound, 1989 and justice—at every turn.” $14.95 PApER, 2004 “Fleeson takes us on a sen- —Washington Post Book sual journey of the island World [Kauai], and of her life.” Women’s The Medic —Minneapolis Star Tribune “Bloodsworth may well be the Life and Death in the most incredible and impor- Studies Last Days of WWII “An enjoyable ride . . . Take tant true story ever written by Leo Litwak one part coming-of-middle- about a death row convict’s All-Night Party age memoir, stir in an “This is a disturbing, reveal- daily battle for survival, The Women of Bohemian environmental storyline, ing, and very important both in the cell block and in Greenwich Village and add a dose of gardening, glimpse of warfare at the the courtrooms.” —Joseph Harlem, 1913–1930 mix in island history, salt most elementary level.” Wambaugh by Andrea Barnet with mellifluous Hawaiian —Booklist A Shannon Ravenel Book “[Barnet’s] flair for story- a military history book club words like pueo (owl) and ISBN 978-1-56512-514-8, No. 72514 selection haole (gringo), and you’ve $13.95 Paper, 2005 telling and enthusiasm for got a recipe for not only a this endlessly fascinating ISBN 978-1-56512-305-2, NO. 72305 $22.95 HARDCOVER, 2001 sweet book, but also a sweet Midnight Assassin subject makes each juicy life, the ‘impassioned life’ A Murder in America’s chapter go down as deli- that each of us searches for.” Heartland ciously as an E! True —The Philadelphia Inquirer by Patricia L. Bryan and Hollywood Story.” —Bust ISBN 978-1-56512-486-8, No. 72486 Thomas Wolf magazine $13.95 Paper, 2009 ISBN 978-1-56512-306-9, No. 72306 ISBN 978-1-56512-381-6, No. 72381 $23.95 Hardcover, 2005 $16.95 PAPER, 2004

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Algonquin Books backlist fiction | 41 Between Here The Cheer Leader The Truest and April a novel by Jill McCorkle Pleasure a novel by Deborah ISBN 978-1-56512-001-3, NO. 72001 a novel by Robert Morgan Copaken Kogan $12.95 PAPER, 1992 ISBN 978-1-56512-222-2, NO. 72222 ISBN 978-1-56512-932-0, No. 72932 $12.95 PAPER, 1998 $13.95 paper, 2008 July 7th a novel by Jill McCorkle The Faith Healer of ISBN 978-1-56512-562-9, No. 72562 $23.95 Hardcover, 2008 ISBN 978-1-56512-002-0, NO. 72002 Olive Avenue $12.95 paper, 1992 stories by Manuel Muñoz ISBN 978-1-56512-532-5, No. 72532 $12.95 Paper, 2007 Lightning Song a novel by Lewis Nordan ISBN 978-1-56512-220-8, NO. 72220 $10.95 PAPER, 1998 Every Last Cuckoo The Sharpshooter Blues a novel by a novel by Lewis Nordan Kate Maloy ISBN 978-1-56512-182-9, No. 72182 $11.95 paper, 1997 ISBN 978-1-56512-675-6, No. 72675 $13.95 PAPER, 2009 Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle ISBN 978-1-61620-014-5, No. 73014 King Matt the First $13.95 Paper, 2010 a novel by Janusz Korczak ISBN 978-1-56512-632-9, No. 72632 Breakfast with introduction by Esmé Raji Codell $19.95 Hardcover, 2009 Buddha translation by Richard Lourie a novel by Roland Merullo ISBN 978-1-56512-616-9, No. 72616 ISBN 978-1-56512-442-4, No. 72442 $13.95 PAPER, 2008 $13.95 Paper, 2004 ISBN 978-1-56512-552-0, No. 72552 Secret Son $23.95 Hardcover, 2007 a novel by Laila Lalami ISBN 978-1-56512-979-5, No. 72979 $13.95 Paper, 2010 Wolf Whistle ISBN 978-1-56512-494-3, No. 72494 $23.95 Hardcover, 2009 a novel by Lewis Nordan ISBN 978-1-56512-110-2, No. 72110 $13.95 paper, 1993

