Plume imprint: 843 books
by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Lonely Clementine is the rightful heir to the House of Peine, the vineyard that has been in the family for generations. She has spent her whole life caring for the vines, not to mention her sour brute of a father. But now the Peine patriarch is dead, and to Clementine’s distress his will stipulates...
by Brendan O'Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Before she was a Mammy, before she had Chisellers, and before they made her a Granny, Agnes Browne was Agnes Reddin, a young girl-or a Young Wan- growing up in the Jarro in Dublin.
Brendan O'Carroll takes readers back to the heart of working-class Dublin, this time in the 1940s. Together...
by August Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of...
M. Butterfly
Broadway Revival Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
**Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen
"A brilliant play of ideas… a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds."—Frank...
M. Butterfly
With an Afterword by the Playwright
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author – winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize
Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard...
Fat Girl
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
A Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2005 (Entertainment Weekly)
For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl...
Why We Write About Ourselves
Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In the voices of twenty landmark memoirists—including New York Times bestselling authors Cheryl Strayed, Sue Monk Kidd, and Pat Conroy—a definitive text on the craft of autobiographical writing, indispensable for amateur and professional writers alike.
For readers of Mary Karr’s The Art...
by Dennis Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
The tragic events of September 11, 2001, forever altered the American landscape, both figuratively and literally. Immediately after the jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Dennis Smith, a former firefighter, reported to Manhattan’s Ladder Co. 16 to volunteer in the rescue efforts....
Red
Teenage Girls in America Write On What Fires Up Their LivesToday
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
A vivid portrait of what it means to be a teenage girl in America today, from 58 of the country's finest, most credentialed writers on the subject
If you're a teenage girl today, you live your life in words-in text and instant messages, on blogs and social network pages. It's how you conduct...
Post-it Note Diaries
20 Stories of Youthful Abandon, Embarrassing Mishaps, and Everyday Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Personal stories from an all-star lineup-immortalized in beautiful, black Sharpie(r).
When Arthur Jones cocreated a reading series centered around ubiquitous Post-Its(r), the series struck a chord. It grew in popularity and was ultimately featured on a This American Life live simulcast broadcast...
The Subway Chronicles
Scenes from Life in New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Some seven million people board the New York City subway every day, each one with a story to tell. The Subway Chronicles collects twenty-seven of the tales, dramas and comedies that unfold during the daily commute. From the “mole people” living in the subway tunnels, to the transit employees working...
The Things You Would Have Said
The Chance to Say What You Always Wanted Them to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A collection of extraordinary letters expressing the joys, sorrows, and surprises of ordinary lives.
We've all missed the chance to say something important. Friends fall out of touch, loved ones pass away, or sometimes the courage required is simply lacking -- and thank-yous, regrets, feelings,...
by Eva Rice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
"Rice’s remarkable gift for creating singular characters in this memorable story underscores her presence as a fresh new voice in fiction."—Publishers Weekly
Set in 1950s London, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope, the wide-eyed daughter of a legendary beauty,...
by Marisa De Los Santos
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
From the New York Times bestselling author of I’ll Be Your Blue Sky comes a “bewitching, warmhearted grown-up fairy tale about old movies, charming princes, and finding happily ever after in the place where you’d least expect it” (Jennifer Weiner).
When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia...