Hachette Books: 1744 books
Being Oscar
From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In Being Oscar,one of America’s most celebrated criminal defense attorneys recounts the stories and cases of his epic life. The Mafia’s go-to defender, he has tried an estimated 300 criminal cases, and won most of them. His roster of clients reads like a history of organized crime: Meyer Lansky,...
Movie Freak
My Life Watching Movies
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Entertainment Weekly's controversial critic of more than two decades looks back at a life told through the films he loved and loathed.
Owen Gleiberman has spent his life watching movies-first at the drive-in, where his parents took him to see wildly inappropriate adult fare like Rosemary's...
A Skating Life
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
The dazzling smile, the signature haircut, the staple spin. "America's Sweetheart" Dorothy Hamill grew up on the ice, working toward the dream she was to accomplish by age nineteen: winning Olympic gold in figure skating. But life was not the picture of perfection it appeared to be. Dorothy...
Always Looking Up
The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself,...
Memory's Last Breath
Field Notes on My Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY NPR
"For anyone facing dementia, [Saunders'] words are truly enlightening.... Inspiring lessons about living and thriving with dementia."---Maria Shriver, NBC's Today Show
A "courageous and singular book" (Andrew Solomon), Memory's Last...
by Mitch Albom
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that...
A Fist in the Hornet's Nest
On the Ground in Baghdad Before, During & After the War
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2004
When war broke out in Iraq, every major U.S. network pulled its correspondents from the scene. Despite the risk, Richard Engel stayed. As our tanks entered Baghdad in April 2003, he was there, bringing the Iraqi war into American homes as a stringer for ABC news. Determined to deliver the whole Middle...
All Fishermen Are Liars
True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
Just before Christmas, Linda meets up with her best friend and fellow fisherman Alden Leeman for lunch and a drink at the Dry Dock, a well-worn watering hole in Portland, Maine. Alden, the captain of Linda's first fishing expedition, has seen his share of mishaps and adventures at sea. When Linda...
Queen Meryl
The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
A captivating and inspiring portrait of legendary actress Meryl Streep and her work, Queen Meryl explores the fearless icon's trailblazing roles in film, her feminist activism, and the indelible mark she's left on pop culture.
Meryl Streep is the most celebrated actress of our time. She's a...
The Tournament
A Novel of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2003
A novel of the 20th century in which the greatest thinkers and personalities engage in a two-week tennis tournament.
"If you didn't know better you'd think this city had gone crazy. The streets of Paris are full of celebrities and media, and out at the stadium the crowds are already huge...
Notes from the Underwire
Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Meet Quinn Cummings. Former child star, mother, and modern woman, she just wants to be a good person. Quinn grew up in Los Angeles, a city whose patron saint would be a sixteen-year-old with a gold card and two trips to rehab under her belt. Quinn does crossword puzzles, eats lentils without being...
The Coldest Winter
America and the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times
David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his...
by Cecilia Ekbäck
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A compelling historical thriller set in 1700s Sweden from an exciting new literary talent.
"Exquisitely suspenseful, beautifully written, and highly recommended."
-Lee Child
"Visually acute, skillfully written; it won't easily erase its tracks in the reader's mind."
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by Nancy Grace
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
The Eleventh Victim, from former prosecutor Nancy Grace, is a tense thriller depicting a battle of wits between a lawyer, a serial killer, and the NYPD
As a young psychology student, Hailey Dean's world explodes when Will, her fiancé, is murdered just weeks before their wedding. Reeling, she...