Little Brown And Company : 1930 books
The Betrayers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
**Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2014**
A New Yorker Favorite Book of 2014
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
These incandescent pages give us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident...
Bad Call
A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
An adrenaline-fueled read that will stay with you long after you turn the final page, BAD CALL is a "compulsively readable, totally unforgettable"* memoir about working on a New York City ambulance in the 1960s. (*James Patterson)
Bad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving,...
Country Girl
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."--National Public Radio
When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest....
by Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
"Daphne du Maurier creates on the grand scale; she runs through the generations, giving her family unity and reality . . . a rich vein of humor and satire . . . observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here." --The Observer
When Daphne du Maurier wrote The du Mauriers...
The Last Voyage of Columbus
Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into...
Tales from Q School
Inside Golf's Fifth Major
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
It is the tournament that separates champions from mortals. It is the starting point for the careers of future legends and can be the final stop on the down escalator for fading stars. The annual PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament is one of the most grueling competitions in any sport. Every fall, veterans...
Spent
Memoirs of a Shopping Addict
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
As a child, Avis Cardella devoured the glamorous images in her mother's fashion magazines. She grew up to be one of the people in them, living a life that seemed to be filled with labels and luxury. But shopping had become a dangerous addiction. She forwent food for Prada. Credit card debt blossomed...
by Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
"Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency which gives such animation to her storytelling." -New York Times Book Review
Pursued by the twin demons of drink and madness, Branwell Bronte created a private world that was indeed infernal. As a bold...
The Fear
Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland.
Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country's dictator for 30 years, has finally...
The Pugilist at Rest
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Mirabella, Story, Buzz, and in The New Yorker twice more. "The Pugilist at Rest" - the title story from this stunning collection - took first place in Prize Stories...
Last Girl Before Freeway
The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Named one of "40 Gifts for the Book Lover on Your List," by Good Housekeeping
The definitive book about Joan Rivers' tumultuous, victorious, tragic, hilarious, and fascinating life.
Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions,...
by Asne Seierstad
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul...
Harlem is Nowhere
A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
"No geographic or racial qualification guarantees a writer her subject....Only interest, knowledge, and love will do that--all of which this book displays in abundance." (Zadie Smith, Harper's)
A finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, and a New...
by Peter Orner
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
"A ravishing collection, full of wisdom, grief, beauty, and especially surprise."--Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collectors
PeterOrner zeroes in on the strange ways our memories define us: A woman's husband dies before their divorce is finalized; a man runs for governor of Illinois...