Little Brown And Company : 1930 books
by Shirley Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
"[An] epic tale."--O: The Oprah Magazine
"Irresistible."--Wall Street Journal
"A fresh and subversive take on a genre traditionally owned by male leviathans."--New York Times Book Review, *Editors' Choice*
"Heart-warming and hilarious."--Jennifer Niven**,** author of All the Bright...
Philistines at the Hedgerow
Passion and Property in the Hamptons
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Bestselling author Steven Gaines's "richly entertaining" (People) and juicy social history of the Hamptons.
As one of America's most fabled communities--long a magnet for artists, celebrities, the very rich, and their respective hangers-on--the Hamptons have been a scene of constant...
by John Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
More than 150 years after its original publication, BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. BARTLETT'S showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the...
by Elin Hilderbrand
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A husband's secret life, a wife's new beginning: escape to the Caribbean with New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.
Irene Steele shares her idyllic life in a beautiful Iowa City Victorian house with a husband who loves her to sky-writing, sentimental extremes. But as she rings...
by Jill Eisenstadt
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey's Deli. At night, winter and summer, they drink. Drink and get rowdy....
The Girl Code
The Secret Language of Single Women (On Dating, Sex, Shopping, and Honor Among Girlfriends)
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
This good-humored, Generation-X inspired, illustrated "love dictionary" contains tongue-in-cheek slang terms for the different stages of love and dating, for body parts and common sexual experiences, ways of making up and breaking up, and the basic rules of play that every woman should know. 50 two-color illustrations.
The Futilitarians
Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
Recommended Summer Reading -- Louise Erdrich, New York Times
"Gisleson writes with wit, warmth, and a spiritual devotion to books...Her search for purpose and connection amid chaos and loss permeates even the most heart-wrenching moments...
Why You Love Music
From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.
Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make...
The Portable Promised Land
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
This inspired collection of stories is cause for celebration. With stunning language and dazzling characters, Toure introduces Soul City -- a wholly imagined utopia where magic happens and black is beautiful. In a broad range of characterization and styles, "The Portable Promised Land" is...
Soul City
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
From the wildly popular author of the groundbreaking debut The Portable Promised Land comes an inventive and hilarious first novel about an African-American utopia threatened by the darker side of human nature. Welcome to Soul City, where roses bloom in the cracks of the sidewalk along Cornbread Boulevard,...
Men with Balls
The Professional Athlete's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This will be the very last book you ever read. Because after you have read this book, you, Good Sir, will know how to be a pro athlete. And pro athletes don't need books. Or strong family bonds. Or any of that stupid crap. Not when they have ready access to millions of dollars and scores of smoking...
Papadaddy's Book for New Fathers
Advice to Dads of All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
"Edgerton is so, so funny. He captures the rainbows, cheap thrills, and irritating potholes of parenting with splendid understatement."--Library Journal (Starred Review)
After three decades of being a father, Clyde Edgerton-with four kids ranging in age from six to 30-is supremely...
The Art of X-Ray Reading
How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, draws writing lessons from 25 great texts.
Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see...
by Alice Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Four friends. Twenty years. One unexpected journey.
Eva, Benedict, Sylvie, and Lucien graduate in 1997, into an exhilarating world on the brink of the new millennium. Hopelessly in love with playboy Lucien and keen to shrug off the socialist politics of her childhood, Eva breaks away to work...