Open Road Media: 6782 books
The Art of Corporate Success
The Story of Schlumberger
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A revealing portrait of one of the world’s finest, yet most opaque, companies—and the quiet genius who made it thrive
Ken Auletta set out to locate one of the world’s most prosperous businesses and explain its formula for success. He searched for an enterprise with a vivid chief executive...
by Ned Rorem
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In the earliest published diaries of Ned Rorem, the acclaimed American composer recalls a bygone era and its luminaries, celebrates the creative process, and examines the gay culture of Europe and the US during the 1950s
One of America’s most significant contemporary composers, Ned Rorem...
Crazy Horse and Custer
The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana...
Double Life
Portrait of a Gay Marriage From Broadway to Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
“A fascinating, frank and page-turning memoir about the lifelong love affair of two extraordinary men” (Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City).
The human story at the center of this debate is told in Double Life, a dual memoir by a gay male couple in a fifty-plus year relationship....
by Marion Meade
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“A psychologically nuanced, tough-minded portrait” of the New York filmmaker and his relationships with Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn (Publishers Weekly).
Writer, director, actor, humorist. Woody Allen stands as one of our era’s most celebrated artists. Starting in the 1950s, Allen began...
by Harlan Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A collection of twenty thought-provoking essays from “one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth” (Publishers Weekly).
Harlan Ellison—master essayist, gadfly, literary myth figure, and viewer of dark portent—has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under...
A Woman of Uncertain Character
The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
This tale of a Russian immigrant is a “gripping and gritty memoir [and] a eulogy for a combative, self-conscious, often violent American working class” (Los Angeles Times).
Jennie Persily, with her fiery red hair, buxom figure, and bohemian spirit, is a strong-willed fighter for justice...
After the Madness
A Judge's Own Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Driving down the Long Island Expressway in November of 1992, Sol Wachtler was New York’s chief judge and heir apparent to the New York governorship. Suddenly, three van loads of FBI agents swerved in front of him—bringing his car and his legal career to a halt. Wachtler's subsequent arrest, conviction,...
MLK: An American Legacy
Bearing the Cross, Protest at Selma, and The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
**Three meticulously researched works—including Pulitzer Prize winner Bearing the Cross—spanning the life of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
This collection from professor and historian David J. Garrow provides a multidimensional and fascinating portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.,...
Playing for Keeps
Michael Jordan and the World He Made
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist looks at the life and times of the Chicago Bulls superstar— “The best Jordan book so far” (The Washington Post).
One of sport’s biggest superstars, Michael Jordan is more than an internationally renowned athlete. As illuminated through David Halberstam’s...
The Brass Check
A Study of American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A muckraking exposé of corruption in American journalism from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Jungle
Upton Sinclair dedicated his life to documenting the destructive force of unbridled capitalism. In this influential study, he takes on the effect of money and power on mass media,...
by Richard Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This Business of Publishing has been hailed by literary agent Michael Larsen as “must reading for writers, agents and anyone else who cares about the future of publishing.” It reveals the unique perspective of Richard Curtis, former president of the Association of Authors’ Representatives....
by Max Brand
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
A gunman agrees to do a rich man’s dirty work in this classic Western from one of the genre’s early masters
Donnegan is not proud of his past. But when words ran dry and matters could only be settled with a gun, he never hesitated to make things right. Now fate has led him to The Corner,...
by E. R. Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This schoolroom drama that inspired the classic Sydney Poitier film is “a microcosm of the racial issues . . . A dramatic picture of discrimination” (Kirkus Reviews).
With opportunities for black men limited in post–World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot...