Broadway Books imprint: 808 books

Somewhere

The Life of Jerome Robbins

by Amanda Vaill
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008

From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome Robbins To some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perfectionist, a driven taskmaster, a theatrical visionary; to others, he was a loyal friend, a supportive...
by A.J. Liebling
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

A classic work on Broadway sharpers, grifters, and con men by the late, great New Yorker journalist A. J. Liebling. Often referred to as “Liebling lowlife pieces,” the essays in The Telephone Booth Indian boisterously celebrate raffishness. A. J. Liebling appreciated a good scam and knew...

Where the Money Was

The Memoirs of a Bank Robber

by Willie Sutton, Edward Linn
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004

The Broadway Books Library of Larceny Luc Sante, General Editor For more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance...

Auntie Mame

An Irreverent Escapade

by Patrick Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002

With a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955--and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis’ Auntie Mame...

Computer Science Made Simple

Learn how hardware and software work-- and how to make them work for you!

by V. Anton Spraul
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010

Be smarter than your computer If you don't understand computers, you can quickly be left behind in today's fast-paced, machine-dependent society. Computer Science Made Simple offers a straightforward resource for technology novices and advanced techies alike. It clarifies all you need...

Little Me

The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television/Belle Po itrine/as told to

by Patrick Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Back in print at last! From the author of Auntie Mame: the bawdy, bestselling, bountifully illustrated autobiography of an imaginary diva whose life is one hilarious mishap after another. For Belle Poitrine, née Mayble Schlumpfert, all the world's a stage and she's the most important player...

New York: The Movie Lover's Guide

The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York

by Richard Alleman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013

The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including: Classic film and TV locations: Marilyn Monroe’s infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in...

Weapons of Math Destruction

How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

**Longlisted for the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric** We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect...

Out of the Flames

The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World

by Lawrence Goldstone, Nancy Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

Out of the Flames is an extraordinary story - providing testament to the power of ideas, the enduring legacy of books, and the triumph of individual courage. Out of the Flames tracks the history of The Chrisitianismi Restituto, examining Michael Servetus's life and times and the politics...
by Jack Murnighan
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009

Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don’t sweat it, it’s not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the Iliad’s battle scenes rival Hollywood’s for gore, or that Joyce is at his best when he’s...

Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co.

A Road Novel with Literary License

by María Amparo Escandón
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005

“A whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run.” —Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision and Bestselling Author While serving a sentence in a Mexican prison, Libertad González passes the time at the weekly Library Club,...
by Nina George
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015

Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own? Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader...

Hung

A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America

by Scott Poulson-Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011

Following in the footsteps of such bestselling, taboo-breaking books as Randall Kennedy’s Nigger and J. L. King’s On the Down Low**,** Hung brings a topic previously discussed only in intimate settings out into the open. In a brilliant, multilayered look at the pervasive belief that African American...

If I Die in a Combat Zone

Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

by Tim O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011

**A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried "One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam." —Minneapolis Star and Tribune** Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave...
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