Open Road: 9207 books
The Overcoat
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Five tragicomic tales from the visionary writer heralded by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced”
A midlevel bureaucrat in the czar’s administration, Poprishchin is hurrying to work when he sees a woman step out of a carriage. Her beauty astounds him, and...
No Fond Return of Love
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Three lonely people come together in this poignant, witty novel of star-crossed romance from the New York Times–bestselling author of Jane and Prudence.
After being jilted by her fiancé, Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ever finding true love. For a distraction, she goes to a publishing conference,...
Classic Children's Adventure Stories
Peter Pan, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Swiss Family Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Four timeless tales of adventure that have delighted generations of readers, young and old.
Peter Pan is the enchanting story of a boy who wouldn’t grow up and the girl he promised to always remember. One magical night, two mischievous denizens of an island of the imagination visit Wendy...
by Patricia Wentworth
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In the English countryside, a man is caught up in an intricate web of greed and murder, in this mystery from the creator of Miss Silver
The nightmare begins when James Elliot gets lost on a dark, foggy country road. When he stops at a house to ask for directions, a woman rushes out and tells him...
The Jerusalem Quartet
Sinai Tapestry, Jerusalem Poker, Nile Shadows, and Jericho Mosaic
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
A special four-in-one edition of Edward Whittemore’s epic Jerusalem Quartet
In Sinai Tapestry, it is 1840, and Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate...
by Henri Bergson
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Bergson incorporated the best of contemporary thinking in all his works. These thinkers included A. Krauss, Delage, Freud, and W. Robert. Bergson talks about how our sensory organs (eyes) are involved in dreams so that we think we perceive something but when we open our eyes it vanishes. This book...
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
The Way to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
A masterpiece of political reportage that exposes the emotional reality of the modern American campaign system
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer cracks open the heart of the American political system in this classic exploration of the 1988 presidential campaign. Cramer...
by Benjamin M. Schutz
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Leo Haggerty put his life on the line to investigate a mysterious woman
Her name is Sarabeth Timmons, and she grew up tough. A twelve-year-old runaway, Sarabeth spent her teen years squatting and turning tricks, and her twenties on the road with one of California’s roughest motorcycle gangs....
Pontiff
The Vatican, the KGB, and the Year of the Three Popes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The story of Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II—and an assassination plot—by the New York Times–bestselling coauthors of The Day the World Ended.
The Vatican has remained one of the last unexamined mysteries of the modern world. For centuries, pomp and pageantry have hidden from view...
Four Shocking True Crime Tales
Body Dump, Flesh Collectors, Lobster Boy, and Deacon of Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Four bizarre true crime stories about serial killers, murder sprees, sideshows, and church pulpits in one sensational volume.
These grisly true crime books by a former New York Times columnist chronicle four shocking and disturbing cases.
Body Dump: Few people in Poughkeepsie, New York,...
May Sarton
A Self-Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
This transcript from the film World of Light: A Portrait of May Sarton illuminates the life and writing of the poet while celebrating the joys of creativity, love, and solitude
In June of 1979, May Sarton answered the questions of two filmmakers and read to them from her poetry. This four-day...
by Robert Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
A hard-boiled tale of guns and revenge under the neon lights of Atlantic City
On a floating casino just off the New Jersey coast, two masked gunmen open fire. Their powerful Austrian machine guns shatter mirrors, crack fish tanks, and knock the grand chandelier from the ceiling. By the time...
Game, Set, and Match
The Tennis Boom of the 1960s and '70s
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The leading players and outstanding matches of two thrilling decades in tennis history
From Rod Laver’s amateur Grand Slam in 1962 to the first US Open held at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, legendary sportswriter Herbert Warren Wind captures the grace and drama of modern...
A Month at the Brickyard
The Incredible Indy 500
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
An all-access pass to Pit Row and beyond at the world’s most famous auto race, the Indianapolis 500
The Indianapolis 500 auto race is the most prestigious event in all of motor sports. Race cars roar two hundred times around the track at dizzying speeds of more than two hundred miles per...