Abrams imprint: 1041 books
Scotland: An Autobiography
2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw It Happen
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
A vivid, wide-ranging, and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of timeless stories by those who experienced it first-hand. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone, and Billy Connolly. These include not only historic...
We Is Got Him
The Kidnapping that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
This “relentlessly suspenseful” story of America’s first known kidnapping in nineteenth century Philadelphia is “elegantly told, superbly accomplished” (The Philadelphia Enquirer).
In 1874, a little boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his family’s front yard in Philadelphia....
Derek Jeter
From the Pages of The New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Derek Jeter is a sports hero in the tradition of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle. Admired for his leadership, performance under pressure, and work ethic, Jeter is the face of the New York Yankees. He is also a quintessentially modern star, appealing to baseball's diverse audience, savvy about dealing...
by Freya Stark
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 1990
This is the story of back-country Turkey, an area that even in the 20th century remains stubbornly tied to antiquity. The author traveled through it by truck and horseback, often alone. She reached places little visited and never written about. The country people welcomed her with generosity unrelated...
O. Winston Link
Life Along the Line
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The renowned photographer’s stirring tribute to the last steam locomotive railway and the end of an American way of life.
O. Winston Link photographed the Norfolk and Western, the last major steam railroad in the United States, when it was converting its operations from steam to diesel in the...
Brooklyn Street Style
The No-Rules Guide to Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Brooklyn style is eclectic, creative, and distinct from neighborhood to neighborhood. It’s not about chasing labels. It is stylish on its own terms, and it’s about dressing for real life. Brooklyn Street Style: The No-Rules Guide to Fashion explores what has made the borough a global fashion mecca...
American Runway
75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
New York Fashion Week has served many purposes throughout its long history, but it has always remained at the center of the American fashion world. During World War II, Fashion Week challenged the dominance of French couture; in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a showcase for American sportswear stars...
by Ivan Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Patti Hansen: A Portrait gives supermodel Patti Hansen’s short but incredibly influential career serious critical attention for the first time, following her transformation from a teenage model on the cover of Glamour to her reign as a dominating force in the pages of Vogue and on 12 covers. This...
The Pursuit of Style
Advice and Musings from America's Top Fashion Designers
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Style is an all-new, original collection of clever, charming, and often hilarious musings from American fashion’s biggest designers. The book culls the best pieces of advice and insight from a survey conducted by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)...
Wilfred Thesiger
The Life of the Great Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
The author of Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs and The Life of my Choice, he was a legend in his own lifetime but his character and motivations have remained an intriguing enigma. In this authorized biography--written with Thesiger’s support before he died in 2003 and with unique access to the...
A Winter in Arabia
A Journey Through Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937-8 expedition in what is now Yemen, a journey which helped secure her reputation not only as a great travel writer, but also as a first-rate geographer, historian, and archaeologist. There, in the land whose "nakedness is clothed in shreds of departed splendor,"...
by Nick Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Using the sepia tones of the Dust Bowl as his palette, author and artist Nick Hayes tells the story of world-famous folkie Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), starting in the 1920s when Guthrie was a teenager supporting himself in dried-up, post-boomtown Oklahoma. Picking up a harmonica and eventually...
The Man with the Golden Touch
How The Bond Films Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Yet the role of James Bond, which transformed Sean Connery’s career in 1962 when Dr No came out, still retained its star-making power in 2006 when Daniel Craig made his Bond debut in Casino Royale. This is the story of how, with the odd misstep along the way, the owners of the Bond franchise, Eon...
Orange Is the New Black Presents
The Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“A fun read for fans of the Netflix series . . . And don’t worry: These dishes are way better than the food the inmates actually eat on the show” (People).
Staffed and run by a band of misfit inmates, the kitchen at Litchfield is in many ways the center of the popular show Orange Is the...