Atria Books: 2591 books
When the Brain Can't Hear
Unraveling the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Millions of Americans have difficulty understanding spoken language.
They're not deaf, autistic, or slow. They have APD.
APD has been called the auditory equivalent of dyslexia, and its debilitatiting effects cross all ages, genders, and races. APD can cause children to fail in school and adults to...
Devil's Knot
The True Story of the West Memphis Three
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH *
The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted…and set free. Do you know their story?
In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin,...
by Fantasia
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
FANTASIA tells of her astonishing rise from hopeless high school dropout to American Idol superstar in the inspirational New York Times bestseller Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
In one moment, with one tearful performance of "Summertime," the nineteen-year-old Fantasia captured the hearts -- and...
When Fraser Met Billy
An Autistic Boy, a Rescue Cat, and the Transformative Power of Animal Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In the spirit of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey comes a mother’s touching, true account of how a rescue cat named Billy transformed her autistic boy’s life.
Louise Booth and her husband had always dreamed of having a child. But when their son Fraser was born, Louise immediately knew something...
by Kimberly Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Where do I begin?
That's the question we start with when thinking about throwing a party -- and for many of us, that's the question we end with, too. We may like the idea of entertaining friends and family in our home, but the details -- those how to's of planning the party, making the food,...
by Clare Staples
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
"When you start training your dog (or dating a man), it is a good idea to have three bottom-line rules that you enforce no matter what . . ."
DOGS
No sleeping on the bed.
No jumping up on people.
No eating people's food.
MEN
Be consistent.
Have a sense of humor.
Be financially self-sufficient.
Hilarious,...
The True Secret of Writing
Connecting Life with Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg’s revolutionary writing and life practice, which she presents here in book form for the first time. A whole new slant on writing that she developed since the publication of her classic Writing Down the Bones, True Secret workshops...
Let It Go
Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
T.D. Jakes, New York Times bestselling author of Reposition Yourself, Making Great Decisions, and more than a dozen other titles, presents this book on forgiveness, demonstrating once again why he is called “a spiritual genius,” a “master of meeting mankind eye to eye,” and one of America’s...
Living Through the Meantime
Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Beg
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2002
“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey
From the host of the OWN TV show, Iyanla: Fix My Life, the companion workbook to Iyanla Vanzant’s #1 New York Times bestseller In the Meantime provides an easy, step-by-step program to help you begin...
Stolen Water
Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A riotous journey through America's most controversial, beautifully unapproachable, and abused wilderness -- the Florida Everglades.
In December 2000, President Clinton signed into law a $7.8 billion restoration plan for the Everglades that garnered national attention and has since become America's...
A Universe from Nothing
Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.
“Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than...
How Dogs Think
Understanding the Canine Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2005
How Dogs Think is “a sharp-eyed analysis and wry wit” (The Seattle Times) analysis of dog behavior from bestselling author, psychologist, and world-renowned expert, Dr. Stanley Coren. With smart humor, Cohen presents informative, in-depth, and fascinating details that shatter many common misconceptions...
Flushed
How the Plumber Saved Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
Hodding Carter writes, "The unsung hero of human history was, of course, the Brain of Drains, the Hub of Tubs, the Power of Showers, the Brewer of Sewers...the humble plumber.... The Irish may have saved civilization, once, but plumbers have done so countless times."
When we consider the amenities...
Why Does My Dog Act That Way?
A Complete Guide to Your Dog's Personality
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
We've shared our lives with dogs for thousands of years, but they still act in ways that baffle us. Do you ever look at Ginger's body language and wonder what she's about to do? Do you wish you could predict how King will act when brought into a new situation or meeting a new person? Do you compare...