Little Brown And Company : 1930 books
Make It Scream, Make It Burn
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive new book.
With...
Rescue
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage.
Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite...
Barefoot
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
Visiting Nantucket for the summer, three women seek peace and comfort as they cope with the challenges in their lives--from marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness.
Three women--burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional...
The Almost Moon
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children....
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2019
If the Women's Murder Club can't be together this Christmas, a killer is to blame.
As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women's Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The medical examiner's office is quiet. Even the courts are showing some Christmas...
The Book of Madness and Cures
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on...
The 34-Ton Bat
The Story of Baseball as Told Through Bobbleheads, Cracker Jacks, Jockstraps, Eye Black, and 375 Other Strange and Unforgettable Objects
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An unorthodox history of baseball told through the enthralling stories of the game's objects, equipment, and characters.
No sport embraces its wild history quite like baseball, especially in memorabilia and objects. Sure, there are baseball cards and team pennants. But there are also huge balls,...
The Monsters
Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
One murky night in 1816, on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, famed English poet, challenged his friends to a contest--to write a ghost story. The assembled group
included the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; his lover (and future wife) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; Mary's stepsister Claire Claremont;...
The Devil That Never Dies
The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A groundbreaking--and terrifying--examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.
Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied...
The Vanishing American Jew
In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2000
In this urgent book, Alan M. Dershowitz shows why American Jews are in danger of disappearing - and what must be done now to create a renewed sense of Jewish identity for the next century. In previous times, the threats to Jewish survival were external - the virulent consequences of anti-Semitism....
by Idra Novey
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
**Winner of the Sami Rohr Prize in Fiction
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction**
NPR Best Book of 2016
Buzzfeed Best Debut of 2016
BUST Magazine **Best Book of 2016
Winner of the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Fiction**
New York Times...
by Mark Leyner
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The blazingly inventive fictional autobiography of Mark Leyner, one of America's "rare, true original voices" (Gary Shteyngart)
Dizzyingly brilliant, raucously funny, and painfully honest, GONE WITH THE MIND is the story of Mark Leyner's life, told as only Mark Leyner can tell it....
Help! For Writers
210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head.
In HELP! FOR WRITERS, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps...
The Winding Stair
Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
"Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher." --Francis King
Many accounts of the life of Francis Bacon have been written for scholars. But du Maurier's aim in this biography was to illuminate the...