Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

The Painting

By Nina Schuyler - Published 2004

Genres:

Saga

The Painting successfully twines together two very disparate worlds: Japan during the Meiji Restoration and Paris during the Franco-Prussian war. In 1869, just outside ...Read Review

My Old True Love

By Sheila Kay Adams - Published 2004

Genres:

Saga

The Appalachian Mountains around Marshall, North Carolina, in the mid-19th century is the setting of this narrative. Like the ancient ballads brought ...Read Review

Confinement

By Carrie Brown - Published 2004

Genres:

Saga

Arthur and his young son, Toby, land in America after surviving the onset of the Nazi regime in Vienna and London’s blitz, ...Read Review

When it was our War: A Soldier’s Wife on the Home Front

By Stella Suberman - Published 2003

Genres:

Nonfiction

A sequel to The Jew Store (1998), this chatty and delightful memoir, filled with authentic period detail, chronicles the life of a small-town Southern ...Read Review

This Rock

By Robert Morgan - Published 2001Published 2002

Genres:

InspirationalSaga

Robert Morgan follows up his bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection Gap Creek with another Southern family braving the hard times of farming ...Read Review

The Hatbox Baby

By Carrie Brown - Published 2000

Genres:

LiteraryRomance

  Diane Arbus meets Fritz Lang in this World’s Fair as metaphor for life. Carnival freaks are human beings, and human beings ...Read Review