Melville House: 350 books
The Invisible Killer
The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution - and How We Can Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2018
More than 90% of the world's population is exposed to air pollutant concentrations exceeding World Health Organisation guideline levels. Having air that is healthy to breathe is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st Century. Some of this is unfinished business from the last 60 years, but as more...
The Consequential Frontier
Challenging the Privatization of Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
This in-depth work of reportage dares to ask what’s at stake in privatizing outer space
Earth is in trouble—so dramatically that we’re now scrambling to explore space for valuable resources and a home for permanent colonization. With the era of NASA’s dominance now behind us, the private...
The Geography of Madness
Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Why do some men become convinced—despite what doctors tell them—that their penises have, simply, disappeared. Why do people across the world become convinced that they are cursed to die on a particular date—and then do? Why do people in Malaysia suddenly “run amok”?
In The Geography...
Ernesto
The Untold Story of Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
From the first North American scholar permitted to study in residence at Hemingway's beloved Cuban home comes a radically new understanding of “Papa’s” life in Cuba
Ernest Hemingway first landed in Cuba in 1928. In some ways he never left. After a decade of visiting regularly, he settled...
GB84
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Never before published in the U.S., GB84 will be launched in 2014 alongside two other novels by David Peace: The Damned Utd and Red or Dead
In taut and gripping prose that often feels like the relentless text of a surveillance report, GB84 tells the story of the British coal miner’s strike...
by Matias Celedon
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
**“Powerful, beautiful, and haunting. Every time I read The Subsidiary, it feels both timeless and painfully, undeniably contemporary.” —Alejandro Zambra **
In the subsidiary offices of a major corporation, the power suddenly goes out: the lights switch off; the doors lock; the phone...
The Quest for a Moral Compass
A Global History of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The story of the global search for moral truths
In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer’s Greece to Mao’s China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great...
The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality, Gift Edition
As Delivered by Justice Anthony Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A beautifully packaged gift edition of Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality
A milestone in the history of American civil and human rights, Obergefell et al. v. Hodges legalized gay marriage across the United States. A...
by Ameen Rihani, Todd Fine
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This long-awaited re-publication of the first Arab-American novel—inspiration for Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet—deals with Arab/American relations, religious conflict and the American immigrant experience.
Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, and with illustrations by Kahlil...
The Confessions of Noa Weber
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Acclaimed author Noa Weber has a successful “feminist” life: a strong career, a wonderful daughter she raised alone, and she is a recognized and respected cultural figure. Yet her interior life is bound by her obsessive love for one man—Alek, a Russian émigré and the father of her child, who...
by Robin Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
"A fantastic page-turner." —Historical Novels Review
Based on a true story of the first witchcraft trial in Ireland, The Burning Time is the riveting tale of one extraordinary noblewoman, Lady Alyce Kyteler and her fight for a country’s soul. When the Catholic Church brings the...
by William Gerhardie
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The Anglo-Russian author William Gerhardie was hailed by writers including Graham Greene, Edith Wharton, Evelyn Waugh and others as a “genius,” and this, his long-out-of-print second novel, is generally acclaimed as his comic masterpiece—not to mention “the most influential English novel of...
The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality
The complete decision, including dissenting opinions
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The complete text of the landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality
The 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell et al. v. Hodges legalized gay marriage across the United States. This edition collects the widely quoted decision by Justice Kennedy, as well as the dissents of Justices Roberts,...
by Tom Malmquist
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK of 2018 * Amazon Book of the Month ✳︎ Indies Introduce 2018 ✳︎ INDIES NEXT 2018 Selection
"In Every Moment We Are Still Alive is a tremendous feat of emotional and artistic discipline. ... a triumph."— New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed...