Hachette Books: 1744 books
Stop the Show!
A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The first book to compile all of theater's glorious bloopers--an uproarious homage to the stage
Stop the Show! is the first book to assemble humorous, frightening and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong during live theatrical productions in the U.S. and the United Kingdom....
Lost Genius
The Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Born in 1903, pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi was the subject of the first book devoted to the scientific study of a single prodigy. By twenty-five he had all but disappeared. Mismanaged, exploited, and unfashionably romantic, his career floundered in adulthood. He drank heavily, married ten times, and...
Goodbye 20th Century
A Biography of Sonic Youth
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Sonic Youth's distinctive, uncompromising sounds have provided a map for innumerable musicians who followed, from '90s groundbreakers like Nirvana and Pavement to current faves like the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. More than perhaps any other act, Sonic Youth has brought fringe” art to the...
Joan Crawford
Hollywood Martyr
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
In the first fully uncensored biography of Joan Crawford, bestselling author David Bret follows Crawford from working in a Kansas City laundry to collecting an Oscar for Mildred Pierce, including details from her countless love affairs and her devotion toward Christian Science. Bret also divulges...
Clark Gable
Tormented Star
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
From the acclaimed author of Joan Crawford comes a riveting and uncensored biography of Clark Gable. The archetypal male of his era, Gable was named King of Hollywood” in 1938. But as David Bret reveals, the star was not quite who he seemed. One of Gable's best-kept secrets was his bisexuality.
Bret...
Bound to Last
30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Lovers of the printed book, arise! Thirty of today’s top writers are here to tell you you’re not alone.
In Bound to Last,an amazing array of authors comes to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited**,** never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperback...
The Rescue of Belle and Sundance
One Town's Incredible Race to Save Two Abandoned Horses
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In December 2008, snowmobilers spot two abandoned horses high in the Canadian Rockies. Starving and frostbitten, the horses have trampled the ten-foot-deep snow into a narrow white prison. Those who reach them bring hay but also a gun, in case the horses are too far gone. A glint of life in the horses’...
Alex's Wake
The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany-and a Grandsons Journey of Love and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Alex's Wake is a tale of two parallel journeys undertaken seven decades apart. In the spring of 1939, Alex and Helmut Goldschmidt were two of more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the St. Louis, the saddest ship afloat” (New York Times). Turned away from Cuba, the United States,...
From Boys to Men
Gay Men Write About Growing Up
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
More than an anthology of coming out stories, From Boys to Men is a stunning collection of essays about what it is like to be gay and young, to be different and be aware of that difference from the earliest of ages. In these memoirs, coming out is less important than coming of age and coming to the...
by Pierre Cabanne
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
With an introduction by Robert Motherwell and an appreciation by Jasper Johns
"Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one...
When The Shooting Stops ... The Cutting Begins
A Film Editor's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking-film editing-is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as well as The Pawnbroker, The Producers, and Goodbye, Columbus. Rosenblum and journalist Robert Karen...
Suck and Blow
And Other Stories I'm Not Supposed to Tell
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In Suck and Blow, John Popper recounts his early days of musical discovery, shares a forthright assessment of his longstanding battle with obesity, and discusses a range of topics, including life as a gun enthusiast, the vibrant New York music scene of the late '80s and early '90s, his wide- reaching...
Third Coast
Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-hop Became a Southern Thing
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
Typically, more than half the top rap songs in the country are the work of Southern artists. In a world still stuck in the East/West coast paradigm of the '90s, Southern hip hop has dominated the genre-and defined the culture-for years. And the South's leading lights, most notably OutKast, Timbaland,...
NOFX
The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times bestselling autobiography of punk legends NOFX, their own story in their own words
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most...