Bantam imprint: 1922 books
His Way
An Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With a new afterword by the author in honor of Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday
This is the book that Frank Sinatra tried—but failed—to keep from publication, and it’s easy to understand why. This unauthorized biography goes behind the iconic myth of Sinatra...
Comfort from a Country Quilt
Finding New Inspiration and Strength in Old-Fashioned Values
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The New York Times Bestseller That Reads Like a Back-Porch Conversation with Reba!
In a dazzling career, Reba McEntire has become a true country superstar--and a trailblazing businesswoman with her own multimedia entertainment corporation. Yet she is a rare celebrity who is also beloved by...
by Ellen Degeneres
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foibles–including how we behave in elevators, airplanes, and restrooms, and why we’re so scared of the boogeyman–to fashion trends, celebrity, and her secret recipe for...
Call Me Anna
The Autobiography of Patty Duke
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The Star--The public saw her as a gifted child star: the youngest actor to win an Oscar for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and the youngest actor to have a prime-time television series bearing her own name.
The Nightmare--What the public did not see was Anna Marie Duke, a young...
by Reba McEntire, Tom Carter
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
With the same straightforward honesty that made her one of country’s top-selling female recording artists, Reba McEntire tells her phenomenal story.
From her childhood in Oklahoma working cattle with her ranching family to her days on the rodeo competition circuit, from her early days as...
Dance While You Can
On Relationships, Feelings and Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her most revealing memoir yet, Shirely Maclaine shares deeply personal stories about her family: her parents, her brother, and her only daughter—and about her life in the movies over four decades.
“On the deepest, most personal level, I needed to work out...
by Shirley Maclaine
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Her most controversial book is one you will never forget. An outspoken thinker, a celebrated actress, a truly independent woman, Shirley MacLaine goes beyond her previous two bestsellers to take us on an intimate yet powerful journey into her personal life and inner self. An intense, clandestine...
What Falls Away
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A simply elegant memoir.”—Newsweek
In this exquisitely written memoir, Mia Farrow takes us on a journey into her remarkable life. As the daughter of actress Maureen O’Sullivan and film director John Farrow, she lived what was by all appearances a charmed...
by James Bradley, Ron Powers
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory,...
Helmet for My Pillow
From Parris Island to the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who—somehow—survived.”—Tom Hanks
See Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific
Here is one of the most riveting first-person...
Ship of Ghosts
The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Son, we’re going to Hell."
The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize...
It Doesn't Take a Hero
The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
He set his star by a simple motto: duty, honor, country. Only rarely does history grant a single individual the ability, personal charisma, moral force, and intelligence to command the respect, admiration, and affection of an entire nation. But such a man is General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander...
Challenge for the Pacific
Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal.
From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully...
Queen of the Conqueror
The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Around the year 1049, William, Duke of Normandy and future conqueror of England, raced to the palace of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. The count’s eldest daughter, Matilda, had refused William’s offer of marriage and publicly denounced him as a bastard. Encountering...