Broadway imprint: 811 books
Saturday Night Widows
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about...
No Angel
My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
From the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club comes the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.
Getting shot in the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling...
K2
Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top
Ed Viesturs, one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers, explores the remarkable history of...
Forty Million Dollar Slaves
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—Ebony
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired...
Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed...
The Boys of Winter
The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Their “Miracle on Ice” has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella...
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat
An Optimist Afloat
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat is travel writing at its best, crackling with Chris Stewart’s zest for life, irresistible humor, and unerring lack of foresight.
Chris Stewart had a long and eclectic list of jobs. From some of the most glamorous careers--he was original drummer in Genesis--to...
by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Here is a man who suffers so his readers can laugh.” — Daily Telegraph
Bill Bryson travels to Kenya in support of CARE International. All royalties and profits go to CARE International.
Bryson visits Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to eradicating...
Tales of a Female Nomad
Living at Large in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Rita Golden Gelman is an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence. At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of travelling the world, connecting with people in cultures all over the globe.
In 1986 Rita sold her...
The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey in the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati—possibly The Worst Place on Earth.
At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up...
Under the Tuscan Sun
20th-Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
A CLASSIC FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIA
Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In evocative language, she brings the...
by Frances Mayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.
Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several...
Holy Cow
An Indian Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the...
La Bella Lingua
My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
A celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman’s personal quest to speak fluent Italian.
For anyone who has been to Italy, the fantasy of living the Italian life is powerfully seductive....