Riverhead Books imprint: 592 books
by Jon Ronson
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.
*'It's about the terror, isn't it?'
'The terror of what?' I said.
'The terror of being found out.'*
For...
The End of Men
And the Rise of Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Essential reading for our times, as women are pulling together to demand their rights— A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world.
“Anchored by data and aromatized by anecdotes, [Rosin] concludes that women are gaining the upper hand." –The Washington Post
Men...
Charlotte Au Chocolat
Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Like Eloise growing up in the Plaza Hotel, Charlotte Silver grew up in her mother's restaurant. Located in Harvard Square, Upstairs at the Pudding was a confection of pink linen tablecloths and twinkling chandeliers, a decadent backdrop for childhood. Over dinners of foie gras and Dover sole, always...
Unlikely Allies
How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
**Look out for Joel Paul’s new book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
The gripping true story of how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution.**
Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical...
The Fires
How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New Yo rk City--and Determined the Future of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
New York City, 1968. The RAND Corporation had presented an alluring proposal to a city on the brink of economic collapse: Using RAND's computer models, which had been successfully implemented in high-level military operations, the city could save millions of dollars by establishing more efficient...
Lizz Free or Die
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and one of today's most hilarious comedians and insightful social critics, pens a brilliant account of how she discovered her comedic voice.
In this collection of autobiographical essays, Winstead vividly recounts how she fought to find her own voice,...
by Mary Pipher, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, Another Country, and The Shelter of Each Other comes an inspirational book that shows how words can change the world.
Words are the most powerful tools at our disposal. With them, writers have saved lives and taken them, brought...
Messy
The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
**“Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world.” —Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take
“Engrossing.” —New York Times
From the award-winning columnist...
Anything That Moves
Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The popular New Yorker writer combines the style of Mary Roach with the on-the-ground food savvy of Anthony Bourdain.
Dana Goodyear’s narrative debut is a highly entertaining, revelatory look into the raucous, strange, fascinatingly complex world of contemporary American food culture. At...
Black White and Jewish
Autobiography of a Shifting Self
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents...
The Female Persuasion
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A New York Times Bestseller
**“A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle
“Ultra-readable.” —Vogue
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes...
Sudden Death
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
**"Splendid" —New York Times
"Mind-bending." —Wall Street Journal
"Brilliantly original. The best new novel I've read this year." —Salman Rushdie
A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth...
Save the Date
The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
From a fresh and exciting new voice, a hilarious and insightful examination of the search for love and the meaning of marriage in a time of anxiety, independence, and indecision.
Weddings. They’re fun, festive, and joyful, and at a time when people marry later in life—and sometimes not...
On the Outside Looking Indian
How My Second Childhood Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A memoir of a young woman, the product of a strict upbringing by conservative Indian parents, who decides to go on a Ram-Singha, her Indian version of the rumspringa, and learns how to dance, swim, drive, travel, and play in order to be happy.
Rupinder Gill was raised under the strict rules...