Martin Press imprint: 3373 books
Heretic Queen
Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
**Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion—**the battle between Protestantism and Catholicisim that tore apart Europe in the 16th Century
Elizabeth's 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant...
Wild Bill
The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City**.**
In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO—the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation...
by Charles Messenger, Klaus Naumann
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Modeled on the acclaimed Great Generals series, which features the strategy and legacy of famous American generals, World Generals broadens the scope to include the world's finest military leaders. Each volume will include a foreword by Wesley K. Clark, and be co-edited by a different foreign general...
Shanghai Grand
Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. ??
Emily Hahn was a legendary New Yorker writer who would cover China for nearly fifty...
The Family Next Door
The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Turpins: a seemingly normal family whose dark secrets would shock and captivate the world.
On January 14, 2018, a seventeen-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home...
Naturally Tan
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A USA Today Hottest Book of the Summer for 2019!
A Best Nonfiction Book for 2019 in Women's Day!
One of Hello Giggles's "Most Anticipated Books of 2019 to Add to Your Reading List"!
“Just when I thought I knew everything about Tan, he hits me with this. His story is so heartwarming,...
The Threat
How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Washington Post Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position...
Running with Scissors
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Now including an excerpt from Lust & Wonder, a new memoir coming in March 2016.
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly,...
Super Boys
The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster--the Creators of Superman
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel*,* comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC Comics superhero Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay
Drawing on ten years of research in the trenches...
Boogie Man
The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Acclaimed writer Charles Shaar Murray's Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of an extraordinary musician. Murray was given unparalleled access to Hooker, and he lets the man from Clarksdale, Mississippi, tell his own story. "Everything you read on album covers is not true,...
Seeing the Light
Inside the Velvet Underground
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
With exclusive new interviews from the band, this is a captivating account of one of the most influential groups in rock history.
Brian Eno famously said "the first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band." Perhaps no other musicians...
Tasteful Nudes
...and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
"I run into Dave Hill all the time at the coffee shop in our neighborhood. He's always unshaven and badly hungover, with some 16-year-old groupie from Cleveland in tow—and he's just as funny then as he is in Tasteful Nudes. He is my idol." —Malcolm Gladwell
"Dave Hill speaks,...
Road Dog
Life and Reflections from the Road as a Stand-up Comic
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Road Dog is comedian, actor, and writer, Dov Davidoff's unflinching memoir told through reflections of twelve months on the road. Davidoff travels across the country from college campuses to local theaters doing stand-up comedy and telling it like it is. He's been known to wax poetic about everything...
Fat, Drunk, and Stupid
The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
In 1976 the creators of National Lampoon, America's most popular humor magazine, decided to make a movie. It would be set on a college campus in the 1960s, loosely based on the experiences of Lampoon writers Chris Miller and Harold Ramis and Lampoon editor Doug Kenney. They named it Animal House,...