Anchor imprint: 1481 books
An Underground Education
The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew Ab out Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge.
Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe Doctrine means we get to take over small South...
The Songs of the Kings
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble.”
As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire...
Right to Exist
A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
In July 2000, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused to negotiate a peace offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David. At the end of September the Palestinians then launched their second intifada, an outbreak of terrorism in the heart of Israel’s cities that continues to this...
Schoolgirls
Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
When Peggy Orenstein's now-classic examination of young girls and self-esteem was first published, it set off a groundswell that continues to this day. Inspired by an American Association of University Women survey that showed a steep decline in confidence...
by Kim Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Here is the first thing you need to know about me: I’m a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma, and all the marble floors in the world will never change that.
Here is the second thing: that young woman they pulled from the Arabian shore, her hair tangled with mangrove—my husband didn’t kill...
by Kim Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
A powerful novel of young love and rural isolation from the acclaimed author of In the Wilderness.
Thomas Deracotte is just out of medical school, and his pregnant wife, Helen, have their whole future mapped out for them in upper-crust Connecticut. But they are dreamers, and they set out to...
Who Dies?
An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Who Dies? is the first book to show the reader how to open to the immensity of living with death, to participate fully in life as the perfect preparation for whatever may come next. The Levines provide calm compassion rather than the frightening melodrama of death.
Chance Developments
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
From the bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes this splendid collection. Inspired by vintage photographs, these five lyrical stories capture the surprising intersections of love and friendship that alter life's journeys.
A smiling girl leading a younger girl...
The Hearts of Men
American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, an explanation of recent sexual culture and the loosening of marriage bonds in recent history.
"Finally someone is offering a new, utterly plausible explanation...of loosening marriage bonds. According to Barbara Ehrenreich...it is men who started...
by Trevor Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
An outstanding debut novel set in Dublin from a young Irish novelist that echoes the poignant, comical and gritty voices of Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe, and Irvine Welsh.
Set in contemporary Dublin, this gritty, funny, and compelling novel is also a poignant exploration of grief, poverty,...
by Keith Donohue
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
*“I am a changeling–a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own. . . .”*The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age seven by a band of wild childlike beings who...
The Fundamentals of Play
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
"Kate was what you wanted, somehow, in this infinitely ironic age. She was the kind of girl about whom other girls used to say, 'All right, so she's thin but,' trying vainly to suss out the appeal. And even now, when her name comes up, and with it the sulky protest it invariably evokes--'She's...
Goodbye for Now
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
In the spirit of ONE DAY, comes a fresh and warmhearted love story for the 21st century. Sometimes the end is just the beginning . . .
Sam Elling works for an internet dating company, but he still can't get a date. So he creates an algorithm that will match you with your soul mate. Sam meets...
The Goddesses
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
"A haunting story of betrayal and forgiveness" (Kirkus) about a woman who moves her family to Hawaii, only to find herself wrapped up in a dangerous friendship, from the celebrated author of We Could Be Beautiful.
When Nancy and her family arrive in Kona, Hawaii, they are desperate for a fresh...