Arcade: 311 books
by Richard Beard
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 1997
Gregory Simpson is thirty and trying to quit, keeping ten fingers glued to a keyboard in order to fight their incessant ache to hold a burning paper tube filled with dead leaves. In twenty entries in twenty days for twenty to a pack-one word for each cigarette inhaled over the course of ten smoke-filled...
James Baldwin
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon-Go Tell It on a Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen-he explored issues of race and racism in America, class distinction,...
by Natalia Ginzburg
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
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 before the country entered the war, through the...
An Improbable Friendship
The Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and Their Forty-Year Peace Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
An Improbable Friendship is the dual biography of Israeli Ruth Dayan, now ninety-eight, who was Moshe Dayan’s wife for thirty-seven years, and Palestinian journalist Raymonda Tawil, Yasser Arafat’s mother-in-law, now seventy-four. It reveals for the first time the two women’s surprising and...
Nurse, Come You Here!
More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
*An iBooks US Bestseller*
Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young children in the late sixties, and they found the island of Papavray in the Scottish Hebrides. There they bought a croft house on a small acre” of land, and Mary J. (also...
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
20th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A commemorative hardcover edition of the only collection ever published of the celebrated novelist's shorter works.
Here is a treat for devoted fans of John Irving. First published twenty years ago, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by the author, beginning with three...
Gifts
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
The second novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts is the beguiling tale of a Somali family and the struggles of its powerful matriarch to keep it whole. Duniya is a single mother, raising twins while working as a nurse in a Mogadiscio hospital. Her self-sufficient world is rocked...
Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Part human comedy and part mystery, Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told is an enthralling, masterful story about what holds a village together and what keeps people apart. When journalist Patrick Bracken returns to Gohen, the Irish village where he was born, he knows the eyes of the townspeople are on...
Oscar Wilde's Last Stand
Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called a shocking tale of heroes and villains-illuminating and upsetting in equal measure.”
The first production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in 1918, with American exotic dancer Maud Allan dancing lead, ignited a firestorm in...
Donovan's Devils
OSS Commandos Behind Enemy Lines—Europe, World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The stirring, little-known story of the forerunners to today's Special Forces.
The OSS-Office of Strategic Services-created under the command of William Donovan, has been celebrated for its cloak-and-dagger operations during World War II and as the precursor of the CIA. As the "Oh So Social,"...
Oil and Marble
A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
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 Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence....
How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History
The Hinge Factor
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
From the Trojan Horse to a photograph snapped in Vietnam, world history has been shaped as much by chance and error as by courage and heroism. Despite impossible odds, invincible armies fall in bitter defeat to weaker opponents. How and why does this happen? What decides the fate of battle? In this...
A Gushing Fountain
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles,...
by Arnost Lustig
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative: follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the...