WATER FOR ELEPHANT - Sara Gruen [143]
An Algonquin Readers Round Table Edition with Reading Group Guide and Other Special Features • FICTION • ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-577-3
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, a novel by Brock Clarke
The past catches up to Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, when after spending ten years in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson’s house, the homes of other famous New England writers go up in smoke. To prove his innocence, he sets out to uncover the identity of this literary-minded arsonist.
“Funny, profound. . . . A seductive book with a payoff on every page.” —People
“Wildly, unpredicatably funny. . . . As cheerfully oddball as its title.” —The New York Times
An Algonquin Readers Round Table Edition with Reading Group Guide and Other Special Features • FICTION • ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-614-5
The Ghost at the Table, a novel by Suzanne Berne
When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include her sister, Cynthia. But tension mounts between them as each struggles with a different version of the mysterious circumstances surrounding their mother’s death twenty-five years earlier.
“Wholly engaging, the perfect spark for launching a rich conversation around your own table.” —The Washington Post Book World
“A crash course in sibling rivalry.” —O: The Oprah Magazine
An Algonquin Readers Round Table Edition with Reading Group Guide and Other Special Features • FICTION • ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-579-7
Saving the World, a novel by Julia Alvarez
While Alma Huebner is researching a new novel, she discovers the true story of Isabel Sendales y Gómez, who embarked on a courageous sea voyage to rescue the New World from smallpox. The author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez captures the worlds of two women living two centuries apart but with surprisingly parallel fates.
“Fresh and unusual, and thought-provokingly sensitive.” —The Boston Globe
“Engrossing, expertly paced.” —People
An Algonquin Readers Round Table Edition with Reading Group Guide and Other Special Features • FICTION • ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-558-2
Breakfast with Buddha, a novel by Roland Merullo
When his sister tricks him into taking her guru, a crimson-robed monk, on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he’d planned. But along the way, Otto is given the remarkable opportunity to see his world—and more important, his life—through someone else’s eyes.
“Enlightenment meets On the Road in this witty, insightful novel.” —The Boston Sunday Globe
“A laugh-out-loud novel that’s both comical and wise . . . balancing irreverence with insight.” —The Louisville Courier-Journal
An Algonquin Readers Round Table Edition with Reading Group Guide and Other Special Features • FICTION • ISBN 13: 978-1-56512-616-9
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-one
Twenty-two
Twenty-three
Twenty-four
Twenty-five
Author’s Note
Water for Eiepiants
A Conversation with the Author
Book-Group Discussion Questions
About The Author
Other Novels Available from Algonquin Paperbacks
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-one
Twenty-two
Twenty-three
Twenty-four
Twenty-five