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Algonquin Books backlist fiction | 43 Which Brings Me to You A Miracle of Catfish A Dangerous Age Christmas in the South A Novel in Confessions a novel by Larry Brown a novel by Ellen Gilchrist Holiday Stories from the by Steve Almond and ISBN 978-1-56512-536-0, No. 72536 A doubleday book CLUB, book-of-the- South’s Best Writers Julianna Baggott $24.95 Hardcover, 2007 month club, and literary guild edited by Charline R. McCord SELECTION ISBN 978-1-56512-443-1, NO. 72443 and Judy H. 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44 | backlist fiction Algonquin Books The Painting Dog on the Cross 41 a novel by Nina Schuyler Index Don’t Make Me Stop Now 43 ISBN 978-1-56512-441-7, No. 72441 Dori Sanders’ Country Cooking 32 $22.95 Hardcover, 2004 by title Dorothy on the Rocks 43 Dream Boy 44 The Innocents Dream Golf 38 a novel by Caroline Seebohm 52 Loaves 31 ISBN 978-1-56512-500-1, No. 72500 The $64 Tomato 33 The Earth Moved 32 $23.95 Hardcover, 2007 100 Birds and How They Educating Esmé 31 The Widows of Eden Got Their Names 28 Ellen Foster 44 a novel by George Shaffner 100 Flowers and How They The End of the World as We Know It 29 Got Their Names 33 The English Disease 45 ISBN 978-1-56512-535-3, No. 72535 $23.95 Hardcover, 2008 The Accidental Buddhist 38 Enslaved by Ducks 37 All-Night Party 40 The Essential Klezmer 35 The Half-Mammals of Dixie The Americano 30 Every Last Cuckoo 23, 42 stories by George Singleton American Savior 44 The Evil B.B. Chow and Other A SHANNON RAVENEL BOOK An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes Stories 41 ISBN 978-1-56512-354-0, NO. 72354 in New England 23, 41 Exley 26 $22.95 HARDCOVER, 2002 At Sea in the City 40 Facing the Music 41 The English Disease The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue 42 a novel by Joseph Skibell Balls 44 Barnacle Love 26, 41 The Family Diamond 43 ISBN 978-1-56512-257-4, NO. 72257 Far Bright Star 43 $23.95 HARDCOVER, 2003 Be the Dream 31 The Beggar King and Fay 44 Single Wife the Secret of Happiness 30 The Feasting Season 41 a novel by Nina Solomon Best of the South 43 Ferris Beach 25, 42 A Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Between Here and April 25, 42 Final Vinyl Days 44 Guild, and Quality Paperback Book Club The Big Steal 41 First Dogs 36 Selection The Big Turnoff 36 First Words 35 ISBN 978-1-56512-382-3, NO. 72382 Fleeing Fundamentalism 38 $23.95 HARDCOVER, 2003 Billy Ray’s Farm 29 A Blessing on the Moon 23, 43 Flower Confidential 32 The Curve of the World Blind Your Ponies 22, 43 Fowl Weather 37 a novel by Marcus Stevens Bloodsworth 40 French Dirt 39 a book-of-the-month club and quality paper- Boone 28 A Friend of the Family 22, 41 back book club selection The Botanist and the Vintner 32 From the Ground Up 32 ISBN 978-1-56512-336-6, No. 72336 Boulevard 41 A Frozen Hell 34 $24.95 HARDCOVER, 2002 A Boy I Once Knew 30 The Frozen Rabbi 17 Useful Girl The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes 30 The Future of Love 43 a novel by Marcus Stevens Brave Enemies 42 Breakfast with Buddha 23, 42 Gap Creek 44 ISBN 978-1-56512-366-3, No. 72366 Gardener’s Latin 33 $24.95 hardcover, 2004 The Buddha and the Terrorist 38 Gertrude Stein 28 The Good Negress Candyfreak 32 The Ghost at the Table 25, 41 a novel by A. J. Verdelle Cardboard Gods 3 The Ghost of Milagro Creek 43 a quality paperback book club selection Chatter 44 Girl Meets God 38, 41 ISBN 978-1-56512-085-3, No. 