Avery imprint: 686 books
What Would Grace Do?
How to Live Life in Style Like the Princess of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Find your inner Grace: A modern day guide to the classic beauty and timeless style of the Hollywood starlet and real-life Princess, Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly set a standard for elegance that continues to inspire women today—particularly in our Mad Men-crazed era. More than merely blessed with...
Man Up
Reimagining Modern Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Inspired by the award-winning poet and actor’s acclaimed one-man play, a powerful coming-of-age memoir that reimagines masculinity for the twenty-first-century male.
Award-winning poet, actor, and writer Carlos Andrés Gómez is a supremely gifted storyteller with a captivating voice whose...
After a While You Just Get Used to It
A Tale of Family Clutter
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A vibrant new voice ups the self-deprecating memoir ante with tragicomic tales of her dysfunctional life in swampland Florida and America’s Big Easy
A dive bar palm reader who calls herself the Disco Queen Taiwan; a slumlord with a penis-of-the-day LISTSERV; and Betty, the middle-aged Tales of...
Someday My Prince Will Come
True Adventures of a Wannabe Princess
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
The charming story of a small-town girl who dreams of finding love with a real-life English prince?and who?s willing to go to hilarious lengths to make her fairy tale come true
Most young girls dream of becoming a princess. But unlike most girls, Jerramy Fine never grew out of it. Strangely...
The Perfectionist
Life and Death in Haute Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
An unforgettable portrait of France’s legendary chef, and the sophisticated, unforgiving world of French gastronomy
Bernard Loiseau was one of only twenty-five French chefs to hold Europe’s highest culinary award, three stars in the Michelin Red Guide, and only the second chef to be personally...
A Golden Voice
How Faith, Hard Work, and Humility Brought Me from the Streets to Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
YouTube sensation Ted William's memoir of addiction, homelessness, and unlikely redemption, cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Witter
Ted Williams was panhandling in December 2010 when a passerby taped him and posted a clip of his gorgeous radio voice on YouTube. The video...
Handling the Truth
On the Writing of Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir.
Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant...
The Art of Eating In
How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
In the city where dining is a sport, a gourmand swears off restaurants (even takeout!) for two years, rediscovering the economical, gastronomical joy of home cooking
Gourmand-ista Cathy Erway's timely memoir of quitting restaurants cold turkey speaks to a new era of conscientious eating. An...
When Enough is Enough
A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Read Candy Finnigan's posts on the Penguin Blog.
From a nationally recognized addiction specialist featured on the A&E series Intervention, a comprehensive and compassionate guide to confronting a loved one with an addiction.
What do you do when someone you care about is caught in...
by Kitty Dukakis, Larry Tye
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Kitty Dukakis has battled debilitating depression for more than twenty years. Coupled with drug and alcohol addictions that both hid and fueled her suffering, Kitty?s despair was overwhelming. She tried every medication and treatment available; none worked for long. It wasn?t until she tried electroconvulsive...
To the Letter
A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map offers an ode to letter writing and its possible salvation in the digital age.
Few things are as exciting—and potentially life-changing—as discovering an old letter. And while etiquette books still extol the practice,...
by Dave Engledow
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
As seen on CBS Sunday Morning · A hilarious pictorial parody of a clueless father and his adorable daughter
In an attempt to create an image that his new daughter would one day appreciate, Dave Engledow took a photo in which he’s cradling eight-week-old Alice Bee like a football and doctored...
Finding Our Families
A First-of-Its-Kind Book for Donor-Conceived People and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The first comprehensive book that offers invaluable step-by-step advice for families with donor-conceived children.
Wendy Kramer, founder and director of the Donor Sibling Registry, and Naomi Cahn, family and reproductive law professor, have compiled a comprehensive and thorough guide for the...
Winning the Race
Beyond the Crisis in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2005
In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community.
Winning the Race examines the roots of...