Skyhorse Publishing: 874 books
by Anna Fishbeyn
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
“How Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw might have sounded if she’d been born with a Russian Jewish mother . . . Terrific fun” (Janis Cooke Newman, author of A Master Plan for Rescue).
This is the entertaining tale of Emma Kaulfield as she tries to find her own path in life—while...
Juggling the Stars
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2001
“Better than Silence of the Lambs . . . Macabre fun orchestrated with immaculate precision. It’s a killer” (Los Angeles Times).
Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona and is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged...
Hell and Back
Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The author of the New York Times Notable Book Italian Neighbors shares his insights on classic and modern literature.
In this brilliant collection of essays, Tim Parks, a celebrated novelist and master of the essay form, offers a wide range of wonderfully challenging and always provocative reflections...
Not Dead Yet
A Feisty Bohemian Explores the Art of Growing Old
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
From a revered writer of the Beat Generation: a “tour de force” that contemplates aging—and how to make the most of it (Booklist).
In this energetic, optimistic memoir, Herb Gold looks back on his life, not with regret or wistful recollections—but as a constant, ongoing journey. In a fascinating...
The Woman Who Waited
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
In the 1970s, a woman keeps vigil for a lover lost in World War II, in a “sensuously styled, elegiac” novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers (Publishers Weekly).
Near the end of World War II, nineteen-year-old Boris Koptek left the small village of Mirnoe to join the Russian army....
Lost on Treasure Island
A Memoir of Longing, Love, and Lousy Choices in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This brutally funny true story of sex and success is “in a class with Nick Hornby at his best and Candace Bushnell in her dreams” (Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run).
When Midwesterner Steve Friedman arrived in Manhattan raring to go and ready to conquer, he soon found pitfalls more...
by Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
A collection of essays from the Nobel Prize–winning author. “Brilliant . . . A stimulating book, electric in its energies, the shock of its thought” (The Boston Globe**).**
In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual...
by Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Critical essays by the Nobel Prize winner on writers from Solzhenitsyn to Sartre.
Poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide...
Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets
An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“A moving portrait of life as a war correspondent [and] an action-packed account of the civil war in Yemen from a woman who experienced it firsthand” (Kirkus Reviews).
Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later—after a friend at a late-night party in Washington,...
Doing Time
25 Years of Prison Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A PEN American Center Prize Anthology featuring a quarter century of prison inmates’ prose and verse—with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean.
For more than three decades, the prestigious writers’ organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these...
War
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
The “authentic and definitive” story of Martha Moxley’s murder case, including the conviction of her killer, Michael Skakel—includes photos! (Greenwich Time)
On the night before Halloween, 1975, the wealthy community of Greenwich, Connecticut, was rocked by the murder of fifteen-year-old...
Imperial Legend
The Mysterious Disapperance of Tsar Alexander I
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2002
“Fascinating . . . A book in which an important chapter of Russian history is richly revealed and one of its most important and elusive sons is humanized” (The Washington Times).
One of Russia’s greatest emperors, beloved of his subjects for his many liberalizing works domestically and...
Emily & Herman
A Literary Romance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
“A genuinely insightful” historical novel uniting literary lions Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville in intrigue and forbidden romance (Booklist).
It’s the summer of 1851. Herman Melville is finishing Moby Dick on his family farm in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, surrounded...
Liberated
A Novel of Germany, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
A Kaspar Brothers novel set during the aftermath of World War II in Germany from the author of The Losing Role and Lost Kin.
It’s May 1945, the war’s just over, and Harry Kaspar, an American captain in Germany, is about to take a new posting in the US occupation—running a Bavarian town named...