Anchor imprint: 1481 books
Out of Orbit
The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above E arth When They Lost Their Ride Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
On February 1, 2003, the nation was stunned to watch the shuttle Columbia disintegrate into a blue-green sky. Despite the numerous new reports surrounding the tragedy, the public remained largely unaware that three men, U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer...
The Last Spike
The Great Railway, 1881-1885
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly half the time stipulated in the contract....
Little Victories
Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The Wall Street Journal's popular columnist Jason Gay delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to modern living.
**“**The book you hold in your hand is a rule book. There have been rule books before—stacks upon stacks of them—but this book is unlike any other rule book you have ever read....
Schools on Trial
How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Schools on Trial is an all-in attack on the American way of education and a hopeful blueprint for change by one of the most passionate and certainly youngest writers on this subject.
Are America’s schools little more than cinder-block gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate...
My History
A Memoir of Growing Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author shares vivid memories of her childhood and recalls the experiences that set her on the path to a writing life.
Ever since she received Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall as a Christmas present in 1936, Antonia Fraser's deep love of...
The Good Women of China
Hidden Voices
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show,...
by Ting-Xing Ye
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts. Ting-Xing Ye’s riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1974).
In...
China Witness
Voices from a Silent Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them.
Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out the nation’s grandparents and great-grandparents,...
Promised Land
Thirteen Books That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
In this lively exploration of America’s intellectual heritage, acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Jay Parini celebrates the life and times of thirteen books that helped shape the American psyche.
Moving nimbly between the great watersheds in American letters—including Walden, Huckleberry...
The Book of Honor
The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A national bestseller, this extraordinary work of investigative reporting uncovers the identities, and the remarkable stories, of the CIA secret agents who died anonymously in the service of their country.
In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one...
by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center...
The National Dream
The Great Railway, 1871-1881
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old — it's population well below the 4 million mark — determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision — bold to the point of recklessness — was to change the lives of every man, woman...
The Promised Land
Settling the West 1896-1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
After the pioneers described in The National Dream, The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers — a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation.
Hit Men
Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling...