Open Road Distribution: 425 books
Ida Tarbell
Portrait of a Muckraker
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Ida Tarbell’s generation called her a “muckraker” (the term was Theodore Roosevelt’s, and he didn’t intend it as a compliment), but in our time she would have been known as an investigative reporter, with the celebrity of Woodward and Bernstein. By any description, Ida Tarbell was one of...
The Cherry in the Martini
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Rona Jaffe’s memoir is abundant with personal insights on the joys and challenges of childhood and youth. Written in short autobiographical essays, Jaffe shares vivid memories of her first experiences of love and loss in her search to find her voice as both a woman and writer. Straightforward and...
Are You Ready?
The Gay Man's Guide to Thriving at Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
“Readers of this book should be ready to experience an engaging intimate conversation about how to live with wisdom and passion while embarked on the uncertain journey of midlife. Gay men of all ages will be enriched by Isensee’s timely and eloquent synthesis of his clinical work and the firsthand...
Archibald MacLeish
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Archibald MacLeish was the winner of the 1993 Ambassador Book Award for biography.
by James Munves, Joseph Kelner
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
On May 4, 1970, two platoons of Ohio National Guardsmen fired on a crowd of students at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine. Neither the federal government nor the state of Ohio took any responsibility for the guardsmen’s actions. Through the account of the subsequent civil trial,...
by Melinda Worth Popham
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
“Brand X and his fellow coyotes . . . are meticulously observed in the desert environment that Ms. Popham seems to know like her backyard. And so are the people of this fable—old Hallie and Albert . . . and the several varmint-hunters, callous or alcoholic or both. There is a parable of...
The Writer's Survival Guide
An Instructive, Insightful Celebration of the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This inspirational guide for aspiring and experienced writers was originally published in 1997. Written in a friendly, hopeful, and gently humorous tone, it focuses on the creative process and emotional ups and downs of the creative life, providing insights into how to persist in the face of rejection,...
Creative Centers and Homes
Infant Care, Planning and Developing Family Day Care, and Approaches to Designing and Creating the Child's Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Creative Centers and Homes views childcare as an integral, vital, and comprehensive service for all families; infant care, family homes and centers; focusing on specific required services including licensing, location, extent of services, design and environment for learning and playing for young children,...
by Roy Schreiber
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
William Bligh is best known as the cause of the mutiny on the Bounty. He was also the victim of two other mutinies. Yet when he died he was a vice-admiral of the British navy. How was that possible? If ever a person learned to profit from adversity, it was William Bligh.
If You Came This Way
A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
At each stage of their lives—from infant cribs to teen dropouts to welfare dependents to basement shelters for the elderly—the people of the underclass are shunned by the rest of the population, even by the working poor. The cycle is vicious: Underclass children get little help in their own homes...
by Odie Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Let Chester take you on a journey through Spain in his search to find himself—and write about it. He hooks up with “El Encanto”, a star-crossed matador. Then back to the States, where he meets and marries the love of his life. A honeymoon in West Africa leaves them yearning for a place they’ve never known, but feel is their home . . .
'57, Chicago
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
A slice of underworld life, *’*57, Chicago is a fact-based fictional thriller.
The banker’s dead—a mob killing with repercussions. Money’s tied up. Three men are on a collision course:
Al. He’s a layoff bookie, thinks he can live as a middleman between his customers and the...
Drums Along the Congo
On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosur
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
In the heart of the Congo is rumored to live a dinosaur called Mokele-Mbembe, or the god-beast. A handful of scientific expeditions have searched for it over the years with little success, but Nugent relied less on science than a desire to document the obscure. He made his way by dugout canoe and...
by Katherine Fair Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
An extremely well-written, compassionate guide for the millions of people who come face to face with a death in their own families
The pain and shock when a child dies can seem unbearable. But expert-on-grief Katherine Fair Donnelly, who has suffered many personal losses, has gained wisdom...