Steerforth Press: 389 books
Minik: The New York Eskimo
An Arctic Explorer, a Museum, and the Betrayal of the Inuit People
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A true story from the great age of Arctic exploration of an Inuit boy's struggle for dignity against Robert Peary and the American Museum of Natural History in turn-of-the-century New York City.
Sailing aboard a ship called Hope in 1897, celebrated Arctic explorer Robert Peary entered New York...
War of Numbers
An Intelligence Memoir of the Vietnam War's Uncounted Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Sam Adams loved intelligence work, and that enthusiasm shines throughout this memoir of his years with the Central Intelligence Agency. His career was dominated by an epic struggle over Vietnam -- over military attempts to hide the true size of the enemy forces there, and over the integrity of the...
A Criminal and An Irishman
The Inside Story of the Boston Mob-IRA Connection
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Former rival and associate of James "Whitey" Bulger tells all. After returning from Vietnam where he served as a combat Marine, Pat Nee fought a gang war against Whitey Bulger. When members of Nee's Mullen gang killed the leader of Bulger's Killeen faction, Nee arranged for the dispute...
I Heard You Paint Houses
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
**Soon to be a NETFLIX film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel, and written by Steven Zaillian.
Updated with a 57-page Conclusion by the author that features new, independent corroboration of Frank Sheeran's revelations about the killing...
Strangers in the House
Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This "is not a political book," Anthony Lewis writes in his foreword. "Yet in a hundred different ways it is political.... Shehadeh shatters the stereotype many Americans have of Palestinians. Hath not a Palestinian senses, affections, passions?" This revealing memoir of a father-son...
The Paradiso Files
Boston's Unknown Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
In this bold and suspenseful true-crime story, former homicide prosecutor Timothy M. Burke makes his case against one Leonard Paradiso. Lenny “The Quahog” was convicted of assaulting one young woman and paroled after three years, but Burke believes that he was guilty of much more – that Paradiso...
Street Soldier
My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
The almost unbelievable story of endemic corruption, and the official condoning by the FBI of violent crimes committed by James “Whitey” Bulger and his South Boston Irish mob, entered a new chapter with Bulger’s arrest in California. For decades the FBI let Bulger get away with murder, protecting...
Mawson's Will
The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his...
by Daniel Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Ever since the publication of Ishmael in 1992, readers have yearned for a glimpse into a dimension of spiritual revelation the author only hinted at in that and later books. Now at long last they have it in seven profound but delightfully simple tales that illuminate the world in which humans became...
Apostle Paul
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The iconic Saint Paul – in his lifetime a scholar, prosecutor for the high court of the Jews, accomplice in murder, adventurer, traveler, orator, writer, advocate, and organizer of a new faith – was in fact a Jewish-Hellenistic citizen of the Roman Empire, a man who by the force of his intellect...
The Book of Matt
Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
“Methamphetamine was a huge part of this case . . . It was a horrible murder driven by drugs.” — Prosecutor Cal Rerucha, who convicted Matthew Shepard's killers
What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew...
Little Bastards in Springtime
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Spring, 1992. Jevrem Andric is eleven years old and war is erupting in Sarajevo. As the shelling worsens, Jevrem's journalist father and teenaged brother join the Bosnian army. Jevrem, his sisters, his concert pianist mother and beloved grandmother move into the basement.
Spring, 1997. Refugee...
A Slanting of the Sun
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with dramas set in motion by loneliness and displacement and revealing stories of passion and desire where less astute observers might fail to detect the humanity that roils...
The Commandant of Lubizec
A Novel of The Holocaust and Operation Reinhard
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
After the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, they quickly began persecuting anyone who was Jewish. Millions were shoved into ghettos and forced to live under the swastika. Death camps were built and something called "Operation Reinhard" was set into motion. Its goal? To murder all the Jews of Poland.
The...