Back Bay Books imprint: 137 books
On Celestial Music
And Other Adventures in Listening
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a synonym for neat. "On Celestial...
The Beautiful Fall
Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
A comprehensive biography of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld, and his infamous rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent.
"Deliciously dramatic... The Beautiful Fall crackles with excitement."-New York Times Book Review
In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left...
You Are Here
A Memoir of Arrival
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A wonderfully original tale of the disintegration and mutation of an apparently ordinary American family.--Alison Lurie.
What Was Asked of Us
An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
"A visceral account of the war . . . honest, agenda-free, and chilling." -New York Times Book Review
The Iraq war officially began on March 20, 2003, and since then more than one million young Americans have rotated through the country's insurgent-infested hot spots. But although...
Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture Spotlight
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
The story behind this groundbreaking book--one of the most significant works of investigative journalism since Woodward and Bernstein's reporting on Watergate--has been brought brilliantly to life on the screen in the major new movie Spotlight,...
by Degen Pener
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Ten years ago a revival of swing took place, originating in San Francisco, snowballing into today's international resurgence. This book presents the complete history of swing music and dancing, then and now.
Tomorrow They Will Kiss
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
Written with buoyant humor and a sharp sense of human desire, this is the story of love pursued at any cost, of how friendship and history unite people for better or worse, and of the hope for that redemptive kiss capable of reconciling estranged lovers and countries.
Saints and Sinners
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who-whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York-remind us of our own humanity.
In "Send My Roots Rain," Miss Gilhooley,...
The Unwanted
A Memoir of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. Kien Nguyen watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without his mother, without his grandparents. Left to a nightmarish existence in a violated & decimated country, Kien was more at risk than most because of...
A World Lit Only by Fire
The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.
Agincourt
Henry V and the Battle That Made England
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2008
Waged almost six centuries ago, the Battle of Agincourt still captivates. It is the classic underdog story, and generations have wondered how the English--outmanned by the French six to one--could have succeeded so bravely and brilliantly. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Juliet Barker paints a...
Next Man Up
A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In the NFL there is only one certainty: that every day, someone will have to be the Next Man Up. Football is an unrelentingly punishing sport, played and practiced at undiminished intensity, and it devours its players. Confronting injuries, trades, and the grim reality of competition, every NFL team...
by Jo Ann Beard
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2009
Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the moment "The Fourth State of Matter," one of the fourteen extraordinary personal narratives in this book, appeared in the pages of the New Yorker. It increased when the author received a prestigious...