Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
by Erin Jade Lange
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A riddle rarely makes sense the first time you hear it. The connection between Dane, a bully, and Billy D, a guy with Down Syndrome, doesn't even make sense the second time you hear it. But it's a collection of riddles that solidify their unlikely friendship.
Dane doesn't know who his dad is....
The Normals
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In this critically acclaimed comic masterpiece, David Gilbert tells the story of Billy Schine, a young man who innocently enrolls in a 14-day human drug testing study and finds his normal world turned upside-down. Like a One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the postmodern age, The Normals is a tour de force from a writer of astonishing intelligence and imagination.
Eagle Blue
A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Eagle Blue follows the Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28-game season, from their first day of practice in late November to the Alaska State Championship Tournament in March. With insight, frankness, and compassion, Michael D'Orso...
Things I Don't Want to Know
On Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, to publish alongside her new work of nonfiction, The Cost of Living.
Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss,...
Mighty Fitz
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The disappearance of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains one of the great unsolved mysteries in maritime history. Michael Schumacher relays in vivid detail the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, its many productive years on the waters of the Great Lakes, its tragic demise, the search effort and investigation,...
The Great Tamasha
Cricket, Corruption, and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
To understand modern India, one must look at the business of cricket within the country.
When Lalit Modi--an Indian businessman with a criminal record, a history of failed business ventures, and a reputation for audacious deal making--created a Twenty20 cricket league in India in 2008, the...
Leo Durocher
Baseball's Prodigal Son
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From Paul Dickson, the Casey Award–winning author of Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick, the first full biography of Leo Durocher, one of the most colorful and important figures in baseball history.
Leo Durocher (1906–1991) was baseball's all-time leading cocky, flamboyant, and galvanizing...
by Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Bierce's classic work of satirical wit and Steadman's pointed pen redefine the way we see even the seemingly simplest of terms.
Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to. Bride, n.: A woman with a great future behind her. Consult, v: To seek...
by Jessica Kaye, Richard Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Bruce Springsteen's melancholy "Meeting Across the River," a song rarely performed but beloved by his countless fans, serves as the inspiration for this eclectic mix of short stories written by an array of acclaimed authors.
"Meeting Across the River," from Bruce Springsteen's...
A More Perfect Constitution
Why the Constitution Must Be Revised: Ideas to Inspire a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
"The reader can't help but hold out hope that maybe someday, some of these sweeping changes could actually bring the nation's government out of its intellectual quagmire...his lively, conversational tone and compelling examples make the reader a more than willing student for this updated civics lesson."...
Next Generation Democracy
What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
The problems of the 21st century are of unprecedented scale. Climate change, financial instability, the housing crisis, the need for health care: all of these are political issues that could be managed with ease on a much smaller scale. But with an enormous global population, that kind of change is...
The Myth of Ability
Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
For decades teachers and parents have accepted the judgment that some students just aren't good at math. John Mighton-the founder of a revolutionary math program designed to help failing math students-feels that not only is this wrong, but that it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A pioneering...
Manage Your Time to Reduce Your Stress
A Handbook for the Overworked, Overscheduled, and Overwhelmed
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
How often do you think to yourself "So much to do and so little time"? Rita Emmett can not give you more minutes in an hour or more hours in a day, but she does offer help with the "so much to do" part. The key is not time management but "stuff" management--all those things to do, people to see, commitments...
Forecast
What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Picture an early scene from The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy hurries home as a tornado gathers in what was once a clear Kansas sky. Hurriedly, she seeks shelter in the storm cellar under the house, but, finding it locked, takes cover in her bedroom. We all know how that works out for her.
Many investors...