72085 The Cheer Leader 42 The Girl Who Fell from the Sky 22, 41 $19.95 hardcover, 1995 The Children in Room E4 31 Going Away Shoes 42 Golfing with God 42 Ray in Reverse The Christmas Letters 43 The Good Negress 45 a novel by Daniel Wallace Christmas in the South 44 Clover 44 Gossip of the Starlings 24, 41 ISBN 978-1-56512-260-4, NO. 72260 Greasy Rider 37 $21.95 HARDCOVER, 2000 Coal Black Horse 43 Cobb 38 A Great and Glorious Game 38 Comfort and Joy 41 Confinement 44 The Half-Mammals of Dixie 45 Creatures of Habit 42 Hard Work 38 A Crime in the Neighborhood 44 The Hatbox Baby 44 The Cripple and His The Hat of My Mother 43 Talismans 44 Heart in the Right Place 24 Cuba Diaries 40 Hemingway & Bailey’s Bartending Guide A Curable Romantic 26 to Great American Writers 32 A Cure for Dreams 44 Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home 29 The Curve of the World 45 Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits 44 A Dangerous Age 44 Hot and Bothered 41 Daughters of Memory 41 How the García Girls Lost Their Dinner at Miss Lady’s 32 Accents 19, 41 The Dinner Diaries 36 How to Get Your Child to Love Dirty Work 41 Reading 36 A Dixie Christmas 44 How to Spell Chanukah 35 Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain 44

Algonquin Books Spring/Summer 2011 | 45 If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Our Noise 35 The Unexpected Salami 43 Name 39 Out on the Porch 33 Ursula, Under 44 If You Want Me to Stay 44 Outwitting History 35 Useful Girl 45 In Code 31 In My Father’s Shadow 29 The Painting 45 Verbena 44 The Innocents 45 Paris Was Ours 27 Very California 39 In the Name of Salomé 44 Party Receipts from the Very Charleston 39 In the Time of the Butterflies 19, 41 Charleston Junior League 32 Very New Orleans 39 In the Wake of Madness 34 Peep Show 25, 41 Very Washington DC 39 I Thought You Were Dead 16 A Perfect Arrangement 44 A Virtuous Woman 44 Pictures of You 22, 42 The Jew Store 35 Poetry Out Loud 37 Waiting for April 44 Joe 41 The Puzzle King 22, 41 Wakefield 44 John Gardner 28 Waking Up in Eden 40 July 7th 42 The Radiation Sonnets 37 Walking Across Egypt 44 Ray in Reverse 45 Water for Elephants 1, 24, 41 King Matt the First 42 A Reliable Wife 24, 41 The Watery Part of the World 11 A Kiss from Maddalena 44 Responsible Men 43 The Weather Wizard’s Cloud Book 40 The Resurrectionist 42 The Weather Wizard’s 5-Year Weather The Lady in the Palazzo 39 Return of the Osprey 28 Diary 40 Lamb in Love 44 Riley’s Fire 44 West of Here 26 Last Bite 44 Rising to the Occasion 33 What the Dormouse Said 33 Last Child in the Woods 36 Rock On 37 What We Do for Love 34 The Lie 41 A Rose by Any Name 33 What You See in the Dark 2 Lightning Song 42 When Angels Sing 44 Lincoln as I Knew Him 28 The Saint of Lost Things 44 When It Was Our War 40 Lincoln on War 5 Saving the World 18, 41 When Tito Loved Clara 4 Little Blues Book 35 Seasoned in the South 32 Which Brings Me to You 44 Lives of the Trees 33 Secret Son 42 Why Dogs Chase Cars 43 Love, Loss, and What I Wore 34 Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Wicked Bugs 1 2 – 1 3 Love Poetry Out Loud 37 Time 29 Wicked Plants 32 Loving Every Child 36 Settled in the Wild 36 The Widows of Eden 45 Lucky Girl 28 Shalom Y’all 35 Winter Run 44 Lying in Bed 44 The Sharpshooter Blues 42 Wolf Whistle 24, 42 Side Effects 30 A Wonderful Life 38 The M Word 30 Silver Sparrow 10 Work Hard. Be