Plume imprint: 843 books
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
From the bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Turn Around Bright Eyes, "a funny, insightful look at the sublime torture of adolescence".—Entertainment Weekly
The 1980s meant MTV and John Hughes movies, big dreams and bigger shoulder pads, and millions of teen girls who nursed crushes...
Brian Jones
The Making of the Rolling Stones
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
“Should be unfailingly interesting to any Stones fan.”—Larry Rhoter, New York Times
The Rolling Stones’ rise to fame is one of rock ‘n’ roll’s epic stories. Yet one crucial part of that story has never been fully told: the role of Brian Jones, the visionary who founded the band...
Gone 'Til November
A Journal of Rikers Island
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
**“Transfixing…[Wayne’s] prison diary is, above all, a testament to the irrepressibility of his charisma—his is a force that can never go dormant, even when it’s not plainly on display.” –The New Yorker
From rap superstar Lil Wayne comes Gone ’Til November, a deeply personal...
Special Deluxe
A Memoir of Life & Cars
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
**The perfect gift for music and car lovers, Special Deluxe is Neil Young's New York Times bestselling follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace that “reads like a great Neil Young song plays.” (The Buffalo News) **
In this acclaimed new memoir, New York Times bestselling author Neil Young has...
Will Not Attend
Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
“Damn, this book is good.”—**Jon Stewart
“A biting, darkly hilarious collection of personal essays that begs to be read aloud.”—Chicago Tribune**
Emmy Award–winning writer Adam Resnick began his career at Late Night with David Letterman before honing his chops in movies...
Transition
Becoming Who I Was Always Meant to Be
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male
At first, America knew the only child of Sonny and Cher as Chastity, the cherubic little girl who appeared on her parents' TV...
We Don't Need Roads
The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic Back to the Future trilogy
Long before Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled through time in a flying DeLorean, director Robert Zemeckis, and his friend and writing partner Bob Gale, worked tirelessly to break into the industry with a hit. During...
The View from the Bridge
Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
"Essential reading for any Star Trek and movie fan."
-trekmovie.com
When Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A bestselling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as...
American Story
A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
“These are remarkable and poignant stories that need to be told.” —Ken Burns
More than six million people watch Bob Dotson’s Emmy award-winning segment, American Story, on NBC’s Today Show. For the last four decades, Dotson has traveled the country searching out inspiring individuals...
The Guy Under the Sheets
The Unauthorized Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
"This hugely entertaining pack of lies reads like a Woody Allen essay from the New Yorker."—David Pitt, Booklist
Is Chris Elliott a highly successful and beloved comedian—or a slightly dim-witted notalent from a celebrity family who managed to convince a generation of disillusioned...
Geronimo
His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
“I am thankful that the President of the United States has given me permission to tell my story. I hope that he and those in authority under him will read my story and judge whether my people have been rightly treated.”—Geronimo
This book contains one of the most extraordinary and invaluable...
The Perfect Kill
21 Laws for Assassins
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
An odyssey through the art, theory, and brutality of modern political murder by Robert Baer, New York Times–bestselling author, former CIA operative, and, yes, assassin
All four of Robert B. Baer’s previous books were New York Times bestsellers*,* and it’s no wonder. A recipient of the...
by Samuel R. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Told from the point of view of an ordinary foot soldier, this personal memoir has been hailed as one of the liveliest, wittiest, and most significant commentaries ever written on the Civil War.
Among the plethora of books about the Civil War, Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal...
Some Girls
My Life in a Harem
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser
At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich...