Little Brown And Company : 1930 books
Asylum
A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France.
As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many of the city's foremost artists, and was an important literary journalist. With the advent...
Paint It Black
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
"A dark, crooked beauty that fulfills all the promise of White Oleander and confirms that Janet Fitch is an artist of the very highest order." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday,...
Tomato Red
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
A sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell's collection of "country noir" novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition.
In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For...
Open Letter
On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
An impassioned defense of the freedom of speech, from Stéphane Charbonnier, a journalist murdered for his convictions
On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man...
by Daphne du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
"A dazzlingly clever and immensely entertaining novel." --New York Times
By chance, John and Jean--one English, the other French--meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance to each other is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last...
The Ground Beneath Us
From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Our most compelling resource just might be the ground beneath our feet.
Finalist for the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award
When a teaspoon of soil contains millions of species, and when we pave over the earth on a daily basis, what does that mean for our future? What is the risk to...
The Threat Matrix
Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
An intimate look at Robert Mueller, the sixth Director of the FBI, who has just been named special counsel to oversee the investigation into ties between President Trump's campaign and Russian officials.
Covering more than 30 years of history, from the 1980s through Obama's presidency, The...
Secrets of the Tomb
Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
This is the only exposé of one of the world's most secretive and feared organizations: Yale University's nearly 200-year-old secret society, Skull and Bones. Through society documents and interviews with dozens of members, Robbins explains why this old-boy product of another time still thrives today.
Power Wars
The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state
Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless...
Takeover
The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
In 1789, the Founding Fathers came up with a system of checks and balances to keep kingly powers out of the hands of American presidents. But in the 1970s and '80s, a faction of Republican loyalists, outraged by the fall of the imperial presidency after Watergate and the Vietnam War, abandoned conservatives'...
C Street
The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
C Street - where piety, politics, and corruption meet
Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside the C Street House, the Fellowship residence known simply by its Washington, DC address. The house has lately been the scene of notorious political scandal, but more crucially...
Young Mandela
The Revolutionary Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Nelson Mandela is well-known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman--the gray-haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South Africa.
But...
Fed Up!
Our Fight to Save America from Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Now, do not misunderstand me, America is great.
But we are fed up with being over-taxed and over-regulated. We are tired of being told how much salt to put on our food, what kind of cars we can drive, what kinds of guns we can own, what kind of prayers we are allowed to say and where we can...
The Age of Acquiescence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished.
From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies...