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Today’s featured excerpt comes from Out of My Later Years by Albert Einstein. Out of My Later Years is a deeply personal work from one of the most brilliant minds in history. In this inspiring essay collection, Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist, philosopher, and humanitarian. In the excerpt below, Einstein describes the emotional conflict he feels as a physicist—involved in a scientific discipline that made weapons of mass destruction possible—and as a German Jewish émigré in America witnessing the effects of World War II on his people.

Read a sample of Einstein’s ...

May is National Short Story Month and to celebrate, Open Road Integrated Media is sharing short stories by famous authors all month long on our blog. Be sure to share what you think on Twitter using the National Short Story Month Hashtag: #storymonth12

Check out all of our short stories here.

“Anybody settling down with a Garfield book is in for a good time.” —The New York Times

Brian Garfield, a widely acclaimed master of thriller writing, is the Edgar Award–winning author of over seventy novels. Described by Newsday as “a scintillating, talented writer,” Garfield has sold more ...

"I feel I belong to a tribe of writers . . . it's a tribe I love." —Rafael Yglesias

Today marks the release of Helen Yglesias's The Girls, a poignant and very funny story about the last American taboos: old age and dying.

Open Road is honored to be publishing The Girls with Delphinium Books. This release represents our first parent-child author pair—Helen Yglesias and Rafael Yglesias—as Mother's Day approaches. Watch Rafael Yglesias speak about his mother in the video below, and then read on to learn more about Helen Yglesias's final, semi-autobiographical novel.

These days the ...

To continue our celebration of National Short Story Month, we are excited to share this powerful story—"How Can You Tell Me"—from Eileen Pollack's collection, The Rabbi in the Attic, released as an ebook today from Delphinium Books and Open Road Integrated Media.

In an age of minimalists, Eileen Pollack is a writer of rare generosity. The women and men in The Rabbi in the Attic are complex, vivid people to whom something happens. Like most of us, these characters are struggling to understand what they have gained and lost by abandoning the passions and moral certainties ...

(April 26, 2012) Open Road Integrated Media, an established digital publisher and multimedia content company, and Barcelona eBooks, a new English-language digital publishing house with offices in both Barcelona and New York, announced today that they have formed an international digital publishing partnership.

Jane Friedman, cofounder and CEO of Open Road, said that “Barcelona eBooks is a formidable independent publisher, founded by the incomparable Blanca Rosa Roca, with a unique catalog that will appeal to English readers everywhere.  We are excited about our agreement with Barcelona eBooks.  The new partnership builds upon our International Publishing Program that was recently launched with The ...

Every year, Mystery Writers of America grants Edgar Awards to the best new fiction and nonfiction of the year. In celebration of the Edgars, we’ve created a new short film featuring previous winners and nominees: T. J. English, Joseph Wambaugh, Brian Freemantle, Don Winslow, James Ellroy, Anne Perry, Loren D. Estleman, Thomas Cook, and James Grady. These writers speak about their writing process and about the significance of winning an Edgar.

Every year, one author receives a Grand Master award for outstanding achievement in the genre. To salute these winners, Open Road Integrated Media is sharing excerpts from eight Grand ...

If you eat and you read, you’ll love our featured ebook today: The Mindful Carnivore by Tovar Cerulli. Beloved by vegans, vegetarians and carnivores alike, Tovar Cerulli is a popular blogger who gained a large following in recent years for his meditations on the ethics and ecology of food. And his perspective has certainly changed a lot over the years—once a strict vegan, Cerulli is now a hunter who kills and prepares the animals for his table.

In The Mindful Carnivore, Cerulli traces his relationship with food—eating McDonalds as a child, experimenting with vegetarianism in college, going vegan, ...

