A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance,&nbsp;The Book of Doors&nbsp;opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of&nbsp;The Midnight Library,&nbsp;The Invisible Life of Addie Larue,&nbsp;The Night Circus, and any modern story that mixes the wonder of the unknown with just a tinge of darkness. Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers--a lonely yet charming old man--dies right in front of her. Cassie is devastated. She always loved his stories, and now she has nothing to remember him by. Nothing but the last book he was reading.&nbsp;&nbsp; But this is no ordinary book... It is the Book of Doors.&nbsp; Inscribed with enigmatic words and mysterious drawings, it promises Cassie that any door is every door. You just need to know how to open them. Then she's approached by a gaunt stranger in a rumpled black suit with a Scottish brogue who calls himself Drummond Fox. He's a librarian who keeps watch over a unique set of rare volumes. The tome now in Cassie's possession is not the only book with great power, but it is the one most coveted by those who collect them. Now Cassie is being hunted by those few who know of the Special Books. With only her roommate Izzy to confide in, she has to decide if she will help the mysterious and haunted Drummond protect the Book of Doors--and the other books in his secret library's care--from those who will do evil. Because only Drummond knows where the unique library is and only Cassie's book can get them there.&nbsp; But there are those willing to kill to obtain those secrets. And a dark force--in the form of a shadowy, sadistic woman--is at the very top of that list.

The Book of Doors: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Brown, Gareth

Literary

William Morrow

William Morrow Paperbacks

Emerging in the 50s, revived in the 70s, this almost organic cultural collective has never been seen before. In the 90s, new artists such as Oasis and Paul Weller helped fuel a new generation of scooter loving individuals.

Scooter Boys

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

Gareth Brown was centre stage in the rebirth of one of Britain's longest surviving youth cultures. The Daily Mail re-issue of Gareth Brown's youth culture classic which presents and analyses scooter culture from its birth in the 1960s through its revival in the 1970s and again in the 1990s.

Independent Music Press

From the post-punk, massed Mod revival of the 1970s, there emerged an almost organic cultural collective -- Scooter Boys. With an underlying musical focus on Northern Soul and R&amp;B, these scooter boys developed a passion for steamy all-nighters, fueled by a fast, absorbing and intrinsically nomadic lifestyle.
They gathered in their thousands at an array of coastal resorts all over the British Isles (and beyond) for all weekend parties, making their own rules and their own enemies. The cultural icon at the epicenter of this phenomenon were the Italian motor-scooters which mobilized this unique way of life. In the 1990s, yet another string was added to the bow of scooter culture, courtesy of artists such as Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene and Cast. These bands, along with the already scooter-credible Paul Weller, helped fuel a new generation of scooter-loving individuals.

Teen & Young Adult

Art, Music & Photography

Olmstead Pr

When celebrated radio personality and columnist Kerre Woodham found herself forty, overweight and depressed she faced two choices – do nothing and probably not make it to fifty or do something and get her life back. Leaving kilos of herself and two bra sizes behind she embarked on a fitness and training regime. With the 2008 New York marathon in her sights, Short Fat Chick documents her life changing decision to get fit and stay fit, eat what she wants and still wear a size 12 dress. With insightful comments and training tips from her personal trainer, Gaz Brown, Kerre tells it like it is and takes the reader on a journey of self discovery and self discipline we can all admire and emulate.

Short Fat Chick to Marathon Runner

Woodham, Kerre

Short Stories & Anthologies

Bolinda Audio

Biographies & Memoirs

Thirty years have passed since Gareth Brown’s homage to a two-wheeled, two-stroke way of life was published. The first edition of his acclaimed book Scooter Boys, highlighting youth culture spanning half a century, was first published when Margaret Thatcher’s reign as the Eighties Iron Lady was drawing to a close. Now, three decades on, Brown’s book is back to enlighten and entertain a new generation – and rekindle memories for those who were scooter boys and girls back in the day. His informed knowledge of the initial Scooter Boy era has resulted in the 30th Anniversary Edition of Scooter Boys being refreshingly updated and published by Mortons, the home of Scootering and Classic Scooterist magazines. Brown has been a ‘face’ on the scooter scene since the 1970s, when he was legally able to ride a motor scooter on the road, and scooter ownership and riding scooters has been a passion ever since. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the scooter rally correspondent and later editor of Scootering magazine, which led to his book – a unique take on the Scooter Boy movement, history, traditions and culture. Scooter Boys charts the development of the early scooters and the post-Second World War arrival of the Italian scooters from Vespa and Lambretta, followed by the chronicling of the rise of 1950s teenage consumerism which led to the Mod versus Rocker riots of the 1960s. It outlines the intervening years before the massed Mod revival of 1979 onwards, when the Northern Soul scene kept the scooter movement alive, and traces the emergence of the unsung street heroes of the late 20th century and beyond.

Scooter Boys: The Evolution of the Species

Banovallum

An unparalleled moral panic gripped the people of Britain during the spring of 1964 as two bitterly opposed domestic factions, the like of which had not been seen before, clashed in the nation's seafront towns. The Mods and the Rockers had grown in numbers throughout the decade's early years and by Easter '64 their ranks and their differences had become so great that they could no longer be ignored. The overt hostility these two groups displayed toward each other rose until conflict was inevitable. The ominous signs of this impending explosion were spectacularly missed by the authorities until it was way too late. In Mods & Rockers, author Gareth Brown explains the genesis of both movements right through from their conception to the cell splitting that separated them. It closely studies their development, and most importantly, highlights their enduring impact on the popular culture of today.

Mods & Rockers: The Origins and Era of a British Scene

Arts & Photography

Music

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The Book of Doors: A Novel

The Book of Doors: A Novel

The Book of Doors: A Novel

Scooter Boys

Scooter Boys

Scooter Boys

Short Fat Chick to Marathon Runner

Short Fat Chick to Marathon Runner

Scooter Boys: The Evolution of the Species

Mods & Rockers: The Origins and Era of a British Scene