Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Lucinda Fleeson has published a nonfiction narrative of her two years working for the National Tropical Botanical Garden on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.(1985)("Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island")
Nieman Reports; 9/22/2009; 890 words; ...Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island" was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in June. Ever wonder what happens to journalists...imperiled this Garden of Eden," she observes. In her book, she accompanies a plant hunter into the rain forest...

Whose culture is it, anyway?('Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference' and 'Lucky Girl')(Book review)
The Women's Review of Books; 9/1/2009; 3187 words; ...Vanderbilt University Press, 2008, 212 pp., $22.95, paperback Lucky Girl By Mei-Ling Hopgood Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2009, 256 pp., $23.95, hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At the end of 2008, my family visited...

Fall brings a crush of new books; Publishers always trot out signature releases in autumn, but this year is extraordinarily crowded with "important" titles.(VARIETY)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 8/23/2009; 966 words; ...publicity director of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, N.C., said...amazing crush of fall books a few months ago...publishes about 30 books a year -- half...Algonquin's big fall books is "A Friend of...advantage to move the book a month,' " Taeckens...

Jewish roots in Kurdistan.(BOOKS)(My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq)(Book review)
The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA); 7/17/2009; 993 words; ...off to write this book, in which he tells...manifested in the book along with his devotion...North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "My Father's...Ariel Sabar. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2008. 332 Pages...

Tails of the White House
Chicago Sun-Times (IL); 7/9/2009; 345 words; ...dogs is covered in a new book, First Dogs: American...and Their Best Friends (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $9.99). The doggone little book looks at canine cuties from...presidential dogs ever since. The book is full of tidbits such...