Riverhead Books imprint: 592 books
by Michel Quint
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
In Our Strange Gardens was named a BookSense 76 Recommended Pick for January 2002!
Michel has a story to tell. It's about his father, an exquisitely common man whose very ordinariness is a source of grave embarrassment for the boy. It's also the story told to him by his uncle, who shared a...
by Jonathan Davidson, Henry Dreher
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Do you have unhealthy anxiety? Do you suffer from sleeplessness, irritability, trouble relaxing, difficulty in concentrating, or fear of ambarrassment? From Dr. Jonathan Davidson, director of the Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Program at Duke University Medical Center and one of the most respected experts...
The Movement of Stars
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
**“Gorgeous . . . Sings with insights about love, work and how we create our own families”—Oprah.com
“Amy Brill shines in her sparkling debut novel.”—Vanity Fair
“Brill's rich detail and research are hugely impressive; it's easy to envision the scenes she sees.”—USA...
Humble Pi
When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
This entertaining tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in our everyday lives
An international bestseller
Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the...
The End of College
Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
From a renowned education writer comes a paradigm-shifting examination of the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand.
Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world’s most famous universities and high-powered...
Careful
A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
**“Gripping, page-turning material . . . a new way of thinking about survival in a world filled with hazards and distractions.” —Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better and The Power of Habit
A safety expert reveals why few of us are as careful as we think we are, and what we...
by Stephen Marche
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
A virtuoso performance from a literary talent who crafts a vividly drawn history of an imaginary country. In this stylistic tour de force, Stephen Marche creates the entire culture of a place called Sanjania—its national symbols, political movements, folk heroes, a group of writers dubbed "fictioneers,"...
by Cali Williams Yost
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
The empowering new 3-step guide to combining work and life strategically, creatively, and successfully.
The message is simple: Work doesn't have to be all or nothing. There are countless combinations of balancing work and life between these extremes. People can establish boundaries and change...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Drawn from personal experience, these stories offer vivid and beautifully rendered snapshots of the adoptive parenting experience. Featuring: Marcelle Clements, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Christina Frank, Jesse Green, Melissa Fay Greene, Doug Hood, Pamela Kruger, Jenifer Levin, Antoinette Martin, Jacquelyn...
Good Life, Good Death
One of the Last Reincarnated Lamas to Be Educated in Tibet Shares Hard-Won Wisdom on Life, Death, and What Comes After
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? How do we get there? Many have asked these questions, and many have attempted to answer them. But there is another question Good Life, Good Death asks us to contemplate: how does the idea of life after death affect how we live our lives? Gelek...
by Cyndi Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
A complete manual for physical and spiritual well-being from the founder of the OM yoga center.
In Yoga Body, Buddha Mind, the first book to give readers the best of both inextricably linked practices, Cyndi Lee -- author of the bestselling series OM Yoga in a Box -- shares her twenty years...
Baby Love
Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
From the international bestselling author of Black, White, and Jewish comes a "wonderfully insightful" (Associated Press) book that's destined to become a motherhood classic. Now in trade.
Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical...
The Afterlives
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
“Ridiculously good” (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out).
Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived...
by Claire-Louise Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
**“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review
"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine**
Immediately...