Delphinium Books: 38 books
The Whistleblower's Dilemma
Snowden, Silkwood and Their Quest for the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
A look at Edward Snowden, Karen Silkwood, and government and corporate whistleblowing, by an author praised for his “first-rate reporting” (Kirkus Reviews).
In June of 2013, Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former CIA employee, leaked thousands of top secret National Security Agency...
The Killing of Karen Silkwood
The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
This true story of a courageous whistleblower is “as fascinating and gripping as anything John Le Carr[é] or Agatha C[h]ristie could devise” (The Christian Science Monitor).
On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood was driving on a deserted Oklahoma highway when her car crashed into a cement...
Freshwater Boys
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
“A wonderful, poignant collection of stories about men struggling to understand manhood.” —Kirk Farber, author of Postcards from a Dead Girl
“Travel brochures, postcards, and license plates from decades past touted Michigan as ‘The Water Winter Wonderland!’ And in Adam Schuitema’s...
The Pig Trilogy
The Pig Did It, The Pig Comes to Dinner, and The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Joseph Caldwell’s rollicking Pig Trilogy, a charmingly romantic three-part tale of an American in contemporary Ireland
Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland from New York City to walk the beach and pity himself for the cold indifference of the young lady in his writing class he had chosen to...
The Pig Comes to Dinner
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
“A comic triumph” set in a haunted Irish castle from the author of The Pig Did It (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
All of the charming characters of the previous book are present again in this delightful new story. Kitty McCloud, now married to Kieran Sweeney, her former rival in one of their...
The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
“A triumphant conclusion” to the spirited Irish trilogy from the author of The Pig Did It and The Pig Comes to Dinner (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
Kitty McCloud, the trilogy’s leading lady, would let these words stand, even were she a reviser of aphorisms rather than a “fixer” of...
Little Star of Bela Lua: A Novella and Stories
A Novella and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
You are about to read stories keenly true to time and place, yet so universal in theme that they are timeless. Superstitious townspeople, greedy men, a young girl looking for fame and love, a conflicted priest, and a reluctant husband live out their follies in the dusty villages and teeming cities...
Overconnected
The Promise and Threat of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“Shows how the unanticipated effects of the Internet are distorting economics, politics, international relations, and individual lives” (James Fallows).
In Overconnected, Bill Davidow, a former Silicon Valley executive, explains how the almost miraculous success of the Internet has also...
The Language of Houses
How Buildings Speak to Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
How do the spaces we inhabit affect us—and reflect us? A Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores architecture, in this insightful, “breezy” read (The Washington Post).
In 1981, Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history,...
One of These Things First
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
**From New York Times–bestselling author Steven Gaines comes a wry and touching memoir of his trials as a gay teen at the famed Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.
One of These Things First is a poignant reminiscence of a fifteen-year-old gay Jewish boy’s unexpected trajectory from a life...
by Richard Rashke
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Revised and Updated
“Brilliantly reconstructs the degradation and drama of Sobibor. . . . A memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget.” —San Francisco Chronicle
On October 14, l943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death...
The Mapmaker's Daughter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
A novel of the Venetian girl who became the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire—perfect for fans of Netflix’s Magnificent Century.
The Ottoman Empire was at the height of its power during the sixteenth century when Cecilia Baffo Veniero was kidnapped from her Venetian homeland and...
Useful Enemies
America's Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
How the United States protected John Demjanjuk: “A richly researched, gripping narrative about war, suffering, survival, corruption, injustice and morality” (Kirkus Reviews, starred).
John “Iwan” Demjanjuk was at the center of one of history’s most complex war crimes trials. But why...
by Francesca Duranti
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
In a novel both “lively [and] dreamlike,” a translator’s obsession leads him into the literary spotlight—and toward the line between fantasy and reality (Los Angeles Times).
Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in...