Picador: 364 books
New Year's
Nathaniel P. as Seen Through the Eyes of His Friend Aurit
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
From Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., here's New Year's, a story from the point of view of Nate's friend Aurit—as startling, provocative and true-to-life a tale about a young woman's dating life as The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. was about a young man's.
She felt...
The Emoji Code
The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Drawing from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience, The Emoji Code explores how emojis are expanding communication and not ending it.
For all the handwringing about the imminent death of written language, emoji—those happy faces and hearts—is...
Havisham
A Novel Inspired by Dickens’s Great Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
HAVISHAM IS THE ASTONISHING PRELUDE TO CHARLES DICKENS'S GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Before she became the immortal and haunting Miss Havisham of Great Expectations, she was Catherine, a young woman with all of her dreams ahead of her. Spry, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer. But she...
Funny Accent
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Funny, sophisticated and fiercely intelligent, 32-year-old Anna Schopenhauer has one weakness: men old enough to be her father. Heading home to Scarsdale for her father's 70th birthday party, she wants to break the pattern and plots revenge on a family friend--the first older man in her life--about...
by Michael Ignatieff
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This thought provoking book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met." Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and...
The Inflamed Mind
A Radical New Approach to Depression
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
As seen on "CBS This Morning"
Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next twenty years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still...until now with Edward Bullmore's...
We the People
A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
"This work will become the defining text on progressive constitutionalism — a parallel to Thomas Picketty’s contribution but for all who care deeply about constitutional law. Beautifully written and powerfully argued, this is a masterpiece." --Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, and...
The Manikin
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton has become America's preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a world-filled with eerily inanimate gibbons and...
Achtung Baby
An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
An Entertaining, Enlightening Look at the Art of Raising Self-Reliant, Independent Children Based on One American Mom’s Experiences in Germany
An NPR "Staff Pick" and One of the NPR Book Concierge's"Best Books of the Year"
When Sara Zaske moved from Oregon to Berlin...
Salt
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
In this beautifully crafted debut novel, poet Isabel Zuber deftly traces the joys and the sorrows of a passionate but troubled marriage in Appalachia at the turn of the last century.
Anna Stockton was a bright and imaginative child, reveling in a rare wild freedom in the mountains of western...
South Pole Station
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Winner of the Lascaux Prize in Fiction
One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Book of the Year by Shelf Awareness and One of the Best Environmental Fiction Books of the Year by Earther
A warmhearted comedy...
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You is rich with the music of the Southern mountains and the stories of their people. In this novel from acclaimed author Fred Chappell, Jess Kirkman's grandmother is dying, and Jess remembers the tales she and his mother have passed down to him--a chorus of women's voices that sing and share and celebrate the common song of life.
Look Back All the Green Valley
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The last in the Kirkman family cycle by one of our most treasured writers
In Look Back All the Green Valley, Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to be with his ailing mother and finally settle the family's accounts after the death of his father ten years...
The News Where You Are
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
From the bestselling author of What Was Lost comes a spirited literary mystery about a television anchorman's search for the truth about the disappearances that surround him
Frank Allcroft, a television news anchor in his hometown (where he reports on hard-hitting events, like the opening of...