Adam: 4614 books
Daddy, Stop Talking!
And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.
Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow up...
The Table Comes First
Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“You still eat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding...
Midnight in Chernobyl
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.
Early...
The Light in the Piazza (Songbook)
2005 Tony Award Winner for 6 Awards, including Best Original Score
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
(Vocal Selections). The New York Times calls this Tony Award-winning Adam Guettel musical "the most intensely romantic score of any Broadway musical since West Side Story ." 10 songs are included in this collection, plus a bio of Adam Guettel, 5 pages of color photos, and more. Includes: The Beauty Is...
by Adam Graham
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
There's something about the Golden Age of cinema, radio, and television that continues to draw new fans and keep old fans coming back for more.While interest in Golden Age entertainment is often described as "nostalgia," podcaster Adam Graham, host of three separate old time radio podcasts...
by Adam McKibbin
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Woody Allen is one of the most renowned film directors in American cinema history, and not only because he frequently appears in his own films as an actor. His output as a filmmaker has been prolific: he often churns out a new movie with each passing year, a pace that hasnt...
Promises
Based on a True Experience with Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Turner Whynot is a psychiatrist looking for reason within his work. He is searching for more than the prescriptions and the textbooks that psychiatrists rely upon to treat the mentally ill. Why does he look after the sick? Is it something divine thats within us all, or some other driving force? Turner...
by Adam McKibbin
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Basketball star LeBron James is, at age 27, one of the most famous and celebrated athletes of his generation. Even casual sports fans (and a fair number of non-sports fans) are kept abreast of the latest successes and failures of “King James” and the Miami Heat, thanks to...
by Adam McKibbin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Jay-Z (born December 4, 1969, as Shawn Carter) is one of the most successful hip-hop artists in history, an esteemed entrepreneur, and, as Beyonce’s husband, one half of one of the most famous celebrity couples. His business ventures include a clothing line, a sports bar, and...
John le Carre
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The definitive biography of the internationally adored author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and A Perfect Spy—arguably one of the most important and influential writers of the post-World War II period—by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning biographer...
Delve In, Dig Deep
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur in the Canadian business landscape? How do you manage the ups and downs of a growing business? In Delve In, Dig Deep: An Entrepreneurial Journey, Adam Froman shares the lessons he's learned over the past 15 years, as he's taken his own company from...
The Skull
Informers, Hit Men and Australia’s Toughest Cop
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
There has never been a more feared or respected policeman in Australia than Brian “Skull” Murphy. Bestselling author Adam Shand tells the story of the last of the super cops. Through dramatic recreations, The Skull follows Brian Murphy on the beat as he collars big-time crims and small-time thugs,...
Half the Way Home
A Memoir of Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
A New York Times Notable Book: “An extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
From the author of King Leopold’s Ghost, Half the Way Home is a compelling memoir about a complicated father-son relationship.
Adam...
by Adam McKibbin
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Plenty has been written about Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, two of the more celebrated artists to emerge from the vibrant New York artistic circles of the ‘70s. Now Smith shares her story - or at least part of it - in her own words, with Just Kids, winner of the National...