Atria Books: 2591 books
One Doctor
Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Told by a unique voice in American medicine, this epic story recounts life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician, and is described by The New York Times as “a true service [to history]. Dr. Reilly deserves a resounding bravo for telling it like it is.” Malcolm Gladwell...
The 37th Parallel
The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A real-life mix of The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mezrich “writes vividly and grippingly…A terrific story…[that] will make a heck of a movie” (The Washington Post). Here is the “fascinating” (Publishers Weekly) true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal...
The Kingdom of Happiness
Inside Tony Hsieh's Zapponian Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Fearless gonzo journalism—an insider’s look at the enigmatic and successful CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, and his quest to create his own version of utopia in the center of Las Vegas.
In 2010 Tony Hsieh was introduced to many as a visionary modern business leader. Under Hsieh’s leadership,...
Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets
A Real-Life Scottish Fairy Tale
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
In this inspiring, delightful memoir, a young woman decides to escape the daily grind and turn her “what if” fantasy into a reality, only to find work—and a man—she loves in one fell swoop, all in a secondhand bookstore in a quaint Scottish town.
Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood,...
The Explorer Gene
How Three Generations of One Family Went Higher, Deeper, and Further Than Any Before
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The remarkable account of an extraordinary family of explorers who spurred innovation and accomplished incredible feats—even when the popular consensus was against them.
On May 27, 1931, Auguste Piccard became the first human to enter the stratosphere, flying an experimental balloon he invented...
I Had to Survive
How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Dr. Roberto Canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andean Mountains and how, decades later, the harrowing journey to survive propelled him to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists, seeing in his patients the same fierce...
Full of Grace
An Oral Biography of John Cardinal O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002
The death in May 2000 of John Cardinal O'Connor, archbishop of New York, was a vital loss to countless millions. A shining, openhearted crusader for traditional values in an increasingly bewildering culture, O'Connor was a pioneer for the new face of Catholicism, mapping out an unequivocal political...
Fields of Grace
Faith, Friendship, and the Day I Nearly Lost Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In this remarkable tale of hope and survival, Hannah Luce tells how, as the sole survivor of a terrible plane crash, she came to grips with her faith: “a calamitous, fascinating memoir, written with surprising spiritual sophistication” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
On May 11, 2012,...
Manifesting Michelangelo
The True Story of a Modern-Day Miracle--That May Make All Change Possible
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“And then it happened . . . a ray of illumination shot straight up and down to the left and the right, forming a pair of axes. My heart began to beat very fast, yet I didn’t blink. I couldn’t have taken my eyes off what I was seeing if I had wanted to.”
At the dawn of the new millennium,...
by Zhang Boli
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Who can forget the images, telecast worldwide, of brave Chinese students facing down tanks in Tiananmen Square as they took on their Communist government? After a two-week standoff in 1989, military forces suppressed the revolt, killing many students and issuing arrest warrants for top student leaders,...
Despertar en el cielo (Waking Up in Heaven Spanish Edition)
Un viaje al cielo cargado de esperanza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 26, 2016
El 10 de diciembre de 2009 me ingresaron en el hospital por un dolor abdominal. Tras varios exámenes, los médicos me diagnosticaron una pancreatitis. Sin embargo, estando aun en Emergencias, un dolor terrible se apodero de mi de tal modo que perdí la conciencia. Una de las enfermeras intento reanimarme...
The Women of the Cousins' War
The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.
In...
William
HRH Prince William of Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
As the boy prince turns into the man who would be king, interest in Prince William is at an unprecedented height in 2003, the year of his twenty-first birthday. Seen as the vital link between the traditions of the Royal Family and the more populist, modern approach of his late mother, Diana, Princess...
The Encore
A Memoir in Three Acts
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In this “heartrending, passionate, and surprisingly humorous account of the conjunction between art and death” (Andrew Solomon, New York Times bestselling author), acclaimed opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick recounts her remarkable journey from struggling to draw a single breath to singing at...