Plume imprint: 843 books
The Party's Over
How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida, spent years in the party’s inner circle. In this no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he switched sides and became a Democrat.
After serving as a Republican governor—one who was on the short list for the vice presidency in 2008—Charlie...
Spycraft
The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
An unprecedented history of the CIA's secret and amazing gadgetry behind the art of espionage
In this look at the CIA’s most secretive operations and the devices that made them possible, Spycraft tells gripping life-and-death stories about a group of spytechs—much of it never previously...
To See Every Bird on Earth
A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
What drives a man to travel to sixty countries and spend a fortune to count birds? And what if that man is your father?
Richard Koeppel’s obsession began at age twelve, in Queens, New York, when he first spotted a Brown Thrasher, and jotted the sighting in a notebook. Several decades, one...
Pretty
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
An electrifying debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Some Girls.
Bebe Baker is an ex-everything: ex-stripper, ex-Christian, ex-drug addict, ex-pretty girl.
It's been one year since the car accident that killed her boyfriend left her scarred and shaken. Flanked by...
Everything You Ever Wanted
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
**A Best Memoir of 2015, “This memoir is compulsively readable and full of humor and heart.”—AdoptiveFamilies.com
“A punk rock Scheherazade” (Margaret Cho) shares the zigzagging path that took her from harem member to PTA member…**
In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was...
The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
"A cheeky tale for recession-era romantics," (More) from a bestselling author
The year is 2006 and Holly Talbott is married to the founder of Comer Capital at the apex of excess on Wall street. Sure, Holly loves being a stay-at-home mom and keeping house accounts at all the best places, but...
Pittsburgh Dad
Everything Your Dad Has Said to You
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
When Pittsburgh Dad debuted on YouTube, creators Chris Preksta and Curt Wootton little suspected their sitcom would receive more than sixteen million views and turn their blue-collar everyman into a nationally known figure. Illustrated with hilarious black-and-white photos, Pittsburgh Dad shares the...
How to Get Divorced by 30
My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
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A hilarious memoir about the ending of a marriage that should have lasted forever-or at least for five years.
It's an age-old story. Girl meets boy. Girl marries boy. Girl decides she is way too young to be stuck in nuptial mediocrity.
When...
by Karen Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds that she?s been downsized from her platinum-card corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that she?s going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. So she dreams up a new business?helping upscale New...
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes
Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold!
Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars gobbling up meals at full-service restaurant chains, inspiring Todd Wilbur to change his focus from cracking the recipes for convenience store foods to cloning the popular...
Eat Your Feelings
Recipes for Self-Loathing
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
"A hilarious read when you're feelin' down and hungry."—Daily Candy
Life's little pitfalls can be a real drag: being dumped, fired, or left at the altar—they're all such downers. Sure, some might just grin and bear it, but why?
Hilarious author Heather Whaley advises readers...
by George MacDonald Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
"Horse riding, sword fighting, fistfights, escapes, chases... If anyone is looking for a successor to James Bond, Flashy is the one."—The New York Times
In Volume II of the Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardly Otto Von Bismarck in a battle...
Land of a Thousand Hills
My Life in Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation*. Land of a Thousand...
Yours for Eternity
A Love Story on Death Row
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Damien Echols and his wife Lorri Davis reveal their intimate and affecting letters, written while Echols was wrongfully imprisoned on death row.
An explosive bestseller, Life After Death turned a national spotlight on Damien Echols, who was just eighteen when...