Pegasus Books imprint: 682 books

by Puk Damsgard
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

Danish photographer Daniel Rye was taken capture by the Islamic State for thirteen months —this is his story. In May 2013, Daniel Rye traveled to Syria for a planned three-day trip to photograph the effects of the war on civilians. While there, he was captured by ISIS and held for a nightmarish...

Operation Damocles

Israel's Secret War Agaisnt Hitler's Scientists, 1951-1967

by Roger Howard
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

The forgotten cloak-and-dagger history of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt to develop long-range missiles capable of striking Israel From 1951 to 1967 Egypt pursued a secret program to build military rockets that could have conceivably posed a threat to neighboring Israel....
by Alexandra Silber
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018

A powerful and luminous story of grief and coming-of-age and a beautiful tribute to the relationship between a father and daughter. Alexandra “Al” Silber seems to have everything: brilliance, beauty, and talent in spades. But when her beloved father dies after a decade-long battle with...
by Sonia Faruqi
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

A Globe and Mail "Best Book of the Year" Two worlds collide when a mermaid and human man meet, plunging readers into a vast underwater realm brimming with adventure and intrigue. The mermaid’s scales were bronze, and they shimmered like hundreds of pennies arranged close together....
by Alastair Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

Alastair Campbell knows all about winning. As Tony Blair’s chief spokesman and strategist he helped guide his party to victory in three successive elections, and he’s fascinated by what it takes to succeed How do sportsmen excel, entrepreneurs thrive, or individuals achieve the ambitions?...
by Alexandra Popoff
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014

The new book from the critically acclaimed author of The Wives and ?Sophia Tolstoy sheds light on one of the strangest and most unusual relationships in literary history—which has been steeped in secrecy for more than a century. On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret...
by John Lister-Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015

A celebration of birds that reflects a year in the wild, revealing how these amazing creatures embody our changing world, by one of Britain's foremost naturalists. Gods of the Morning follows the year through the turning of the seasons at Aigas, the Highlands estate John Lister-Kaye has transformed...
by Avrom Bendavid-Val, Jonathan Safran Foer
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

A magical place, a lost history: Trochenbrod, the setting for Everything is Illuminated, is now rediscovered for a new generation. In the 19th century, nearly five million Jews lived in the Pale of Settlement. Most lived in shtetls—Jewish communities connected to larger towns—images of...
by Greg Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

From the author of Hiding in the Spotlight, the story of the Kharkov trials, forgotten by history, which sought justice for the thousands killed the Ukraine, a place also overlooked in the annals of the Holocaust When one thinks of the Holocaust, we think of Auschwitz, Dachau; and when we think...
by Ellen R. Wald
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018

A history of the most profitable company in the world, Saudi Aramco, and the story behind the family that ruthlessly maneuvered to control this multi-trillion dollar enterprise. The Saudi royal family and Aramco leadership are, and almost always have been, motivated by ambitions of long-term...
by Peter Grose
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

The untold story of an isolated French community that banded together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3,500 Jews in the throes of World War II Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed. This...
by Thomas Larson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010

An exploration of the cultural impact of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, the Pieta´ of music, and its enigmatic composer. "Whenever the American dream suffers a catastrophic setback, Barber’s Adagio plays on the radio.”—Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise In the...
by Inger Ash Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

The brilliantly paced and irresistibly suspenseful new novel in the Detective Hazel Micallef series takes this "perfectly original" (Gillian Flynn) detective into the maelstrom of two murder cases. The new novel in this acclaimed series is brilliantly paced, addictively suspenseful—the...

Scales to Scalpels

Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine: The Story of the Longwood Symphony Orch

by Dr. Robert Viagas, Lisa Wong, MD
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012

The true story of an orchestra made up of medical professionals that “makes the connection between music and medicine visible and palpable” (Yo-Yo Ma). You may have read about the Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) in the paper or heard them on your favorite radio station. But the LSO is...
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