Crown imprint: 1774 books
Liquor
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Two line cooks decide to open their own restaurant in New Orleans in the second book in the Rickey and G-Man series by novelist Poppy Z. Brite.
New Orleans natives Rickey and G-man are lifetime friends and down-and-out line cooks desperate to make a quick buck. When Rickey concocts the idea...
Prime
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Two years after the opening of Liquor, New Orleans chefs Rickey and G-man are immersed in the life of their restaurant, enjoying a loyal cast of diners, and cooking great booze-laced food. All’s well until a bad review in a local paper not-so-subtly hints that their “silent” backer, celebrity...
The Package Deal
My (not-so) Glamorous Transition from Single Gal to Instant Mom
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Meet Izzy Rose–a hilarious and chic new stepmom trying to come to terms with the package deal. A single “middle-class socialite” living in San Francisco, Izzy loved her career as a successful, Emmy Award-winning TV producer and she was fine with the fact that she was unmarried and kid-less at...
That's What She Said
Women Reveal What Men Really Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The book was called Everything Men Understand About Women.
Upon opening it, the reader found 100 blank pages. Get it?
Very funny. But it gave T. J. Jefferson an idea. If men know nothing about the fairer sex, then why not go straight to the source? After all, if your toilet is backed...
Handbook for an Unpredictable Life
How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair)
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez’s never-before-told story of surviving a harrowing childhood and of how she found success—both in and out of the Hollywood limelight.
Rosie Perez first caught our attention with her fierce dance in the title sequence of Do the Right Thing and has since...
by Darcy Cosper
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Seventeen weddings. Six months. Only the strong survive.
Joy Silverman and her boyfriend, Gabriel Winslow, seem perfect for each other. Living together in New York City, they have everything they want and everything in common--most important, that neither one wants to get married. Ever.
But...
Break the Skin
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Laney—a skinny, awkward teenager alone in the world—thinks she’s found a kindred spirit in thirty-five-year-old Delilah. Then the police come to ask Laney questions and she finds herself reconstructing a story of suspense, deceit, and revenge; a story that will haunt her forever.
Seven...
by Quentin Carter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
After serving 15 years in prison, Ramon Delay is back on the grimey streets of Kansas City, and the demons of his past are dragging him on a detour which may lead to a dead end. Ramon again finds himself amongst his loyal crew of thieves, who hold him down while mobbing his way to the top of one of Kansas...
I Know You're Out There
Private Longings, Public Humiliations, and Other Tales from the Personals
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Love lost, found, and kicked around
“It might be my imagination, but it seems like most people in the building tend to steer clear of me. I’m the one who gets the weird phone calls, the strange visitors, and disturbing mail.”
“My last great love affair didn’t work out—many...
I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It
Confessions of a Fiftysomething
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
I bought a new wrinkle cream.
If you use it once a day, you look younger in a month.
Twice a day, you look younger in two weeks.
I ate it.
As the years go by, and the decades begin to pile up, people will do just about anything to reverse the signs of aging: LASIK surgery, industrial-strength...
by Quentin Carter
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2001
Drug-dealing blood-brothers Keith and Kevin Banks are sitting on top of the world with enough dough and honeys to last them for sure. Just when everything seems to be going their way, jealousy secretly takes hold of their close friend, Tee. Knowing that women are Keith's weakness and downfall, Tee goes...
by Quentin Carter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Maurice Jones is a smooth, conniving player who specializes in manipulating young women for his own financial gain. Tired of dealing with the same naive women day after day, Maurice searches for the one female who can match his wit. Nekole Mitchell is a scheming hood wench who slithers her way into Maurice...
by Deborah Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2001
Javon has it all: money, power, respect and one of the baddest chicks in the game. Still, Javon wants more. He knows there's never a long run in the game. So when he sees the opportunity to go legitimate in the music industry, he takes it. Javon leaves behind the life that he once knew, finding love,...
The Myth of You and Me
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend.
When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend—no one could come between them....