Adult imprint: 1806 books
Fucking On Fridays
A History of Britain's Most Notorious Casanova Conman
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Dennis Loraine died in self-imposed obscurity in South London. During the last three decades of his life he slept with a revolver under his pillow. Dennis’s childhood in a Bristol orphanage gave him a thirst for success. The University of Life, however, made him cabin boy, code-breaker and actor. By...
Kirk and Anne
Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Film legend Kirk Douglas and Anne Buydens, his wife of nearly sixty-three years, look back on a lifetime filled with drama both on and off the screen. Sharing priceless correspondence with each other as well as the celebrities and world leaders they called friends, Kirk and Anne is a candid portrayal...
by Glen Macnow, Big Daddy Graham
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
When it comes to sports talk, no city has more to say than Philadelphia.
With their 2007 The Great Book of Philadelphia Sports Lists, WIP sports radio hosts Glen Macnow and Big Daddy Graham compiled dozens of sports lists to stir up dialog and debate within the buzzing Philadelphia sports community...
by Glen Macnow, Big Daddy Graham
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Let the debating begin! Philadelphia is one of the top sports towns in America. Its fans are commonly considered to be the most passionate, knowledgeable, and dedicated sports enthusiasts in the country. WIP-AM radio's Glen Macnow and Big Daddy Graham engage in this phenomenon with a compilation of...
The Writer's I Ching
Wisdom for the Creative Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
The writing life is solitary and challenging, and it takes far more than creativity to become a commercial success. The Writer's I Ching uses the ancient Chinese divination system to provide writers with help mastering the business of writing and choosing the most propitious times to take action....
by Ann Beaglehole
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Set in 1950s to 1970s New Zealand, this novel vividly brings the Jewish immigrant experience to life. Nazi persecution and oppression behind the Iron Curtain haunt the adults in this powerful novel as they struggle to adjust in a strange land. Their children, however, expand into the bright, open...
We Only Dated for 11 Instagrams
And Other Things You'll Overhear in L.A.
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
From the hugely popular @OverheardLA Instagram account comes this illustrated collection of the entertaining, absurd, sometimes even poignant snippets of conversation overheard on the streets of Los Angeles.
Oh, Los Angeles: where kids with lemonade stands accept Venmo, where your Uber driver...
Crafty Girls' Road Trip
New Zealand's Best Craft Places Plus 10 Craft Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
**Brilliant guide to the many places in New Zealand where you can buy everything you need to make your own textile-based crafts.**Aimed at those who get warm fuzzies just walking into a wool shop, simply have to stroke the fabric at the quilt store, and long to touch the textiles at museums, this...
The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower
How I Went from Couch Potato to Atlantic Rowing Race Winner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
True, brilliantly written story of how one young man solved his crisis by rowing the Atlantic. This is a story about trying to find happiness. There is a strange trick to being happy. You have to think certain things, believe certain things and hold your tongue the right way. This is the story of...
by Peter Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
**A hilarious love story about a teenager and a fish.**Royce Rowland is a 17-year-old sexual and social reprobate who has been sent to sea with a tough skipper in an effort to straighten him out. But, as with everything, Royce goes on board with his own interests at heart: he wants to trawl for the...
Detroit Hustle
A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for 35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy.
As...
Elizabeth Taylor
A Loving Tribute
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
From National Velvet to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, through eight marriages, White Diamonds, and years of tireless humanitarian work, Elizabeth Taylor achieved truly iconic status. She made her screen debut in 1942 and ever after the public has been enamored of the famously violet-eyed legend. Why we love...
Game of Thrones: The Noble Houses of Westeros
Seasons 1-5
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
An essential guide to Games of Thrones seasons 1-5, profiling the noble houses of Westeros through their history, family tree, character profiles, photos, and much more.
Game of Thrones: The Noble Houses of Westeros Seasons 1-5 serves as a guide to the key houses as their constant struggle for power...
by Neville Peat
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
One of New Zealand's finest observers of the natural world takes us on a journey from Otago to the subantarctic and follows the life and migration of a sea lion. With the taut and accurate prose of a scientist, and the lyrical sense of an artist, Neville Peat's compelling style lures us into gaining...