Books from Crown

  • It's a Cat's World ... You Just Live in It: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Your Furry Feline
    By Dr. Justine Lee

    If you're interested in cooking , consider the book Home - Prepared Dog & Cat Diets : The Healthful Alternative by Dr. D. R. Strombeck , a retired veterinary gastroenterologist from the University of California - Davis .

  • It's a Cat's World . . . You Just Live in It: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your...
    By Dr. Justine Lee

    The Healthful Alternative by Dr. D. R. Strombeck, a retired veterinary gastroenterologist from the University of California—Davis. He'll tell you the correct way of doing it! Is it OK to feed my cat people food?

  • The Ex Files: A Novel
    By Jane Moore

    A frustrated-looking porter was following, trying to wrestle it from her grasp. “No, no, leave it, thanks. I'll take it to the room myself,” said Alice firmly, using the loud, staccato voice she adopted with all foreigners.

  • Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State
    By Karen J. Greenberg

    He adopted a couple of new names—Suleyman al-Lindh and Suleyman al-Faris and then, at the age of seventeen, left for Yemen. He returned briefly to California, then went back to Yemen and from there to Pakistan, where he enrolled in an ...

  • A sense of place: listening to Americans
    By David Lamb

    By 1902 gold had been struck again, this time around the town of Goldfield, and Nevada boomed once more. Polish traveler Henry Sienkiewicz noted that the bonanzas produced towns with homes "three times more beautiful than the villas ...

  • Gridiron Genius: A Master Class in Building Teams and Winning at the Highest Level
    By Michael Lombardi

    The more I thought about Belichick's circumstances, the more I found myself circling back to Marv Levy, another example of a coach who overcame failure to grow and improve as a leader. A Harvard graduate, Levy had a quiet, ...

  • Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
    By Julie Schwartz Gottman, John Mordechai Gottman, Joan DeClaire

    Introduces a series of effective tools and practical steps for couples looking to improve or preserve their relationships, explaining how to identify common problems and to develop positive ways to avoid these destructive pitfalls.

  • Awkward Family Pet Photos
    By Mike Bender, Doug Chernack

    ... whose invaluable guidance made it possible for two awkward guys to actually become published authors: Adrianna Alberghetti, Greg Hodes, and Suzann Brantner; our licensing agent and part-time Evel Kneive Sky-Sicle model, Ken Abrams, ...

  • Awkward Family Holiday Photos
    By Mike Bender, Doug Chernack

    ... Jerry Domingue; our literary agent, Claudia Ballard: our licensing agent and eternal bar mitzvah boy, Kenny Abrams; Jamie Feldman, Jonathan Shikora, Greg Beattie; Pat Dunn, Carol Abramson; Benderspink; our official AFP photographer, ...

  • Born to Be Awkward: Celebrating Those Imperfect Moments of Babyhood
    By Mike Bender, Doug Chernack

    ... page 156: Tim Duff (top left), Natalie Pozo (top right), anonymous (bottom left), the Hunt and Fritz Family (bottom right); page 157: Claire and Jon; page 149 (collage, in alphabetical order): Hannah Abrams; Alicia; she ever smoked.

  • Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife
    By Leslie Kean

    He was known to Hodgson , and five years before had had , under a pseudonym , a single sitting with Mrs. Piper . Pellew first manifested at a sitting to which Hodgson brought a close friend of his ( Pellew's ) .

  • The Pro: Lessons from My Father About Golf and Life
    By Butch Harmon

    His skill as a player, an innovator, a teacher, a devoted father, a loyal friend, and a peer of giants such as Ben Hogan has gone largely unappreciated by all but those who knew him best. In this book by his son, he finally gets his due.

  • Time of My Life: A Novel
    By Allison Winn Scotch

    Leigh's eyes widen in horror. “Allie! You do not.” “Yeah, I do, Mom, so? No biggie. I want to be in Victoria's Secret.” She shimmies her shoulders like, I imagine, she's seen glistening, half-naked, nearly inhuman women do during prime ...

  • Out of the Canyon: A True Story of Loss and Love
    By Art Daily, Allison Daily

    John, one of my brothers, arrives from New York with his wife, Barbara, and their college-age children, Craig and Leigh. Along with Piper and another brother in Atlanta, they are the only close family I have left.

  • Working in Hollywood
    By Alexandra Brouwer, Thomas Lee Wright

    Ben Casey ! TV's big , hot drama . Me ? Ben Casey ? Something in me stirred , something out of my education as a child in movie houses believed I could write what had to be written for the screen . I did a fair job .

  • Secrets of Harvard Superstars
    By Karen Page

    Secrets of Harvard Superstars

  • Ten Minutes from Home: A Memoir
    By Beth Greenfield

    Someone named Casey Reynolds said that she "had a lot of school spirit" and "loved going to parties." I read the quotes over and over, jealous of the life she'd had at junior high that had not included me, disturbed that I didn't get to ...

  • The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
    By Wendy Moore

    This is a fascinating portrait of a remarkable pioneer and his determined struggle to haul surgery out of the realms of meaningless superstitious ritual and into the dawn of modern medicine.

  • Faith Under Fire: An Army Chaplain's Memoir
    By Roger Benimoff, Eve Conant

    Chronicles an Army chaplain's spiritual journey through war, homecoming, healing, and the process of learning to believe again, as he faces and then reconciles his doubt with his very own faith and finds God in his heart once again.

  • The Gift of Valor: A War Story
    By Michael M. Phillips

    ing out carelessly to help Thompson. He suspected the Iraqi sharpshooter—Marine snipers considered Iraqis unworthy of the title sniper—was waiting patiently for a chance to shoot the rescuer who came to Thompson's aid.