Riverhead Books imprint: 592 books
You Had Me at Woof
How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Look out for Julie's new book, The Stars in Our Eyes.
The hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of a woman learning the secrets of love, health, and happiness from some very surprising teachers: her dogs.
Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company,...
Love at First Bark
How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
**Look out for Julie's new book, The Stars in Our Eyes.
The bestselling memoirist shows how saving a dog can sometimes help you save yourself.**
Julie Klam writes about dogs with a rollicking wit and a radiating warmth-as no other writer can. In her bestselling memoir You Had Me at Woof,...
The View From the Center of the Universe
Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
In this strikingly original book, a world-renowned cosmologist and an innovative writer of the history and philosophy of science uncover an astonishing truth: Humans actually are central to the universe. What does this mean for our culture and our personal lives? The answer is revolutionary: a science-based...
Be Still and Know
Reflections from Living Buddha, Living Christ
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
In his acclaimed national bestseller, Living Buddha, Living Christ, renowned thinker and scholar Thich Nhat Hanh explored the deep connections between Christianity and Buddhism. Be Still and Know uses selections from his groundbreaking work to create a handbook of meditations and reflections that...
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2001
**"[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth." –His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort.
It...
Where the Water Goes
Life and Death Along the Colorado River
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.
The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s...
Our Inner Ape
A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Visit the author's Web site at www.ourinnerape.com
It’s no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our irrepressible curiosity. We have a common ancestor, scientists tell us, so it’s natural that we act alike. But not all of these parallels...
Help, Thanks, Wow
The Three Essential Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything
Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life.
Readers of all ages have followed and...
The Thing with Feathers
The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world—and deep connection with humanity.
Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets...
A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home
Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
A layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life.
At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a new leash—er, lease—on life by getting...
by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
**Look out for David Owen's next book,*Where the Water Goes.
The Conundrum* is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability.**
Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've...
There Will Be No Miracles Here
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
A PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK
"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside...
The Future Is History
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON...
The Eastern Stars
How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
The intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author.
In the town of San Pedro in the Dominican Republic, baseball is not just a way of life....