Arcade Publishing imprint: 222 books

A PEN American Center Prize Anthology featuring a quarter century of prison inmates’ prose and verse—with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean. For more than three decades, the prestigious writers’ organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these...

The “authentic and definitive” story of Martha Moxley’s murder case, including the conviction of her killer, Michael Skakel—includes photos! (Greenwich Time)   On the night before Halloween, 1975, the wealthy community of Greenwich, Connecticut, was rocked by the murder of fifteen-year-old...

“Fascinating . . . A book in which an important chapter of Russian history is richly revealed and one of its most important and elusive sons is humanized” (The Washington Times). One of Russia’s greatest emperors, beloved of his subjects for his many liberalizing works domestically and...

“A genuinely insightful” historical novel uniting literary lions Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville in intrigue and forbidden romance (Booklist). It’s the summer of 1851. Herman Melville is finishing Moby Dick on his family farm in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, surrounded...

A behind-the-scenes look into the minds of modern American presidents in troubling times, and a “fascinating study of how presidents handle crises” (Jonathan Karl, Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News). When faced with a crisis, every American president longs to take bold and decisive...

The true story of the world’s most wanted international terrorist, who sold his services to everyone from Saddam Hussein to Fidel Castro. On the night of August 14, 1994, French counterespionage officers seized the world’s most wanted terrorist from a villa in the Sudan. His given name...

A collection of essays on power and the American presidency from a journalist who personally knew the men inside the Oval Office.   An academic and journalist, Max Lerner dedicated his life to studying American presidents. He not only wrote about the men in the Oval Office, but knew them personally,...

“A searing memoir in fluid, conversational prose [that] adds to the pool of personal testimonies of China’s historical nightmare” (Publishers Weekly).   At the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 China, thirteen-year-old Nanchu watched as the Red Guards burst into her home and arrested...

“A compelling, dramatic account of a remarkable career” in public service, as a prosecutor, comptroller, and US congresswoman (Publishers Weekly).   In 1973, Elizabeth Holtzman became the youngest woman ever elected to congress, one of the milestones in a long public service career. Who Said...

Originally censored by the US government—“a diverse sampling of contemporary Iranian letters,” fiction, prose, novel excerpts and poetry (Kirkus Reviews). Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the United States has been virtually cut off from that country’s rich and diverse culture....

An “honest, gripping, and eye-opening” portrait of a family in crisis and a “must-read for any parent of a child who is ‘different’” (Randye Kaye, author of Ben Behind His Voices).   When Jenny Lexhed and her husband have their first child, Lucas, they are living the dream. They’re...

A provocative reexamination of Galileo’s prosecution by the Catholic Church—one of the great turning points in the history of science. The modern understanding of the notorious 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei is that of Science and Reason persecuted by Ignorance and Superstition—of Galileo...

The amazing true story of famous naturalist and zoologist Raymond Ditmars and his obsession with a mysterious and deadly reptile**.** Bushmaster tells the story of Raymond Ditmars, the first curator of reptiles at New York’s famous Bronx Zoo, a remarkable man who brought cold-blooded animals...

“Alexander’s comic tales of quitting the rat race to find meaning have a deep lesson for all of us—get back in that race and run like hell!” (Stephen Colbert)   Have you dreamed about quitting your job and starting over? Well, Prioleau Alexander lived that dream . . . just long enough...