Riverhead Books imprint: 592 books
Do Not Become Alarmed
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
**The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls "smart and thrilling and impossible to put down... the book that every reader longs for."
“This summer’s undoubtable smash hit… an addictive, heart-palpitating story.” —Marie Claire**
The sun is shining,...
Some Nerve
Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
“A compelling story of everyday courage” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Patty Chang Anker grew up eager to please and afraid to fail. But after thirty-nine years, she decided it was time to stop being a chicken. Motivated initially to become a better role model for her two kids, she vowed to master the...
by Patricia Weitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
“A raw and resonant debut novel” (Megan McCafferty) and a vivid portrait of life on a modern college campus.
College senior Natalie Bloom is beautiful and ambitious, but also painfully insecure. At twenty, she’s still a virgin, never even having had a boyfriend. At school, Natalie hides...
Living with the Devil
A Meditation on Good and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evil
In the national bestseller Living with the Devil, Batchelor traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire, the fiction...
The Narcissist Next Door
Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed-in Your World
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A timely and provocative exploration of narcissism, from Donald Trump to Kanye West to Lance Armstrong, that shows us how to recognize and handle the narcissists we encounter every day.
Narcissists are everywhere. There are millions of them in the United States alone: politicians, entertainers,...
by Aleksandar Hemon
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
From the celebrated author of the bestselling Lazarus Project "a dazzling collection of stories ... further cementing [Hemon's] position among the finest fiction writers working in English" (GQ).
The stories of Aleksandar Hemon's Love and Obstacles are united by their narrator, a...
by David Lida
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.
First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural...
The Green Boat
Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
"Mary Pipher takes on our planet's greatest problems with the skills of a truly gifted therapist. She knows why we avoid and deny the truth and she knows how we can heal ourselves and our communities even as we try to heal the earth. This book is a deep and true gift."—Bill McKibben, author...
Lost Mountain
A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing...
Apprenticed To Spirit
The Education of a Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
An absorbing memoir of one man’s path to understanding how we can learn to lead lives of greater blessing and to be sources of blessing and service for the world as a whole.
For as long as he can remember, David Spangler has been physically aware of a spiritual world existing alongside this...
by Dalai Lama, Victor Chan
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
The extraordinary documentation of the evolving friendship between the Dalai Lama and the man who followed him across Ireland and Eastern Europe, on a pilgrimage to India's holy sites, and through the Dalai Lama's near fatal illness.
On this remarkable journey Victor Chan was awarded an insight...
Buddhism without Beliefs
A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
A national bestseller and acclaimed guide to Buddhism for beginners and practitioners alike
In this simple but important volume, Stephen Batchelor reminds us that the Buddha was not a mystic who claimed privileged, esoteric knowledge of the universe, but a man who challenged us to understand...
Committed
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
**The #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to *Eat Pray Love—*an intimate and erudite celebration of love from the author of Big Magic and *City of Girls. ***
At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian...
by Robert Thurman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
The New York Times calls him "America's number one Buddhist." He is the co-founder of Tibet House New York, was the first American Tibetan Buddhist monk, and has shared a thirty-five-year friendship with the Dalai Lama. Now, Robert Thurman presents his first completely original book, an...