Nice. 31 Making Whoopee 35 Singing for Your Supper 33 World War II in the Makeovers at the Beauty Counter Single Wife 45 Mediterranean, 1942–1945 34 of Happiness 34 Sins and Needles 29 Man with a Pan 9 Smartbomb 37 ¡Yo! 44 The Medic 40 Solo 29 Middle Son 44 Somehow Form a Family 29 Midnight Assassin 40 Some Survived 40 A Miracle of Catfish 44 Something for Nothing 8 Index Missing Lucile 27 Something to Declare 35 by author Mother of the Bride 34 The Song of the Earth 44 Mr. Universe 41 Songbirds in Your Garden 28 Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed A Son of the Game 39 Abbott, Shirley 43 Stranger 14 The Soul of a Doctor 31 Adams, Sheila Kay 43 Mudbound 23, 41 The Sound of a Wild Snail Alexander, William 31, 33 The Music of Wild Birds 28 Eating 27, 36 Almond, Steve 41, 44 The Music Teacher 44 Southern Belly 31 Althouse-Wood, Jill 44 My Father’s Paradise 25, 30 Stealing with Style 41 Alvarez, Julia 18–19, 35, 37, 41, 44 My Life as a Boy 29 Summers at Blue Lake 44 Anthony, David 8 My Old True Love 43 Swim to Me 44 Arnold, Janis 41 My Therapist’s Dog 37 Aron, Bill 35 Tab Hunter Confidential 29 Ashcom, Robert 44 The Nature Principle 6 – 7 Take Good Care of the Garden New Orleans, Mon Amour 39 and the Dogs 15 Badami, Anita Rau 44 New Stories from the South 43 Tamarind Woman 44 Baggott, Julianna 44 The Next Better Place 29 Talking About Death 30 Bailey, Elisabeth Tova 27, 36 Night of the Avenging Blowfish 43 This Rock 44 Bailey, Mark 32 Nothing Left to Burn 27 A Thousand Days in Tuscany 39 Barnet, Andrea 40 The Three-Pound Enigma 37 Off the Deep End 38 Barr, Nancy Verde 44 Tomato Girl 44 On Agate Hill 25, 43 Bass, Alison 30 Traveling While Married 39 On American Soil 34 Beckerman, Ilene 34 The Truest Pleasure 42 On the Road to Freedom 34 Bell, Madison Smartt 43 Truth 29 On Whale Island 40 ben Izzy, Joel 30 A Twist of Lemmon 29 The Orange Blossom Special 44 Bennett, O. H. 41

46 | Spring/Summer 2011 Algonquin Books Berne, Suzanne 25, 27, 41, 44 Hazard, Edith 33 Pinfold, Wallace 33 Block, Betsy 36 Hemingway, Edward 32 Pipkin, Turk 44 Braff, Joshua 41 Hempel, Amy 43 Pories, Kathy 30 Brenner, Douglas 33 Hill, Ingrid 44 Pories, Susan 31 Brown, Carrie 44 Holzer, Harold 5, 28 Pupek, Jayne 44 Brown, Larry 41, 44 Hopgood, Mei-Ling 28 Bryan, Patricia L. 40 Hunter, Tab 29 Ravenel, Shannon 43 Byrd, Lee Merrill 44 Robertson, Brian 35 Iida, Deborah 44 Robson, Kenneth S. 38 Campbell, Christy 32 Irani, Anosh 44 Rogovoy, Seth 35 Carter, Betsy 22, 41, 44 Ireland, Perrin 44 Rowan, Roy 36 Carter, W. Hodding 38 Rowlands, Penelope 27 Castellani, Christopher 44 Jain, Sachin H. 31 Rubin, Louis D., Sr. 40 Chaplin, Heather 37 Janis, Brooke 36 Rubin, Robert Alden 37 Chernin, Kim 29 Jenkins, Emyl 41 Ruby, Aaron 37 Clarke, Brock 23, 26, 41 Jones, Edward P. 43 Cobb, Charles E., Jr. 34 Jones, Tayari 10 Sabar, Ariel 25, 30 Codell, Esmé Raji 31, 36 Joseph, Sandra 36 Sanders, Dori 32, 44 Codrescu, Andrei 39, 44 Jordan, Hillary 23, 41 Scanniello, Stephen 33 Conway, Linda Glick 32 Jourdan, Carolyn 24 Schuyler, Nina 45 Cook, John 35 Junkin, Tim 40 Schwarzschild, Edward 43 Coons, Nancy 41 Seebohm, Caroline 45 Copeland, Cyrus M. 38 Keith, Michael C. 29 Shaffner, George 45 Cross, Carlene 38 Kennedy, Dan 37 Shapiro, Laurie Gwen 43 Currey-Wilson, Ellen 36 Kincaid, Nanci 41 Shetterly, Aran 30 Kogan, Deborah Copaken 28, 41 Shetterly, Susan Hand 36 Davenport, Randi 30 Korczak, Janusz 