Martin Press imprint: 3373 books
Castro's Daughter
An Exile's Memoir of Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1998
"Mommy, mommy, call him. Tell him to come here right away. I have so many things to tell him!"
I had a ton of things to tell him. I wanted him to find a solution to all the shortages of clothes; of meat, so it would again be distributed through the ration books.
I also wanted...
Kiss Me Like A Stranger
My Search for Love and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In this personal book from the star of many beloved and classic film comedies -- from The Producers to Young Frankenstein, Blazing saddles to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- Gene Wilder writes about a side of his life the public hasn't seen on the screen. Kiss Me Like a Stranger is not an...
The Syria Report
The West's Destruction of Syria to Gain Control Over Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Written by the team of Special Operations veterans at SOFREP, THE SYRIA REPORT is a behind-the-scenes look at the roots of the drama and unrest that is unfolding in Syria. Based on information from sources within the intelligence community, using historical case studies and on-the-ground assets, author...
Renoir's Dancer
The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists’ most beautiful model....
The Devil Never Sleeps
and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
The Devil is alive and well and living in America, Andrei Codrescu tells us, and with good reason. Nowhere else in the world--not even in Codrescu's native Transylvania--is he taken quite as seriously. When Codrescu gently derided the fundamentalist Christian belief in Rapture ("a pre-apocalyptic...
A Carlin Home Companion
Growing Up with George
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Truly the voice of a generation, George Carlin gave the world some of the most hysterical and iconic comedy routines of the last fifty years. From the "Seven Dirty Words" to "A Place for My Stuff," to "Religion is Bullshit," he perfected the art of making audiences double...
Grade My Teacher
A Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The public and private self-images of a high school math teacher uncomfortably collide when she has a coffee date with a student who has posted negative comments about her on grademyteacher.com
The story, Grade My Teacher, set at and around small-town Gifford High School, explores favorite themes of Perrotta's, who Time magazine called the "Steinbeck of surburbia."
The American Axis
Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh have long been exalted as two of the greatest American icons of the twentieth century. From award-winning journalist Max Wallace comes groundbreaking and astonishing revelations about the poisonous effect these two so-called American heroes had on Western democracy....
A Woman's Place Is at the Top
A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand...
Castle of the Eagles
Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini’s personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by almost two hundred Italian soldiers and a vicious fascist...
The Lotus Quest
In Search of the Sacred Flower
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
A captivating history of one of the world's most iconic and mysterious flowers
Bewitched by a lotus which flowered from three-thousandyear- old seeds in his English garden, Mark Griffiths set out to track the origins and significance of this sublime plant in this beautifully-illustrated book....
The Nazi Séance
The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
World War I left Berlin, and all of Germany, devastated. Charlatans and demagogues eagerly exploited the desperate crowds. Fascination with the occult was everywhere – in private séances, personalized psychic readings, communions with the dead – as people struggled to escape the grim reality...
by Dan Bischoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano is the first biography of the actor who died, in June 2013 at age 51, widely recognized as one of the best—and most defining—actors of his generation. The book is informed by fresh interviews with Sopranos actors, the star's acting...
Paris Between Empires
Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Paris between 1814 and 1852 was the capital of Europe, a city of power and pleasure, a magnet for people of all nationalities that exerted an influence far beyond the reaches of France. Paris was the stage where the great conflicts of the age, between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, revolution and...