Abrams: 1969 books
The Age of Selfishness
Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
“A sympathetic but deeply critical biography of [Ayn] Rand and the eventual role of libertarian philosophy in the recent financial crisis” (The New York Times Book Review).
Tracing the emergence of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism in the 1940s to her present-day influence, Darryl...
Falling into You
Falling into You, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
When Hallie Caldwell, normal girl extraordinaire, perpetual wingwoman, and queen of the friend zone, accepts her college roommate's invitation to spend winter break in New York, she figures it’s a chance to live out her childhood fantasies of a life in the big city. Instead, thrust into a world of...
by Lauren Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
After a tragic crime leaves her physically and emotionally damaged, eighteen-year-old Stella Granger struggles to come to terms with the collapse of her idyllic life. Desperate for anonymity, she escapes to Greenview College, exchanging charity balls and pastel cardigans for frat parties and black leather...
The Wolves
A Play: Off-Broadway Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
One of the most-talked about new plays of the 2016 Off-Broadway season, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves opened to enthusiastic acclaim, including two sold-out, extended runs at The Playwrights Realm/The Duke on 42nd Street.The Wolves follows the 9 teenage girls—members of an indoor soccer team—as...
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
Broadway Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Goat won every major award for best new play of the year: the Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. In the play,...
Monsters of the Week
The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files, TV critics Zack Handlen and Emily Todd VanDerWerff look back at exactly what made the long-running cult series so groundbreaking. Packed with insightful reviews of every episode—including the tenth and eleventh seasons and...
Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded)
The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also exploits the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings,...
Mad Men Carousel
The Complete Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Mad Men Carousel is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's Mad Men. This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s celebrated Mad Men recaps—as featured on New York magazine's Vulture blog—for the first time, including never-before-published essays on the...
Breaking Bad 101
The Complete Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
AMC’s Breaking Bad is among the most beloved, critically acclaimed American television series of our time. Created by Vince Gilligan, the series charts the transformation of high school science teacher Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston) into a cold, calculating meth kingpin. Breaking Bad 101...
by Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist’s office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranoslaunched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad,...
The Displaced
Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations,...
Hey Ladies!
The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud read that follows a fictitious group of eight 20-and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, breakups, and, of course, the planning of a disastrous...
MR. ROBOT: Red Wheelbarrow
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The only tie-in book for USA’s award-winning series MR. ROBOT, Elliot’s journal—Red Wheelbarrow—is written by show creator Sam Esmail and show writer Courtney Looney.
Before and during the events of season two, Elliot recorded his most private thoughts in this journal—and now you can...
The Adventure Time Encyclopaedia (Encyclopedia)
Inhabitants, Lore, Spells, and Ancient Crypt Warnings of the Land of Ooo Circa 19.56 B.G.E. - 501 A.G.E.
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
What time is it? Adventure Time™! Explore the magical world of Ooo with Jake the Dog and Finn the Human, along with the Ice King, Princess Bubblegum, Marceline the Vampire Queen, and all your favorite Adventure Time characters, in this New York Times bestselling companion book to Cartoon Network’s...