Doubleday imprint: 393 books
by David Gelernter
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
What does it mean to “believe” in America? Why do we always speak of our country as having a mission or purpose that is higher than other nations?
Modern liberals have invested a great deal in the notion that America was founded as a secular state, with religion relegated to the private sphere....
by Fred A. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Bernstein interviewed 25 mothers of Jewish people, including Clara Sussman, mother of Rosalyn Yalow, a Nobel Medalist in medicine. Like other mothers in the book, Clara, who died recently, exemplified a life of hard work and sacrifice, as well as worry about her child when a teacher told her Rosalyn...
A New Leaf
Growing with My Garden
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
A graceful and sharply observed book of inspiration that uses the garden as its central muse
A New Leaf traces a year of growing seasons at The Leaf, Merilyn Simonds' acreage in eastern Ontario. A lifelong gardener, Simonds works the soil and the soul for wide-ranging revelations about everything...
The Secret Token
Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
***National Bestseller*
A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke**
In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island...
Maroon Societies
Rebel Slave Communities in the America
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and...
by Eva Stachniak
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The lush, sweeping story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with fact, The Chosen Maiden plunges readers into an artistic world upended by modernity, immersing them in the experiences of the...
The Germ Files
The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life (and How to Protect Yourself from the Bad Ones)
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
SOME GERMS ARE OUT TO GET US. . . . But we shouldn’t let a delinquent, pathogenic minority taint our view of the other 99.9 per cent.
The microbes living on and inside us outnumber the cells in our bodies three to one. Many provide services on which our well-being, our moods, our very lives...
Teaching
It's Harder Than It Looks
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Gerry Dee is a rising comic star whose humour has been compared to Bill Cosby's. He spent ten years working as a teacher and survived (barely) to tell his tales. Told from the honest point-of-view of a not-so-good, often-very-bad public school teacher--the kind who teaches hungover (and lies about...
Olga's Story
Three Continents, Two World Wars and Revolution--One Woman's Epic Journey Throug h the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When Canadian journalist Stephanie Williams set out to discover her Russian grandmother’ s long-lost history, what she unearthed was this stunning, sprawling portrait of a life lived on the grand stage of the 20th century.
Born in remote Siberia in 1900, Olga Yunter was the youngest of five...
by William C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile."
Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only...
Women's Work
A Reckoning with Work and Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers
When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and...
Wicked and Weird
The Amazing Tales of Buck 65
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Star radio-host Rich Terfry presents the amazing tales of his alter ego, musician Buck 65, in this rollicking account of growing up poor, talented, baseball-obsessed, music-mad and girl-smitten.
With wit, style and a born writer's knack for telling detail, Rich Terfry gives us the wildly entertaining...
And Home Was Kariakoo
A Memoir of East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for nonfiction, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa--a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write.
Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here...
Comedy
An Essay on Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
**Henri Bergson — Laughter
George Meredith — An Essay on Comedy
Introduction & Appendix on The Meanings of Comedy by Wylie Sypher**
Laughter is a mystery—a mystery which defines man. Brought together in this volume are two classic studies of the nature of laughter...