Arcade imprint: 531 books

Becoming Michelangelo

Apprenticing to the Master, and Discovering the Artist through His Drawings

by Alan Pascuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019

Michelangelo’s developing genius is revealed as never before by the man who became Michelangelo’s last apprentice— an American artist and art historian whose family helped carve Mount Rushmore. Many believe Michelangelo's talent was miraculous and untrained, the product of “divine” genius—a...

Buffalo Bill's Life Story

An Autobiography

by Buffalo Bill Cody
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Buffalo Bill lives deep in American legend. A Kansas-bred farm boy, he went on to become a renowned trapper and hunter, army scout, Indian fighter, and finally a world showman and celebrity. As a man of the Wild West, he became known as a larger-than-life buffalo hunter. As an army scout, he earned...

Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl

The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

by Jeffrey Melnick
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019

With a new epilogue updated from its hardcover edition titled Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family "Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home, and without harming anyone, leaving only a trace...

A Rift in the Earth

Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

by James Reston Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial A Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious “art war” that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what kind of memorial...

Cary Grant

Dark Angel

by Geoffrey Wansell
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

His signature jaw line and charismatic characters made him an American symbol. His films, including Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and North by Northwest, were timeless classics. However, Grant was also married five times and sustained a tortured, obsessive relationship with money. In this...

Tears of Battle

An Animal Rights Memoir

by Brigitte Bardot, Anne-Cécile Huprelle
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

An Account of one Woman's Courage, Caring, and Generosity in the Face of the Inhumane Brigitte Bardot—a global icon of French cinema—has used her fame to give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves. Leaving the spotlight of stardom, she has dedicated her time and fortune to promoting...

Hitler

The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer

by Ernst Hanfstaengl
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011

Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall and, mesmerized by his extraordinary oratorical...

Bringing Columbia Home

The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

by Michael D. Leinbach, Jonathan H. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018

Timed to release for the 15th Anniversary of the Columbia space shuttle disaster, this is the epic true story of one of the most dramatic, unforgettable adventures of our time. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation’s eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard...

Auschwitz

A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

by Miklos Nyiszli
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform “scientific research” on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous “Angel...

All that Remains

A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

by Sue Black, DBE, FRSE
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

**Book of the Year, 2018 Saltire Literary Awards A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Month For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality.** Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human...

The Drug Hunters

The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

by Donald R. Kirsch, Ogi Ogas
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016

The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter. The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium,...
by Elizabeth Cobbs
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016

A New York Times Bestseller and one of the best historical fiction books of 2016 and 2017! “A juicy answer to Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton…” --Cosmopolitan Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of legendary characters, The Hamilton...

A Season with Verona

A Soccer Fan Follows His Team Around Italy in Search of Dreams, National Character and . . . Goals!

by Tim Parks
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012

Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football (which we Americans know as “soccer”) a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? After twenty years in the bel paese, Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of his hometown soccer...
by Marita Golden
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

2018 NAACP Image Award Nominee An NPR Best Book of 2017 From acclaimed author Marita Golden comes a moving African-American family drama of love and devotion in the face of Alzheimer’s disease. You just can’t plan for this kind of thing. Diane Tate certainly hasn’t. She...
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