Books imprint: 120884 books
Hooked on Hollywood
Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Leonard Maltin is America's best-known film historian, film reviewer, and author of books that have sold more than 7 million copies. He remains a thought leader on past and present Hollywood through his website www.leonardmaltin.com, and a social media presence that includes an active Facebook page...
Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than...
by Amos Oz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
International Bestseller
"[An] ingenious work that circles around the rise of a state, the tragic destiny of a mother, a boy’s creation of a new self." — The New Yorker
A family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer...
by George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1969
**A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century
“One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.”—The New Yorker**
In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George...
by Artemis Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made him equally...
Lit
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Mary Karr’s bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry—and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year—Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live.
The...
Out of the Flames
The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Out of the Flames is an extraordinary story - providing testament to the power of ideas, the enduring legacy of books, and the triumph of individual courage.
Out of the Flames tracks the history of The Chrisitianismi Restituto, examining Michael Servetus's life and times and the politics...
Summary and Analysis of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Based on the book by Simon Winchester
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Professor and the Madman tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Simon Winchester’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
In the Great Green Room
The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children’s classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret’s books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of...
Summary and Analysis of Alexander Hamilton
Based on the Book by Ron Chernow
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Alexander Hamilton tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Ron Chernow’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
Summary and Analysis of Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History
Based on the Book by Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you...
by Slavko Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A New York Review Books Original
The distinguished Croatian journalist and publisher Slavko Goldstein says, “Writing this book about my family, I have tried not to separate what happened to us from the fates of many other people and of an entire country.” 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning...
Summary and Analysis of Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Based on the Book by Luke Dittrich
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Patient H.M. tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Luke Dittrich’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning
Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Man’s Search for Meaning tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Viktor E. Frankl’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...