Adult imprint: 1806 books
Scoop
125 Specialty Ice Creams from the Nation's Best Creameries
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Home-made ice cream recipes that capture the flavors you remember and the artisanal flair of today's boutique creators? Scoop is a photo-packed guide to making and enjoying ice cream right at home.
Scoop reinterprets more than 150 classic recipes for home-made treats, carefully constructed...
by Steve Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
Building on the enormously successful World's Shortest Stories, here's an all-new collection of super-short fiction-each story a mere 55 words long! With nearly 150 contributors, including Charles Schulz and Fannie Flagg, these stories offer love, betrayal, passion, and death-in less time than it takes to count the words in this blurb!
by Pascal Merigeau
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Originally published in France in 2012, Pascal Mérigeau's definitive biography of legendary film director Jean Renoir is a landmark work-the winner of a Prix Goncourt, France's top literary achievement. Now available in the English language for the first time, Jean Renoir: A Biography, is the definitive...
The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies
Featuring the 100 Greatest Gangster Films of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The gangster movie is one of the most popular genres in film. From the Italian, Irish, and Russian families” in America to similarly sinister groups in Europe, Japan, and beyond, the cinema has never shied away from portraying the evil exploits of these brutal outfits. In this highly entertaining...
The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies
Featuring the 100 Greatest Sports Films of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Guys love movies. Especially sports movies, where every underdog has his day, every team achieves glory, and every hero gets his moment of redemption. Next to watching Monday Night Football, there’s nothing more enjoyable than plopping down on the couch with the remote and a bottle of beer and firing...
Creating the Illusion
A Fashionable History of Hollywood Costume Designers
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Marilyn Monroe made history by standing over a subway grating in a white pleated halter dress designed by William Travilla. Hubert de Givenchy immortalized the Little Black Dress with a single opening scene in Breakfast at Tiffany's. A red nylon jacket signaled to audiences that James Dean was a Rebel...
The Woman's Wakeup
How to Shake Up Your Looks, Life, and Love After 50
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Women know from experience that what it means to be independent, adventurous, successful, and sexy changes over time to fit new mindsets, roles, and lifestyles. Whether navigating the landscape of a new career path, dating again in a digital age, or in need of a beauty and fashion overhaul, award-winning...
by Manoah Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Style. Beauty. Passion. Vision.
These are just a few of the words often used to describe the films of the single most celebrated director in Italy, and one of the most important directors the world has ever known-Federico Fellini. Fifty years since their initial releases, his films of the 1960's...
Sophia Loren
Movie Star Italian Style
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The first book on Sophia of its kind, Sophia Loren: Movie Star Italian Style is a photographic tribute to the beloved icon, recounting the star's extraordinary life and notable films.
From the humblest of beginnings in her native Italy, Sophia Loren has gone on to have one of the most interesting...
by Hamish Keith
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
**The lively memoir of one of New Zealand's wittiest art, urbanism and social commentators.**Legendary art commentator Hamish Keith returned to much-deserved national attention when his television series and accompanying book The Big Picture seized the imagination of New Zealanders. The high-rating...
by Faith Oxenbridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
**Exploring grief, yet neither bleak nor overwrought, this powerful short story won the 2013 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition.**The judge, Carl Nixon, commended its 'seemingly effortless artistry' and its skilful and well-sustained handling of demanding narrative techniques: 'the author does...
Simply Irresistible
Unleash Your Inner Siren and Mesmerize Any Man, with Help from the Most Famous--and Infamous--Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2007
It's said if you want to succeed, watch successful people and do what they do. Simply Irresistible is a humorous manual of case studies that show how the greatest sirens of history did what they did and got what they wanted, nearly all the time. Our role models-many of whom are still weaving their...
Mind of the Demon
A Memoir of Motocross, Madness, and the Metal Mulisha
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Larry Linkogle was a child-prodigy motocross racer who turned pro at age 15. A daredevil and rebel from the start, he quit the sport in spectacular fashion during a major national event and went home to create a new extreme sport-Freestyle Motocross (FMX)-marked by high-flying stunts and death-defying...
by Editors of Off Track Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Off Track Planet's Travel Guide for the Young, Sexy, and Broke is a comprehensive, uncensored travel guide that gives you all the tools at your fingertips to reignite your sense of adventure and travel the world to over 100 destinations.
The editors of Off Track Planet specialize in inspiring...