Skyhorse Publishing: 874 books

From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize and author of A Girl in Exile. “One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language” (The Wall Street Journal). June 28, 1389: Six hundred years before Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic called for the repression of the Albanian...

“Castner takes us through a kind of moral detective work . . . A brilliant, moving, and troubling portrait of modern American warfare” (Phil Klay, National Book Award–winning author of Redeployment). The EOD—explosive ordnance disposal—community is tight-knit, and when one of their...

The Polish painter, sculptor, and architect gives readers “a terrifying view from the epicenter of the Holocaust” (Kirkus Review).   Roman Halter was a spirited, optimistic schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gathered behind the curtains to watch the Volksdeutsche (German Polish) neighbors...

“A Tarrantino-like thriller that’s hard to put down” featuring military sniper Tommy Smith from Under Tower Peak (Booklist).   Under Tower Peak was acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Ten Best Mysteries of 2013. In this sequel, Tommy Smith, the Iraq War vet and former Eastern...

This “simple, funny, and touching” story of a truly remarkable dog who changed the lives of her owners forever will move your heart as few stories can (The New York Times Book Review). From the moment Peter and Cindy Martin spotted Perth as a puppy at the kennel—she came streaking toward...

A myth-busting book of the real Ingalls family that “shines light on the political views . . . below the surface of the Little House series” (History Channel).   Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and...

**A man of the Old West confronts a new world: “A powerful novel, fully felt and beautifully written” (T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times–bestselling author of The Last Good Guy). A Western Writers of America 2019 Spur Award Winner This novel from an author Dennis Lehane calls...

From the pages of the New Yorker, Esquire, and the Paris Review, “Edward Hoagland’s collected stories are dazzling” (Ann Beattie). Saul Bellow called him “one of the very best writers of his generation.” Newsweek praised him as “a marvelous writer.” Edward Hoagland, renowned travel...

This “insightful” biography separates the woman from the legend and “offers a panorama of ancient Egyptian history” (Publishers Weekly).   For centuries, historians have scarcely deviated from the portrayal of Cleopatra as an Eastern temptress bent on bringing down the great men of Rome....

An epic tale of tragedy and adventure based on the experiences of the author’s great-grandfather as he made his way across America during the Civil War. Told by his stepmother that he alone had been responsible for the death of his mother, abandoned by his father’s earlier departure for...

A masterfully suspenseful “gem of a novel” in which a man finds himself caught between two realities (San Francisco Chronicle). According to the medical staff, Dr. Georg Amberg has been in the hospital for five weeks, recovering from a brain hemorrhage after being run down by a car. But...

An overview of the nation’s politics, economics, culture, society, and sports by an author whose work “has been an illuminating introduction to India” (Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22). In recent years, the country of India has evolved from a poverty-stricken sleeping giant into a world...

Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most venomous creatures. Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He’s been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been stung...

The celebrated French author imagines the fateful night Napoleon Bonaparte decided to become emperor of France.   In the winter of 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte has a crucial decision to make: Maintain the ideals of the new France, or elevate the country into a powerful base by making himself its emperor.   One...