Crown imprint: 1774 books
by Olivia de Havilland
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Back in print for the first time in decades—and featuring a new interview with the author, in celebration of her centennial birthday—the delectable escapades of Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland, who fell in love with a Frenchman—and then became a Parisian
In 1953, Olivia de Havilland—already...
Urban Legends
The As-Complete-As-One-Could-Be Guide to Modern Myths
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Urban Legends is a remarkably complete collection of the modern myths that make the rounds in offices, college dorms, and every other place where people tell the stories that spring from our deepest fears and fascinations.
Every culture has its folktales including ours. Except, instead of involving...
Learning to Swim
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
A mysterious and suspenseful story that will move and disturb you to the very end.
When she sees what looks like a child tumbling from a ferry into frigid Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. When she gets the child to shore she discovers that his name is Paul, he speaks only...
Warren Beatty
A Private Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
“Whatever you have read or heard about me through articles or gossip, forget it. I am nothing like that Warren Beatty. I am nothing like what you have read.” —Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty guarded his privacy even before he became a movie star, when he burst onto the screen in 1961 as the...
The Jerusalem Syndrome
My Life as a Reluctant Messiah
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
By the author of Attempting Normal and host of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, The Jerusalem Syndrome isThe Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker.
The Jerusalem Syndrome is a genuine psychological...
by Darrell King
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Behind the moss-draped trees, Mint Juleps and stately mansions of the American Deep South lies a foreboding and deadly dark side. Multimillionaire drug lords do power lunches with Southern aristocrats by day and lay waste to their rivals by night in a bloodbath not seen since the Civil War. At the helm...
Kidding Ourselves
The Hidden Power of Self-Deception
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Why We Make Mistakes, an illuminating exploration of human beings’ astonishing ability to deceive themselves.
To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception—of ourselves and the world around us—is much more malleable...
Freedom's Child
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Freedom Oliver has plenty of secrets. She lives in a small Oregon town and keeps mostly to herself. Her few friends and neighbors know she works at the local biker bar; they know she gets arrested for public drunkenness almost every night; they know she’s brash, funny, and fearless.
What...
Remember Everything You Read
The Evelyn Wood 7 Day Speed Reading and Learning Program
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Learn how to read more quickly--and absorb more of of the information you are reading--with Remember Everything You Read.
For the first time the secrets that have made the completely revised Evelyn Wood learning program so effective and popular are revealed. Remember Everything You Read not...
Light This Candle
The Life and Times of Alan Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
lan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America’s original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic—the man who hit a golf ball on the moon—he was among the most private of America’s public figures and, until his death in 1998,...
Don't Let My Mama Read This
A Southern Fried Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Meet Hadjii.
He’s got a loving family, a taste for making trouble, and a wicked sense of humor. His first book, Don’t Let My Mama Read This, is a rarity—an upbeat memoir about a blessedly normal childhood written by a natural-born storyteller. In it, he offers a warm, witty look at the...
Chasing Hepburn
A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family's Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Chasing Hepburn is the story of the Lee family—a saga spanning four generations, two continents, and a century and a half of Chinese history. In the masterful hands of acclaimed author Gus Lee, his ancestors’ stories spring vividly to life in a memoir with all the richness of great fiction.
From...
Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet
More Commentary by NPR's Cowboy Poet & Former Large Animal Veterinarian
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Baxter Black is “good, but indescribably weird,” observes the Dallas Morning News. “The dean of cowboy bards, and the Art Buchwald of the Stetson-and-Levi’s crowd,” raves the Christian Science Monitor. “Mark Twain served up with a little Groucho Marx,” proclaims the Weekly Standard....
I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up
How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
**“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is.” —Richard Nixon
“I believe America is the solution to the world’s problems.” —Rush Limbaugh
“SHUT THE F#CK UP.” —D. L. Hughley**
The American dream is in dire...