Doubleday imprint: 393 books
The San Francisco Experience
The Romantic Love Behind the Fabulous Facade of the Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The San Francisco experience is not an encounter you can enjoy in an hour or a day or at a particular time or location. It is a composite of innumerable experiences over long periods of time in the entire region around the bay. San Francisco as a social and cultural entity long ago spilled over the...
by Lloyd Kropp
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Somewhere in the heart of the Sargasso Sea, according to legend, there lies a calm body of water where all the wrecked ships of history find their way. Peter Sutherland, a youngish college professor weathering his first divorce, takes a Caribbean cruise in search of relaxation. Suddenly, a violent...
The Ice Passage
A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
A thrilling account of suffering and survival,The Ice Passage charts an epic quest from desire to destiny.
It begins as a mission of mercy. Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator sets sail in search of them. Instead...
by David Olive
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Why are we so hard on ourselves when everyone else thinks we're wonderful? Walt Whitman, Marlene Dietrich and Bill Clinton all have had admiring things to say about Canada. At the same time, some of our patriots--including Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood and Pierre Trudeau--are harsh critics.
David...
by Richard Crouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
¸ The words to Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" were initially so risqué they had to be completely rewritten - in the hallway of the studio, as time was running out - before the song could be recorded. (He wrote the original version while working as a dishwasher in a bus station in Georgia.)
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by George Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
“This is surely the best historical novel in many years,” wrote Peter S. Prescott in Newsweek about Death of the Fox, George Garrett’s unparalleled reentry, into the heart of the English Renaissance. His new novel, The Succession, is surely the finest since: a triumph of intellect and imagination...
by George Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Completing his masterful trilogy of novels set in Elizabethan England, Garrett again applies distinguished literary skills to spin a tale dark with deception and metaphysical questions but teeming with sensuous and concrete details that convey the spirit of the age. In 1597, when it seems that "half...
Imagining Canada
A Century of Photographs Preserved By The New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Sophisticated and well-curated, this photographic tour through Canada's history documents the nation's evolution over more than a century, as seen through the lens of photographers from The New York Times. The book compiles more than 100 iconic, momentous and inspiring images of Canada and includes...
Older, but Better, but Older
From the Authors of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2019
From the bestselling authors of How to be Parisian, what smart, savvy, fabulous French women think, feel and advise as they hit forty on life, love, and everything else
Older, but Better, but Older has the playful wit, self deprecation and worldly advice we have come to expect from these bestselling...
by David Schoenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler improvised a programme that claimed to offer a classless society.
William Diamond'S Drum
The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
William Diamond's drum roll in 1775 was the call to arms for the farmers and villagers in Massachusetts that began the American revolution. The book is a well researched history of the war and various battles therein. It is written in a manner to make for an exciting retelling of history.
by Heidi Julavits
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor HEIDI JULAVITS, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another.
Is the bond between mother and daughter unbreakable, even by death?
Julia Severn is...
The Making of the October Crisis
Canada's Long Nightmare of Terrorism at the Hands of the FLQ
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A definitive, mind-changing history of the October Crisis and the events leading up to it.
The first bombs exploded in Montreal in the spring of 1963, and over the next seven years there were hundreds more bombings, many bank robberies, six murders and, in October 1970, the kidnappings of a...
The Damascus Road
A Novel of Saint Paul
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history forever.
In the years after Christ's crucifixion, Paul of...