Atlantic Monthly Press imprint: 271 books

by Val McDermid
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

“McDermid excels in putting the reader at the center of the action . . . A tightly paced mystery . . . My bones tell me we haven’t seen the last of Inspector Pirie-or at least I hope not.” -Janet Napolitano, Los Angeles Times on The Skeleton Road Internationally bestselling author Val...

Killing Dragons

The Conquest of the Alps

by Fergus Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

A “dramatic and masterful” account of early alpine explorers and the challenges they faced to scale the summits (Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure). In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history’s greatest...
by Mark Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

“An ambitious, remarkably frank” chronicle of the Philadelphia Eagles’ bid for the NFL championship by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews).   In 1992, the Philadelphia Eagles—a team assembled in the image of their iconoclastic, controversial former head coach, Buddy...

The Comeback

Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France

by Daniel de Vise
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018

Inside the dramatic world of professional cycling and the Tour de France through the life of one of America's greatest and path-breaking athletes Launching just prior to the 2018 Tour de France will provide many media opportunities Dramatic recreation of the 1989 Tour de France, the...

Too Much Magic

Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation

by James Howard Kunstler
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012

The author of The Long Emergency explains why technology can’t solve all our problems, and how excessive optimism can endanger our future.** The Long Emergency quickly became a grassroots hit, offering a shocking vision of our post-oil future and capturing the attention of environmentalists...
by Mike Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

A Seattle Times bestseller and “[an] effervescent, wholly delicious revenge fantasy . . . about big money, big politics, and big crime” (Kirkus Reviews). Congressional fixer Joe DeMarco is dispatched to his boss Congressman John Mahoney’s hometown of Boston. Mahoney wants him to help...
by Leif Enger
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Hailed as one of the year's top five novels by Time, and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers, national bestseller Peace Like a River captured the hearts of a nation in need of comfort. "A rich mixture of adventure, tragedy, and healing," Peace Like a River...
by Sylvie Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

In “Pussy,” the girl singer of the eponymous band cracks up after her lover and the band’s creative center dies. When her manager tracks her down she is living anonymously in an East Village tenement, rarely going outdoors, and hoarding her own discarded hair, dead skin and other physical castoffs.In...

A Good Man

A Novel

by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year: “Part Western, part historical epic, part romantic melodrama and part crime novel” (Montreal Gazette). Son of a Canadian lumber baron, Wesley Case is a former soldier who sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to...

Beethoven

The Man Revealed

by John Suchet
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013

“An ideal ‘first book’ on Beethoven” from one of the world’s most eminent classical music aficionados (Booklist).   Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates...

Still Writing

The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

by Dani Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

“Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.”From the best-selling author of Devotion and Slow Motion comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, meditation on the artistic...

Agent Storm

My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA

by Morten Storm, Paul Cruickshank, Tim Lister
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

The true story of a jihadi convert seeking redemption in “a rollicking read and a rare insider’s account of Western spying in the age of al Qaeda” (The New York Times Book Review). Standing over six feet tall with flaming red hair, Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. But after a troubled...

Four Princes

Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe

by John Julius Norwich
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017

“Bad behavior makes for entertaining history” in this bold history of Europe, the Middle East, and the men who ruled them in the early sixteenth century (Kirkus Reviews). John Julius Norwich—“the very model of a popular historian”—is acclaimed for his distinctive ability to weave...

Henry VIII

And the Men Who Made Him

by Tracy Borman
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry’s life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted with...
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