Arcade imprint: 531 books
Prohibition
Thirteen Years That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The story of the disastrous attempt to outlaw alcohol: “Informative and entertaining from start to finish” (Publishers Weekly).
A companion to the A&E show, this is a rip-roaring history of the US government’s attempt to end America’s love affair with liquor—which failed miserably....
The Substance of Civilization
Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
This fascinating book “is a good starting place to develop an appreciation for the history and nature of materials science” (Scientific American).
The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found, created, used, and abused. They have dictated how we...
Kremlin Wives
The Secret Lives of the Women Behind the Kremlin Walls—From Lenin to Gorbachev
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
International bestseller: An “intriguing” and “poignant” collection of “true tales and compelling confessions” from the women who witnessed Soviet history (Booklist).
A great deal is known about the all-powerful Soviet rulers who occupied the Kremlin, yet little is known about the...
Stanley Kubrick and Me
Thirty Years at His Side
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A unique perspective on the director of such film classics as Dr. Strangelove, 2001, and Full Metal Jacket, from his personal assistant and confidante.
“As good an insider's view of middle- to late-period Kubrick as there is…funny and casual throughout.”—Kirkus Reviews
Stanley...
The Imaginary Girlfriend
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
“Detail[s] Irving’s parallel careers of writing and wrestling . . . with anecdotes that are every bit as hilarious as the antics in his novels” (The Denver Post).
Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving’s candid...
by Andreï Makine
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
This remarkable novel spans eighty years of the twentieth century, from the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers: “An epiphany of heartbreaking truth” (The New York Times).
In this three-generational novel, Andreï Makine beautifully but unsparingly describes the almost uninterrupted succession...
by Andreï Makine
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
A moving, two-generational tale of two families from the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable Book, Dreams of My Russian Summers.
They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin’s postwar world, marching to the clarion call of socialism, to the stirring beat...
Master of Thin Air
Life and Death on the World's Highest Peaks
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The true story of a man who climbed the world’s fourteen tallest mountains—named one of Backpacker’s “Five Adventure Books You Need to Read This Summer.”
On Earth, there are only fourteen mountains exceeding 8,000 meters (26,000-plus feet). Beyond that height, any climbers who dare...
Elegy for Kosovo
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize and author of A Girl in Exile. “One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language” (The Wall Street Journal).
June 28, 1389: Six hundred years before Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic called for the repression of the Albanian...
All the Ways We Kill and Die
An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade, and the Hunt for His Killer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“Castner takes us through a kind of moral detective work . . . A brilliant, moving, and troubling portrait of modern American warfare” (Phil Klay, National Book Award–winning author of Redeployment).
The EOD—explosive ordnance disposal—community is tight-knit, and when one of their...
Roman's Journey
A Memoir of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Polish painter, sculptor, and architect gives readers “a terrifying view from the epicenter of the Holocaust” (Kirkus Review).
Roman Halter was a spirited, optimistic schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gathered behind the curtains to watch the Volksdeutsche (German Polish) neighbors...
Cheatgrass
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“A Tarrantino-like thriller that’s hard to put down” featuring military sniper Tommy Smith from Under Tower Peak (Booklist).
Under Tower Peak was acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Ten Best Mysteries of 2013. In this sequel, Tommy Smith, the Iraq War vet and former Eastern...
A Dog Called Perth
The True Story of a Beagle
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This “simple, funny, and touching” story of a truly remarkable dog who changed the lives of her owners forever will move your heart as few stories can (The New York Times Book Review).
From the moment Peter and Cindy Martin spotted Perth as a puppy at the kennel—she came streaking toward...
Libertarians on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A myth-busting book of the real Ingalls family that “shines light on the political views . . . below the surface of the Little House series” (History Channel).
Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and...