Broadway imprint: 811 books
fathermothergod
My Journey Out of Christian Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Lucia Ewing had what looked like an all-American childhood. She lived with her mother, father, sister, and brother in an affluent suburb of Minneapolis, where they enjoyed private schools, sleep-away camps, a country club membership, and skiing vacations. Surrounded by a tight-knit extended family,...
Leaving the Saints
How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable memoir about one woman’s spiritual quest and journey toward faith. As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders—known as the apostles—and her existence...
Stars of David
Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Sixty-two of the most accomplished Jews in America speak intimately—most for the first time—about how they feel about being Jewish. In unusually candid interviews conducted by former 60 Minutes producer Abigail Pogrebin, celebrities ranging from Sarah Jessica Parker to Supreme Court Justice Ruth...
HRC
State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circle
Hillary Clinton’s surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent whose message...
Mandela's Way
Lessons for an Uncertain Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
A compact, profoundly inspiring book that captures the spirit of Nelson Mandela, distilling the South African leader’s wisdom into 15 vital life lessons
We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a...
Chasing Chaos
My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Jessica Alexander arrived in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide as an idealistic intern, eager to contribute to the work of the international humanitarian aid community. But the world that she encountered in the field was dramatically different than anything she could have imagined. It was...
by Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two...
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
The real-life inspiration and setting for the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey, Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon.
Drawing on a rich store of materials...
The Life You Imagine
Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Ever wonder what it would take to turn all of your dreams into reality? In The Life You Imagine, All-Star New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter shows how you can use the same game plan that helped an eight-year-old boy who fantasized about playing baseball for the Bronx Bombers grow up and become...
The GM
The Inside Story of a Dream Job and the Nightmares that Go with It
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
In the summer of 2006, the NFL’s most senior general manager, Ernie Accorsi, invited Tom Callahan “inside” the Giants organization to experience a season—Accorsi’s last—from the front office, the locker room, the sidelines, and the tunnel. Tom made no promises, except that he’d bring...
A Terrible Splendor
Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Before Federer versus Nadal, before Borg versus McEnroe, the greatest tennis match ever played pitted the dominant Don Budge against the seductively handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This deciding 1937 Davis Cup match, played on the hallowed grounds of Wimbledon, was a battle of titans: the world's...
Bloody Confused!
A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Chuck Culpepper was a veteran sports journalist edging toward burnout . . . then he went to London and discovered the high-octane, fanatical (and bloody confusing!) world of English soccer.
After covering the American sports scene for fifteen years, Chuck Culpepper suffered from a profound...
by Mark Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The remarkable true story of one man's quest to break the record for cycling around the world
On the 15th of February 2008, Mark Beaumont had pedaled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris—194 days and 17 hours after setting off in an attempt to circumnavigate the world. His journey had taken...
Circle of Greed
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most famously—Enron....