Riverhead Books imprint: 592 books
How to Invent Everything
A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**An NPR Best Book of 2018
"How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If?
The only book you need if...
Fantasy Life
The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports from the Gu y Who's Lived It
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Includes new chapters with small, easy-to-understand words. Bestselling words!
Fantasy football, fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, even fantasy sumo wrestling: the world of fantasy sports is huge, and still growing. Today, more than 35 million people in the United States and Canada spend...
by Lewis Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
From Lewis Black, the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic New York Times-bestselling author and Daily Show regular, comes a ferociously funny book about his least favorite holiday, Christmas.
Christmas is supposed to be a time of peace on earth and goodwill toward all. But not for Lewis Black.
He...
by Tariq Nasheed
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
The Art of Mackin' was written by Tariq "King" Nasheed.
The Pact
Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A remarkable story about the power of friendship.**
Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Newark, facing city life’s temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three...
The Bond
Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect with Their Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
From the New York Times-bestselling authors of THE PACT
Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt discovered early in their friendship that they shared a disturbing trait: as children, they navigated dangerous inner-city life without a father’s guidance. In spite of this, they escaped...
by Mary Pipher, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
**#1 New York Times Bestseller
The groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: what is happening to the selves of adolescent girls?**
As a therapist, Mary Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why were...
Planting Dandelions
Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Introducing a writer with a keen eye, a wicked tongue, and an appealing take on family.
In the family of Jen Lancaster and Elizabeth Gilbert, Kyran Pittman is the laid-back middle sister: warm and witty and confiding, with an addictively smart and genuine voice-but married with three kids and...
On the Noodle Road
From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love.
As a newlywed traveling in Italy, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked...
Stitches
A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
**The New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything
“Lamott’s …most insightful book yet, Stitches offers plenty of her characteristic witty wisdom…this slim, readable volume [is] a lens on life, widening and narrowing, encouraging...
Spoon Fed
How Eight Cooks Saved My Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
From the prominent New York Times food writer, a memoir recounting the tough life lessons she learned from a generation of female cooks-including Marion Cunningham, Alice Waters, Ruth Reichl, Rachael Ray, and Marcella Hazan.
Somewhere between the lessons her mother taught her as a child and...
The Ghost Map
The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcolm Gladwell, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner about a real-life historical hero, Dr....
The Unsettlers
In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
“An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” —Los Angeles Times
The radical search for the simple life in today’s America.
On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist,...
The Brothers
The Road to an American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
National Book Award winner Masha Gessen tells an important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted.
On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding...