Abrams: 1969 books
by Dave Eggers
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Eggers is one of the most notable writers of his generation, recognized for such bestselling and critically acclaimed books as A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Circle. Before he embarked on his writing career, Eggers was classically trained as a draftsman and painter. He then spent...
Queer City
Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
PRAISE FOR QUEER CITY
“Always entertaining . . . much to be recommended.”—The Spectator
“A nimble, uproarious pocket history of sex in his beloved metropolis.”—Independent
“Ackroyd has an encyclopedic knowledge of London, and a poet’s instinct for its strange, mesmerizing drives and...
Pathfinders
The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Over the centuries, untold numbers of black men and women in America have achieved great things against the odds. Pathfinders is a collective biography of sixteen diverse American men and women of African descent who made their mark on American history in the 18th to 20th centuries. People who dared...
From Exile to Washington
A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
“The former Treasury Secretary has shared his story in a memoir that is both an engrossing personal narrative and a thoughtful reflection on leadership” (Henry Kissinger, author of On China).
In a life that has spanned nearly nine decades and has taken him around the world and back, W....
The Girl from the Tar Paper School
Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated...
Churchill Style
The Art of Being Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A look at the towering twentieth-century leader and his lifestyle that goes beyond the political and into the personal.
Countless books have examined the public accomplishments of the man who led Britain in a desperate fight against the Nazis with a ferocity and focus that earned him the nickname...
The Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn’t love you back (Turgenev’s A Month in the...
by kate spade new york
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
kate spade new york: places to go, people to see focuses on the how, where and why of travel through the lens of the always-inspired kate spade new york girl. this new volume features vibrant photography, old-world glamour, a dash of charm and inspirational quotes, tips and words of wisdom that every...
by Anne Deniau
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Lee Alexander McQueen (1969“2010), whose design combined visionary aesthetics, emotional power, and extraordinary craft, was known for staging provocative shows that were as much performances as venues to display his couture creations. Charged with energy, informed by history and culture, and filled...
The Commandant
An Account by the First Commanding Officer of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The amoral sensibility Hoess displayed regarding all that went on in the charnal factory where the industrialization of death was practiced--where probably 3 million people were literally worked to death, shot or quickly gassed--is still almost beyond belief today. Jurg Amann has taken Hoess' text...
Roots Schmoots
Journeys Among Jews
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
When fast-breaking political events forced British novelist Jacobson (Peeping Tom) to put off a trip to Lithuania planned as a search for his Jewish roots, he accepted an offer from the BBC to visit Jewish communities around the globe instead. This informed and witty account of his experiences deals...
We Were The Future
A Memoir of the Kibbutz
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. These collective settlements have been written about extensively over the years: The kibbutz has been the subject of many sociological studies, and has been praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting,...
Second Chances
An Inspiring Collection of Do-Overs That Have Made People's Lives Brighter
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Second Chances is a hopeful and thoughtful compendium of anecdotes from people who have wanted another chance at something—and have taken it. It’s the big stuff like going back to college after the kids have grown up, as well as the little things like getting a judo belt when you thought you could...
Rolling Stone 50 Years of Covers
A History of the Most Influential Magazine in Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
For the past 50 years, the covers of Rolling Stone have depicted the icons of popular culture—from John Lennon, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Madonna, and Steve Martin to Rihanna, Louis C.K., Adele, Radiohead, and Barack Obama—cementing their legendary and influential status. No other magazine...