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Master of Thin Air
Life and Death on the World's Highest Peaks
Arcade Publishing
Named One of the Top Five Reads for the Summer by Backpacker magazine, a riveting high-altitude drama for readers of Into Thin Air.Master of Thin Air opens with a fall down a three-thousand-foot drop that very nearly killed author Andrew Lock. ...
All Our Yesterdays
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
From "one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy" (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months ...
Riding through Katrina with the Red Baron's Ghost
A Memoir of Friendship, Family, and a Life Writing
Arcade Publishing
The first book that J. Malcolm Garcia ever bought would impact his life in a way that the then twelve-year-old could have never imagined. The Day the Red Baron Died plunged Garcia into the intrigue and excitement of the World War I German flying ...
2020
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
In the tradition of 1984 and It Can't Happen Here, 2020 is a timely dystopian novel about a country divided, a terrorist attack, and an populist leader who promises he alone is the solution. In 2020, Britain is at a breaking point. Years of ...
Dear Diary Boy
An Exacting Mother, her Free-spirited Son, and Their Bittersweet Adventures in an Elite Japanese School
Arcade Publishing
When her five-year-old son passed the rigorous entrance exams to one of Japan’s top private elementary schools, Makihara, a single mother, thought they were on their way. Taro would wear the historic dark blue uniform and learn alongside other ...
Creepy Crawling
Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Arcade Publishing
"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. ...
Private Confessions
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
Available again from the Bergman centenary comes an elegant novel structured as a series of five “conversations” that reveal Bergman’s mastery of dialogue and gift for setting. Revisiting the autobiographical themes he first explored in his ...
Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy
Jorge Semprún
Arcade Publishing
In this gripping, authoritative biography, Soledad Fox Maura reveals the tumultuous true-life story of the Oscar-nominated screenwriter responsible for Z and The War Is Over.A man of many faces, Jorge Semprún perfectly personified the struggles ...
Retribution
A Thriller
Arcade Publishing
On a warm Autumn afternoon, Denmark's largest amusement park, Tivoli Gardens, is devastated by a terrorist attack that leaves more than 1,200 dead. No one claims responsibility for the attack, and seven months later the nation is still reeling ...
The Terrorist Factory
ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror
Arcade Publishing
A riveting, behind-the-scenes look of the Yazidi genocide and the terrorist threat it holds for the West, based on the investigation by Father Patrick Desbois, Costel Nastasie, and their team at Yahad–In Unum, as first shown on 60 Minutes. With ...
Oil and Marble
A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
Arcade Publishing
In her brilliant debut, Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, entering with extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters, creating a stunning art history thriller. From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and ...
The Long Hello
Memory, My Mother, and Me
Arcade Publishing
A powerful, ground-shifting account of caring for a parent with Alzheimer's about which Maya Angelou exclaimed, "Joy!"Since Cathie Borrie delivered her keynote performance at the World Alzheimer's Day event sponsored by the Community and Access ...
The Trigger
Narratives of the American Shooter
Arcade Publishing
Six moving profiles reveal the complex realities behind gun violence in the United States. These are the stories of the shooters.In South Carolina, a young man embarks on a life of crime that culminates in a drug-related shooting and decades in ...
What Comes with the Dust
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
As The Kite Runner and The Swallows of Kabuldid for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, this slim, profound novel illuminates the plight of those living under the Islamic State as well as the spirit of the Yazidi people. Today is Nazo’s wedding. ...
The Wide Circumference of Love
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
Nominated for a 2018 NAACP Image Award and an NPR Best Book of 2017, a moving African-American family drama of love, devotion, and Alzheimer’s disease.Diane Tate never expected to slowly lose her talented husband to the debilitating effects of ...
One Day in September
The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God"
Arcade Publishing
At 4:30 a.m. on September 5, 1972, a band of Palestinian terrorists took eleven Israeli athletes and coaches hostage at the Summer Olympics in Munich. More than 900 million viewers followed the chilling, twenty-hour event on television, as ...
The Bread and the Knife
A Life in 26 Bites
Arcade Publishing
"You'll wish the alphabet had more letters just so Dawn Drzal would keep on writing.”―Laura Shapiro, author of What She Ate, Julia Child, Something from the Oven, and Perfection SaladAs it was for M. F. K. Fisher in The Gastronomical Me, food is ...
Acts of Allegiance
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
For readers of The Goldfinch and classic le Carré, a propulsive tale of espionage, betrayal, loyalty, and love, set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Marty Ransom, son of the Captain and heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in ...
The Pasha of Cuisine
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
For readers of Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series and Richard C. Morais's The Hundred-Foot Journey, a sweeping tale of love and the magic of food set during the Ottoman Empire.A Pasha of Cuisine is a rare talent in Ottoman lore. Only two, maybe ...
Kickdown
A Novel
Arcade Publishing
When Jackie Dunbar's father dies, she takes a leave from medical school and goes back to the family cattle ranch in Colorado to set affairs in order. But what she finds derails her: the Dunbar ranch is bankrupt, her sister is having a nervous ...