Atlantic Monthly Press imprint: 271 books
by Levison Wood
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The Nile, one of the world’s great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Great and Nero, to Victorian adventurers David Livingstone, John Hanning Speke, and Henry Morton Stanley, the river has seduced men and led them into wild adventures. English writer,...
by Guy de la Valdéne
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An avid hunter and wildlife preservationist, the Field & Stream contributor explores these seemingly opposed passions in this “beautifully written” memoir (The Bloomsbury Review).
After traveling the globe on expeditions with world-class sportsmen, Guy de la Valdéne purchased an eight...
by Robert Coles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A groundbreaking study of the impact of current events on the lives and minds of children from the Pulitzer Prize-winning child psychiatrist.
Most parents teach their children the lessons and skills they need to function in the world while trying to shield them from the harsher realities of...
Return to Glory
The Story of Ford’s Revival and Victory at the Toughest Race in the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
“This page-turning combination of business book and adventure saga tells the tale of the Ford Motor Company’s” 2016 triumph at Le Mans (The New York Times, “10 New Books We Recommend This Week”).
At the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, Ford unveiled a new car—and the automotive world lost its...
by Vladimir Alexandrov
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The astonishingly true journey of a young black American finding fame and fortune in Moscow and Constantinople at the turn of the twentieth century.
In “an extraordinary story interpreted with great sensitivity,” The Black Russian tells the true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in...
The Battle of the Tanks
Kursk, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
“A comprehensive analysis of WWII’s greatest land battle and one of history’s greatest armor engagements.” —Publishers Weekly
On July 5, 1943, the greatest land battle in history began when Nazi and Red Army forces clashed near the town of Kursk, on the western border of the Soviet...
I Married You for Happiness
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
A “captivating” portrait of a long marriage and a meditation on how chance can affect life from the National Book Award winner (The Washington Post).
“His hand is growing cold, still she holds it” is how this novel that contemplates love, after a husband’s sudden death, begins.
This...
by Lily Tuck
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This National Book Award–winning author’s autobiographical novel is a “layered portrait of a family and the historical eras it lived through” (The Boston Globe).
“Tuck is a genius.” —Los Angeles Book Review
Her father is a German movie producer who lives in Italy. Her mother is...
River Road to China
The Search for the Source of the Mekong, 1866–73
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A compelling, finely researched account of an adventure that was hailed as one of the grandest explorations of the nineteenth century.” —The Washington Post
A New York Times Notable Book
In 1866, six Frenchmen set out on a dangerous mission to seek a trade route up the Mekong. During...
Burmese Looking Glass
A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“Burmese Looking Glass is a contribution to the literature of human rights and to the literature of high adventure.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
As captivating as the most thrilling novel, Burmese Looking Glass tells the story of tribal peoples who, though ravaged by malaria and weakened...
Normandy '44
D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west—the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in...
by Bethany Ball
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A young gay man comes of age amid the AIDs epidemic of “a****n expertly drawn, starkly authentic, early-1980s Manhattan” in this novel by the acclaimed author (Publishers Weekly).
Shy, afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his sexuality, Will Parker comes to New York to escape his...
Coming of Age at the End of Days
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
A girl is lured into fanaticism in this psychological thriller with “stunning twists”—by the New York Times–bestselling author of Turn of Mind (San Francisco Chronicle).
Never one to conform, Anna always had trouble fitting in. Earnest and willful, she quickly learned, as a young girl,...
Dead Wrong
The Continuing Story of City of Lies, Corruption and Cover-Up in the Notorious BIG Murder Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Since both the Notorious B.I.G.’s and Tupac Shakur’s deaths, there has been endless fascination with their murders.
LAbyrinth has been adapted into a feature film that will be released in fall 2018, directed by Brad Furman and starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker. A movie tie-in edition...