Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
When You're Falling, Dive
Lessons in the Art of Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Do survivors-of trauma, loss, abuse-gain a "secret knowledge" about life from their experience? Mark Matousek, a survivor fascinated with the enigma of survival, draws on interviews with an enslaved Sudanese boy, a Tibetan nun tortured for her belief, an Auschwitz prisoner, a Vietnam P.O.W.,...
The Woman in the Mirror
How to Stop Confusing What You Look Like with Who You Are
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Many women-regardless of income, size, shape, ethnicity, and age-are uncomfortable in their own skin. We fixate on our body image and try endless diets, implants, hair extensions, and new shoes, but it's never enough. The problem is that girls and women have been socialized to mistakenly conflate...
Semper Fidelis
A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
When Ruso rejoins his unit in the remote outpost of the Roman Empire known as Britannia, he finds that all is not well with the Twentieth Legion. As they keep a suspicious eye on the barbarians to the north, the legionaries appear to have found trouble even closer to home-among the native recruits...
by Patrick Modiano
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphaël Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune,...
The Doomsday Machine
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Finalist for The California Book Award in Nonfiction
The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List
Foreign Affairs Best Books of the Year
In These Times “Best Books of the Year"
Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December...
Éminence
Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians,...
by James Proimos
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Brownie, Apollo, and their ragtag group of strays have raided the grocery store and defeated some very mean mutts--but now they've run out of food. So when the crew discovers a nearby Twonkies factory, and all the Twonkies they could ever eat, they think they've got it made.
The only catch...
Taj Mahal
Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
While Galileo suffered under house arrest at the hands of Pope Urban VIII, the Thirty Years War ruined Europe, and the Pilgrims struggled to survive in the New World, work began on what would become one of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Taj Mahal. Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial...
FDR v. The Constitution
The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In the wake of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election of 1936, the popular president-never anything but self-confident-unaccountably overreached. Deeply frustrated by a Supreme Court that had blocked many of his New Deal initiatives, FDR proposed to enlarge it from 9 justices to 15. The...
by David Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Spur Award for Historical Novel
A sweeping historical novel of the American West that follows the dramatic life of Daytime Smoke, Nez Perce son of explorer William Clark.
The Coming is an epic novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through...
Astro Turf
The Private Life of Rocket Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A daughter's journey to rediscover her father and understand the culture of space engineers
During the late 1960s, while M. G. Lord was becoming a teenager in Southern California and her mother was dying of cancer, Lord's father-an archetypal, remote, rocket engineer- disappeared into his work...
by Mourid Barghouti
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
In 1996 Barghouti went back to his Palestinian home for the first time since his exile following the Six-Day War in 1967, first in Egypt and then in Hungary, and wrote a poignant and incisive account of the exile's lot in the acclaimed memoir I Saw Ramallah. In 2003 he returned to Ramallah to introduce...
Blunder
Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking, Blunder reveals how understanding seven simple traps-Exposure Anxiety, Causefusion, Flat View, Cure-Allism, Infomania, Mirror Imaging, Static Cling-can make us all less apt to err in our daily lives.
The Last Royal Rebel
The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The absorbing tale of how this legendary rogue became the champion of parliamentary monarchy and changed the course of English history.
At first light on July 6, 1685, the last battle ever fought on English soil was almost over. On one side of the watery pasture at Sedgemoor was the dashing...