Riverhead Books imprint: 592 books
by Alberto Manguel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies...
Vanished
The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy.
In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports...
by Larry J. Kolb
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
A real-life adventure story, offering a unique and compelling picture of the danger, glamour and psychology of espionage.
Raised around the globe by a high-ranking American spymaster, Larry Kolb learned to think, look, and listen like a spy. Overworld—his father's term for the powers-that-be—is...
America at Night
The True Story of Two Rogue CIA Operatives, Homeland Security Failures, DirtyMon ey, and a Plot to Steal the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election--by the FormerIntel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
From the author of Overworld, America at Night reads like a thriller, but is "the kind of story about which fiction writers can only dream." (The New York Times)
When the Department of Homeland Security suspects that two former CIA operatives are at the center of plot involving money...
by Jami Attenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
A tender, provocative story about the power of friendship, the thrill of self-discovery, and the strength it takes to escape the past.
Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after...
by Tim Harford
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZON
A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy.**
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**Who thought up paper money? What was the secret...
The Thing Itself
On the Search for Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
The celebrated literary memoir and chronicle of one man's search for the elusive gift of authenticity.
Troubled by the lack of substance in contemporary life, Richard Todd suspects that much of what we experience is false. In this unique pursuit of the "genuine," Todd examines his...
by Nuala O'Faolain
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
"A biography with narrative muscle and thrilling historical relevance." -Kirkus Reviews
Legend says that May Duignan was tall with red-gold hair and big blue eyes, and that she was compellingly attractive to men. At 19, she stole her family’s savings and ran away from home in rural...
The Confabulist
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
From the author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, an exciting new novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a tale of magic, intrigue, and illusion.
What is real and what is an illusion? Can you trust your memory to provide an accurate record of what has happened in your...
Ready For a Brand New Beat
How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Can a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William “Mickey” Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote “Dancing in the Street.” The song was recorded at Motown’s Hitsville USA Studio by Martha and the Vandellas, with lead singer Martha Reeves arranging her...
by James McBride
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
**From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography.
The incredible modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and launched...
A Sense of Direction
Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But...
Hallelujah Anyway
Rediscovering Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
**“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it.**
"Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening...
by Jeanne Darst
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
**"Beautifully paced . . . heartbreaking and hilarious."—USA Today
Augusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir.**
The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family-- of prominent journalists and politicians...