Abrams imprint: 1041 books
Commando
The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Raised in Queens, New York, Johnny Ramone founded one of the most influential rock bands of all time, but he never strayed from his blue-collar roots and attitude. He was truly imbued with the angry-young-man spirit that would characterize his persona both on and off stage. Through it all, Johnny...
The Zapple Diaries
The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This is the first full-length look at Zapple—the Beatles’ label for experimental music and spoken word recordings and the most ambitious expression of the group’s determination to be leading members of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. Barry Miles, the acclaimed author, was the...
Play About the Baby
Trade Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
The Play About the Baby is an absurdist black comedy, reminiscent of burlesque in its high spirits and banter, that grapples with such issues as reality and the games we play to define it, the ambiguity of existence, and the agonizing bonds between parents and children. A fresh young couple—Boy...
Eating in Color
Delicious, Healthy Recipes for You and Your Family
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A fun, accessible way to add a colorful array of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains to your diet—with more than 90 recipes and photos.
Registered dietician and bestselling cookbook author Frances Largeman-Roth shows home cooks how to use the color spectrum to bring more vividly-hued food...
X-Ray
The Unauthorized Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
This subversively brilliant, one-of-a-kind rock autobiography ingeniously styled as a biography, is written by a nameless, faceless writer hired by an Orwellian entity called "the Corporation" to capture the essence of Ray Davies, lead singer and songwriter of The Kinks and one of the greatest...
by Greg Atwan, Evan Lushing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Facebook Book, by Harvard alums and early Booksters Atwan and Lushing, follows in the fine satirical tradition of The Official Preppy Handbook and The Hipster Handbook, full of anecdotes (true and semi-true), tips (useful and useless), and other insights, including chapters on the Ethics and Etiquette...
by Mary Louise Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Mary Louise Wilson became a star at age sixty with her smash one-woman play Full Gallop portraying legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. But before and since, her life and her career—including the Tony Award for her portrayal of Big Edie in Grey Gardens—have been enviably celebrated and varied. ...
The Princess and the Warrior
A Tale of Two Volcanoes
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Award-winning author Duncan Tonatiuh reimagines one of Mexico’s cherished legends. Princess Izta had many wealthy suitors but dismissed them all. When a mere warrior, Popoca, promised to be true to her and stay always by her side, Izta fell in love. The emperor promised Popoca if he could defeat...
How to Disappear Completely
On Modern Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
She devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, committing the most salacious details to memory to learn what it would take to be the very best anorexic. When she was hospitalized at fifteen, she found herself in an existential wormhole: how can one suffer from something one has actively sought...
Susan Boyle
Dreams Can Come True
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
As she announced she was going to sing I Dreamed a Dream, the judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan didn't bother to hide their amusement. One minute later they, and very soon the world, were giving Susan Boyle a standing ovation. She had the voice of an angel and her story was to become...
by John Leguizamo
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
“Ghetto Klown is autobiographical dynamite—this is Leguizamo at his scathing, honest, moving, comedic best. Among the finest portraits of an artist as a young wounded talented man as I’ve read.”
—Junot Díaz
“My main Johnny Legs has done it again. Ghetto Klown as a graphic novel? DOPENESS.”
—Spike...
Looking for Jimmy
A Search for Irish America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
“[An] exceptionally thoughtful and interesting inquiry into Irish America . . . More a meditation than a history” from the acclaimed author of Dry Bones (The Washington Post).
In the hands of historical novelist and speechwriter Peter Quinn, the Irish stereotype of “Paddy” gives way...
Bash
Three Plays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene with the premiere of BASH at NYC’s Douglas Fairbanks Theater in 1999 in a wildly praised production that featured Calista Flockhart, Paul Rudd, and Ron Eldard. It went on to play at the Almeida Theatre in London and since then has seen hundreds of...
Decorating a Room of One's Own
Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and Other Literary Notables
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
What would Little Women be without the charms of the March family’s cozy New England home? Or Wuthering Heights without the ghost-infested Wuthering Heights? Getting lost in the setting of a good book can be half the pleasure of reading, and *Decorating a Room of One’s *Own brings literary backdrops...