Ecco: 398 books
The House of Impossible Beauties
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed • The Wall Street Journal • The Millions • Southern Living • Bustle • Esquire • Entertainment Weekly • Nylon***• Mashable • Libary Journal*** • Thrillist
“Cassaras’s propulsive and profound first novel, finding one’s home...
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll...
From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. His father died...
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain
A Life in Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.
In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the...
The Greatest Knight
The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
A renowned scholar brings to life medieval England’s most celebrated knight, William Marshal—providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it.
Caught on the wrong side of an English civil war and condemned by his father to the gallows...
Up All Night
My Life and Times in Rock Radio
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Carol Miller is indisputably America’s premiere female rock ’n’ roll disc jockey, as her well-deserved induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame proves.
In her illuminating, fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking memoir, Up All Night, the legendary “Nightbird” tells the story of...
No One Is Coming to Save Us
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
*THE INAUGURAL SARAH JESSICA PARKER PICK FOR BOOK CLUB CENTRAL*
CHOSEN AS A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ PICK BY
The Wall Street Journal • The Washington Post • The Seattle Times
NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017 BY
Entertainment Weekly • Nylon • Elle •...
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman reclaiming her courage in the stark landscapes of the north.
By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska....
Stand Tall
Fighting for My Life, Inside and Outside the Ring
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
In this inspiring memoir, Dewey Bozella recounts his life and the twenty-six years he spent behind bars for a murder he did not commit—a stirring tale of courage, strength, faith, and perseverance.
In the late 1970s, Dewey Bozella was wrongfully accused of murdering Emma Crapser, a ninety-two-year-old...
Deliriously Happy
and Other Bad Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Do you like dogs? Babies? Baby dogs? Have you ever eaten ice cream or had love troubles? Wish there were dirty parts in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the book for you.
It’s all here: This impressively consecutive collection...
Damn Yankees
Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Winners of twenty-seven World Series titles, the New York Yankees are the quintessential sports dynasty. Love them or hate them, they cannot be ignored by anyone who professes to be a fan of the great game of baseball.
With Damn Yankees, Rob Fleder, former Executive Editor for Sports Illustrated...
by Russell Banks
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Suffused with Russell Banks’s trademark lyricism and reckless humor, the twelve stories in A Permanent Member of the Family examine the myriad ways we try—and sometimes fail—to connect with one another, as we seek a home in the world.
In the title story, a father looks back on the legend...
by Ron Rash
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Ron Rash, PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena and The Cove, has been called "a gorgeous writer" (Richard Price) with a "reputation for writerly miracles" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times), and is been heralded as "one of our very finest novelists"...
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
In this darkly comic and surreal collection from celebrated author Alissa Nutting, misfit women scramble for agency in a series of uncanny circumstances
Throughout these breathtakingly creative seventeen stories spread across time, space, and differing planes of reality, we encounter a host...
No Mission Is Impossible
The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal’s account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli Special Forces.
In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and...