Riverhead Books imprint: 592 books
Almost Everything
Notes on Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives
"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen,"...
Some Assembly Required
A Journal of My Son's First Son
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
**From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything
“If there is a doyenne of the parenting memoir, it would be Anne Lamott.”—Time**
In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter in her own life: grandmotherhood....
Strange Son
Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Strange Son is the powerful tale of two mothers from opposite sides of the world who, united by their fierce determination to help their severely autistic sons, have challenged everything we thought we knew about autism.
Tito Mukhopadhyay, an autistic boy from India who spends most of his time...
by Manuel Gonzales
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
**Read it!” —Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins
"[R]ollicking good fun.” —New York Times Book Review
"A tour-de-force." —Laura Miller, Slate
In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization—the Regional...
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
A Journey into Bhutan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Jamie Zeppa was 24 when she left a stagnant life at home and signed a contract to teach for two years in the Buddhist hermit kingdom of Bhutan. Much more than just a travel memoir, Beyond the Sky and the Earth is the story of her time in a Himalayan village, immersed in Bhutanese culture and the wonders...
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant
Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
In this delightful and much buzzed-about essay collection, 26 food writers like Nora Ephron, Laurie Colwin, Jami Attenberg, Ann Patchett, and M. F. K. Fisher invite readers into their kitchens to reflect on the secret meals and recipes for one person that they relish when no one else is looking.
Part...
by Olga Tokarczuk
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
**2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, LITHUB AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION
A visionary...
The Storied City
The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
**“Timbuktu is a real place, and Charlie English will fuel your wanderlust with true descriptions of the fabled city’s past, present, and future.” –Fodor’s
Two tales of a city: The historical race to “discover” one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how...
Walking with Abel
Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
**Look out for Anna Badkhen's new book, Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea, on sale now
An intrepid journalist joins the planet’s largest group of nomads on an annual migration that, like them, has endured for centuries.**
Anna Badkhen has forged a career chronicling life...
by Valerie Steiker, Chris Knutsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers.
Of all the urban landscapes in America, perhaps none has so thoroughly infused and nurtured modern literature as Brooklyn. Though its literary history runs deep-Walt Whitman,...
by Kathleen Norris
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
Shy and sheltered as a young woman, Kathleen Norris wasn't prepared for the sex, drugs, and bohemianism of Bennington College in the late 1960s**-and when she moved to New York City after graduation, it was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. In this chronicle, Norris remembers the...
by Kerry Egan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
**"A poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them.” *–*Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love
"Illuminating, unflinching and ultimately inspiring... A book to...
The Forgetting River
A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The unexpected and moving story of an American journalist who works to uncover her family’s long-buried Jewish ancestry in Spain.
Raised a Catholic in California, New York Times journalist Doreen Carvajal is shocked when she discovers that her background may actually be connected to conversos...
The Food of a Younger Land
The Northeast Eats Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York City, New York State, Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt.
Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system...