Little Brown And Company : 1930 books
by Jill Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A top celebrity portrait photographer, Jill Greenberg has a unique ability to coax powerful emotions out of her subjects - whether human or animal. Her portraits of bears, collected here for the first time, surprise and engage. We encounter cubs as cute as a child's Teddy, grizzlies that look like...
Love, Nina
A Nanny Writes Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read." --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
In 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively young...
The Safe Man
A Ghost Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Published for the first time under his own name, a dark and haunting story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly
Like his father before him, Brian Holloway is a safe man. That is, his specialty is opening safes. Every job is a little mystery, and he has yet to encounter...
The Tipping Point
How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product,...
My Paper Chase
True Stories of Vanished Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life. His story stretches from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map. He discusses his passion for the crusading style of reportage he championed, his clashes with Rupert Murdoch, and...
Sweet Soul Music
Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm...
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Former Marine pilot Jack Morgan runs Private, a prestigious investigation company. But the world's darkest secrets can only stay private for so long . . .
Private: it's where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the...
Okay Fine Whatever
The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The "hilarious and poignant" story of one chronically anxious woman's quest to become braver by seeking out the kinds of experiences she's spent her life avoiding. (Cheryl Strayed)
For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay Hameister...
Stuntman!
My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Yep that's me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames right down your throat. I was Hollywood's highest paid stuntman so I should know.
I wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown...
by Elizabeth McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got...
I Hate People!
Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Face it, whether your company has 10 employees or 10,000, you must grapple with people you can't stand in the office. Luckily Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have written I HATE PEOPLE!, a smart, counter-intuitive, andirreverentturn on the classic workplace self-help book that will show you how...
Cinnamon Kiss
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend, Mouse, tells him it's a cinch.
Then...
by John Fowles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A new trade paperback edition of "a masterpiece of symbolically charged realism....Fowles is the only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner, Saturday Review).
The eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel...
by Michael Farris Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A Clarion-Ledger Top Reads of 2018
One of More 2 Read's Best Fiction of 2018
A Writer's Bone Best Book of 2018
One of Raven Crime Reads Top 10 of 2018
A Kirkus Review Must Read Short Novel
One of BookPage's Top Summer Mysteries and Thrillers
Named a Best Summer...