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Year of Wonder
Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
“Year of Wonder is an absolute treat—the most enlightening way to be guided through the year.” **—**Eddie Redmayne
A unique celebration of classical music that showcases one inspirational piece each day of the year, written by an award-winning violinist and BBC Radio personality
Classical...
Fooling Houdini
Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
From the back rooms of New York City’s age-old magic societies to cutting-edge psychology labs, three-card monte games on Canal Street to glossy Las Vegas casinos, Fooling Houdini recounts Alex Stone’s quest to join the ranks of master magicians.
As he navigates this quirky and occasionally...
Visiting Tom
A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
“Somewhere between Garrison Keillor’s idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street lies the reality of small-town life. This is where Michael Perry lives.”
—St. Paul Pioneer Press
“Perry can take comfort in the power of his writing, his ability...
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World
The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Ellis Amburn's magnificent biography of the Academy Award®-winning actress and legendary beauty captures the unparalleled Elizabeth in all her tragedy and splendor—her tumultuous loves, her doomed affections, her shocking excesses, her courage, and her inimitable style. Filled with stunning revelations...
by Caitlin Moran
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The follow-up to Caitlin Moran's breakout hit, How to Be a Woman—A hilarious collection of award-winning columns, available to American readers for the first time ever.
Possibly the only drawback to the bestselling How to Be a Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty...
The Year of Reading Dangerously
How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)—a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books.
Nearing his fortieth birthday, author and...
by Baratunde Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
New York Times Bestseller
Baratunde Thurston’s comedic memoir chronicles his coming-of-blackness and offers practical advice on everything from “How to Be the Black Friend” to “How to Be the (Next) Black President”.
Have you ever been called “too black” or “not black...
Bad Kid
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Discovering George Michael's Faith confirmed for David Crabb what every bully already knew: he was gay. What saved him from high school was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being outsiders. David found himself enmeshed with misfits: wearing black, cutting class, staying out all...
On My Knees
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
On My Knees is Periel Aschenbrand’s seriously funny follow-up to her debut memoir The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own.
At the beginning of On My Knees, we find Periel chain-smoking her days away on a plastic-covered couch, watching reruns of Law & Order while she squats in her deceased grandmother’s...
Soul Train
The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of Soul Train—the cultural phenomenon that launched the careers of artists such as Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, Whitney Houston, Lenny Kravitz, LL...
The State of Affairs
Rethinking Infidelity
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Iconic couples’ therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity.
An affair: it can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. And yet, this extremely common...
The Explosive Child
A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
A groundbreaking approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other intractable behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in this field.
What’s an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration—crying,...
Little Soldiers
An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors’ Pick
In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China’s widely acclaimed yet insular education...
Lost Girls
An Unsolved American Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island, in a compelling tale of unsolved murder and Internet prostitution.
One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert, after...