Avery imprint: 686 books
How Language Works
How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language.
In the author's own words, "How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about how we talk about music, cookery, and sex-or, indeed, anything at all." Language is so fundamental to everyday...
In Search of Cleo
How I Found My Kitty and Lost My Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
A charming and funny memoir about experiences Gina Gershon has had with cats throughout her life that are analogous to her relationships with men and her ongoing search for true love.
Film and television icon Gina Gershon may be best known for her movie roles in Bound and Showgirls and television...
Nine Years Under
Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
A dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming of age in a black funeral home in Baltimore
Sheri Booker was only fifteen when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea her summer job would become nine years of immersion into a hidden world. Reeling from the...
Being Santa Claus
What I Learned about the True Meaning of Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
A veteran Santa reveals heartwarming true stories and lessons from his twenty-year career spreading Christmas magic.
With the holiday shopping season beginning earlier each year, more than ever. Americans are struggling to remember the true meaning of Christmas. And who better to deliver...
The Western Lit Survival Kit
An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
A side-splitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists.
To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the complicated Renaissance dramas we bluffed our way through in college, the dusty Everyman's Library editions that look classy on...
The Ode Less Travelled
Unlocking the Poet Within
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Comedian and actor Stephen Fry?s witty and practical guide, now in paperback, gives the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry.
Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. In The Ode Less Travelled, he invites...
Weapons of Fitness
The Women's Ultimate Guide to Fitness, Self-Defense, and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A groundbreaking self-defense and fitness book for women by a ballerina-turned-self-defense expert. Learn how to become your own weapon of self-defense and fitness so that you can create and target your best life.
After ballerina Avital Zeisler was savagely attacked as a young woman, she lived...
X-Treme Latin
All the Latin You Need to Know for Survival in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
In staff meetings and singles bars, on freeways and fairways, there are aggravating people lurking everywhere these days. But bestselling humorist Henry Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations, offering a slew of quips your nemesis won't soon forget . . . or even understand.
Beard's...
Venice Is a Fish
A Sensual Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
One of Italy’s brightest literary lights reinvents travel writing with a seductive, intoxicating celebration of the magical saltwater city
“Venice is a fish,” writes Tiziano Scarpa. “It’s like a vast sole stretched out against the deep. How did this marvelous beast make its way up...
What Would Michelle Do?
A Modern-Day Guide to Living with Substance and Style
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Inspiring insights, advice, and style for every woman who admires the popular and poised First Lady Michelle Obama
Embodying style, class, and intelligence, Michelle Obama has quickly become an American icon. Rising from modest beginnings, she went on to earn an Ivy League education, a position...
by Henry Beard
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
From cocktail party chitchat, to bumper stickers, to personal ads--everything you'll ever need to say in perfect Latin! A backlistius bestsellerus.
The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse
A Chronicle of Medical Mysteries, Curious Remedies, and Bizarre but True Healing Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2004
Did you know that bananas can cure warts; chewing on raw ginger can relieve nausea; sniffing vanilla can help suppress your appetite; or that raw potato can soothe a burn?
Healing is full of curious remedies-some based on time-honored folklore, others straight from the medical journals. Nancy...
Aftermath, Inc.
Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
A look into the disturbing but fascinating new field of bio-recovery, as a critically acclaimed crime writer rolls up his sleeves and delves into the world of Aftermath, Inc.
The best way to understand the world of Aftermath, Inc. is to imagine life before it. Grief-stricken families of suicide...
Mentally Incontinent
That Time I Burned Down a Hooters, That Time My Stalker Crashed on My Couch, and Nine Other Stories from My Weird Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Cyberspace?s answer to David Sedaris: raucous recollections from a man with a serious blabber-control problem
Joe Peacock is one of those rare people to whom interesting things just sorta happen. For the amusement of his friends, he?d often recount in long e-mails his latest misadventure, whether...