Twelve imprint: 146 books
by Christopher Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2008
President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts...
The Apartment
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
A powerful and elegant debut novel about love, memory, exile, and war.
One snowy December morning in an old European city, an American man leaves his shabby hotel to meet a local woman who has agreed to help him search for an apartment to rent. THE APARTMENT follows the couple across a blurry,...
Read Me
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Hitchcock's Rear Window meets Messud's The Woman Upstairs in this unnerving, superbly crafted novel which takes readers deep into the mind of a serial stalker and, through him, the lives of his unsuspecting victims.
Try it yourself. Go out, pick somebody and watch them. Take your phone and...
by Graham Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Hurtling from present day New York to Victorian London, The Sherlockian weaves the history of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into an inspired and entertaining double mystery that proves to be anything but "elementary."
In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners...
Hooked
A Thriller About Love and Other Addictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Nat Idle, a San Francisco writer with a medical degree, narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet café after a stranger hands him a note warning him to exit immediately.
The handwriting on the note belongs to his deceased girlfriend, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist whom he has obsessively...
Giants
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men rejected...
Shadows in the Vineyard
The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2014
Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romanée-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine.
In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, the...
The One World Schoolhouse
Education Reimagined
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
This is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents,...
by Dave Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
A masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset.
"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . ."
So begins a...
Dialogue
The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The long-awaited follow-up to the perennially bestselling writers' guide Story, from the most sought-after expert in the art of storytelling.
Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation. The list of alumni with Oscars runs off the page. The cornerstone...
Titanic's Last Secrets
The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of history's most notorious shipwreck: Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did?
To answer the question,...
God Is Not Great
How Religion Poisons Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Whether you're a lifelong believer, a devout atheist, or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives, this insightful manifesto will engage you with its provocative ideas.
With a close and studied reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens documents...
Whistlestop
My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Face the Nation moderator and contributing editor for The Atlantic John Dickerson come the stories behind the stories of the most memorable moments in American presidential campaign history.
The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego....
Russian Roulette
The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
#1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER
"RUSSIAN ROULETTE is...the most thorough and riveting account." --The New York Times
The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S....