Anchor imprint: 1481 books
The Fat Years
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.
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Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except...
What Lincoln Believed
The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Countless books have been written about Abraham Lincoln, yet few historians and biographers have taken Lincoln seriously as a thinker or attempted to place him in the context of major intellectual traditions. In this refreshing, brilliantly argued portrait, Michael Lind examines the ideas and beliefs...
Sore Winners
American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other Strange Species in George Bush's America
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2005
Politics and culture, culture and politics. They’ve never been normal in America, but today they’re weirder than ever. Millionaire populists like Bill O’Reilly and Michael Moore dominate a political scene spinning ever further from the real world; meanwhile, we look to bizarre experiments like...
Seductive Poison
A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
In this haunting and riveting firsthand account, a survivor of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple opens up the shadowy world of cults and shows how anyone can fall under their spell.
A high-level member of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple for seven years, Deborah Layton escaped his infamous commune in the...
Bubba Talks
Of Life, Love, Sex, Whiskey, Politics, Foreigners, Teenagers, Movies, Food, Foot
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Among the provocative social phenomena of our time, few have caught the public fancy as profoundly as that quintessentially American species known as Bubba. The conventional notion of Bubba is a Southern redneck who thinks a rented movie and a six-pack are quality entertainment. According to Dan Jenkins,...
Lust, Caution
The Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
A major motion picture (2007) from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II.
In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become...
by Walter Kirn
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Mason LaVerle is a young man on a mission–a mission to save his people’s way of life. Mason was raised in a tiny, isolated Montanan sect, the church of the Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles. But the Apostles face a dwindling membership, so Mason is sent on an outreach operation to bring back converts–specifically...
Red Famine
Stalin's War on Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
**AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonate today**
In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of...
Robert Oppenheimer
A Life Inside the Center
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the...
Monte Cassino
The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Monte Cassino is the true story of one of the bitterest and bloodiest of the Allied struggles against the Nazi army. Long neglected by historians, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the...
Hissing Cousins
The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, two extraordinary women whose tangled lives provide a sweeping look at the twentieth century.
When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter was...
Day of Empire
How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or hyperpowers—rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies, she examines the most powerful cultures in history—from the ancient empires of Persia and China to the recent global...
Must You Go?
My Life with Harold Pinter
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser.
In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally...
Faith and Treason
The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce...