Arcade imprint: 531 books
For Whom the Dogs Spy
Haiti: From the Duvalier Dictatorships to the Earthquake, Four Presidents, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
“This book is a great piece of history . . . After reading my uncle’s book, I feel just like I was an apple and he was my Big Tree” (Wyclef Jean).
When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, the former Haitian ambassador to the United States Raymond Joseph rushed back to his beloved country....
It Might Have Been What He Said
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
“A thrilling, compelling novel about the gravitational pull of love and money . . . This is a story that takes up where The Great Gatsby left off” (Susan Cheever).
Isabel could remember the precise moment she tried killing her husband. Strangely enough, she couldn’t recall why. Thus begins...
by Geneviève Duboscq
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
“An unforgettable account of D-Day” from the perspective of a young woman who saved the lives of Allied soldiers (New Statesman).
Growing up in the remote, marshy lowlands of Normandy, young Geneviève Duboscq had little concept of war—even after Nazi Germany occupied France. But that...
The Voyage of the Destiny
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
This “wise, richly imaginative and riotously entertaining” novel draws from the exploits of Elizabethan adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
It’s 1618, and soldier, explorer, fortune hunter, and lover of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh, is bitterly penning...
Favorite Sons
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The USA Book News Book of the Year for Mystery/Suspense that “keeps the reader turning pages with its twisted plot and characters facing high stakes” (Columbus Dispatch).
In the small industrial town of Crystalton, Ohio, fifteen year old Hutch Van Buren and his three closest friends have...
The Inventory
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
By the Jakob Wasserman Prize–winning author of The Guilt of Others: a “deeply moving” novel of a small German community torn apart in WWII (Le Monde).
Combining the immediacy of reportage with emotional intensity and imagination, The Inventory is “a book of extraordinary suggestive...
King of a Small World
A Poker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
“That rare thing, a truly authentic novel about poker and the poker world” (A. Alvarez, author of The Biggest Game in Town).
Joey Moore is happy to be a big fish in a small pond. He is easily the best poker player from his suburban enclave in Maryland to Washington, DC. He craves the nightlife...
A Hero's Daughter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
From the acclaimed author of the award-winning Dreams of My Russian Summers: “A powerful picture of a society that has lost its way” (Historical Novel Society)****.
Set in the Soviet Union from World War II until the early 1990s, A Hero’s Daughter portrays the rise and decline of the Soviet...
The Holy Place
Saunière and the Decoding of the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
From the coauthor of Holy Blood, Holy Grail comes a deeper exploration of the secrets of Rennes-le-Château and the mysteries of Jesus’s bloodline.
In 1982, Henry Lincoln, along with colleagues Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, published Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which became an immediate...
No Time for the Truth
The Haditha Incident and the Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
“An impassioned critique of the handling of the Haditha massacre by U.S. Marines” and America’s failure of justice in Iraq (Kirkus Reviews).
In 2005, twelve Marines stationed in Iraq were ambushed by Sunni Muslim insurgents in the city of Haditha. An IED (improvised explosive device) detonated...
Last Notes
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
A collection of stunning short fiction from the O. Henry Prize–winning author of Siege 13. “Dobozy’s prose is an artistic and intellectual boon” (Publishers Weekly).
Upon the publication of Siege 13, Jeff VanderMeer, in the Washington Post, stated, “the sheer variety of Dobozy’s approaches...
The Mind Tree
A Miraculous Child Breaks the Silence of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Written by a severely autistic young boy, this articulate and beautiful book “forces us to reconsider the condition of the deeply autistic”(Dr. Oliver Sacks).
In The Mind Tree, we meet Tito, a severely autistic and nearly nonverbal child who, despite these challenges, has an astonishing...
Monsieur
An Erotic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
A young woman in Paris discovers the dangers of passion when she pursues an anonymous affair with a married man.
Elle has always had a taste for older, married men, even when she was a teenager. Now, at twenty and living in Paris, she leads a lighthearted and carefree life until she meets a...
The City Where We Once Lived
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
In this “eerie, beautifully written” novel, a city decimated by climate change becomes a haven for outcasts—until people start coming to them for refuge (Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven).
In a near future where climate change has severely affected weather and agriculture,...