Crown imprint: 1774 books
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
A Memoir of Food and Longing
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
**A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
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Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families...
Cure
A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability to heal the body.
Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partner's...
Trying Not to Try
Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-being
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Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed...
The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men
Every Man I Love Is Either Married, Gay, or Dead
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
If the Nobel committee offered awards in Gender Relations, the Sweet Potato Queens would have the prize all locked up. These fine ladies have devoted an absolutely inordinate amount of time to the pursuit of love, marriage, and great sex, and they’re just bursting to share their stories. Now their...
by Jill Conner Browne
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
They’re wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, there’re just never enough good times—or enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne...
Redemption
A Story of Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Freedom Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
"This real-life tale, as dramatic as any movie, of Stacey Lannert and her struggle to survive violent sexual assault and the devastating aftermath raises intense issues of crime, culpability and the nature of violence and families. It's a devastating and important subject, beautifully told."--Naomi...
The Soul of All Living Creatures
What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
As profiled in the New York Times Magazine…
Based on the author’s twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats – and...
Twelve Desperate Miles
The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers in this true story of how a rusty old New Orleans banana boat staffed with an unlikely crew of international merchant seamen, a gang of inmates from a local jail, and a French harbor pilot spirited out of Morocco by O.S.S. agents in the trunk of a Chevy,...
Rogue Heroes
The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The incredible untold story of WWII’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue
Britain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic...
Scars of Independence
America's Violent Birth
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding**
The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s...
Bunch of Amateurs
A Search for the American Character
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA AND THE IDENTITY OF ITS PEOPLE? ACCLAIMED WRITER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO THIS AMERICAN LIFE JACK HITT THINKS IT’S BECAUSE WE’RE ALL A BUNCH OF AMATEURS.
America’s self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical garages—fiddling...
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic’s elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers.
The Titanic has often been called "An exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era,” but until now, her story...
Suicide of the West
How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity.
“Epic and debate-shifting.”—David Brooks, New York Times
Only once in the...
Here Is Where
Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Here Is Where chronicles Andrew Carroll’s eye-opening – and at times hilarious -- journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carroll’s visit to the spot where...