Abrams imprint: 1041 books
by Barbara Calamari, Sandra DiPasqua
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A treasury of the devotional art that has comforted and inspired millions of Catholics—portraying a remarkable gallery of saints.
Often used in daily rituals or given out at significant life events such as wakes and funerals, communions and confirmations, the holy card can be appreciated...
Marijuanamerica
One Man's Quest to Understand America's Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He’s also a longtime marijuana enthusiast who has made it his mission to better understand America’s long-standing love-hate relationship with our favorite (sometimes) illegal drug. His cross-country investigation started...
The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist
America's Lost Musical Genius
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
This biography of a musical genius who went from slavery to international stardom is a “vivid, carefully researched narrative reflects the tenor of the” (Publishers Weekly).
Born into slavery in Georgia, Tom Wiggins died an international celebrity in New York in 1908. His life was one of the...
Inside Central Asia
A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz stan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this comprehensive new treatment, renowned political writer and historian Dilip Hiro places the politics, peoples, and cultural background of this critical region firmly into the context of current international focus.
On 1984
The Story of George Orwell's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
**From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel **
Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell’s 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern...
Scapegoat
A History of Blaming Other People
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A “brief and vital account” of humanity’s long history of playing the blame game, from Adam and Eve to modern politics—“a relevant and timely subject” (The Daily Telegraph).
We may have come a long way from the days when a goat was symbolically saddled with all the iniquities of...
Home Is a Roof Over a Pig
An American Family's Journey in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
“[A] down-to-earth memoir chronicling her family’s stint in the Chinese province of Shandong on the eve of the Beijing Olympics” (Publishers Weekly).
When Aminta Arrington moves with her husband and three young children (including a daughter adopted from China) from suburban Georgia to Tai’an,...
by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post).
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil...
by Todd Selby
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Photographer Todd Selby is back, this time focusing his lens on the kitchens, gardens, homes, and restaurants of more than 40 of the most creative and dynamic figures working in the culinary world today. He takes us behind the scenes with Noma chef René Redzepi in Copenhagen; to Tokyo to have a slice...
by Shoham Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Little Nina will not go to bed. Not when the adults are having so much fun in the other room without her! Before her exasperated parents can catch up, Nina escapes her bedroom and races through the house, sampling cakes and just generally stirring up trouble. With Nina on the loose, a cordial family...
The Spartacus Road
A Personal Journey Through Ancient Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the world's finest military forces between 73and 71 BC, bringing both fears and hopes that have never wholly left the modern mind. Sweepingly erudite and strikingly personal,...
Buffalo Bird Girl
A Hidatsa Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This fascinating picture book biography tells the childhood story of Buffalo Bird Woman—a Hidatsa Indian born around 1839. Through her true story, readers learn what it was like to be part of this Native American community, which lived along the Missouri River in the Dakotas, a society that depended...
by Alan Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Alan Palmer traces the history of the Baltic region from its early Viking days and its time under the Byzantine Empire through its medieval prime when the Baltic Sea served as one of Europe’s central trading grounds. Palmer addresses both the strong nationalist sentiments that have driven Baltic...
by John Feinstein, Walter Iooss Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A portrait of legendary golfer Arnold Palmer from a New York Times–bestselling sportswriter, with numerous photos included.
Over a career spanning more than half a century, Arnold Palmer amassed an astounding record of ninety-two worldwide titles, four Masters championships, a US Open crown,...