36, 42 Silesky, Barry 28 de Blasi, Marlena 39 Kornblum, William 40 Simons, Gary 31 de Gramont, Nina 24, 41 Kumar, Satish 38 Singleton, George 43, 45 De Sa, Anthony 26, 41 Skibell, Joseph 23, 26, 43, 45 D’Este, Carlo 34 Lalami, Laila 42, 44 Smith, Bill 32 Dodson, James 39 Landon, Luann 32 Smith, Lee 14, 25, 43 Donohue, John 9 Landis, J. D. 44 Solomon, Nina 45 Douglas, Ellen 29 Lansky, Aaron 35 Steele, Max 43 Downey, Annie 41 Lawton, Manny 40 Stendhal, Renate 28 Druett, Joan 34 Leavitt, Caroline 22, 42 Stern, Steve 17 Duncan, Jim 40 Lemmon, Chris 29 Stevens, Marcus 45 Durrow, Heidi W. 22, 41 Lende, Heather 15, 39 Stewart, Amy 12–13, 32 Litwak, Leo 40 Stone, Elizabeth 30 Earley, Tony 29 Louv, Richard 6 –7, 36 Stump, Al 38 Eaton, Susan 31 Suberman, Stella 35, 40 Edge, John T. 31 Maloy, Kate 23, 42 Sumner, Melanie 43 Edgerton, Clyde 29, 44 Mandelbaum, Paul 35 Suter, Barbara 43 Evison, Jonathan 26 Materson, Melanie 29 Materson, Ray 29 Tarte, Bob 37 Feder, Chris Welles 29 Mathews, Jay 31 Tattlin, Isadora 40 Finn, Maria 29 McCord, Charline R. 44 Terres, John K. 28 Flannery, Sarah 31 McCorkle, Jill 25, 42, 43, 44 Trotter, William 34 Fleeson, Lucinda 40 Melville, Greg 37 Tucker, Judy H. 44 Fox, Vicki Reikes 35 Menger-Anderson, Kirsten 44 Tyler, Anne 43 Franklin, Emily 35 Merullo, Roland 23, 42, 44 Michaud, Jon 4 Gash, Amy 33 Varner, Jay 27 Moffett, Shannon 37 Gessler, Diana Hollingsworth 39 Verdelle, A. J. 45 Moore, Dinty W. 38 Gessner, David 28 Morgan, Robert 28, 42, 44 Wallace, Daniel 45 Gibbons, Kaye 44 Morris, Evan 35 Weisman, Mary-Lou 39 Gilchrist, Ellen 44 Morris, Scott M. 44 Wells, Diana 28, 33, 37 Goodman, Richard 39 Morris, Virginia 30 Welter, John 43 Goodwillie, David 29 Muñoz, Manuel 2, 42 West, Stanley Gordon 22, 43 Goodwin, Stephen 38 Wilker, Josh 3 Goolrick, Robert 24, 29, 41 Neal, Bill 33 Williams, Roy 38 Grimsley, Jim 41, 44 Nelson, Pete 16 Winner, Lauren 38 Grodstein, Lauren 22, 41 Nissenson, Hugh 44 Wolf, Thomas 40 Gruen, Sara 1, 24, 41 Nordan, Lewis 24, 42 Gurganus, Allan 43 Yolen, Jane 37 Gwyn, Aaron 41 O’Connell, Jack 42 Olmstead, Robert 43 Hall, Barbara 44 Hamann, Jack 34 Packer, ZZ 43 Harper, Gordon 31 Parker, Michael 11, 43, 44 Hays, Daniel 40 Pelikan, Judy 28

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48 | Spring/Summer 2011 Algonquin Books ALGONQUIN BOOKS U.S. Book Trade Southern CA, AZ, NM, IN, WV, Western PA OF CHAPEL HILL Representatives NV, HI Singer Son & Associates a division of Workman Publishing Midwest California Marketing 6125 Dublin Road 225 Varick Street, NY, NY 10014 Fujii Associates Associates Delaware, OH 43015 110 East 9th Street www.algonquin.com 10621 Tower Drive Tel: (800) 800-5312 Suite C-1300 Fax: (740) 811-1988 Tel: (212) 254-5900, (800) 722-7202 Orland Park, IL 60467 Los Angeles, CA 90079 Fax: (212) 614-7783 Tel: (708) 354-2555 WA, OR, AK Tel: (800) 874-6716 Fax: (708) 354-6534 Ted Weinstein & The Phone-In Order Fax: (213) 452-7010 Company He Keeps Representatives Kathy Bogs, Ofﬁce Manager www.cmagifts.com Paciﬁc Market Center Book & Gift Stores [email protected] ME, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI 6100 4th Avenue South Tel: (800) 967-5630, (800) 967-5635 West Coast Eric Berman Associates Suite 282 Fax: (800) 521-1832, (800) 344-3482 Book Travelers West 31 Hartford Street Seattle, WA 98108 Rep: Jean Vargas—ext. 7525 Kurtis Lowe Natick, MA 01760 Tel: (206) 763-9474 Rep: Ingrid