Broadway Books imprint: 808 books
by Rebecca Skloot
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
**Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine,...
Finding Everett Ruess
The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted cult following.
Wandering alone with burros...
Lucy's Legacy
The Quest for Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.”*–*From Lucy’s Legacy
In his New...
The Island of Lost Maps
A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose...
Endless Universe
Beyond the Big Bang
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
**Two world-renowned scientists present an audacious new vision of the cosmos that “steals the thunder from the Big Bang theory.” —**Wall Street Journal
The Big Bang theory—widely regarded as the leading explanation for the origin of the universe—posits that space and time sprang...
by Brent W. Jeffs, Maia Szalavitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced...
The Demon Under the Microscope
From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine.
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics....
The Unlikely Lavender Queen
A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
From one of the founders of Hill Country Lavender comes this honest, funny, and poignant memoir of a woman who gives up a lot for the man she loves—her beloved blue state, bagels and all-night bodegas—only to wonder: Was it too much?
In 1990, Jeannie Ralston was a successful magazine writer...
Brothers in Arms
THE EPIC STORY OF THE 761ST TANK BATTALION, WWII'S FORGOTTEN HEROES
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, BROTHERS IN ARMS recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st “Black Panthers,” the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first learned about the battalion from family...
Starvation Heights
A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the...
City of Scoundrels
The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge...
Headstrong
52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists.
In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three...
The Underground Girls of Kabul
In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned...
For the Sins of My Father
A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
A suspenseful, emotionally charged real-life Sopranos: The son of New York's most notorious Mafia killer reveals the conflicted life he led being raised by a cold-blooded murderer, who was also a devoted family man, and the wrenching legacy of Mafia family life.
Al DeMeo will never forget the...