American Nostalgia

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow, an irresistible story about what happens when your teenage fantasy comes true after you’re already an adult. “American Fantasy has everything we need right now: '90s nostalgia, humor, and it is a...

Isabel and Nicki Hoffman may be twins, but they're each one of a kind. Isabel loves dancing with her friends, while Nicki prefers skateboarding alone. In December 1999, the girls create a list of challenges to complete before midnight on New Year's Eve. But just before the new millennium arrives...

Read by the author, Agnes Arnold-Forster. ‘Arnold-Forster belongs to that valuable non-jargon-spouting breed of academic who is capable of explaining complex ideas in simple language.’ – The Times In Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion, Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and...

The definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American family Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the "male breadwinner marriage" is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Arsenio Hall, America’s beloved late-night TV host, reveals the ups and downs of his remarkable career as a trailblazing pioneer with this “vivid, outrageous” (The New York Times)behind-the-scenes, star-studded, no-holds-barred memoir of celebrity, race...

The definitive biography of Nolan Ryan, arguably the greatest pitcher in the history of baseball, from New York Times bestselling sportswriter Tim Brown. Nolan Ryan was the hero to two of America’s biggest institutions: Texas and baseball. Nolan is an exploration of God, family, baseball, and...

In September 1990, a sixteen-year-old opened a spiral notebook and started writing down what the history professor said. Thirty-five years later, the author opened a box of old papers and found the notebook. It was his own. One hundred seventy-one handwritten pages, dated class by class from September 4, 1990 to June 20, 1991 — a full two-semester Advanced Placement American history course, captured in real time by a student who wrote down nearly everything. Not just the dates and the battles, but the argument: that colonial America imported England’s gentry class system and mutated it....

In this stunning and compulsively readable memoir, the Oscar-winning star of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies, and Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ke Huy Quan, tells the story of his journey from Vietnamese refugee to 80s child star to the most inspiring comeback in Hollywood...

""Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve. ... Talty delves the deepest into the history and twisted personality of David Koresh."" —Wall Street Journal The first comprehensive account of David Koresh’s life, his road to Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in...

From New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley, Detective Easy Rawlins’ latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia—blinding him to reason and risk. January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all...

Capturing the music, characters, escapades, and energy of his DJ days, a profound memoir from seven-time Grammy-winning record producer Mark Ronson. Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack—behind some of the biggest musical moments in the past...

Television writer, producer, and bestselling author of the acclaimed The Broke Diaries and Mixed charts her unexpected role as her terminally ill mother's caretaker in this funny, moving, and unforgettable memoir. Angela Nissel always wanted her mother’s approval. But two defining events...

Every generation grows up believing that the world it knows is simply the world. The radio in the living room. The Saturday matinee. The lunch box carrying a television character to school. The record store, the mall, the video-rental shelf, the family computer, the Buddy List, the For You page. While these things are ordinary, they rarely look historical. Only later do they reveal how thoroughly they shaped what people could see, hear, want, share, and remember. AMERICAN POP: GENERATIONS traces eight generations of American life through the popular culture that surrounded them, from the ...

A heartfelt memoir, read by Darius Rucker himself! "Darius has always been one of my favorite people to sing with and to call a friend in this industry and yet even knowing him well for as long as I have, there are so many incredible stories in Life's Too Short that I enjoyed learning for the...

This program is read by the author. “Compelling and brave, Kate’s story is a must read for all young women learning how to navigate adulthood and identity.” —Lili Reinhart, New York Times bestselling author Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria...

A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim equality, power, and authority in...

Two brothers. Six hundred borrowed dollars. A sign that could only hold eight letters. In the spring of 1958, Dan and Frank Carney — two Wichita State students with no restaurant experience and no particular plan — borrowed six hundred dollars from their mother and converted a small beer tavern on the corner of Bluff and Kellogg into a pizzeria. The sign on the building could only hold eight letters. A family member said the place looked like a hut. The name stuck. What grew out of that small brick box would become, over the next sixty-eight years, one of the most familiar institutions ...

"A beautiful exploration of the tangled dynamics of friendship, ambition, and the pressure of both failure and success. I adored it!” —Natalie Sue, bestselling author of I Hope This Finds You Well The Social Network meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this dual-narrative novel about a group of...

American Pop: 1999 follows the year through the machinery of popular culture as well as the culture itself. HBO discovers what an original series can do for a subscription business. Teenagers voting for videos on TRL understand perfectly well that the pop stars they love have been manufactured. A movie trailer becomes an event months before anyone can see the movie. Pokémon cards turn elementary-school recess into a functioning market. A college student writes a program that makes finding a song easier than buying the album containing it. Television can still gather tens of millions of ...

AMERICAN POP: ICONS — Disneyland: Building the American Dream Machine From the opening day chaos of “Dateline: Disneyland” to the timeless lure of Main Street, U.S.A., Disneyland and the Architecture of American Fantasy explores how Walt Disney’s theme park reshaped American culture—not just how we play, but how we shop, remember, dream, and believe. This rich cultural history reveals Disneyland as both a beloved destination and a blueprint for the modern American experience: a space where nostalgia is curated, identity is performed, and entertainment becomes infrastructure. ...