Plume imprint: 843 books
Am I a Jew?
My Journey Among the Believers and Pretenders, the Lapsed and the Lost, in Searc h of Faith (Not Necessarily My Own), My Roots, and Who Knows, Even Myself
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
What makes someone Jewish?
Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there, his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. He went to an Episcopal school, where...
by Woody Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1983
First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all.
Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over—not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During...
The End of Normal
A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A New York Times bestseller, the explosive and heartbreaking memoir from the widow of Mark Madoff and the daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff
When the news of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme broke, no one was more shocked than the members of his own family. Before then, Madoff’s son, Mark,...
Rock Star Babylon
Outrageous Rumors, Legends, and Raucous True Tales of Rock and Roll Icons
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Rockers Behaving Badly
From Ozzy Osbourne to Chuck Berry, Courtney Love to Keith Moon, Rock Star Babylon has gathered together the most outrageous antics and diva-esque misbehavior in the annals of rock. Here in a single volume are the most wickedly entertaining stories of over-the-top parties,...
How to Grow Up
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
“A gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as ‘impossible to put down’”—People
From PEN America Literary Award-winning author Michelle Tea comes a moving personal essay collection about the trials and triumphs of shedding your vices in order to find yourself.
As...
Why Manners Matter
What Confucius, Jefferson, and Jackie O Knew and You ShouldToo
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
"Witty, well-reasoned, and, yes, occasionally potty mouthed, the fiercely talented Lucinda Holdforth may be doing more to save civilization than anyone I know. Holdforth has held forth, and for this I bow down low before her." -Henry Alford, author of How To Live
In this age of global...
by Mario Bosquez
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
The Host of Martha Stewart's "Living Today" on Martha Stewart Living Radio (Sirius 112/XM 157)brings you this insightful look at how a colorful Mexican game of chance inspired him to succeed in life. "The Chalupa Rules" combines his family's timeless proverbs,traditional Spanish...
Ignite the Genius Within
Discover Your Full Potential
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Jump start hope, kick your creativity into gear, and explode your definition of the possible
A self improvement book like nothing you've ever seen-or heard: a book and podcasting joint production brings to light an insight-boosting audio/visual method for changing the way you think and maximizing...
Healing at the Speed of Sound
How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The bestselling author of The Mozart Effect taps cutting- edge science to show how we can use sound to improve our lives and achieve our goals.
Based on over a decade of new research, Don Campbell, bestselling author of The Mozart Effect, and Alex Doman, an expert in the practical application...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
A chilling catalog of the men and women who have paid the ultimate price for their crimes
The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested and longest-standing issues in American politics, and no place is more symbolic of that debate than Texas. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty...
High Points and Lows
Life, Faith, and Figuring It All Out
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
For readers who loved Blue Like Jazz, comes inspiration and advice from Survivor contestant and Christian speaker Austin Carty
Figuring out who you want to be in life is never easy. In High Points and Lows, Austin Carty traces his own stumbling journey toward adulthood and true faith, drawing...
Forever Young
My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
An intimate portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr., from his closest friend with 16 pages of color photos
From the iconic image of a little boy saluting his father’s casket to his tragic death at age thirty- eight, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was never far from the public eye. Now the friend who John...
Blood Sport
A-Rod and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The definitive and dramatic story of the Alex Rodriguez and Biogenesis scandal, written by the reporters who broke and covered the story.
“Blood Sport is riveting...a tragicomedy filled with characters straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel.”—The Washington Post
The effects of the...
The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking
How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
In this witty and perceptive debut, a former editor at Psychology Today shows us how magical thinking makes life worth living.
Psychologists have documented a litany of cognitive biases- misperceptions of the world-and explained their positive functions. Now, Matthew Hutson shows us that even...