Martin Press imprint: 3373 books
The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
A Biography of Queen Mary I of England
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
In this groundbreaking new biography of "Bloody Mary," Linda Porter brings to life a queen best remembered for burning hundreds of Protestant heretics at the stake, but whose passion, will, and sophistication have for centuries been overlooked.
Daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine...
The Royal Art of Poison
Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
One of Washington Independent Review of Books' 50 Favorite Books of 2018 • A Buzzfeed Best Book of 2018
"Morbidly witty." —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
"You’ll be as appalled at times as you are entertained." —Bustle, one of The 17 Best Nonfiction Books...
The Affair of the Poisons
Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The Affair of the Poisons, as it became known, was an extraordinary episode that took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV. When poisoning and black magic became widespread, arrests followed. Suspects included those among the highest ranks of society. Many were tortured and numerous executions...
Tutankhamen
The Life and Death of the Boy-King
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
When Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in 1922, even the most experienced archaeologists joined the international community in marveling at the incredible wealth--and seemingly bizarre rituals--of ancient Egypt. What kind of society could produce such spectacular treasures only to bury them forever?
Lost...
Richard III
England's Most Controversial King
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England’s most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.
Richard III is one of English history’s best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare...
The Cradle King
The Life of James VI and I, the First Monarch of a United Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest,' James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumored that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed...
The Last Days of Glory
The Death of Queen Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 shook Britain to its core, and reverberated not just throughout the Commonwealth, but around the world. She was a woman in her eighties, and yet it seems no one could contemplate the end of a reign that had lasted so long. Most could not remember a time when...
Frederick the Great
A Life in Deed and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Piet and soldier, misanthrope and philospher, Frederick the Great was a contradictory, almost unfathomable man. His conquests made him one of the most formindable and feared leaders of his era. But as a patron of artists and intellectuals, Frederick re-created Berlin as one of the continent's great...
Basketball Junkie
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
I was dead for thirty seconds.
That's what the cop in Fall River told me.
When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat.
At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's...
Death by Fame
A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
"A well-written, thoroughly researched story of a popular and beautiful empress, who, while self-indulgent, sought a life of privacy and peace, and showed sympathy and charity toward the poor." - Kirkus Reviews
In 1898 Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, on...
Clubhouse Confidential
A Yankee Bat Boy's Insider Tale of Wild Nights, Gambling, and Good Times with Modern Baseball's Greatest Team
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Clubhouse Confidential is the explosive, inside story of Yankees players and managers by a bat boy who saw it all
You are invited to come behind the closed doors of the Yankees' clubhouse for the ride of your life in this intimate memoir about the team's recent glory years and the superstars...
by Benjamin Lorr
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Author Benjamin Lorr wandered into a yoga studio—and fell down a rabbit hole
Hell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of American yoga. Benjamin Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found the yoga reinventing his...
Hero of the Underground
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
I wasn't afraid of death.
How could I be? I lived under death's shadow every day. When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination...
Game 7, 1986
Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
New York Times Bestseller
Every little kid who's ever taken the mound in Little League dreams of someday getting the ball for Game Seven of the World Series. Ron Darling got to live that dream - only it didn't go exactly as planned. In New York Times bestselling Game 7, 1986, the award-winning...