Ecco: 398 books
Alibaba
The House That Jack Ma Built
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into the second largest Internet company in the world. The company’s $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the world’s largest, valuing the company more than Facebook...
Autonomy
The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone
We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon, few of us will own our own...
Bottle of Lies
The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals
Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one...
Into the Raging Sea
Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR NON FICTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
ONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS...
Warnings
Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
From President Bill Clinton's recommended reading list
Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the U.S. economy, and possibly the fate of civilization.
In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but...
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father’s old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie’s dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her...
A Bintel Brief
Love and Longing in Old New York
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
An evocative, elegiac love letter to New York City and the immigrant culture that continues to make it the most original and influential city in the world.
As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, a surge of Jewish immigrants to New York City reshaped indelibly not only the culture...
by Joyce Carol Oates
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
The stunning, classic portrait of a powerful man's downward spiral to moral ruin
Jerome "Corky" Corcorn. A money-juggling wheeler dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and successful womanizer. It is a Memorial Day weekend, and we are about to live with him, breathe with him, and sweat...
by Juliet Grames
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
From Calabria to Connecticut: a sweeping family saga about sisterhood, secrets, Italian immigration, the American dream, and one woman's tenacious fight against her own fate
For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments...
by Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Willson-Broyles
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Jonas Jonasson's picaresque tale of how one person's actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, written with the same light-hearted satirical voice as his bestselling debut novel, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
On June 14th, 2007, the King...
The Gone Dead
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
An electrifying first novel from "a riveting new voice in American fiction" (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father's life and death
Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack...
The Sacrifice
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable...
Notes from a Black Woman's Diary
Selected Works of Kathleen Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2019 FROM
Vanity Fair * Vogue * The Huffington Post
A stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays, and scripts by the brilliant African-American artist and filmmaker
Relatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins...
by Paul Bowles
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A beautiful paperback edition of a landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul Bowles
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story...