Arcade: 311 books
Threading My Prayer Rug
One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
**ONE OF *BOOKLIST'*S TOP TEN RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY BOOKS OF 2016
ONE OF *BOOKLIST'*S TOP TEN DIVERSE NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2017
Honorable Mention in the 2017 San Francisco Book Festival Awards, Spiritual Category**
This enthralling story of the making of an American is also...
French Country Cooking
Authentic Recipes from Every Region
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Here are 180 recipes of traditional French appetizers, entrees, and desserts that members of the French National Assembly, representing the myriad regions of their native country, have decided to share with the world. From a challenging slow-cooked hare recipe that predates the French Revolution to...
The Pasha of Cuisine
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
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 three are born with such a gift every few centuries....
Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre
The Doctor Who Weighed the Soul, and Other True Tales
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Winner of the IgNobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that science sometimes takes a path through the ridiculous...
The Freemasons
A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
What did Mozart and Bach, Oscar Wilde and Anthony Trollope, George Washington and Frederick the Great, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt have in common? They were all Freemasons, a subject of endless fascination. To the layman, they are a mysterious brotherhood of profound if uncertain influence,...
The Dance of Time
The Origins of the Calendar
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Did you know that the ancient Romans left sixty days of winter out of their calendar, considering these two months a dead time of lurking terror and therefore better left unnamed? That they had a horror of even numbers, hence the tendency for months with an odd number of days? That robed and bearded...
Kingpin
Prisoner of the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This fast-paced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants.
Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish as part...
The Trigger
Narratives of the American Shooter
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
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 prison; in Chicago, an off-duty police officer...
Children of Nazis
The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time,...
by Daniel J. Wakin
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
They stand proudly gazing across the Hudson River at the cliffs of New Jersey. Their brows are marked by ornamental pediments. Greek columns stand as sentries by their entrances and stone medallions bedeck their chests. They are seven graceful relics of Beaux Arts New York, townhouses built more than...
Eating with Peter
A Gastronomic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A life-changing journey intertwining high romance, gastronomy, and an unsurpassable joie de vivre for readers of Julie and Julia and My Paris Kitchen.
Susan's life would never be the same after she meets Peter Buckley. A man who was larger than life, Peter pulls Susan out of her comfort zone...
The Kennedy Brothers
The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Eight years apart in age, John F. and Robert F. Kennedy were wildly different in temperament and sensibility. Jack was the leader-charismatic, ironic, capable of extraordinary growth and reach, yet also reckless. Bobby was the fearless, hardworking Boy Scout-unafraid of dirty work and ruthless about...
Call the Nurse
True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of...
Dear Diary Boy
An Exacting Mother, Her Free-spirited Son, and Their Bittersweet Adventures in an Elite Japanese School
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
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 little Einsteins while she basked in the glory of his...