Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
Never Give Up on Your Dream
My Journey
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Inducted in 2006, Warren Moon is the only African-American quarterback in the NFL Hall of Fame. His path to success was neither easy nor assured. As a seven-year-old growing up in Los Angeles, he lost his father to alcoholism and helped his single mom raise six sisters. Playing football as a kid,...
Down to the Last Pitch
How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Never in baseball history had a last place team rebounded to take the pennant the following season. Yet in 1991, lightning struck twice as the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves, a pair of cellar dwellers the year before, faced each other in an unforgettable World Series.
For both clubs,...
Easy Street (the Hard Way)
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The candid, hilarious, and inspiring memoir of the iconic star of Beauty and the Beast,the Hellboy movies,and Sons of Anarchy.
A classically trained actor who cut his teeth in the East Village's Off-Broadway scene, Ron Perlman-a Golden Globe winner (Beauty and the Beast) with starring roles...
Soldiers Once
My Brother and the Lost Dreams of America's Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Catherine Whitney's brother, Vietnam veteran Jim Schuler, died at just fifty-three years old, while living in a flophouse. It had been sixteen years since, in one of his drunken rages, he had last seen his family. He was one of countless veterans who never recovered from the trauma of war and the...
Learning to Listen
A Life Caring for Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
From his childhood in Waco, Texas, where he took expert care of nine small cousins while the adults ate Sunday lunch, to Princeton and an offer from Broadway, to medical and psychoanalytic training, to the exquisite observations into newborn behavior that led babies to be seen in an entirely new light,...
Tabloid Love
Looking for Mr. Right in All the Wrong Places, A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Dubbed one of the summer's hottest beach reads by People, Glamour, Cosmo, and the Weekend Today” show, Tabloid Love introduces Bridget Harrison, an almost thirty-year-old Brit and rookie reporter for the New York Post. While her London friends begin to marry, Bridget chases her dream of becoming...
by Judith Lothian, Charlotte DeVries
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
For a Safe and Healthy Birth… Your Way! Giving Birth with Confidence will help take the mystery out of having a baby and help you better understand how your body works during pregnancy and childbirth, giving you the confidence to make decisions that best ensure the safety and health of you and your...
PacMan
Behind the Scenes with Manny Pacquiao--the Greatest Pound-for-Pound Fighter in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
PacMan is "a one-of-a-kind ride into the one-of-a-kind life of Manny Pacquiao."--Robert Cassidy, Newsday
With his shellacking of Antonio Margarito in November 2010, Manny "PacMan" Pacquiao became the only boxer ever to win eight world championships in eight different weight...
The X List
The National Society of Film Critics' Guide to the Movies That Turn Us On
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
National Society of Film Critics dares to go where few mainstream critics have gone before-to the heart of what gets the colored lights going, as they say in A Streetcar Named Desire. Here is their take on the films that quicken their (and our) pulses-an enterprise both risky and risque, an entertaining...
The Dark Side of the Screen
Film Noir
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
A revised and updated edition of the definitive study of film noir—the most original genre of American cinema—with a new afterword by the author
Since The Dark Side of the Screen first appeared over two decades ago, it has served as the essential take on what has become one of today’s...
Sophie
The Incredible True Story of the Castaway Dog
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
The story that became a global sensation: Sophie, the Australian cattle dog who was lost at sea and swam six miles through shark-infested waters to a remote island where she survived in the wild for five months.
It was just another day in paradise as Jan and Dave Griffith, along with...
When I Was Puerto Rican
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard
In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago...
Bullets Over Hollywood
The American Gangster Picture From The Silents To ""The Sopranos""
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
The gangster, like the gunslinger, is a classic American character-and the gangster movie, like the Western, is one of the American cinema's enduring film genres. From Scarface to White Heat, from The Godfather to The Usual Suspects, from Once Upon a Time in America to Road to Perdition, gangland...
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions and widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed...