Broadway imprint: 811 books
Justice
Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Dominick Dunne's mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed.
For more than two decades, Vanity Fair published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Whether writing of Claus von Bülow’s romp through...
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
In college and graduate school, Jewell Parker Rhodes never encountered a single reading assignment or exercise that featured a person of color. Now she has made it her mission to rectify the situation, gathering advice and inspiring tips tailored for African Americans seeking to express their life...
Untold Glory
African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Untold Glory offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history—the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupations explore and reflect on the meaning of frontier,...
Mouthpiece
A Life in -- and Sometimes Just Outside -- the Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
From prosecuting (and defending) murderers in the Bronx to handling the public and private problems of Manhattan’s elite, Mouthpiece recounts the colorful adventures of New York City’s ultimate legal operator.
“In the pages before us, the Counselor tells a saga’s worth of tales of the...
While America Sleeps
A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Former senator Russ Feingold looks at institutional failures, both domestic and abroad, since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and proposes steps to be taken—by the government and by individuals—to ensure that the next ten years are focused on solving the international problems that threaten America.
In...
Heat and Light
Advice for the Next Generation of Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
In Heat & Light, a legendary journalist and a journalism professor join forces to offer a one-of-a-kind guide for our next generation of great journalists. Drawing on the authors' decades of experience at the top of the field and inspired directly by beginners’ most frequently asked questions,...
The Terminal Spy
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former...
Paris, Paris
Journey into the City of Light
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic...
A Fifty-Year Silence
Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences
In 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, Miranda's...
Song of Brooklyn
An Oral History of America's Favorite Borough
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
The voices of Brooklyn:
“I’m a Brooklyn guy, it’s in my bones and it’s there in Brooklyn. There’s a certain rhythm you get growing up there. Every Brooklyn kid has it. Always on the right beat. The Bronx, no; Queens, you were out of it; but Brooklyn, that was it.”
—Mel Brooks,...
Spinster
Making a Life of One's Own
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
**A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
“Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.”**
So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences...
Jasmine and Fire
A Bittersweet Year in Beirut
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then—even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New York City—Salma has had a...
The Judds
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Wynonna Judd has a smile like Elvis Presley’s, a voice comparable to Patsy Cline’s, and a vocal style that’s (almost) all her own. Onstage, she shares the music and the limelight with her Kentucky-born mother Naomi. Together, the Judds have become the hottest country-western duo singing today....
Lost on Planet China
The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.
Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers...