Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group: 7208 books
Ghosting
A Double Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
When Jennie Erdal was hired to edit a flamboyant London publisher’s Russian books in translation, she was happy to be able to commute from her home in Scotland. Soon, however, she was also secretly writing her boss’s love letters, hundreds of newspaper columns that appeared in his name, and, though...
Losing Our Way
An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way
In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After...
Oberammergau
The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has staged the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ nearly every decade since 1634. Each production of the Passion Play attracts hundreds of thousands, many drawn by the spiritual benefits it promises. Yet Hitler called it a convincing portrayal of the...
Essential Torah
A Complete Guide to the Five Books of Moses
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Whether you are thinking about studying the Bible for the first time or you’re simply curious about its history and contents, you will find everything you need in Essential Torah. George Robinson, author of the acclaimed Essential Judaism, begins by recounting the various theories of the origins...
A House Full of Females
Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History,and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination.
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by Naguib Mahfouz
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal. At a Cairo café in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly presides over a...
by Nathan Englander
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories from Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.
In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. "The Wig"...
The Wave
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories—waves...
They Knew They Were Right
The Rise of the Neocons
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
From its origins in 1930s Marxism to its unprecedented influence on George W. Bush's administration, neoconservatism has become one of the most powerful, reviled, and misunderstood intellectual movements in American history. But who are the neocons, and how did this obscure group of government officials,...
by Ayelet Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War.
In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg,...
Gangbusters
How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
An elite homicide investigation unit takes on one of the most savage and destructive gangs in New York City history in this gritty true-crime narrative.
The investigation into the late-night murder of a college student on the West Side Highway leads to the Wild Cowboys, a group of young men...
by James D. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
In the years following his and Francis Crick’s towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those pursuits. Watson effortlessly glides between his heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious debacles...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Since childhood, Oliver Sacks has been fascinated by ferns: an ancient class of plants able to survive and adapt in many climates. Along with a delightful group of fellow fern aficionados—mathematicians, poets, artists, and assorted botanists and birders—he embarks on an exploration of Southern...