Open Road Distribution imprint: 425 books
The Erich Fromm Reader
Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Fromm’s basic idea was to look at the individual as a social being and to look at society as an ensemble of many individuals who have not only common ideas and convictions based on a common practice of life but also a common psychic structure. With his concept of “social character” he created...
In One Era and Out the Other
A Life's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The beloved humorist and author Sam Levenson finds that some of his old worldviews don’t fit the new one he now sees. Levenson’s grew up the youngest of eight children in a large Jewish immigrant family in New York. He evolved from a Spanish teacher in Brooklyn to working the Catskills circuit...
Explorers of the Black Box
The Search for the Cellular Basis of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Explorers of the Black Box is a scientific adventure story. The “Black Box” is the brain. The “Explorers” are neuroscientists in search of how nerve cells record memories, and they are as ruthless and dauntless as any soldiers of fortune. The book centers around the early, often-controversial...
California Rich
The Lives, the Times, the Scandals, and the Fortunes of the Men & Women Who Made & Kept California's Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
California Rich is the entertaining and scandal-filled look inside the lives of the Golden State’s moneyed elite.
by Therese Park
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A Gift of the Emperor is the poignant fictional account of real-life atrocities inflicted upon more than 200,000 Asian women by the Japanese military during World War II. This haunting story is narrated by Soon-ah, a Korean schoolgirl whose life is shattered when Emperor Hirohito’s soldiers abduct...
Above the Law
Secret Deals, Political Fixes and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The U.S. Department of Justice is an institution of vast reach and power over the American people, with little oversight into its internal operations. This book examines the ways that attorneys general, FBI directors, federal prosecutors and other Justice Department officials have often abused their...
Special Needs and Services
Philosophy, Programs, and Practices for the Creation of Quality Service for Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Special Needs and Services examines and supports parent participation, training programs, role of play in the physical, mental and social development of children, and community involvement as the basis for effective childcare programs. Includes perspectives from different cultures and needs when considering...
Wild Blood
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Following the death of his beloved mother, young Skinner Cade discovers he was adopted. Determined to find his true origins, he travels westward from the Mississippi Delta to the deserts of Arizona. There, Skinner learns of Changing Woman, the mysterious leader of the Coyotero who might be his biological...
Higher Education
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
With a new afterword by Jeff Gomez
Originally published during the literary “Brat Pack” phenomenon of the 1980s, this new edition of Lisa Pliscou’s acclaimed first novel—written when she was 24—roars through ten riotous days in the hilariously tangled life of a Harvard senior who, as the heroine of her own story, must find a way to set her world to rights.
Lynch
A Gothik Western
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
With his killer’s cool and his famous pearl-handled pistols, Johnny Pearl has made a name for himself as a gunslinger. But fame proves itself hollow, and his demons finally catch up to him after one gunfight too many. When at last he finds redemption, it’s in the smile of Katie Small Dove. Katie...
by Thomas A Bass
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The Eudaemonic Pie is the bizarre true story of how a band of physicists and computer wizards took on Las Vegas.
Playing Around
Women and Infidelity
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Intimate, explosive, revelatory
American women talk about having been unfaithful to their primary sexual partners. Why did they cheat? How and where did they manage to meet with their lovers? Were the affairs more sexually satisfying than the women’s primary relationships? More emotionally...
The Cosmo Report
Female Sexual Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The largest-ever sexual survey of American women
Bigger by far than the Kinsey Report or any other sexual study of American women, the Cosmo Report is a landmark work about female behavior. The report is based on the responses of more than one hundred thousand readers of Cosmopolitan magazine...
Horizontal Hold
The Making and Breaking of a Network Television Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Absurdly funny, trenchant, and provocative, this outside-looking-in account of the stillbirth of one particular television series is a must read for every serious and not-so-serious television viewer.