Anchor imprint: 1481 books
The Long Walk
A Story of War and the Life That Follows
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.
Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in...
The Brightening Glance
Imagination and Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In this remarkable book, Ellen Handler Spitz shows how to promote children’s creative and emotional growth by making the most of the unlimited possibilities of everyday experiences.Through delightful anecdotes about real children and their treasures, bedrooms, play spaces, music, scary things, and...
Dark Water
Flood and Redemption in Florence--The City of Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and...
The Best Old Movies for Families
A Guide to Watching Together
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
If a child can watch Barney, can’t that same child also enjoy watching Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers? And as they get older, wouldn’t they grow to like screwball comedies (His Girl Friday), women’s weepies (Imitation of Life), and westerns (The Searchers)? The answer is that they’ll...
Free for All
Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Free for All is an irresistible behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved and important cultural institutions.
Under the inspired leadership of founder Joseph Papp, the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival brought revolutionary performances to the public for...
by Mary Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, was the personification of the culture of the mid-century American Catholic working class. A hard-working single mother – Mary Gordon's father died when she was still a girl – she managed to hold down a job, dress smartly, raise her daughter...
100 Great Operas And Their Stories
Act-By-Act Synopses
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, 100 Great Operas is perhaps the most comprehensive and enjoyable volume of opera stories ever written.
From La Traviata to Aïda, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world’s best-loved operas, told in an engaging,...
Looking for Trouble
One Woman, Six Wars and a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
News correspondent Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel, marched with the Khmer Rouge, hunted down the Black Turban in Afghanistan, pursued the Russian mafia to the Arctic Circle, shared pomegranate sauce with the Ayatollahs, and stopped a small Kurdish war, but she has never told these...
Rescue Board
The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
For more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jewish refugees out of America, even as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. In 1944, the United States finally acted. That year, Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board,...
by Colson Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it’s the story...
The 50 Movie Starter Kit
What You Need to Know if You Want to Know What You're Talking About
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In this ebook exclusive, Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr introduces the fifty films every movie lover must know.
This carefully curated list of great movies spans over a century of filmmaking, from the silent era to the last decade, from American favorites to international classics. Including...
Bold Spirit
Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter...
by Jan Wong
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Many people have predicted that she'll never eat lunch in this town again. But as "Lunch With" proves each week, there's always another unsuspecting celebrity ready to break bread with columnist Jan Wong.
Now's your chance to dine with her while she dishes, disses and dissects the...
Keeping the Faith
Stories of Love, Courgae, Healing, and Hope from Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
In Keeping the Faith, nationally acclaimed author and commentator Tavis Smiley, host of NPR’s The Tavis Smiley Show, weaves stories of over one hundred African Americans into a rich tapestry of intimate testimonies about life, love, and inner strength. In Smiley’s affirming collection, black Americans...