Although people have been wrapping gifts since the invention of paper around 105 A.D., most historians would agree that America’s gift-wrap industry officially began in the early twentieth century in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, in a shop run by Hallmark founder Joyce C. Hall. During the holiday season of 1917, the store sold out of its holiday line of tissue paper and needed something to offer its customers for wrapping presents. Store employees brought out some French envelope liner paper and priced it at 10 cents a sheet. The decorative paper quickly sold out. The following year, they offered the ...

On December 1, Susan and Peter Straub and Pegasus Books hosted a launch party for Bradford Morrow's The Uninnocent, on sale as an ebook today. The event marked the end of an eventful year for the prolific author.

The year began with the January publication of the widely acclaimed The Diviner’s Tale. February brought The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, which Morrow edited with David Shields, featuring essays by Annie Dillard, Geoff Dyer, Jonathan Safran Foer, and seventeen others. Also in February, Open Road Media published five of Morrow’s backlist titles, including The Almanac Branch...

On Saturday, December 10, Amnesty International will commemorate International Human Rights Day by encouraging people to write a letter to support the fight against injustice. By participating in the Write for Rights campaign, activists young and old can make their voices heard and demand that the rights of individuals are respected and protected.

Anna Perera, author of Guantanamo Boy, a story of a boy who is wrongly accused of terrorism and is tortured at Guantanamo Bay prison camp, helps mark International Human Rights Day with a post to encourage young people to write effective letters in support of their causes:...

Open Road is proud to partner with top lifestyle publishers to bring some of their most beloved titles to ereaders. Learn more about our partnership with STC Craft | Melanie Falick Books and Canal House Cooking.

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Knitting

Whether knitters seek a collection of quick-to-finish knitting projects for gift-giving, a useful reference book, a history of the Knitalong or charity knitting efforts, or inspiration for the knitting lifestyle, they’ll find it in this collection of titles by some of the most respected authors in the knitting community.

New-to-ebook titles include:

• Knitalong by Larissa Brown and Martin John Brown
• Knitting ...

In this week's installment of Mystery Thursday, the Danish crime writer Sara Blædel explains how she came to write her novel Call me Princess.

My new book, Call me Princess, is about women hoping to find their one and only loves through net-dating. I find it fascinating how a dating profile allows people to reinvent themselves and create the personalities they really want others to recognize in them.

Many women are so anxious to meet Mr. Right that they willingly invent flirtatious and mystifying characteristics in order to make themselves appear more attractive. This makes it very hard to know ...

In Call Me Princess, the American debut of Danish crime queen Sarah Blaedel, a young woman is the victim of a brutal sexual assault in her home in Copenhagen.  Inspector Louise Rick is called to the scene and quickly deduces that the rapist was met online.  In her ensuing investigation, Louise immerses herself in the online dating world in search of the attacker, exploring every nook and cranny for the man who calls himself “Prinzz.”  Enjoy a free excerpt of the full first chapter below.

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THE PAIN CUT INTO HER WRISTS, AND SHE COULDN’T REACT BECAUSE her ...

Good news if you’re based in California: there are lots of fantastic upcoming events and opportunities to meet Dr. Ying-Ying Chang, the author of the newly released memoir, The Woman Who Could Not Forget.

The Woman Who Could Not Forget is a moving and illuminating work about the life of world-famous author and historian, Iris Chang, as told by her mother. The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang’s bestselling book, forever changed the way we view WWII in Asia. Now, Dr. Ying-Ying Chang provides an enlightened and nuanced look at her daughter, cementing Iris’ legacy as one of the ...

This morning, I am looking at a “letter to the editor” that I cut from our local newspaper.  It’s been professionally framed and I’m deciding where in my office it should hang.  As I sit at my desk, looking for the perfect spot, I am thinking about our upcoming holiday...

When I was growing up, the 4^th of July wasn’t just an excuse for a long weekend.  Do you remember?  The 4^th of July was one of the “big four” holidays and uniquely celebrated.  Thanksgivings held lavish feasts.  Christmas was for hot chocolate and a manger and we ...