Arcade imprint: 531 books

Dine like an aristocrat with recipes inspired by the PBS Masterpiece series! Downton Abbey has become a modern classic, and with these eighty delicious recipes, this cookbook lets you create some of the culinary wonders enjoyed by the aristocracy in Edwardian England. Starting with an elegant...

The hidden science behind an average day, from breakfast to bedtime—from an author who “puts the fizz in physics” (Entertainment Weekly). In their ongoing quest to figure out how the world and everything in it works, scientists have provided us with knowledge that we can apply to our...

“An Irish singer/songwriter’s powerful debut memoir about growing up . . . orphaned and abandoned . . . in Dublin.” —Kirkus Reviews   Danny Ellis spent years trying to forget his childhood in the slums of Dublin and at the notorious Artane Industrial School for orphans. But one night,...

A rousing account of a young man’s forty-day sojourn into the Australian outback and his epic confrontation with the awesome power of nature. Will Chaffey is eighteen when he boards a plane in New York bound for Australia. Taking time off from school to work and travel, Will meets an enigmatic...

A powerful memoir of a female wilderness firefighter—“a story of love, friendship, wildfire, and death written in vivid prose fresh from the fire line” (John N. Maclean, author of Fire on the Mountain). Mary Emerick was once a shy schoolgirl before she dared to become that rarest of heroes—a...

“A haunting, often very tender story written in a kind of meditative fury . . . Makine has written one of the best novels about Africa in a long time” (The Guardian). Love for another person. Love for humanity as a whole. Are the two compatible or mutually exclusive? In his most ambitious...

From a New York Times**–bestselling author, a blend of “history, raucous wit, genealogical sleuthing, and charming childhood memories” (Wellesley Magazine).** In a “wise, funny inquiry into the complexities of inheritance,” this acclaimed Southern author investigates her family’s...

In McCarthy-era America, the fight for freedom and justice is going to need real heroes—even if they’re fictional. Enter Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes…   It’s 1953, and the United States seems hell-bent on squandering the global goodwill earned in World War II, as Tailgunner Joe ramps up...

A “tense, absorbing, and highly entertaining“ novel about the younger days of Elizabeth I, as the Virgin Queen is surrounded by deception and danger (Library Journal). Banished as a child from the court of Henry VIII—when the king had her mother, Anne Boleyn, executed—young Elizabeth...

Explore the colorful life of the legendary Old West author-adventurer in this “engaging and spirited biography” (Publishers Weekly). Charles Fletcher Lummis’s remarkable career began in 1884, when he walked to from Cincinnati to Los Angeles to accept a job writing for a fledgling newspaper...

From the acclaimed author of The Final Confession of Mabel Stark—A Boston Globe Top Ten Book and “a powerful, deeply human masterpiece” (Vancouver Sun). With the suspense of a thriller and the moral resonance of a Joseph Conrad classic, The Stowaway is an adventure story of the highest...

The 2005 Time Magazine Hero of the Year recounts her historic solo journey across the North Atlantic in a twenty-four-foot row boat.   Maud Fontenoy has made nautical history numerous times. But before she became the first woman to sail around the world against prevailing currents in 2007, and the...

In this fascinating and deeply personal memoir, the author’s father finally opens up about his secret life as a spy during the height of the Cold War. Growing up, John Hadden discussed everything from the state of the world to the nature of art with his father, John Hadden Sr. Everything...

The fascinating life of a man who “ranked as one of America’s greatest writers, bon vivants, and literary showmen” (The New York Times). The author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip van Winkle” was a quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer,...