Crown imprint: 1774 books
Shakespeare's Insults
Educating Your Wit
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The sharpest stings ever to snap from the tip of an English-speaking tongue are here at hand, ready to be directed at the knaves, villains, and coxcombs of the reader's choice. Culled from 38 plays, here are the best 5,000 examples of Shakespeare's glorious invective, arranged by play, in order of...
Angry Black White Boy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From the acclaimed author of Shackling Water comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity.
Macon Detornay is a suburban white boy possessed and politicized by black culture, and filled...
Mother on Fire
A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting!
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
This is a story about the year I exploded into flames. Which turns out to be more common than you’d think, among forty-something humans. Yea, we can hold it together in our thirties, with a raft of hair products and semi-tall nonfat half-caf beverages and much brisk walking to a lot of interesting...
The XX Factor
How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Noted British academic and journalist Alison Wolf offers a surprising and thoughtful study of the professional elite, and examines the causes—and limits—of women’s rise and the consequences of their difficult choices.
The gender gap is closing. Today, for the first time in history,...
Santa vs. Satan
The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
“Who would win between . . .” has through the ages been one of man’s most fundamental questions. Sadly, adult responsibilities like “earning a living” and “having a girlfriend” have conspired to make it impossible for men to devote to this issue the scholarship it so deeply deserves....
The Devil's Tickets
A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Kansas City, 1929: Myrtle and Jack Bennett sit down with another couple for an evening of bridge. As the game intensifies, Myrtle complains that Jack is a “bum bridge player.” For such insubordination, he slaps her hard in front of their stunned guests and announces he is leaving. Moments later,...
Thanks for the Memories, George
What Eight Years of Bush Will Do to a Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Feeling Bushed, America?
In Thanks for the Memories, George, author and Onion contributor Mike Loew takes a humorous–yet furious–look at the last eight years of the Bush administration. From the botched evidence for the war in Iraq to the torture and violation of the Constitution to the...
by Jill Conner Browne
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Hallelujah! The Sweet Potato Queens are back!
In 1999, Jill Conner Browne, royal boss of Jackson, Mississippi's own glorious Sweet Potato Queens, introduced them to the world in the hilarious bestseller The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love (which contained everything you ever need to know...
Waking Beauty
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
What would you do if you went to bed ugly, fat, and depressed and woke up the next morning in the body of a goddess?
This is exactly the miracle that befalls Allison Penny, who has spent most of her twenty-two years on this earth in a serious slump (to say the least).
Having long since...
by Anne E. Kornblut
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
In the presidential election of 2008 America seemed ready to elevate a woman to the presidency or vice presidency and—with Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin—was on the verge of actually doing so. Words like inevitable and phenomenon were in the air and the political and cultural stars seemed to...
The Far Away Brothers
Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.
“Impeccably timed, intimately reported, and beautifully expressed.”—The New York Times
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...
Time and Tide
A Walk Through Nantucket
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal...
Brothers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments after...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez is a towering achievement by one of America’s most respected journalists. A work of conscience that travels from San Matías Cuatchatyotla, a small, dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this searing exposé...