Anchor imprint: 1481 books
by James Frey
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
A story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and...
Cravings
How I Conquered Food
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution.
Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed her career and her...
Pack of Thieves
How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in His
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
It was the largest organized robbery in history: the systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis, in cooperation with most of the nations in Europe?Axis, Allied, and neutral. Award--winning journalist Richard Z. Chesnoff, one of the first reporters to break the story that Swiss banks had hoarded...
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus.
by Gini Sikes
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. Carrying razor blades in their mouths and guns in their jackets for defense, they initiate drive-by shootings, carry out car...
by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
For almost half a century, Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series has become an American institution.
The...
Play It Loud
An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
**The inspiration for the Play It Loud exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Every guitar player will want to read this book twice. And even the casual music fan will find a thrilling narrative that weaves together cultural history, musical history, race, politics, business case studies,...
Winter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Fiction Book of the Year and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing
The second novel in the Man Booker Prize–nominated author’s Seasonal cycle; the much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn (a New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times,...
Autumn
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
A New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, Southern Living, The Guardian, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize
Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819....
Lost in the Meritocracy
The Undereducation of an Overachiever
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
A New York Times Notable Book
A Daily Beast Best Book of the Year
A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year
From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and parroted his teachers’ pet theories. But when he launched...
Look at Me
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
A National Book Award Finalist
In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the acclaimed and award-winning writer Jennifer Egan, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble...
Molto Agitato
The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
If the opera world is full of “intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,” then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world’s richest music. Drawing...
The Genius of Language
Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser’s call for original essays on the subject of language–the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the...
by Anchee Min
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, Min was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or...