Caba—ext. 7726 2701 California Avenue SW Billerica, MA 01821 Tel: (503) 222-5105 Library/School: PMB 233 Tel: (800) 999-7029 Fax: (206) 768-3075 Seattle, WA 98116-2405 Fax: (800) 204-0042 Library/School fax orders: MT, ID, WY, UT, CO Tel: (212) 932-7865 (800) 521-1832 [email protected] The Long Sales Group Fax: (800) 440-0818 Mail-Order Catalogs: 451 E. 58th Avenue [email protected] TN, MS, AL, GA, NC, SC, FL, KY Randall Lotowycz 225 Unlimited Suite 1661 Mail-Order Catalog fax orders: East Coast AmericasMart Denver, CO 80216 (212) 614-7704 Como Sales, Inc. 230 Spring Street Tel: (303) 294-0191 Steven Pace Showroom 1718 Fax: (303) 294-0193 Premium Sales: 225 Varick Street Atlanta, GA 30303 Jennifer Mandel—ext. 7508 LIBRARY SALES and New York, NY 10014 Tel: (800) 773-4225 Marketing Customer Service Tel: (212) 614-5689 Fax: (407) 895-1764 Michael Rockliff, Director Manager: Shirley Ortiz Fax: (800) 521-1832 www.255unlimited.com Tel: (212) 614-7572 Asst. Manager: Natalya Pilguy Fax: (800) 344-3482 Accounts A–C: Michelle Padilla [email protected] Upstate NY [email protected] Accounts D–G: Cynthia Ramirez Helen Kaminski & Co. U.S. GIFT SALES 30 Rondout Lane Accounts H–K (and Ingram, Levy, International Sales REPRESENTATIVES Accord, NY 12404 Borders, and Walden): Erica Jimenez Representatives Tel: (845) 626-0001 Accounts L–O: Lengie Melendez TX, OK, AR, LA Canada Fax: (845) 626-0001 Accounts P–T: Tania Cortes Anne McGilvray & Co. Thomas Allen & Son Limited [email protected] Accounts U–Z (and Barnes & Noble): 2332 Valdina Street 390 Steel Case Road East Joy Espaillat Dallas, TX 75207 Western PA, WV, IN Markham, Ontario EDI Routing Chargeback Specialist: Tel: (214) 638-4438 Singer/Son & Associates L3R 1G2, Canada Barbara Rodriguez Tel: (800) 527-1462 ext. 1 6125 Dublin Road Tel: (905) 475-9126 Credit Department Fax: (866) 539-0192 Delaware, OH 43015 Fax: (905) 475-6747 Director: Philip C. Gerace www.annemcgilvray.com Tel: (740) 881-1944 All Other Export Orders Manager: Peggy Gerak Fax: (740) 881-1988 ND, SD, NE, KS, MO, IA, Workman Publishing Accounts A–F: Christine Torres MN, WI, MI Northern CA, Northern NV 225 Varick Street Accounts G–O: Mildred Perdomo Anne McGilvray & Co. Jenny Hammons & Associates New York, NY 10014 Accounts P–Z: Deyanisa Moronta Minneapolis Gift Mart 489 Powell Avenue Attn: Sara High National Accounts: Lucy Spiotta 10301 Bren Road West Healdsburg, CA 95448 Tel: (212) 614-7757 Fax: (212) 674-5792 Orange Gallery Room 378 Tel: (800) 606-6471 Fax: (212) 614-7704 Algonquin offices Minnetonka, MN 55343 Fax: (866) 861-4769 [email protected] Chapel Hill: Tel: (952) 932-7153 www.jennyhammonsco.com P. O. Box 2225 Tel: (800) 527-1462 International Rights IL Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2225 Fax: (866) 539-0192 Kendra Poster, Director Rep Factor Tel: (212) 614-7506 Tel: (919) 967-0108 www.annemcgilvray.com The Merchandise Mart Fax: (212) 614-7704 Fax: (919) 933-0272 NY, NJ, Eastern PA, DE, KY, 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza [email protected] New York: MD, OH, VA, Washington, DC Chicago, IL 60654 225 Varick Street Ivystone Group Tel: (847) 428-4020 New York, NY 10014 301 Commerce Drive Fax: (847) 428-4020 Tel: (212) 254-5900 Exton, PA 19341 Fax: (212) 614-7783 Tel: (800) 327-9036 Fax: (888) 489-7866 www.ivystonegroup.com Algonquin Books of CHapel Hill

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