Abrams Ignition: 246 books
by Pamela Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this intimate biography of the British comic is “a triumph of the will, an Angela’s Ashes with punch lines” (Publishers Weekly).
One of the UK’s most beloved stand-up comedians, Billy Connolly is recognized around the world for his HBO comedy specials...
by W. Stephen Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The first critical biography of the innovative television writer whose off-kilter creations helped spark the Golden Age of modern television.
TV writer Dennis Potter is widely credited with revolutionizing television. The innovative shows he created for the BBC, including The Singing Detective...
Operation Kronstadt
The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
An MI6 officer’s account of a heart-pounding mission to rescue a spy trapped in Russia, “as exciting as anything found in fiction” (Daily Mail).
Paul Dukes, a thirty-year-old concert pianist, was a master of disguise—dubbed ‘The Man with a Hundred Faces’—and an English spy in Russia....
Peaches & Daddy
A Story of the Roaring 20s, the Birth of Tabloid Media, & the Courtship that Captured the Heart and Imagination of the American Public
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
A “lively, intelligently rendered account” of a tabloid romance, scandalous divorce and the rise of yellow journalism in Gilded Age New York (Kirkus Reviews).
Edward “Daddy” Browning was a famously eccentric millionaire when he crossed paths with fifteen-year-old shop clerk and aspiring...
The Last Escaper
The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
“A remarkable memoir of a British lad’s salad days flying bombers against the Nazis and then repeatedly escaping their prison camps” (Kirkus Reviews).
The product of a lifetime’s reflection, The Last Escaper is Peter Tunstall’s unforgettable memoir of his days in the British Royal Air...
We Is Got Him
The Kidnapping that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
This “relentlessly suspenseful” story of America’s first known kidnapping in nineteenth century Philadelphia is “elegantly told, superbly accomplished” (The Philadelphia Enquirer).
In 1874, a little boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his family’s front yard in Philadelphia....
O. Winston Link
Life Along the Line
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The renowned photographer’s stirring tribute to the last steam locomotive railway and the end of an American way of life.
O. Winston Link photographed the Norfolk and Western, the last major steam railroad in the United States, when it was converting its operations from steam to diesel in the...
Orange Is the New Black Presents
The Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“A fun read for fans of the Netflix series . . . And don’t worry: These dishes are way better than the food the inmates actually eat on the show” (People).
Staffed and run by a band of misfit inmates, the kitchen at Litchfield is in many ways the center of the popular show Orange Is the...
S'Mother
The Story of a Man, His Mom, and the Thousands of Altogether Insane Letters She's Mailed Him
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
And you think your mom is too involved? Meet the mother of all mothers in this “hilarious” memoir (North Shore News).
Adam Chester is the son of a very loving mom, who for almost thirty years has peppered his life with unsolicited advice, news updates, and opinions in the form of thousands...
by Terry J. Erdmann, Paula M. Block
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
A complete episode-by-episode exploration of the hit TV series—with rarely seen photos and illustrations.
With the launch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gene Roddenberry somehow managed to recapture lightning in a bottle. This new incarnation of Star Trek was an instant hit, and its popularity...
by Terry J. Erdmann, Paula M. Block
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A visual compilation of all 88 trading cards for Star Trek fans and collectors of TV memorabilia!
Since Star Trek first aired on television in 1966, the series has had an incredible influence on pop culture. In 1976, with the show’s rising popularity in syndication, the Topps Company released...
Dylan Thomas
A New Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
The renowned literary biographer offers a “thoroughly well-written” chronicle of the legendary Welsh poet’s life that is “rich in anecdote” (The New Yorker).
Dylan Thomas is as legendary for his raucous life as for his literary genius. The author of the immortal poems Death Shall...
Did She Kill Him?
A Torrid True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and Murder in Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
“An intriguing story told in the style of Thomas Hardy or George Eliot, if they traded in true crime” (Kirkus Reviews).
In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James...
Strange Telescopes
Following the Apocalypse from Moscow to Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
The acclaimed author of Lost Cosmonaut “takes us into a world of exorcism, cults and oddballs” living in Ukraine, Siberia, and the catacombs beneath Moscow (The Guardian).
In Lost Cosmonaut, travel writer and anti-tourist Daniel Kalder ventured into the most distant republics of the former...