Open Road Distribution: 425 books
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
When a brother or sister dies, surviving siblings often receive little support or recognition of their pain. But their grief is real, and there is a way to recover...
by Thomas Keneally
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Artem Samsurov, an ardent follower of Lenin and a hero of the rebellion, flees his Siberian labor camp for the sanctuary of Brisbane, Australia in 1911. Failing to find the worker’s paradise and brotherhood he imagined, Artem quickly joins the agitation for a general strike among the growing trade...
The Best Times
An Informal Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures, and cuisines.
Luminary personalities and landscapes abound in the 1920s literary...
What I Saw at the Fair
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Ann Birstein’s account of her adventures in the New York male literary scene as a woman and as a female writer.
Dreams By No One's Daughter
Pitt Poetry Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
“Leslie Ullman traces through her speaker one woman’s attempt to find herself and then to live that discovered self within an alien wilderness that ranges from the indifferent to the frankly dangerous. This volume edges toward the growing certainty to plain chance and lucky or unlucky coincidence....
The Dust of Everyday Life
An Epic Poem of the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Spanning the years 1853–1933—beginning with conveyance by oxcart and ending with air travel—this series of dramatic monologues tells the story of Helen Walsh and Thomas Hodgson, whose families trekked the trails of the great migration to the West. Helen and Thomas get married, and together,...
Seized
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as a Medical, Historical, and Artistic Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Seized is a narrative portrait of a common brain disorder that can alter personality, illuminating the mind-body problem and the limits of free will. An invaluable resource for anyone touched by epilepsy, Seized gives first-hand accounts of three ordinary patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE),...
Lucille
The Life of Lucille Ball
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Everyone loved Lucy, the scheming, madcap redhead who ruled television for more than twenty years. In life, however, Lucille Ball presented a far more complex and contradictory personality than was ever embodied by the television Lucy. In Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball Kathleen Brady presents the...
Appalachian Odyssey
Walking the Trail from Georgia to Maine
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Trail along on this 2,000-mile, bliss-and-blister adventure away from interstates and into backwoods America. Cross the Smokies, survive Virginia floods, buck New Jersey heat, walk the Presidentials of the White Mountains, and traverse a mile-long gorge. Then, 150 days later, stand victorious on the...
Everything But Money
A Life of Riches
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this timeless classic that topped the New York Times bestseller list in 1966 and 1967, Sam Levenson recalls his childhood with the warmth and affectionate humor that endeared the author and humorist to millions of Americans. He describes the cramped New York tenement which he shared with his parents,...
The Grand Design
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
John Dos Passos’s literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author’s frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric...
The Stuff of a Lifetime
Self, Sense, Soul, and Spirit in Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The Stuff of a Lifetime is a book to help people understand what they are doing with their lives. Addressing its readers directly and as individuals, this book allows them to move through it in their own way. It takes them on a wide-ranging expedition into their lives, so that they may be better guided...
John Cheever
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
“A biography of great immediacy. . . . There are many sections of great poignancy, many funny things, many of electric intimacy and candor . . . there is spellbinding power, never more so than in describing Cheever’s death, pages that are both terrible and deeply moving; one is losing an...
Orient Express
A Travel Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Before John Dos Passos enjoys fame as a chronicler and critic of American society, he wins recognition for command of aesthetics. Orient Express, a memoir of the author’s travels through Eastern Europe, the Near East, and the Middle East, focuses on sights, sounds, and smells rather than plot or...