Twelve imprint: 146 books
Victory City
A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era.
New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings and saboteurs;...
Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
A brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara Ehrenreich.
One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in...
Blood Rites
Origins and History of the Passions of War
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
A New York Times Notable Book
An ALA Notable Book
"Original and illuminating." --The Washington Post
What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued in paperback, Blood Rites...
Things I've Learned from Dying
A Book About Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."
In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But...
A Good Talk
The Story and Skill of Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
A GOOD TALK is an analysis of and guide to that most exclusively human of all activities-- conversation.
Drawing on over forty years of experience in American letters, Menaker pinpoints the factors that drive and enliven every good conversation: the vagaries (and joys) of subtext; the deeper...
Rally Point
Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A smart and surprising political inventory for how America can reunite and revitalize in a time of crisis.
Written by an admired leader of the Republican party, RALLY POINT: Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream looks past the 2016 election, past the finger pointing...
Resistance (At All Costs)
How Trump Haters Are Breaking America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Wall Street Journal columnist and bestselling author Kim Strassel argues how the all-out "Resistance" has become dangerously reckless in its obstruction of President Trump.
Among the most consistent and aggressive criticisms of Donald Trump is that he is a threat to American democracy...
Best of Enemies
The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but.
In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence...
O My Darling
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The external lives of Clark, a high school guidance counselor, and Charlotte, a bookkeeper, are utterly ordinary, but their interior lives are as bold and complex as abstract paintings colored by imagined possibilities, childhood joys and, more darkly, by deeply buried fears. When Clark rescues a...
Someone Is Out to Get Us
A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War.
In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities, and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during which the United States...
My Name Is Will
A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
"Utterly delicious, original, witty, hilarious and brilliant. Shakespeare In Love on magic mushrooms. The Bard has never been this much fun."
-Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday and Thank You For Smoking
A Tale of two Shakespeares...
Struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student...
by Benjamin Hale
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Bruno Littlemore is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia Littlemore. Learning of Bruno's ability to speak, Lydia takes...
To Build a Better World
Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
A deeply researched international history and analysis of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing.
Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several...
The Lizard King
The True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Imagine The Sopranos, with snakes! The Lizard King is a fascinating account of a father and son family business suspected of smuggling reptiles, and the federal agent who tried to take them down.
When Bryan Christy began to investigate the world of reptile smuggling, he had no idea what he...