Thomas Dunne Books imprint: 1256 books
The Debt of Tamar
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A USA TODAY Best seller!
Bestselling author Nicole Dweck brings to life one of history's greatest yet overlooked stories of love and resilience.
In 2002, thirty-two-year-old Selim Osman, the last descendant of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, flees Istanbul for New York. In a...
Acting White
The Curious History of a Racial Slur
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In the tradition of Randall Kennedy's Nigger and Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, Acting White demonstrates how the charge that any African-American who is successful, well mannered, or well educated is "acting white," is a slur that continues to haunt blacks. Ron Christie traces...
The Golden Era of Golf
How America Rose to Dominate the Old Scots Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Until now, no one has made the point directly and unequivocally that the game "invented" by ancient Scots would not have reached its present stature in the world of sports if Americans had never gotten hold of it. Is this to say that Al Barkow is, in The Golden Era of Golf, being a narrow-minded,...
F Is for France
A Curious Cabinet of French Wonders
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Exploring a culture filled with arcane laws, historical incidents, and bizarre paradoxes, Piu Eatwell's follow up to her award-winning and critically acclaimed myth-buster They Eat Horses, Don't They is a delightful exploration of France's quirky, literary, and culinary heritage.
From absinthe...
Reckless!
How Debt, Deregulation, and Dark Money Nearly Bankrupted America (And How We Can Fix It!)
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
As one of only eight senators to vote against bank deregulation, Byron Dorgan warned America that a free-market system left unchecked is like a driving a car at ninety miles per hour without brakes. With the recent financial collapse having proven him right, Dorgan exposes this modern-day carnival...
by Edward J. Jackowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Last year, according to The Institute of Medicine, Americans spent in excess of $33 billion on weight-loss products and services. However, the economic cost of obesity in the USA was about $117 billion during this same time period.
Obviously a dilemma exists. Why? If all we needed to do was...
American Roulette
How I Turned the Odds Upside Down---My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off the World's Casinos
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In American Roulette, Richard Marcus tells his never-before-heard story, of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing...
by Michael Fry
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Ever since they first set foot in the new world alongside the Viking explorers, the Scots have left their mark. In this entertaining and informative book, historian Michael Fry shows how Americans of Scottish heritage helped shape this country, from its founding days to the present. They were courageous...
by Ben Caspit
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country’s history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu’s life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office.
"A...
Sleep in Peace Tonight
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
It's January 1941, and the Blitz is devastating England. Food supplies are low, Tube stations in London have become bomb shelters, and U-boats have hampered any hope of easy victory. Though the United States maintains its isolationist position, Churchill knows that England is finished without the...
The Misfortunates
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Frank, tender, and brutally funny, Dimitri Verhulst's semi-autobiographical story details the vibrantly entertaining journey of a boy growing up in a family of alcoholics in Belgium
Sobriety and moderation are alien concepts to the men in Dimmy's family. Useless in all other respects, his three...
At the End of the World
A True Story of Murder in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful as the Inuit can...
The Godfather Effect
Changing Hollywood, America, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
A brilliant examination of our forty year obsession with the classic film trilogy—and a personal reflection on what it means to be Italian-American
Forty years and one billion dollars in gross box office receipts after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's masterful...
Loredana
A Venetian Tale
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
A dark, riveting tale of love, politics, and religion in sixteenth-century Venice--the embodiment of Leonardo da Vinci's ideal city.
In early sixteenth-century Italy, two lovers, Loredana and Orso, seem ready to die rather than be separated. Their tale unfolds in the two-tiered city of Venice,...