Atria Books: 2591 books
In the Shadow of Freedom
A Heroic Journey to Liberation, Manhood, and America
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH, FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA, AND FROM CHILD SOLDIER TO U.S. MARINE
Born into the Congolese wilderness, Tchicaya Missamou became a child soldier at age 11. As a horrific civil war loomed across his country, Tchicaya began using his militia connections to ferry jewels, cash,...
The Dog Who Could Fly
The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
“A thoroughly enjoyable story of heroism and true friendship” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), this Sunday Times top ten bestseller is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, flying countless combat missions and surviving everything...
Kinky Gazpacho
Life, Love & Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Magazine writer and editor Lori Tharps was born and raised in the comfortable but mostly White suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was often the only person of color in her school and neighborhood. At an early age, Lori decided that her destiny would be discovered in Spain. She didn't know...
Unbecoming
A Memoir of Disobedience
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
A raw, unflinching memoir by a former US Marine Captain chronicling her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to radical activist effecting historic policy reform.
After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons grad school in the Ivy...
1001 Nights in Iraq
The Shocking Story of an American Forced to Fight for Saddam Against the Country He Loves
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Shant Kenderian's visit to Baghdad in 1980, at age seventeen, was supposed to be a short one -- just enough time to make peace with his estranged father before returning to his home in the United States. But then Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and sealed off Iraq's borders to every man of military age...
by Laurel Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Israeli Jews and Palestinians appear side by side for the first time in this remarkable book to share powerful feelings and reflections on growing up in one of the world's longest and most dangerous conflicts. Here, thirty-six men and women, boys and girls, tell of their coming-of-age in a land of...
Life Lit by Some Large Vision
Selected Speeches and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Ossie Davis, the celebrated civil rights activist, actor, writer, and director, is remembered for a film, television, and stage career of more than half a century. His awards include an Emmy Award, an NAACP Image Award for his work in the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing, a Lifetime Achievement Award...
Farther Than Any Man
The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like...
God Sleeps in Rwanda
A Journey of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Joseph Sebarenzi’s parents, seven siblings, and countless other family members were among 800,000 Tutsi brutally murdered over the course of ninety days in 1994 by extremist Rwandan Hutu—an efficiency that exceeded even that of the Nazi Holocaust. His father sent him away to school in Congo as...
What Set Me Free (The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture Brian Banks)
A True Story of Wrongful Conviction, a Dream Deferred, and a Man Redeemed
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Brian Banks, the major motion picture starring Aldis Hodge, Greg Kinnear, and Sherri Shepherd**, winner of the audience award at the 2018 LA Film Festival, opens nationwide in 2019!**
Discover the unforgettable and inspiring true story of Brian Banks—a young man who was wrongfully convicted...
A Hungry Heart
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2006
Gordon Parks, acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author of fiction and nonfiction, has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries.
Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on November 30, 1912, he left home at age fifteen...
Shook One
Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Charlamagne Tha God, New York Times bestselling author of Black Privilege and always provocative cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxieties.
Fear is holding you back. It’s time to turn the tables and channel your fears...
INXS: Story to Story
The Official Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
THE REAL STORY BEHIND INXS'S RISE TO FAME --
AND HOW THEY HELPED DEFINE THE MUSIC OF A GENERATION.
INXS broke new musical ground. This Australian band, made up of three brothers and their three best mates, took the world by storm, turning rock, pop, and funk into a cutting edge, danceable style,...
A Body of Work
Dancing to the Edge and Back
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as “the most exciting male dancer in the western world,” presents a look at his artistic life—up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating...