Water Street Press: 19 books

When a 150-year-old bulto—a religious icon purportedly destroyed in in the Smithsonian’s Great Fire in 1865—turns up not once but three times in Sotheby’s auction results, Interpol contacts the FBI’s Art Crimes Unit in Washington, D.C. to find out what’s afoot. Special Agent Jacques Pearce...

It’s Shark Week at Captain Jack’s Rum Caye Inn in Belize. Jack dangles a popsicle of frozen fish guts that he uses to attract sharks for photo ops for divers. But the frenzied shark attack results in a shocking scene and the divers are horrified and panic. When travel writer Matt Oliver, still...

It wasn’t his plan to land back in a Mexican jail. But from nighttime prowls through seedy backstreets of Merida, to the roar of the bull ring, to the gleaming towers of Miami’s most prestigious banks, it was all an adrenaline rush. And jail was almost inevitable.

Trav flees to idyllic Thai resort island Samui to wait out some trouble with the triads. But he can’t stop himself from intervening after encountering Mazy, a yoga instructor with a weakness for booze and bad boyfriends. She is spiraling down Gordon’s latest dodgy venture: developing the next...

Foreword by Governor Howard Dean   “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk   America’s racial fault lines run uninterrupted from the days of slavery, to those of lynchings,...

What would you give to shoot the moon in the greatest city in the world? F*ck Art (Let’s Dance) is a chronicle of ten slam-bang years in a very slam-bang part of New York City, and of one young painter's crusade to make that place her own. This memoir, by a former Village Voice...

In 1930 Irene Parilee Johns climbs into a cannon three times a day for the paycheck—until the day she walks off the job after the second act. Back at her cold-water flat in Hell's Kitchen, she hangs a "Retired" sign on her sequined white tights—and is found dead later that day by her twelve-year-old...

Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan’s role in the modern world. It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and of the potential role of Japanese philosophy in creating a dynamic approach to human nature and our...

In 1972, professional dancer Joan Wulfsohn underwent a double mastectomy. And her soon-to-be-ex-husband abducted their three children and spirited them away to a foreign country. “I should have died,” Joan writes in this beautiful memoir. But she didn’t. Stalking Carlos Castaneda chronicles...

At the age of 21, Gus Weesfree witnessed a brutal crime in his hometown of Tradition, Ohio, and fled. Now an old man, exhausted by a life on the run, he is compelled to confront his past only to find most of his memories buried by urban sprawl. He seeks solace in Mabel, the sister he abandoned, a...

Thirty days.   That's how much time a woman typically has between when she is diagnosed with breast cancer and when she begins her treatment. There's a lot to learn in that one short month. What lab tests are necessary - when, and how to interpret them. What treatment options...

Jill’s daughter is getting married. The two women with whom Jill has been best friends since they were little girls—Deanie, a successful novelist, and Trick, who struggles with bipolar disorder—arrive to help celebrate the happy event. The bride, however, has a bigger role than ‘wedding...

New Yorkers open their Sunday morning paper to find a photo of Virgil Quinn, teacher of history at St. Lucy’s School for Boys, splashed all over the front page. How did he get there? Scandal, of course. Virgil has made enemies—the Cardinal of New York not the least among them. The Cardinal’s...

Among the estimated thirty-five million young athletes in the U.S., high school athletes account for approximately two million injuries, half a million doctor visits, and thirty thousand hospitalizations annually. And that’s just high school! Three-and-a-half million youth athletes receive medical...