Broadway imprint: 811 books
by Joan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2003
In this moving sequel to her national bestseller A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson explores the challenges of rebuilding and renewing a marriage with her trademark candor, compassion, and insight.
With A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson struck a chord in many tens of thousands of readers. Her...
The Suburban You
Reports from the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
You are about to discover that living in the suburbs is a whole lot funnier than you ever thought possible. For this country’s 145,892,494 (give or take) suburbanites, Mark Falanga is an utterly deadpan (and thoroughly entertaining) spokesman.
Mark Falanga is a slick urban dweller, at the...
Teaching Hope
Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
“There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel deserving of a place on the planet. . . . What could be more soul-satisfying? These are the most influential professionals most of us will ever meet. The effects of their work...
The Boy Genius and the Mogul
The Untold Story of Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
The world remembers Edison, Ford, and the Wright Brothers. But what about Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, an innovation that did as much as any other to shape the twentieth century? That question lies at the heart of The Boy Genius and the Mogul, Daniel Stashower's captivating chronicle...
Mother, Mother
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
From Koren Zailckas, author of the iconic memoir SMASHED: an electrifying debut novel about a family being torn apart by the woman who claims to love them most
Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband,...
Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich?
The Full Story of Bernard Cornfeld and I.O.S.
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
In the fall of 1955, Bernard Cornfeld arrived in Paris with scant money in his pocket and a tenuous relationship with a New York firm to sell mutual funds overseas. Cornfeld, a former psychologist and social worker, knew how to make friends fast and soon targeted two groups of people who could help...
Kindred Spirits
How the Remarkable Bond Between Humans and Animals Can Change the Way we Live
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Treating animals just as any healer would treat human beings, Allen Schoen has become one of America’s most celebrated veterinarians. Kindred Spirits shares the transformative power of his remarkable methods, explores how alternative healing is revolutionizing his profession, and, in the tradition...
The Golden Ratio
The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship,...
Being Catholic Now
Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
For Kerry Kennedy, who grew up in a devoutly Catholic household coping with great loss, her family’s faith was a constant source of strength and solace. As an adult, she came to question some of the attitudes and teachings of the Catholic Church while remaining an impassioned believer in its role...
Antarctica 2041
My Quest to Save the Earth's Last Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Adventurer turned environmentalist Robert Swan illuminates the perils facing the planet come 2041—the year when the international treaty protecting Antarctica is up for review—and the many steps that can be taken to avoid environmental calamity.
In 1985, when Robert Swan walked across Antarctica,...
On the Water
Discovering America in a Row Boat
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
“I take a stroke and lean back, gazing up into the jet skies, bejeweled by the moon and the galaxies of stars. The hull glides in silence and with such perfect balance as to report no motion. I sit up for another stroke, now looking down as the blades ignite swirling pairs of white constellations...
Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles
Amusing & Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Off with their heads!
Many homemakers and gardeners take the easy way out when it comes to exiling odors and banishing bugs--they use toxic chemicals that may be harmful to their families and the earth. Ellen Sandbeck has discovered that the all-natural alternatives are just as easy and effective...
Switching Time
A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
"[A]n absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case of multiple personality disorder--from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery."
-- Colin Ross, author of Multiple Personality Order and The Osiris Complex
In 1989, Karen Overhill walks...
Passing for Normal
A Memoir of Compulsion
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"What I remember even more distinctly than the incidents of cruelty and confusion, intolerance and avoidance--more vividly than standing in front of the mirror watching my head move with no conscious instruction from me--is the strain of trying to conceal my tics and rituals from others, especially...