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16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition—From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson
Arcade Publishing
Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world—and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don’t receive widespread recognition until decades later, ...
The Constant Soldier
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
Set near the concentration camps of Auschwitz, an accaimed historical thriller of the end of World War II that has been called “A masterpiece of empathetic imagination and storytelling flair” (BBC History Magazine, “Historical Novel of the ...
My Armenian Friend
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
A heart-wrenching novel that is at once an indelible portrait of friendship, a coming-of-age tale, and a dive into the memory of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire. Siberia, early seventies. The narrator, a thirteen-year-old orphan, ...
The Owl Cries
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
From the Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of The Hole, a slow-burning noir thriller with a touch of horror and the uncanny A disappearance. A missing brother. A lawyer asking questions. And a vast forest in the mountains—the western ...
Collected Stories
Arcade Publishing
Frederick Barthelme is a minimalist writer whose stories are anything but minimal. Labeled as “Dirty” or “Kmart” Realism, his work illustrates the immense feeling contained within the minute and seemingly uneventful details of ordinary life. ...
Turning Pages
The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Take a peek behind the curtain of some of the biggest publishing moments in the past several decades with forty-year industry veteran John Sargent.Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher is the well-told story of forty ...
Memory and Desire
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
From the acclaimed storyteller, a propulsive tale of desire, betrayal, duty, and infidelity—and the explosive consequences of a buried passion The newsman in Luke Blackburn shuns the spotlight when he and his old friend, now the county mayor in ...
They Killed Freddie Gray
The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up
Arcade Publishing
Based on new evidence and deep reporting, the riveting truth about a case that has become a touchstone in the struggle for racial justice and Black lives.They Killed Freddie Gray exposes a conspiracy among Baltimore leaders to cover up what ...
The Long Field
Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir
Arcade Publishing
For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of WalesHiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but ...
Life After Death
Surviving Suicide
Arcade Publishing
An intertwined tale of a boy’s world shattered by suicide and a man’s story rewritten by neuroscience. When Richard Brockman found his mother’s body, the simple narrative of his childhood ended. Life After Death tells the story of a boy who died ...
The Real Special Relationship
The True Story of How MI6 and the CIA Work Together
Arcade Publishing
Gripping, deeply researched, and authoritative, the history of one of the closest intelligence and security relationships in the world The Special Relationship between the United States and Britain is touted by politicians when it suits their ...
A Greek Love
A Novel of Cuba
Arcade Publishing
For readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppression A free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, where her friend Osiris ...
The Bird Hotel
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard. After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful ...
Walking With Gorillas
The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet
Arcade Publishing
An Inspiring Memoir, for Fans of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Frans De Waal. In her enchanting memoir, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda’s first wildlife veterinarian, tells the remarkable story from her animal-loving childhood to her career ...
First Light
A Journey Out of Darkness
Arcade Publishing
A deeply felt literary memoir of one man’s journey to redemption through vision loss, alcoholism, and the burden of a family legacy. Born to the author Peter Matthiessen, young Lucas traveled through life believing himself a disappointment to ...
The Promise of a Normal Life
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
For readers of Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Strout, and Katie Kitamura, the indelible journey of a quiet young woman—the “silent person” in the Seder—finding her way. Hailed as “radiant and transporting” (Margot Livesey), The Promise of a ...
A Mysterious Country
The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy
Arcade Publishing
Published on the centenary of Norman Mailer’s birth, a timely and urgent call to preserve our democracy From his bestselling first novel, The Naked and the Dead, to his last work, American democracy was a lifelong project for Norman Mailer. It ...
On Wine-Dark Seas
A Novel of Odysseus and His Fatherless Son Telemachus
Arcade Publishing
A masterful continuation of the journey of Odysseus after he returned home from his odyssey. Here is a brilliant recounting of the life of Odysseus after his safe return to the island of Ithaca, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. ...
The Piano Tuner
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts—and music: "A delightful read."—Ha Jin A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner ...
ROAR
American Master, The Oral Biography of Roger Orr
Arcade Publishing
A new novel by Hollywood’s "master of satire."The myth of an epic, public life—its triumphs and tragedies—is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and ...