Arcade: 311 books
The Terrorist Factory
ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
**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 testimony drawn from more than 200 interviews...
Creepy Crawling
Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
"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. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the...
by J.J. Fiechter
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
From the author of comes a wickedly ingenious psychological thriller involving a priceless painting and a murderous plot to use it for revenge. Gripping from first page to last, A MASTERPIECE OF REVENGE is a classic Hitchcockian thriller that will keep the reader guessing every step of the way.
The Little Virtues
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss...
Masquerade
The Incredible True Story of How George Soros' Father Outsmarted the Gestapo
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The Nazis came late to Hungary because, until early 1944, Germany and Hungary were allies. But when they did arrive, their orders were to put the Final Solution” into effect with deliberate speed. Soros, a Jewish lawyer in Budapest, secured fake Christian identities for himself, his wife, and...
Full Fathom Five
Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Not since Jacques Cousteau has anyone brought us the sense of the ocean as our home . . . Far more than a science book.” -San Francisco Book Review
Gordon Chaplin’s father was a seemingly happy-go-lucky, charismatic adventurer who married a wealthy heiress and transformed himself into...
In My Skin
A Memoir of Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
This is the frank, harrowing, and true story of one young woman’s descent into addiction and prostitution, and the long arduous struggle to reclaim her life. A shy, bookish college graduate, a nice girl from a solid middle-class home but uncertain of her way in life, Kate Holden tried her first...
Unbound
How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.
Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools...
The Time of Mute Swans
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Ankara, the capital city in the heart of Turkey at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, East and West, is a hotspot in the Cold War, torn between communism and conservatism, Western freedoms and traditional ways, with an army fearful of democracy and a government that employs thugs and torture to enforce...
The Inferno
A New Verse Translation
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This enthralling new translation of Dante’s Inferno immediately joins ranks with the very best” (Richard Lansing).
One of the world’s transcendent literary masterpieces, the Inferno tells the timeless story of Dante’s journey through the nine circles of hell, guided by the poet Virgil,...
by Ruth Zylberman
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life.
Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared...
The Hole
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award
Named One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine.
In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed...
More
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The award-winning More, by one of Turkey’s leading underground writers, is the world’s first novel about the refugee crisis.
The illegals climbed into the truck, and, after a journey of two hundred miles, they boarded ships and were lost in the night.”
Gaza lives on the shores...
The Few
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
“I am here. Where are you?” These desperate words link the two protagonists of Hakan Günday’s raw and fearless novel The Few. Derdâ is an eleven-year-old girl pulled out of boarding school by her mother who, without telling her, plans to sell her as a wife to a conservative tribesman....