Arcade imprint: 531 books
The Return of Kid Cooper
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
**A man of the Old West confronts a new world: “A powerful novel, fully felt and beautifully written” (T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times–bestselling author of The Last Good Guy).
A Western Writers of America 2019 Spur Award Winner
This novel from an author Dennis Lehane calls...
The Devil's Tub
Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
From the pages of the New Yorker, Esquire, and the Paris Review, “Edward Hoagland’s collected stories are dazzling” (Ann Beattie).
Saul Bellow called him “one of the very best writers of his generation.” Newsweek praised him as “a marvelous writer.” Edward Hoagland, renowned travel...
The Search for Cleopatra
The True Story of History's Most Intriguing Woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This “insightful” biography separates the woman from the legend and “offers a panorama of ancient Egyptian history” (Publishers Weekly).
For centuries, historians have scarcely deviated from the portrayal of Cleopatra as an Eastern temptress bent on bringing down the great men of Rome....
Saint Peter's Snow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A masterfully suspenseful “gem of a novel” in which a man finds himself caught between two realities (San Francisco Chronicle).
According to the medical staff, Dr. Georg Amberg has been in the hospital for five weeks, recovering from a brain hemorrhage after being run down by a car. But...
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone
Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An overview of the nation’s politics, economics, culture, society, and sports by an author whose work “has been an illuminating introduction to India” (Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22).
In recent years, the country of India has evolved from a poverty-stricken sleeping giant into a world...
Venom Doc
The Edgiest, Darkest, Strangest Natural History Memoir Ever
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most venomous creatures.
Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He’s been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been stung...
The Conversation
The Night Napoleon Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
The celebrated French author imagines the fateful night Napoleon Bonaparte decided to become emperor of France.
In the winter of 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte has a crucial decision to make: Maintain the ideals of the new France, or elevate the country into a powerful base by making himself its emperor.
One...
Operation Valuable Fiend
The CIA's First Paramilitary Strike Against the Iron Curtain
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Based on previously classified documents, the true account of a top-secret Cold War operation: the CIA’s failed attempt to spark rebellion in Albania.
In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of today’s National Clandestine Service) hatched an elaborate plan to roll back the...
Reluctant Genius
Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
A “splendid” new portrait of the man who invented the telephone, from an award-winning, national bestselling author (The Washington Times).
The popular image of Alexander Graham Bell is that of an elderly American patriarch, memorable only for his paunch, his Santa Claus beard, and the...
Bosnian Chronicle
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The Nobel Prize–winning author’s sweeping historical novel of Bosnia is “rich with humanity and the humor that comes with wisdom” (Library Journal).
Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider....
Hitler's Gift
The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by the Nazi Regime
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
The accomplishments of the Jewish scientists who were forced to flee Nazi Germany—including the research that turned the tide of World War II.
Between 1901 and 1932, Germany won a third of all the Nobel Prizes for science. But with Hitler’s rise to power, and the introduction of racial...
by E. M. Cioran
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
“A collection of literary portraits intermingled with aphorisms and random thoughts . . . Brilliant and delightfully opinionated” (Kirkus Reviews).
In this collection of essays and epigrams, Romanian-born French philosopher E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluations—which he calls...
The Cinema of Cruelty
From Buñuel to Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
“There is no denying his importance in the development of film theory. As an introduction to Bazin’s views, The Cinema of Cruelty is excellent” (Columbia Spectator).
Perhaps the single most important voice of cinema in the twentieth century, André Bazin profoundly influenced the development...
Milena
The Tragic Story of Kafka's Great Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Rebel journalist. Political prisoner. Franz Kafka’s mistress. “A remarkable story of courage and survival” in Nazi Germany (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
In 1919, Czech translator, the married Milena Jesenská, asked Franz Kafka for permission to translate one his stories. Thus began an...