Little Brown And Company : 1930 books
Cleopatra
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.
Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist...
What the Dog Saw
And Other Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell...
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see...
by Michael Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the...
The Pentagon's Brain
An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist **and t**he definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51
No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and...
You Will Know Me
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
**One of the Best Books of 2016--NPR, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Elle, Thrillist, Men's Journal, Publishers Weekly, Time Out New York, Self and Kirkus
The audacious new novel about family and ambition from "one of the best living mystery writers"...
Starbucked
A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
STARBUCKED will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success. Part Fast Food Nation, part Bobos in Paradise, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the...
by James Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller
In James Patterson's white-hot Western thriller, a Texas Ranger fights for his life, his freedom, and the town he loves as he investigates his ex-wife's murder.
Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law-enforcement...
by Jake Tapper
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A young Congressman stumbles on the powerful political underworld of 1950's D.C. in this "potent thriller" (David Baldacci) and New York Times bestseller from CNN correspondent Jake Tapper.
Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his...
Rich Like Them
My Door-to-Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America's Richest Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Ryan D'Agostino, former senior editor at Money, wanted to know how the wealthiest in America got that way. So he asked. Knocking on 500 doors in some of the most affluent zip codes in America, D'Agostino met with men and women who welcomed him in and shared their most difficult financial decisions,...
The Disappearing Spoon
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table.
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium...
1924
The Year That Made Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monster
Before Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical...
by James Patterson, David Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Detective Jenna Murphy comes to the Hamptons to solve a murder-but what she finds is more deadly than she could ever imagine.
Trying to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks, former New York City cop Jenna Murphy hardly expects her lush and wealthy surroundings to...
by James Patterson, Mark Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
An investigator in Berlin is on the brink of a terrifying discovery that could throw Europe into chaos in this tense thriller-perfect for fans of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Chris Schneider is a superstar agent at Private Berlin, Germany headquarters for the world's most powerful investigation...