Open Road Distribution: 425 books
The Art of Dying
Facing Your Own Death
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
“The Art of Dying speaks to modern readers with refreshing frankness and wit. It covers the subject thoroughly, from how to inform relatives of impending death, to coping with pain and fear, to death rituals, to preparing for a possible afterlife or, depending on one’s viewpoint, the end of it...
The Secrets of Grown-Ups
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Vera Caspary, the celebrated author of Laura, tells her own story in this captivating autobiography.
With a career that spanned from the 1920s through 1970s, one that produced over twenty novels, in addition to her many credits for film and theater, Caspary centered her life around a passion for...
Bitter Almonds
Recollections and Recipes from a Sicilian Girlhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
At the age of eleven, the daughter of a Sicilian sharecropper, Maria Grammatico, entered the San Carlo Institute in the mountaintop town of Erice, an orphanage run by nuns who were famous throughout Sicily for their almond pastries, but who were less adept at dealing with young girls. After ten years...
by Stephen Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
America’s Secret Aristocracy is a report from inside the shush-shush inner circle of America’s upper crust. Full of eccentric family members and well-sourced gossip, bestselling writer Stephen Birmingham spins an entertaining social history.
Mr. Right Is Dead
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Often regarded as her finest and most literary work, Mr. Right Is Dead is Rona Jaffe’s collection of short stories from 1965. Containing five stories and one novella, each story has the savvy and sharp tone that characterize the best of Rona Jaffe’s writing. The title novella centers on a call...
Descending from the Clouds
A Memoir of Combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Wearing the remnants of a WWI uniform and pulling a water-cooled 30-caliber machine-gun, Spencer Wurst marched through his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1940 as a member of the National Guard. He was 15 years old. Five years later he was a hardened platoon sergeant leading his troopers through...
by Stephen Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Bestselling author Stephen Birmingham’s debut novel Young Mr. Keefe is the deftly plotted story of a young New England man who decides to find his fortunes out west, in 1950s California.
Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait
His Life and Times from the Original Newspaper Documents of the Union, the Confederacy, and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
“To say he is ugly is nothing. To add that his figure is grotesque is to convey no adequate impression.”
“He is destined to occupy in history…a quaintness, originality, courage, honesty, magnanimity and popular force of character such as have never heretofore…”
These starkly...
Zbig
The Man Who Cracked the Kremlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
“Kissinger opted for a strategy of accommodation with Moscow, while Brzezinski, claiming that the very nature of Soviet ideology and policies prevents stability, sought strategies for undermining the Soviet system. . . . In retrospect, Brzezinski was proven right and Kissinger was wrong.” —Shlomo...
One Year Off
Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Have you ever wanted to take a year off from your life? A meandering, serendipitous journey around the world with your family? It sounds impossible. But one day, David Elliot Cohen, co-creator of the bestselling Day in the Life and America 24/7 book series, decided to make this dream a reality. Over...
Five O'Clock Comes Early
A Young Man's Battle with Alcoholism
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bob Welch was twenty-three, a World Series star, and promising young pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers when he realized he was an alcoholic. He became one of the first prominent athletes to discuss his ongoing treatment for addiction. His description of his time at the rehab center and his daily...
Barren Lands
An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North America Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
First published in 2001, Barren Lands is the classic true story of the men who sought—and found—a great diamond mine on the last frontier of the far north. From a bloody 18th-century trek across the Canadian tundra to the daunting natural forces facing protagonists Chuck Fipke and Stewart Blusson...
Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Transcribed for the First Time From the Original 1790 Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
When John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition “full of lies and nonsense”—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century...
Losing My Faculties
A Teacher's Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In his first nine years as a teacher, Brendan Halpin goes from wide-eyed idealist to cynical, heartbroken idealist. Unique among teaching memoirs, Losing My Faculties is not the story of a heroic teacher who transforms the lives of his hardbitten students; rather, it’s the inspirational and often...