Anchor imprint: 1481 books
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Here is the powerful, deeply affecting story of one Margaret Mayfield, from her childhood in post–Civil War Missouri to California in the throes of World War II. When Margaret marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early at the age of twenty-seven, she narrowly avoids condemning herself to life...
Between Man and Beast
An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure the Victorian World by Storm
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins—two of which were stuffed and brought on tour—and walked smack dab...
The Melancholy of Anatomy
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Amusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light.
Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world. Hearts bigger than planets devour light and...
The Forgetting
Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A powerfully engaging, scrupulously researched, and deeply empathetic narrative of the history of Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects us, and the search for a cure.**
Afflicting nearly half of all people over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000...
Rebels in White Gloves
Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
When the women of the Wellesley class of 1969 entered the ivory tower, they were initiated into a rarefied world. Many were daughters of privilege, many were going for their "MRS." But by the time they graduated four years later, they faced a world turned upside down by the Pill, NOW, student...
The Cave Painters
Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.
Gregory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells...
by Michael Novacek
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Over the past six years Michael Novacek, the Provost of Science at the American Museum of Natural History, has led a team of international scientists to the Gobi Desert on the greatest dinosaur expedition of the late 20th century.
Closed to the West since the 1920's, the remote sands of Mongolia's...
by John Pollack
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
165,321 corks
1 boat
Most people have childhood dreams; few ever pursue them. At the age of 34, John Pollack quit a prestigious speechwriting job on Capitol Hill to pursue an idea he had harbored since the age of six: to build a boat out of wine corks and take it on an epic journey.
In...
by Noah Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
From the award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo and author of the bestseller Before the Fall, an intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian,...
A Writer's Coach
An Editor's Guide to Words That Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Mystified over misplaced modifiers? In a trance from intransitive verbs? Paralyzed from using the passive voice? To aid writers, from beginners to professionals, legendary writing coach Jack Hart presents a comprehensive, practical, step-by-step approach to the writing process. He shares his techniques...
by Barbara Delinsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, “a first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors.” (Boston Globe)
When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily,...
by Liza Mundy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species.Skyrocketing infertility...
The Stardust Lounge
Stories from a Boy's Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Stephen Digges is the kind of angry adolescent a lot of parents would have given up on. He is out of control by the time he is 13 -- running with gangs, stealing cars, fooling around with drugs and guns, and in general making his family’s life hell. Confronted with his growing recklessness and defiance,...
The Perpetual Now
A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about...