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Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues
Twenty Years of Writing About Film, Music and Books (an eBook original from Riverhead Books)
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
A new collection of nonfiction writing on culture from the bestselling author of High Fidelity.
Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues brings together the best of Nick Hornby's non-fiction pieces on film and tv, writers and painters and music, and including one exceptional fragment of autobiography....
Forever Blue
The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a revealing biography of "one of the most polarizing figures in baseball history" (The New York Times).
If ever there was a figure who changed the game of baseball, it was Walter...
Fan Mail
Twenty Years of Writing About Soccer (an eBook original from Riverhead Books)
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A new collection of soccer writing by the bestselling author of Fever Pitch.
After the phenomenal success of Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby tried to avoid writing about soccer, for fear that he'd be writing about it forever. But occasionally over the years he’s found it impossible to turn down...
Who's in Charge Here?
How Governments Are Failing the World Economy (an eSpecial from Riverhead Books)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
From the author of False Economy, a brief, incisive look into the pitfalls of the world economy, and those who run the show.
In a short, brilliant, and unsparing examination of government-- from the age of the empire to our current systems-- Alan Beattie takes us through the intricacies of the contemporary economic world.
by Meg Wolitzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
**The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of The Interestings and The Female Persuasion that woke up critics, book clubs, and women everywhere.
For a group of four New York friends the past decade has been defined largely by marriage and motherhood, but it wasn’t always that way....
by Iain Pears
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
A national bestseller from acclaimed author Iain Pears, The Portrait is a novel of suspense and a tour de force.
An art critic journeys to a remote island off Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile. The painter recalls...
by Mark Sundeen
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
**Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Green Book Festival
Mark Sundeen's new book, The Unsettlers, is coming in January 2017 from Riverhead Books**
In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollars of it-in a phone booth. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of...
by Randal Keynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles and Emma Darwin’s beloved daughter Annie Darwin, who died at the age of ten. He also found the notes Darwin kept throughout Annie's illness, the eulogy he delivered at her funeral—and...
The First Muslim
The Story of Muhammad
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
**The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited—and remade.
Lesley Hazleton's new book, Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, is out now from Riverhead Books.**
Muhammad’s was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic...
The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones
And the Less Amazing Adventures of Some Other Real-Life Superheroes (An eSpecial from Riverhead Books)
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Bestselling author Jon Ronson walks the mean streets of America where he finds real life, modern day superheroes. Fighting crime, saving old ladies, and chasing away drug dealers – all while wearing a mask and a cape. Phoenix Jones patrols Seattle, masked, muscles rippling, while corner boys scatter...
Not a Star and Otherwise Pandemonium
Stories A Penguin eSpecial from Riverhead Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
In these two stories from bestselling author Nick Hornby revelations are at hand.
In "Not a Star", Lynn has always thought her son, Mark, was a little, well, unremarkable. Until the day a neighbor drops off a porn video at her house, with a note telling her to watch it. Turns out,...
by Iain Pears
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," three men struggle to find refuge for their hearts and minds...
Karma
A Penguin eSpecial from Riverhead HC
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
**From the author of the award winning Devil in a Blue Dress comes a short story rife with mystery and suspense, an enthralling introduction to the complex protagonist Leonid McGill. **
When Walter Mosley published the first Leonid McGill novel, The Long Fall—the acclaimed New York Times...
by Etgar Keret
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Classic warped and wonderful stories from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller.
Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of...