Picador imprint: 544 books
by Chris West
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF AMERICA THROUGH ITS BEAUTIFUL AND DIVERSE POSTAGE STAMPS IN THIS EXUBERANT AND ALWAYS CHARMING HISTORY.
In A History of America in Thirty-six Postage Stamps, Chris West explores America's own rich philatelic history. From George Washington's dour gaze to the...
Soccer Without Borders
Jürgen Klinsmann, Coaching the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team and the Quest for the World Cup
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A GAME-CHANGING AND FASCINATING BOOK ON HOW TO USE WISDOM FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO CREATE A LASTING, POWERFUL SOCCER TEAM, BY ONE OF THE SPORT'S MOST ICONIC AND EFFECTIVE COACHES
Jurgen Klinsmann, head coach of the U.S. men's national soccer team, has become a household name after the United...
First Jobs
True Tales of Bad Bosses, Quirky Coworkers, Big Breaks, and Small Paychecks
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
A future mayor shining shoes, an atheist shilling Bibles, a housewife heading to work during World War II, a now-famous designer getting fired-we all got our start somewhere. A first job may not have the romance of the first kiss or the excitement of a first car, but more than anything else, it offers...
by Sameen Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Drawing together the traditional recipes from different Indian cuisines, Sameen Rushdie’s invitation to share in the pleasures of Indian cookery is irresistible.
In Hindustani a good cook is one that ‘has special taste in their hands’, and the author demonstrates her skill, knowledge...
A Short History of Rudeness
Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A funny and provocative cultural history of class, manners, and the decline of civility
In his smart and thought provoking new book, literary/social critic Mark Caldwell gives us a history of the demise of manners and charts the progress of an epidemic of rudeness in America. The breakdown...
Trials of the Monkey
An Accidental Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
"When Darwin called his second book The Descent of Man instead of The Ascent of Man he was thinking of his progeny."
So declares Darwin's great-great grandson Matthew Chapman as he leaves behind his stressful career as a Hollywood screenwriter and travels to Dayton, Tennessee where...
The Tattooed Soldier
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee in Los Angeles haunted by memories of his wife and child, who were murdered at the hands of a man marked with yellow ink. In a park near Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a sinister tattoo—yellow pelt, black spots, red mouth....
People in Glass Houses
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Only those who keep their wit and affections about them will survive the mass conditioning of the Organization, where confusion solemnly rules and conformity is king. As in our world itself, humanity prevails in the courage, love, and laughter of singular spirits--of men and women for whom life is an adventure no Organization can quell, and whose souls remain their own.
Cliffs of Fall
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
From the author of The Great Fire, a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointment
Shirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, the stories deal with...
Children of the New World
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
**AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-**SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN
Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual...
The Drowned Book
Picador Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
With an introduction by Helen Dunmore
Come for a walk down the river road,
For though you're all a long time dead
The waters part to let us pass
The way we'd go on summer nights
In the times we were children
And thought we were lovers.
The Drowned Book is a work of memory, commemoration...
Fame
What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal urge first to exalt the famous but then to cut them down (Michael Jackson, anyone?). Why do we treat the ones we love like burnt offerings in...
The Cornflake House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
For fans of Kate Atkinson, Barbara Trapido, and Alice Hoffman--the magical story of an unconventional family in the English suburbs
Eve has grown up in a decidedly unconventional family, one of seven multi-racial children with different fathers and a mother named Victory who raises them her...
Good Kids, Bad City
A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.
In the early 1970s, three...