Arcade imprint: 531 books

An unforgettable tale of everyday heroism and the extraordinary power of illusion among Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust “that has never been surpassed” (Times Literary Supplement). Set in an unnamed Nazi-occupied ghetto, the story centers on an unlikely hero, Jakob Heym, who accidentally...

The award-winning author of A Century of November explores the lives of three women—separated by decades but connected by one house.   When Vera decides to travel to an old house in the New England countryside for a month-long escape from some devastating news about her daughter, she has no idea...

Affairs, white supremacists, impeachment—a political thriller hailed as “Seven Days in May for the twenty-first century” (Clem Chambers, author of The Shrine). US president Steve Wade believes his latest affair, with the beautiful Lucia Benoni, is a secret. When Lucia is murdered under...

A “fascinating novel” of music, passion, and psychological suspense that’s “a thrilling reading experience” (The Seattle Times).   “Music, they say, has charms to soothe the savage breast; but what happens when just the opposite is true? Can music’s intensity incite acts of betrayal...

A powerful novel of a British family reunited after World War II that has been hailed as “a small classic, deeply touching and true” (Publishers Weekly). In the spring of 1946, Sam Richardson is a returning soldier, back in his hometown of Wigton, England, after serving in the jungles of...

A teenager seeks glory with General Custer but instead finds a dream gone awry in this “American masterwork” set in 1876 Montana Territory (Howard Frank Mosher). Eighteen year-old Allen Winslow is living what should be every young man’s dream. Thanks to his mother’s charming intercession,...

**Shakespeare and Lao Tzu match wits and wisdom in this playful encounter—a new take on the old dialogue between East and West. **   The Tao Te Ching or Book of the Way of Virtue is a touchstone of Eastern philosophy and mysticism. It has been called the wisest book ever written, and its author,...

A spy thriller set along the geopolitical fault lines of South Asia, from an author who “knows how to keep things zipping along and dial up tension” (Kirkus Reviews).   Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India’s legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat emanating from the borderlands over which...

Scotland Yard’s detective duo takes on a puzzling case in the posh world of international architecture: “[An] ever-enjoyable series” (Booklist). Charles Verge, a powerful, cutting-edge architect, has disappeared into the blue, leaving behind his firm; his beloved—and pregnant—daughter;...

A killer resurfaces and a girl goes missing—two cases in one location for Scotland Yard’s David Brock and Kathy Kolla, from the author of Slaughter Park.   When he learns that his longtime nemesis, the amphetamine-juiced killer and thief known as “Upper” North, may have surfaced, Det. David...

“A deeply touching and fascinating novel. This is a must-read for anyone familiar with the game of basketball” (J****ulius Erving, NBA Hall of Famer).   It’s 1989, and Jim Keating has hit absolute rock bottom. He lost his wife to cancer, his house to bankruptcy, and his job as a college basketball...

A model prisoner’s release into society triggers an inevitable downfall in this novel by an influential twentieth-century German author.   For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco, and dreaming of the day of his release. Then...

“[A] tour de force . . . As one critic’s demonstration of what he considers the best in art and the best way to write about it, this book sets a high standard” (Roberta Smith).   This brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentieth-century French...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: “There are few studies so good on any artist . . . Deft and dense with intelligence and . . . exciting to read” (The New Republic).   Octavio Paz claims in this essential work that the two painters who had the greatest influence on the twentieth...