Atlantic Monthly Press imprint: 271 books
NK3
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
With The Player and The Return of the Player, Michael Tolkin established himself as the master novelist of modern Hollywood. In his new novel, NK3, the H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting human identity.
In...
The Devil's Slave
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
At the end of The King’s Witch, the first book in Tracy Borman’s Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges was pregnant with the child of her dead lover, Thomas Wintour, executed for his role as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Now, in The Devil’s Slave, Frances is compelled to return to...
Leila
Further in the Life and Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From the author of The Ginger Man: A “very funny” tragicomic tale of unrequited love in postwar Dublin (The New York Times Book Review).
In this follow-up to The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman, called “a delightful romp” by the Los Angeles Times and “racy [and] raunchy” by the...
An Arabian Journey
One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula.
Starting in September 2017 in a city in Northern Syria, a stone’s throw...
Babel
Around the World in Twenty Languages
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it—only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore...
The Great Divorce
A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
**“Ilyon Woo presents the earliest child custody laws of this country with vivid relevance . . . both legal and feminist details are fascinating.” —**St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Great Divorce is the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America’s most infamous...
by Azad
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Rojava and the Kurdish army have been in the news since shortly after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, but there have been very few books about or profiles of Rojava and their efforts. Long Shot will tell the important, previously untold story of the rebel army that defeated ISIS, giving...
El Norte
The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The Hispanic history of the U.S. has been traditionally under-acknowledged or marginalized; indeed, El Norte argues that the United States today owes ever more to its Hispanic heritage than to its Anglo or European past.
Covering more than 500 years, El Norte is a sweeping and dramatic single-volume...
The King's Witch
Frances Gorges historical trilogy, Book I
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
In March of 1603, as she helps to nurse the dying Queen Elizabeth of England, Frances Gorges dreams of her parents’ country estate, where she has learned to use flowers and herbs to become a much-loved healer. She is happy to stay at home when King James of Scotland succeeds to the throne. His court...
Eveningland
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A New York Times Editors’ Choice short story collection hailed as “a fresh masterpiece of Southern fiction . . . touching, haunting and brilliant” (Dallas News).
Long considered a master of the form and an essential voice in American fiction, Michael Knight delivers a “deft and wonderful,...
by Patrick Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A desperate cop and a wanted woman cross paths with a dirty California underworld in a thriller “stuffed with truly shocking twists.” —Entertainment Weekly
At a dive bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, drug-hustling Emily Rosario is downing whiskey and looking to escape her...
by Leif Enger
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart
Midwestern movie house owner Virgil...
Promiscuous Unbound
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Vivienne Yellow, the unforgettable narrator of this arresting and witty debut, is an American woman who lies in traction in a Parisian hospital, her leg shattered after she was accidentally hit by a truck. Through hazy wormholes of memory, colored by her own morphine-stoked sexual longings, we are drawn...
by Bella Pollen
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
“A gently absorbing tale which smoothly splices poignant family drama with suspenseful Cold War thriller,” from the author of Hunting Unicorns. (Daily Mail).
In 1980 Germany, under Cold War tension, a mole is suspected in the British Embassy. When the diplomat Nicky Fleming dies—suddenly...