Doubleday imprint: 393 books
by Joan Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
A sports reporter investigates the training of girls as professional gymnasts and figure skaters, arguing that the pressure to succeed and to look beautiful results in mental and physical harm, from eating disorders to psychological trauma.
by John Chipman
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In this national bestseller, a work of vigorous reporting, deep compassion and unerring integrity, award-winning journalist and documentarian John Chipman investigates the lives left ruined in the wake of Dr. Charles Smith's ignominious career.
In the mid-'90s, the Ontario Coroner's office...
Why We Fight
Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
The events of September 11, 2001, were an unforgettable tragedy, but they also revealed that the spirit of America is strong and undiminished. Not since the shocking attack on Pearl Harbor has the nation pulled together with such unity and purpose, resolving to endure whatever hardships may be necessary...
Trinity
A New Living Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
Bestselling author Joseph Girzone returns to the reflections on his personal spirituality typical of Never Alone and A Portrait of Jesus, his most popular books since the original Joshua.
With Trinity, Joseph Girzone guides readers to a deeper understanding of this foundational concept, explaining...
The Shadow of God
A Journey Through Memory, Art, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Shadow of God is part memoir, part spiritual autobiography, and part tour of great works of art, literature, and music. In the form of a journal written over the course of a year, Charles Scribner shares childhood recollections of a household where figures like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...
Does God Exist
An Answer For Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Does God exist? The question implies another: Who is God? This book is meant to give an answer to both questions and to give reasons for this answer. Does God exist? Yes or no? Many are at a loss between belief and unbelief; they are undecided, skeptical. They are doubtful about their belief, but...
Street Poison
The Biography of Iceberg Slim
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, né Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow. From a career as a, yes,...
Easter Island
Island of Enigmas
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Despite sickness in the final years of his life, Dos Passos presses on for adventure. He and his wife journey to Easter Island, where they explore the history behind the famous statues—called maois.
“When I was a small boy,” Dos Passos says, “some kind person took me to the British Museum....
by Clifford Stoll
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would...
Makers and Takers
How Conservatives Do All the Work While Liberals Whine and Complain
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
In Makers and Takers you will discover why:
* Seventy-one percent of conservatives say you have an obligation to care for a seriously injured spouse or parent versus less than half (46 percent) of liberals.
* Conservatives have a better work ethic and are much less likely to call in...
Frontier Justice
The Global Refugee Crisis and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Frontier Justice is a gripping, eye-opening exploration of the world-wide refugee crisis. Combining reporting, history and political philosophy, Andy Lamey sets out to explain the story behind the radical increase in the global number of asylum-seekers, and the effects of North America and Europe’s...
Honorable Exit
How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge
In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included...
Helpless
Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
It officially began on February 28, 2006, when a handful of protesters from the nearby Six Nations reserve walked onto Douglas Creek Estates, then a residential subdivision under construction, and blocked workers from entering. Over the course of the spring and summer of that first year, the criminal...
A Good Forest for Dying
The Tragic Death of a Young Man on the Front Lines of the Environmental Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2004
Early on a September morning in 1998, David “Gypsy” Chain and eight fellow Earth First! activists went into the redwood forests of Scotia, California. Their loosely organized plan to protest the destruction caused by the logging industry almost immediately turned farcically tragic. A. E. Ammons,...