Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
So High a Blood
The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor That Time Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Niece to Henry VIII, heir to the throne, courtier at risk of being killed, spy-mistress, and ambitious political player, Lady Margaret Douglas is a vital new character in the Tudor story.
Amidst the Christmas revels of 1530, a fifteen-year-old girl arrived at the court of King Henry VIII. Half-English,...
The Anatomy of a Moment
Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2011
In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with automatic weapons, ordering everyone to get down....
Big Ray
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Big Ray's temper and obesity define him. When Big Ray dies, his son feels mostly relief, dismissing his other emotions. Yet years later, the adult son must reckon with the outsized presence of his father's memory. This stunning novel, narrated in more 500 brief entries, moves between past and present,...
The Dance of 17 Lives
The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2008
"An escape that for drama and daring makes most Hollywood fare pale by comparison...[Brown's] neutral journalistic tone is useful for reporting so much that seems incredible."-Washington Post
The 17th Karmapa, one of the holiest figures in Tibetan Buddhism, arrived in Dharmsala as a 14-year-old boy...
On Hallowed Ground
The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
On Hallowed Ground opens with the long-delayed funeral of four servicemen, brought home for final honors at Arlington National Cemetery almost forty years after they disappeared in Vietnam. To understand how this tradition of extraordinary care for our war dead began, Robert Poole traces the founding...
Mecca
The Sacred City
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Mecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray, and the site of pilgrimage that annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet the significance of Mecca is more than purely religious. What happens...
The Lemon Tree
An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
With a new afterword by the author, and a sneak preview of Sandy Tolan's new book, Children of the Stone
In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family...
by Vicki Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
This is the incredible story of Tenzin Palmo, a remarkable woman who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas.
At the age of 20, Diane Perry, looking to fill a void in her life, entered a monastery in India--the only woman amongst hundreds of monks---and began her battle against...
Stalin's Children
Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
On a mid-summer day in 1937, a car pulled up to the house of the Bibikov family in Chernigov in the heart of the Ukraine. Boris, the father, kissed his two daughters and wife goodbye and disappeared inside the car. His family never saw him again. His wife would later vanish, leaving the young Lyudmila...
The Kennedy Half-Century
The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An original and illuminating narrative revealing John F. Kennedy's lasting influence on America, by the acclaimed political analyst Larry J. Sabato.
John F. Kennedy died almost half a century ago-yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly....
Just Plain Dick
Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech and the "Rocking, Socking†? Election of 1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
It all started with some businessmen bankrolling Richard Nixon to become a "salesman against socialization.†? But in this precursor to current campaign finance scandals, Nixon had some explaining to do to keep his place on Dwight Eisenhower's Republican ticket, so he took to the airwaves. The...
Don't Try This at Home
Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
From Gabrielle Hamilton on hiring a blind line cook to Michel Richard on rescuing a wrecked cake to Eric Ripert on being the clumsiest waiter in the room, these behind-the-scenes accounts are as wildly entertaining as they are revealing. With a great, new piece by Jamie Oliver, Don't Try This at Home...
The World Only Spins Forward
The Ascent of Angels in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
"Marvelous . . . A vital book about how to make political art that offers lasting solace in times of great trouble, and wisdom to audiences in the years that follow."- Washington Post
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
A STONEWALL BOOK AWARDS HONOR BOOK
The oral...
Bird Sense
What It's Like to Be a Bird
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise?
Bird Sense...