Ecco imprint: 395 books
Cuba on the Verge
12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society’s profound transformation—from inside and out
Change looms in Cuba.
Just ninety miles from United States shores yet inaccessible to most Americans until recently, Cuba fascinates as much...
Khomeini's Ghost
The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
From the bestselling author of Saddam comes the definitive biography of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution and how his fundamentalist legacy has forever influenced the course of Iran's relationship with the West.
In February 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after nearly...
Perfect Little World
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
“Wilson’s ambition alone is exciting. . . . [His] writing has a Houdini-like perfection, wherein no matter how grim the variables, each lovely sentence manages to escape with all its parts intact.” —Boston Globe
When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she’s fresh out of high...
Pain Don't Hurt
Fighting Inside and Outside the Ring
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Pain Don’t Hurt is the no-holds-barred memoir from the only professional fighter in history to return to the ring after open-heart surgery, kickboxer Mark “Fightshark” Miller—an inspiring story of family, determination, and redemption.
In 2007, Mark Miller was a rising star in professional...
Cage Rat
Lessons from a Life in Baseball by the Yankees Hitting Coach
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The Hitting Coach for the New York Yankees, Kevin Long trains power-hitters in the fine art of hitting a baseball well—a talent the legendary Ted Williams once called, “the most difficult skill in sport.” In Cage Rat, the man who helps sharpen the mechanics of such superstars as Derek Jeter,...
Nicotine
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
One of Huffington Post’s 20 Fall 2016 Books You’ll Need for Your Bookshelf
Featured in New York Magazine’s Fall 2016 Preview
An Entertainment Weekly Fall 2016 Must-Read
Featured in LitHub’s 2016 Bookseller’s Fall Preview
Featured in The Guardian‘s Fall 2016...
Smokin' Joe
The Life of Joe Frazier
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A gripping, all-access biography of Joe Frazier, whose rivalry with Muhammad Ali riveted boxing fans and whose legacy as a figure in American sports and society endures
History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages, a trilogy of extraordinary fights that...
ISIS
The State of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated...
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind
How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it." We assume that the quick-thinking "hare brain" will beat out the slower Intuition of the "tortoise mind." However, now research in cognitive science is changing this...
Finding the Flavors We Lost
From Bread to Bourbon, How Artisans Reclaimed American Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The multiple-James Beard Award–winning restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine delivers an arresting exploration of our cultural demand for “artisanal” foods in a world dominated by corporate agribusiness.
We hear the word “artisanal” all the time—attached to cheese, chocolate,...
L.A. Son
My Life, My City, My Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Los Angeles: A patchwork megalopolis defined by its unlikely cultural collisions; the city that raised and shaped Roy Choi, the boundary-breaking chef who decided to leave behind fine dining to feed the city he loved—and, with the creation of the Korean taco, reinvented street food along the way.
Abounding...
Kind of Kin
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In Kind of Kin by award-winning author Rilla Askew, when a church-going, community-loved, family man is caught hiding a barn-full of illegal immigrant workers, he is arrested and sent to prison. This shocking development sends ripples through the town—dividing neighbors, causing riffs amongst his...
by T.C. Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating...
Hazards of Time Travel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates
“Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl...