Plume imprint: 843 books
I'm Losing You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
“A writer without mercy . . . this book is like a wire stretched across the throat.” —Oliver Stone
In an epic novel that does for Hollywood what Nashville did for Nashville, I’m Losing You follows the rich and famous and the down and out as their lives intersect in a series of coincidences...
The Widow Waltz
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
“This heartfelt, witty addition to women’s fiction will appeal to fans of Elizabeth Berg and Anna Quindlen.” (Booklist)
Georgia Waltz has things many people only dream of: a plush Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park, a Hamptons beach house, valuable jewels and art, two bright...
You Don't Have to Like Me
Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
"Hilarious...[Nugent] documents her journey to feminism while skewering misogynist tropes and delivering some painful truths." –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Feminist” is not a four-letter word, but Alida Nugent resisted it for a long time. She feared the “scarlet F”...
Dead Stars
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
“Dead Stars is the London Fields of Los Angeles, the Ulysses of TMZ culture—an immensely literate, fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither.”—Tom Bissell, GQ
At age thirteen, Telma is famous as the world’s youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity...
You're Lucky You're Funny
How Life Becomes a Sitcom
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
The creator and executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond, on how to make a sitcom classic and keep laughing
This laugh-out-loud memoir takes readers backstage and inside the writers’ room of one of America’s best-loved shows. With more than 17 million viewers and more than seventy...
Once Upon a Quinceanera
Coming of Age in the USA
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a “phenomenal, indispensable” (USA Today) exploration of the Latina “sweet fifteen” celebration, by the bestselling author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of Butterflies
The quinceañera, a celebration...
Louder Than Words
A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
The New York Times bestseller that is an inspiring "story of hope" (People) for parents of autistic children
One morning Jenny McCarthy was having a cup of coffee when she sensed something was wrong. She ran into her two-year-old son Evan's room and found him having a seizure. Doctor...
Mother Warriors
A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Stories of hope and recovery from a nation of parents of autistic children, by the high-profile, bestselling author of Louder Than Words. When Jenny McCarthy published Louder Than Words, the story of her successful efforts to save her son, Evan, from autism, the response was tremendous. It hit #3...
by Cindy Guidry
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
A ?sassy? (USA Today), ?funny, fast-talking? (New York Daily News) ?great read? (People) that unfolds like a conversation with your bawdy best friend over a glass?or a bottle?of wine
Whether she?s being greeted by the news that her brother has thrown her underwear off a Mardi Gras float, desperately...
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
****One of NPR’s Best Books of 2017**
“Petersen's gloriously bumptious, brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment. Her careful examination of how we eviscerate the women who confound or threaten is crucial reading if we are ever to be better.”—Rebecca Traister,...
Disease-Proof
Slash Your Risk of Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, and More--by 80 Percent
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
“If you want to build better health and a better future, this book makes an excellent tool kit.”—David A. Kessler, MD, author of The End of Overeating and former commissioner of the FDA
It sometimes seems as if everyone around us is being diagnosed with a chronic illness—and that we...
Essentials of Screenwriting
The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Hollywood's premier teacher of screenwriting shares the secrets of writing and selling successful screenplays in this perfect gift for aspiring screenwriters.
Anyone fortunate enough to win a seat in Professor Richard Walter's legendary class at UCLA film school can be confident their career...
You're Old, I'm Old . . . Get Used to It!
Twenty Reasons Why Growing Old Is Great
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
It's time to stop hiding that birth certificate!
Virginia Ironside wants you to know that getting old is a good thing-and not in that dreadful "sixty is the new forty" way. At sixty- five, she has no interest in pretending to be young and neither should you. Virginia celebrates all...
Hell Is for Real, Too
A Middle-Aged Accountant's Astounding Story of His Trip to Hell and Back
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
The world knows the amazing story of little Colton Burpo, who nearly died during an emergency appendectomy, and then, while in a coma, went to heaven. His father, Todd Burpo, went on to write Heaven Is for Real, which has sold over one million copies- deservedly so. Only a cynic would believe that...