Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
by Clare de Vries
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
In the sequel to I & Claudius (Clare de Vries' journey across the USA with her beloved brown Burmese), our heroine travels through Burma and Thailand in search of a replacement for her dearly departed Claudius.
In Burma, Clare learns the basic tenets of Buddhism and receives a liberal dousing...
Family Dancing
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-three, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: “remarkably gifted” (The Washington Post), with “a genius for empathy” (The New York Times Book Review)...
One Last Word
Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
"One Last Word is the work of a master poet." --Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover
From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes an emotional, special new collection of poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance--paired...
Champion
The Story of Muhammad Ali
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
"I am the greatest! I am the king!"
Muhammad Ali was one of the most electrifying, inspiring, and confrontational athletes of his generation. At the height of his boxing career, Ali was as despised as he was adored. Loud and aggressive as well as confident and dedicated, he was the...
The Real Food Cookbook
Traditional Dishes for Modern Cooks
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
When Nina Planck toured to promote her two earlier books, Real Food and Real Food for Mother and Baby, the question she heard most was, “When are you going to write a cookbook?” At long last, The Real Food Cookbook is here.
In a dietary landscape overfull with low-carb bread and dubious...
America Eats!
On the Road with the WPA - the Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chittlin' Feasts That Define Real American Food
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Pat Willard takes readers on a journey into the regional nooks and crannies of American cuisine where WPA writers-including Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and Nelson Algren, among countless others-were dispatched in 1935 to document the roots of our diverse culinary cuisine. America Eats!,...
by John F. Mariani
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First published in 1983, John Mariani's Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink has long been the go-to book on all things culinary. Last updated in the late 1990s, it is now back in a handsome, fully illustrated revised and expanded edition that catches readers up on more than a decade of culinary...
A Southern Thanksgiving
Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Robb Forman Dew first began collecting her Thanksgiving recipes at the request of a cousin who hadn't cooked before. In A Southern Thanksgiving, she gathers them into a cookbook--both practical and literary--for an easy-to-prepare, sumptuous Southern feast.
In recreating the ambiance of her...
Africa39
New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
In 2014, UNESCO's World Book Capital is Port Harcourt, Nigeria-the first city in Africa to receive the designation by public bid.
This makes it a special year for the Port Harcourt Book Festival, which will be in its seventh year, and bigger than ever. They are joining forces with the internationally...
Henrietta's War
News from the Home Front 1939-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable Lady B, who writes to Hitler every night to tell him precisely...
Wild Hearts
An If Only novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Enjoy Wild Hearts and the other standalone titles in Bloomsbury's contemporary If Only romance line centered around an impossible problem: you always want what you can't have!
Brie Carter's father's land development business has taken her family all over the world,
but as soon as they arrive...
Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction
The Practical Guide From New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Gotham Writers' Workshop has mastered the art of teaching the craft of writing in a way that is practical, accessible, and entertaining. Now the techniques of this renowned school are available in this book.
Here you'll find: - The fundamental elements of fiction craft-character, plot, point of view,...
Prague Pictures
Portraits of a City
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries.
The fourth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series.
Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee...
The Flaneur
A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many...