Skyhorse Publishing: 874 books
Alger Hiss: Framed
A New Look at the Case that Made Nixon Famous
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A clear-eyed investigation into what is probably the biggest, longest cover-up in American history.
As a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Richard Nixon led the investigations that first drew attention to Alger Hiss and his purported ties to the Soviet regime. These investigations...
Dragon Songs
Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This chronicle of a budding zoologist’s world travels is an “exuberant, intelligent take on the adventure of science” (Publishers Weekly).
When Russian immigrant Vladimir Dinets decided to focus on zoology, he had already lived several lives and undertaken several careers. But the study...
Fall from Grace
The Truth and Tragedy of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The life of the legendary Chicago “Black Sox” outfielder is told in a “haunting portrait of one of the game’s most controversial and complex figures” (David Nemec, author of The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball).
Considered by Ty Cobb as “the finest natural...
Unnatural Selection
Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“Compelling . . . Technology is changing the landscape of society, and Roeder describes how humanity is changing along with it.” —Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse
Does the geek personify a distinct new phase in human evolution, as the environment shifts to favor their traits?...
Max Factor
The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
**The true story of a poor immigrant who built a Hollywood cosmetics empire is told in “**this biography of the man who gave the world a makeover” (Publishers Weekly).
There was a time when “nice girls” didn’t wear makeup. Max Factor changed all that. Born Maksymilian Faktorowicz...
Perfume
The Alchemy of Scent
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
**Explore the world of scent with “**one of the world’s greatest perfumers” whose clients include Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, and Hermès (The Times, London).
To women the whole world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume, Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar....
by Chris Angus
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A young Winston Churchill embarks on a dangerous treasure hunt in the wilds of central Africa in this novel of rollicking action and adventure.
A prisoner during the Boer War, Winston Churchill is offered a secret deal for freedom by African commander Louis Botha: Winston must seek out and...
Astounding Sea Stories
Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Great writings about adventure, danger, and survival—from fiction classics to the official report on the Titanic.
Including both fiction and nonfiction, this collection is a fascinating read for those who imagine testing their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, searching...
by Mo Yan
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
The Nobel Prize–winning “wildly visionary and creative novel” of modern China from the Newman Prize winning author of Red Sorghum and The Garlic Ballads (The New York Times).
In this “epic black comedy” benevolent landowner Ximen Nao is less than pleased to find himself in the underworld...
by Mo Yan
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
“Eight hard-hitting yet irresistible short stories” by the celebrated Chinese writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (Booklist).
“If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan,” says Publishers Weekly. In this collection of short fiction, the acclaimed author presents stories...
The Colonial Conquest
The Confines of the Shadow Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
A historical saga set in Benghazi. “A Hitchcockian whodunit of double-crosses and double identities in which almost no one is who he is thought to be” (Los Angeles Review of Books).
The Colonial Conquest is the first volume of Alessandro Spina’s epic, The Confines of the Shadow, a sequence...
Zelda Fitzgerald
The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
A biography about the glamour, romance, and tragedy of “the first American flapper” (F. Scott Fitzgerald).
Zelda Fitzgerald was seen as the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties. Her romance with F. Scott Fitzgerald became a symbol of Jazz Age glamour and spectacle. But not...
Audrey Hepburn
A Charmed Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
“A sumptuously illustrated book which will delight idolaters of high fashion and movie stardom” (The Times Literary Supplement).
In both words and stunning photographs, this book tells the story of beloved fashion icon and actress Audrey Hepburn’s life: from her childhood in Nazi-occupied...
By Night Under the Stone Bridge
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
**A tale of political intrigue and ethereal romance in sixteenth century Prague by an Austrian author who “**spins magic realism worthy of Gabriel García Márquez” (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution).
Rudolf II, king of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, is known to be the greatest art...