Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
The Lost World of James Smithson
Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In the mid-1830s, the United States learned that it was the beneficiary of a strange and unprecedented bequest. An Englishman named James Smithson, who had never set foot in the U.S., had left all his fortune to found in Washington "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge...
The Accidental Feminist
How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Movie stars establish themselves as brands--and Taylor's brand , in its most memorable outings, has repeatedly introduced a broad audience to feminist ideas. In her breakout film, "National Velvet" (1944), Taylor's character challenges gender discrimination,: Forbidden as a girl to ride her beloved...
The Pleasure of Reading
43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A....
The Dream Colony
A Life in Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Art Forum's Best of the Year List
A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it.
An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at...
Inside a Pearl
My Years in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left...
by Christine Sneed
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
The ten stories in this debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost unthinkingly, to strangers. Risks and repercussions are never fully weighed. People leap and almost always land on rocky ground. May-December romances...
Gutted
Down to the Studs in My House, My Marriage, My Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2008
In the course of a few short months, Lawrence LaRose got married, bought a decrepit house in Sag Harbor with his wife, and lost his job. This is the story of how, while negotiating a cash-strapped, divorce-teetering first year of marriage, this unemployed writer and Manhattanite ended up bluffing...
Made For Each Other
Fashion and the Academy Awards
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
At the Academy Awards, the answer to who wore what matters just as much as who won what. Focusing on the actresses nominated for Oscars and a few seminal presenters, Made for Each Other traces the fashion trends of the widely watched Oscar ceremony. From the splendor of Vivien Leigh to the spare war-era...
Ansel Adams
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
First published in 1996, Mary Street Alinder's biography of Ansel Adams remains the only full biography of one of the greatest American photographers. Alinder is a respected scholar, and also had a close connection to Adams, serving as his chief assistant in the last five years of his life. The portrait...
The Scorpion's Sweet Venom
The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
"If I'm going to be a prostitute, I refuse to be an ordinary one."
Known to her clients as "Bruna the Surfer Girl," Surfistinha is the beautiful 17-year-old Brazilian run-away from a middle class family who detailed online her three years working as a prostitute in a posh Brazilian...
Crow Blue
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn't mine. In a city that wasn't mine, in a country that wasn't mine, with a one-man family that, in spite of the intersections and intentions...
Poster Child
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she'd had dozens of operations, had lost most of her leg, from just above the knee, and had become the smiling, indefatigable "poster child" for the...
by Matt Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner)--a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man.
Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined the...
by Yasmeen Ismail
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
I'm supposed to be made of sugar and spice
and all things nice.
But I'm sweet and sour
and not a little flower.
I am a girl! I am a girl! I am a girl!
Meet a little girl who's spontaneous, fast, and strong and loves winning. Sometimes she's mistaken for a boy, but she definitely isn't...