Broadway imprint: 811 books
Somewhere
The Life of Jerome Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome Robbins
To some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perfectionist, a driven taskmaster, a theatrical visionary; to others, he was a loyal friend, a supportive...
by A.J. Liebling
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
A classic work on Broadway sharpers, grifters, and con men by the late, great New Yorker journalist A. J. Liebling.
Often referred to as “Liebling lowlife pieces,” the essays in The Telephone Booth Indian boisterously celebrate raffishness. A. J. Liebling appreciated a good scam and knew...
Auntie Mame
An Irreverent Escapade
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
With a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955--and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction.
Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis’ Auntie Mame...
Computer Science Made Simple
Learn how hardware and software work-- and how to make them work for you!
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Be smarter than your computer
If you don't understand computers, you can quickly be left behind in today's fast-paced, machine-dependent society.
Computer Science Made Simple offers a straightforward resource for technology novices and advanced techies alike. It clarifies all you need...
Little Me
The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television/Belle Po itrine/as told to
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Back in print at last! From the author of Auntie Mame: the bawdy, bestselling, bountifully illustrated autobiography of an imaginary diva whose life is one hilarious mishap after another.
For Belle Poitrine, née Mayble Schlumpfert, all the world's a stage and she's the most important player...
New York: The Movie Lover's Guide
The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including:
Classic film and TV locations: Marilyn Monroe’s infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in...
Where the Money Was
The Memoirs of a Bank Robber
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
The Broadway Books Library of Larceny
Luc Sante, General Editor
For more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance...
by J. Ronald M. York
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
Ron York has no memory of his third birthday party, or the fact that his father was not present. Family photos reveal a smiling child, while letters and newspaper clippings explain his father's absence - he was in jail after being arrested for molesting Ron's 13-year-old cousin.
The following...
by J. Ronald M. York
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The jail was located on the top 9 floors of the Dade County Courthouse in downtown Miami. The young father could look down from the 21st floor, to the street below. His wife and child would come each night, stand on the sidewalk and wave to him. They would flash the car lights to signal they were...
Gig
Americans Talk About Their Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
“An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers.”
-- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion, Ecstasy Club, and Media Virus
This wide-ranging survey of the American...
The Man Who Owns the News
Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
From the author of Fire and Fury, this irresistible account offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale—and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future.
If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines,...
Ponzi
The Incredible True Story of the King of Financial Cons
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Just who was the man whose name has become synonymous with the classic “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” scam in which money from new investors is used to reward earlier ones? In December 1919, he was an unknown thirty-eight-year-old, self-educated Italian immigrant with a borrowed two-hundred dollars...
Citizen Hughes
The Power, the Money and the Madness of the Man portrayed in the Movie THE AVIATOR
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
Portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Martin Scorsese movie The Aviator, Howard Hughes is legendary as a playboy and pilot—but he is notorious for what he became: the ultimate mystery man. Citizen Hughes is the New York Times bestselling exposé of Hughes’s hidden life, and a stunning revelation...
Widow Basquiat
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together
New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant art...