Little Brown And Company : 1930 books
David and Goliath
Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet.
Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone...
by Keith Richards
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
As lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world. A true and towering original, he has always walked his own path, spoken his mind, and done things his own way.
Now at last Richards pauses to tell his story in the most...
Inside SEAL Team Six
My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The Inside Story of America's Ultimate Warriors
When Osama bin Laden was assassinated, the entire world was fascinated by the men who had completed the seemingly impossible mission that had dogged the U.S. government for over a decade. SEAL Team 6 became synonymous with heroism, duty, and justice....
Move Fast and Break Things
How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
*The book that started the Techlash*
A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.
Featured in New York Times' Paperback...
Villa America
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night.
When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together-one that they couldn't find within the confines of society life...
Two and Two
McSorley's, My Dad, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
One of Thrillist's Best Books of 2017
A deeply stirring memoir of fathers, sons, and the oldest bar in New York City
Since it opened in 1854, McSorley's Old Ale House has been a New York institution. This is the landmark watering hole where Abraham Lincoln campaigned and Boss Tweed kicked...
Downtown
My Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
In Downtown, Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to 42nd Street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people. From the Battery's traces of the early port...
The Recovering
Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A)
"Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe
"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing...
The Detonators
The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
One hundred years ago, in July 1916, an act of terrorism in New York Harbor changed the world.
"A gripping account of conspiracy."--New York Times
"A ready-made suspense thriller."--Boston Globe
"Exhaustively researched... fascinating."--Entertainment...
Great Tales from English History (Book 2)
Joan of Arc, the Princes in the Tower, Bloody Mary, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Isaac Newton, and More
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's...
by Joseph Kertes
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
"Devastating yet unnervingly funny.... inspired and deeply affecting....a story for the ages." --Julie Orringer, New York Times Book Review
"The Afterlife of Stars moved me more than any other novel I've read in recent memory." --Tim O'Brien
New York Times Book Review:...
Her Way
The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
The truth about the most important woman in America
In Her Way, two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalists deliver:
Previously undisclosed details about the Clinton's multi-decade plan for powerincluding 8 years in the White House for Bill and 8 years for Hillary
Never-before-revealed...
Blue Dreams
The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
"Capacious and rigorous . . . Blue Dreams, like all good histories of medicine, reveals healing to be art as much as science." --Parul Sehgal, New York Times
"Terrific." --@MichaelPollan
"Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating."...
Marriage and Other Acts of Charity
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
In her award-winning memoir Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup won the hearts of readers across the country with her deeply moving and deftly humorous stories of faith, hope and family. Now, with her inimitable voice and generous spirit, she turns her attention to the subjects of love and commitment...