Prospecta Press imprint: 26 books

I am Sophie Tucker

A Fictional Memoir

by Susan Ecker, Lloyd Ecker
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014

Features more than 90 beautiful color and 120 black and white period illustrations. Part fairy tale, part crime novel, part rags to riches Hollywood myth, I Am Sophie Tucker tells the outrageous story of one of showbiz’s biggest personalities. From 1906 through the beginning of television,...

360 Degrees Longitude

One Family's Journey Around the World

by John Higham
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World is a glimpse at what it means to be a “global citizen”-a progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four. After more than a decade of planning,...
by Robert M. Pennoyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015

“Robert M. Pennoyer was born into a storied family - his maternal grandfather was the legendary J. P. Morgan. His irresistible memoir traces his sheltered childhood on the Gold Coast of Long Island; an adolescence overshadowed by the gathering clouds of World War II; and a young adulthood that survived...
by John Koster, Gary Bisbee, Ram Charan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015

This book, n=1 is a collaboration of physician health system CEO, venture capital entrepreneur and leading global business advisor and best-selling business author. These differing perspectives provide insights into the forces transforming the global society, business and professions with a focus...

A Gift of Love

Lessons Learned From My Work and Friendship with Mother Teresa

by Tony Cointreau
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016

I wrote A Gift of Love because people kept asking me to do so, telling me that there was a great need for it. Perhaps it was their parents who were dying, or another family member, or a close friend, and they needed to know what they could do for their loved ones in those last weeks, days, or hours....
by Ring Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

Ring Lardner, Jr.’s memoir is a pilgrimage through the American century. The son of an immensely popular and influential American writer, Lardner grew up swaddled in material and cultural privilege. After a memorable visit to Moscow in 1934, he worked as a reporter in New York before leaving for...
by Eliot Taintor
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015

An alcoholic on awakening is much like a newborn baby-fragile and without any defense against a very sober world. September Remember begins with a terrifying-and darkly funny blackout-the sort of a blackout that pulls you right into the mind of a drunk on the loose. Reading it, I was reminded of my...

Waiting for Uncle John

"Cuba Must be Ours" (A Novel)

by James Oliver Goldsborough
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

How long has the United States been trying to get its hands on Cuba? Waiting for Uncle John, an exciting and fast paced historical novel, tells the story of how a few regiments of soldiers, armed and supported by leading American politicians, set out to capture Cuba from Spain in 1851, the first of...
by Laurie B. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

When Madison McGee is orphaned and forced to live with her wacky grandmother in boring old Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, she’s pretty sure nothing will ever be right again. Her grandmother is addicted to TV shopping shows. Her only neighbors are a crazy lady and a vicious junkyard mutt. And...
by Tracy Sugarman
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012

(Published in Association with the Westport Library, Westport, Connecticut) Written by an intimate participant in the turbulent civil rights movement in Mississippi, Nobody Said Amen tells the stories of two families’ lives, one white, one black, as they navigate the challenging, tilting...
by Laurie B. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017

In this sequel to the popular kids novel, Hello There, We’ve Been Waiting For You!, it’s summertime and Madison McGee’s best friends, Violet and Noah, join her in Costa Rica, where she’s staying with Rosalie Claire. Their dreams of lazy sunny beach days come to a screeching halt when Madison’s...

Ethel Merman, Mother Teresa...and Me

My Improbable Journey from Châteaux in France to the Slums of Calcutta

by Tony Cointreau
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014

How many people can count among their closest friends Ethel Merman (the Queen of Broadway), Mother Teresa (beatified by the Vatican in October, 2003), Lee Lehman, (wife of Robert Lehman, head of Lehman Brothers), Pierre Cardin (legendary couturier and major show-business force in Europe), and many...
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