Abrams imprint: 1041 books
The Olive Season
Amour, A New Life, and Olives, Too . . . !
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
The celebrated author of The Olive Farm once again proves to be “a storyteller of great economy and deftness” in this memoir of life in the South of France (The Daily Telegraph).
A critically acclaimed actress and star of the BBC series All Things Great and Small, Carol Drinkwater embarked...
by Carol Drinkwater
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2001
After all, they are newlyweds of limited means, and Carol is still adjusting to her role as stepmother to Michel’s two daughters. But the splendor of the region becomes a force they are unable to resist. Michel presents their life savings to the real estate broker as a down payment for the farm,...
by Philipp Blom
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
From amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is a captivating tour of collectors and their treasures from...
The First Detective
The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy, and Private Eye
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
He was the Inspector Morse, the Sherlock Holmes, the James Bond of his day. A notorious criminal in his youth, he became a police officer and employed a gang of ex-convicts as his detectives. He developed innovative criminal indexing techniques and experimented with fingerprinting, until his cavalier...
Choking on Marlon Brando
A Film Critic's Memoir About Love and the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In this witty and bittersweet memoir, the film critic shares her misadventures as a lover of film stars who seeks movie romance in the real world.
Antonia Quirke was ten years old when she first saw Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. It was the first film she ever saw, and her reaction...
by Yoko Yagi, Tohru Yuasa
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Tokyo is home to a creative and daring street-style scene, rich with subcultures and shaped by constant motion. In Tokyo Street Style, fashion writer Yoko Yagi explores influential trends, covering an eclectic range of styles from kawaii cute to genderless looks, while designers, editors, models,...
American Gothic
The Life of Grant Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From humble beginnings sketching Iowa’s cornfields and rolling hills as a child, Grant Wood became the father of regionalism, an artistic movement that celebrated the simple and real-life surroundings of the people. When studying art in Europe in the early 20th century, Grant couldn’t find a style...
Danza!
Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh tells the story of Amalia Hernández, dancer and founder of El Ballet Folklórico de México.
Published in time for the 100th anniversary of Hernández’s birth, Danza! is the first picture book about the famous dancer and choreographer.
Danza!...
Breakfast at Sotheby's
An A-Z of the Art Word
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Two questions are key to experiencing a work of art in a museum or exhibition: 1.) Do I like it? 2.) Who's it by? You need quite a few more questions if you're in an auction room or dealer's gallery, however. You’ll find yourself asking, How much is it worth? How much will it be worth in five or...
by Dave Eggers
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Eggers is one of the most notable writers of his generation, recognized for such bestselling and critically acclaimed books as A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Circle. Before he embarked on his writing career, Eggers was classically trained as a draftsman and painter. He then spent...
Queer City
Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
PRAISE FOR QUEER CITY
“Always entertaining . . . much to be recommended.”—The Spectator
“A nimble, uproarious pocket history of sex in his beloved metropolis.”—Independent
“Ackroyd has an encyclopedic knowledge of London, and a poet’s instinct for its strange, mesmerizing drives and...
Pathfinders
The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Over the centuries, untold numbers of black men and women in America have achieved great things against the odds. Pathfinders is a collective biography of sixteen diverse American men and women of African descent who made their mark on American history in the 18th to 20th centuries. People who dared...
From Exile to Washington
A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
“The former Treasury Secretary has shared his story in a memoir that is both an engrossing personal narrative and a thoughtful reflection on leadership” (Henry Kissinger, author of On China).
In a life that has spanned nearly nine decades and has taken him around the world and back, W....
The Girl from the Tar Paper School
Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated...