Crown imprint: 1774 books
Lilah
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Set in the magnificent culture of the Middle East more than four thousand years ago, Lilah is a rich and emotionally resonant story of faith, love, and courage.Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior. They have known each other since they were children, and Antinoes dearly...
The Moth Presents All These Wonders
True Stories About Facing the Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
***“*Wonderful." *—*Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of storytelling phenomenon The Moth, 45 unforgettable true stories about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best ever told on their stages**
Carefully selected by the creative...
by Ken Ludwig
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare
To know some Shakespeare provides a head start in life. His plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best...
Modern Love
True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
50 Irresistible True Accounts of Love in the Twenty-first Century.
A young woman wryly describes a relationship that races from start to finish almost entirely via text messages.
A Casanova is jilted after an idyllic three weeks and learns the hard way that the woman is, well, just not...
Dog Is My Co-Pilot
Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Dogs have been our muses, our mentors, and our playful and noble co-pilots. They’ve had a profound influence on us as healers and spiritual guides, and also as co-workers, helping to guide, hunt, herd, search, and rescue. Our bond with dogs is deep and unbreakable, and there’s no better source...
Esquire Presents: What It Feels Like
*To Walk on the Moon*To Be Gored by a Bull*To Survive an Avalanche *To Swallow S words*To Go Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel*To Be Shot in the Head*To Win the L
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Have you ever wondered what it feels like:
to be stuck in a tornado?
“[It] is exactly the feel of a freight train approaching—that low, ever-louder howl and the shuddering ground.”
to participate in an orgy?
“And all the while, the thought that keeps going through...
Idyll Banter
Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers...
Upriver and Downstream
The Best Fly-Fishing and Angling Adventures from the New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Upriver and Downstream gathers seventy columns about fishing—from freshwater to saltwater, from small ponds to the Great Lakes, from the Pacific Northwest to post-Soviet Russia—written for the “Outdoors” column of the New York Times.
Contributors include such celebrated names as Nick...
Rise Up Singing
Black Women Writers on Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
From a dazzling array of well-known African American women, short fiction, poems, and personal essays that describe with warmth and humor their experiences as mothers and as daughters.
A sparkling anthology devoted to exploring the lives of African American mothers, Rise Up Singing presents...
Fragile Beasts
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
When their hard-drinking, but loving, father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania hometown for an uncertain life in Arizona with the mother who ran out on them years ago. But in a strange twist of fate, their town’s matriarch,...
Sister Mine
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Shae-Lynn Penrose drives a cab in a town where no one needs a cab—but plenty of people need rides. A former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a recklessly sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating them up or taking them to bed, she has spent years carving out...
Secrets of Eden
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
NOW A LIFETIME TV MOVIE STARRING JOHN STAMOS
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.
"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after...
by Barbara Vine
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
An unforgettable tale of mystery and obsession by Barbara Vine (pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement)
This is the utterly absorbing story of best-selling novelist Gerald Candless, whose sudden death from a heart attack...
by Jean Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
From the wild and wacky world of favorite funnyman Jean Shepherd, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Tumpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere.
Jean Shepherd was one of America’s...