Atria Books: 2591 books
History of a Suicide
My Sister's Unfinished Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
“It is so nice to be happy. It always gives me a good feeling to see other people happy. . . . It is so easy to achieve.” —Kim’s journal entry, May 3, 1988
On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky’s twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She...
Under the Table
Saucy Tales from Culinary School
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
A deliciously entertaining memoir about one woman's adventures in the student kitchens of the legendary French Culinary Institute -- flavored with celebrity chefs, eccentric characters, and mouthwatering recipes
To anyone who has ever dreamed of life in a French kitchen, imagining days filled...
by Mindy Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The patient is an ascetically pretty 15½-year-old white female. She is intelligent, fearful, extremely anxious, and depressed. Her rage is poorly controlled and inappropriately expressed.
Diagnostic Impression: Program for social recovery in a supportive and structured environment appears favorable.
Life...
My Father, the Pornographer
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
After inheriting 400 novels of pornography written by his father in the 1970s and ‘80s, critically acclaimed author Chris Offutt sets out to make sense of a complicated father-son relationship in this carefully observed, beautifully written memoir.
“Chris...
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter
Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this inspiring memoir—that Jane Fonda raves “will make you braver…want to live your life better and make a difference”—the award-winning playwright and bestselling author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day reminisces on the art of juggling marriage, motherhood, and politics while...
by Jennifer Lauck
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Anger is a poison ivy in the heart and if it grows unchecked, it covers all the soft spaces where you love and understand and feel joy.
There's power in anger, sure, a power that can help you survive.
But true wisdom is in knowing when to let it go.
In Still Waters, Jennifer Lauck continues the riveting...
Waiting Wives
The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vi
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In 1964, as the first B-52s took flight in what would become America's longest combat mission, an old Air Force base on the plains of Kansas became Schilling Manor -- the only base ever to be set aside for the wives and children of soldiers assigned to Vietnam. Author Donna Moreau was the daughter...
A Second Wind
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
**Now a major motion picture—The Upside—starring Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, and Nicole Kidman.
Discover the moving and heartfelt #1 international bestseller and inspiration for the film The Upside about an aristocratic Frenchman who is paralyzed in an accident and has to adjust to his...
The Price of Illusion
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and “one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style” (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles,...
Blackbird
A Childhood Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your...
by Kevin Powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Written in the tradition of works by Joan Didion, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Eve Ensler, this “profoundly insightful and brilliantly inciting” (Dominique Morisseau, Obie Award-winning playwright) exploration of the soul of the United States—the past, the present, and the future Kevin Powell...
Hillbilly Gothic
A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
"My family has a grand tradition. After a woman gives birth, she goes mad. I thought that I would be the one to escape."
So begins Adrienne Martini's candid, compelling, and darkly humorous history of her family's and her own experiences with depression and postpartum syndrome.
Illuminating...
It Calls You Back
An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Luis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano literature.
Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. Rodriguez through his fearless...
The Man from Essence
Creating a Magazine for Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Essence magazine is the most popular, well respected, and largest circulated black women’s magazine in history. Largely unknown is the remarkable story of what it took to earn that distinction.
The Man from Essence depicts with candor and insight how Edward Lewis, CEO and publisher of Essence,...