Broadway Books imprint: 808 books
The Complete Tudors
Nine Historical Novels
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The nine Tudor novels by beloved novelist Jean Plaidy are now available as one complete series spanning sixteenth-century England. This exciting collection includes a brand-new character guide, along with reading group guides for seven books. Read all nine novels in order for the first time digitally...
The Bright Forever
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
A dark, harrowing novel about a nine-year-old girl's disappearance and the lasting impact it has on her close-knit community
On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return...
Armada
A novel by the author of Ready Player One
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
**From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could. **
Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's...
Endgame
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Acclaimed biographer Frank Brady traces the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic chess genius Bobby Fischer.
Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer. ...
January First
A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Michael Schofield’s daughter January is at the mercy of her imaginary friends, except they aren’t the imaginary friends that most young children have; they are hallucinations. And January is caught in the conflict between our world and their world, a place she calls Calalini. Some of these hallucinations,...
Signs of Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
“I know. I know. No one says it but I know…” —from Signs of Life
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Twenty-four-year-old Natalie Taylor was leading a charmed life. At the age of twenty four, she had a fulfilling job as a high school English teacher, a wonderful husband, a new house and a baby on the way. Then, while...
Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children.”—The New York Times Book Review
In 1988, Jonathan Kozol set off to spend time with children in the American public education system....
by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail**—well, most of it. In A Sunburned...
by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail**—well, most of it. In A Sunburned...
Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
***WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE GENERAL NON-FICTION ***
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America
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In this brilliant,heartbreaking book, Matthew...
Five Days at Memorial
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs...
La Bella Lingua
My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
A celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman’s personal quest to speak fluent Italian.
For anyone who has been to Italy, the fantasy of living the Italian life is powerfully seductive....
Way Off the Road
Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Celebrated roving correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and bestselling author Bill Geist serves up a rollicking look at some small-town Americans and their offbeat ways of life.
“In rural Kansas, I asked our motel desk clerk for the name of the best restaurant in the area. After mulling...
Paris, Paris
Journey into the City of Light
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic...