Broadway Books imprint: 808 books
Higher
A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce...
Howling at the Moon
The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2004
Show biz memoir at its name-dropping, bridge-burning, profane best: the music industry’s most outspoken, outrageous, and phenomenally successful executive delivers a rollicking memoir of pop music’s heyday.
During the 1970s and '80s the music business was dominated by a few major labels...
Last Flag Down
The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world’s oceans and sink the U.S....
Radio Shangri-La
What I Discovered on my Accidental Journey to the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan Los Angeles for a new adventure in the ancient...
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT
An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour**
In David...
by Jennifer Steil
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
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"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn’t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn’t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa Rica and prevailed? Hadn’t I survived fainting in a San José brothel? Hadn’t...
In the Hamptons
My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires, and Celebrities
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Long before the Hamptons became famous for its posh parties, paparazzi, and glitterati, it was a sleepy backwater of fishing villages and potato farms, literary luminaries and local eccentrics. As the editor and publisher of the area’s popular free newspaper, Dan’s Papers, Dan Rattiner, has been...
Mandela, Mobutu, and Me
A Newswoman's African Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke takes readers on a wrenching but riveting journey through Africa during the pivotal 1990s and brilliantly illuminates a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable depredation and horrors.
For four years...
Descartes's Secret Notebook
A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
René Descartes (1596—1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space...
The Man Who Invented Christmas (Movie Tie-In)
How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors...
Resilience
Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.
She’s one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family....
by Erik Larson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose...
by The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students–whose ranks included...
No Higher Honor
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around...