Little Brown And Company : 1930 books
Endgame, 1945
The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. While the war may have seemed all but over by Hitler's final birthday (April 20), Stafford's chronicle of the three months that followed tells a different, and much richer, story.
ENDGAME 1945 highlights the gripping...
The Day That Went Missing
A Family's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
"Spellbinding, terrifying, deeply moving"-- an unflinching portrait of a family's silent grief, and the tragic death of a brother not spoken about for forty years (Joanna Rakoff).
On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and his younger brother Nicholas are jumping...
by Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
"This novel catches fire." --New York Times
She set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country.
An ambitious, stunning, and seductive young woman, Mary Anne finds the single most rewarding way to rise above her station: she will become the mistress to a royal duke. In doing...
The Nearly Departed
Or, My Family and Other Foreigners
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Cullerton's parents were always eccentric. Her mother gardened in curlers, pop beads, and black satin underpants, while her father hid wads of cash in shoes in the garage. This is a haunting, heartbreaking, and incredibly funny book that is a love letter to parents, family, and home--however strange they may be.
With the End in Mind
Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying.
Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in...
West by West
My Charmed, Tormented Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
He is one of basketball's towering figures: "Mr. Clutch," who mesmerized his opponents and fans. The coach who began the Lakers' resurgence in the 1970s. The general manager who helped bring "Showtime" to Los Angeles, creating a championship-winning force that continues to this...
by Levison Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet-navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range.
Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV"...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest,...
by Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
"An intimate view of a creative personality...as richly evocative as any of her novels." --Los Angeles Times
Both in her novels and her memoirs, Daphne du Maurier revealed an ardent desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries she kept between 1920...
Mad Science
Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made Our World
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine.
On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S. Satellite passed through the Van Allen radiation belt. On March 17, the airplane...
Spoiled Brats
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price.
From "one of the funniest writers in America"* comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars. Rife with failing rock bands,...
Blood Money
Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
It was supposed to be quick, easy, and cheap: the Bush administration promised American taxpayers that Iraqi oil revenues would pay for it all. But thousands of lives and billions of dollars later, the Iraqi reconstruction is an undeniable failure, overrun by staggering corruption, waste, and incompetence....
by Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
"The Glass-Blowers consistently entertains." --New York Times
The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'....
by Elisabeth Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
The bestselling status (and subsequent blockbuster film adaptations) of "Bridget Jones's Diary" and "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is proof of the enduring strength of this category. Although the novel is invented, Robinson is a successful Hollywood producer whose credits include "Braveheart" and "Last Orders."