Speaking of Writers

In this spellbinding collection, Paretsky showcases her extraordinary talents in a new V.I. Warshawski story, along with fourteen additional short stories, eight of those featuring the indomitable detective. As Publishers Weekly praised, ““The love that really comes through in each story is the love and empathy Paretsky has for her all-too-human characters.” Paretsky is the master of twisting susp...

About ELIZA STARTS A RUMOR by Jane L. Rosen Eliza Hunt is the creator of the Hudson Valley Ladies’ Bulletin Board, a local social media group for the mothers of her community just north of New York City that she started when her twins were barely out of diapers. Fifteen years later, with an empty nest and a crippling secret affliction—agoraphobia—it’s brought to her attention that the younger moms...

In Seven Days in Augusta: Behind the Scenes at the Masters (Triumph Books), veteran New York Post sportswriter Mark Cannizzaro explores the rich history and deep connection between Augusta National and the world’s most iconic and prestigious golf tournament. Cannizzaro, who’s covered a quarter century of Masters tournaments, combines his experience and passion for the sport in this engaging collec...

The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within. Exploring this precarious moment, Tracy Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social, ec...

THE LAST TRAIN TO KEY WEST is another example of Chanel Cleeton’s gorgeous historical storytelling as she brings to life three bold young women whose paths cross over Labor Day weekend, 1935, when a devastating storm wreaks havoc on the Florida Keys – the very first Category 5 storm to hit American soil. These women seem very different on the surface, but ultimately their lives will never be the s...

Tom Clavin’s popular Western histories have delighted readers and earned critical accolades. Like many, Clavin is fascinated by the larger-than-life personalities and enduring myths that surround the Wild West. His histories take on those myths and legends, separating fact from fiction to get at what really happened. In Dodge City , he told the true story of how a depraved cattle town was tamed by...

Renowned New York Times bestselling historian and presidential scholar Robert Dallek believes that President Trump is ignorant of the histories of the presidencies that came before 1993. “It was only with the Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama presidencies,” Dallek says, “that he saw vulnerabilities he hoped to exploit to become president.” But while Trump’s 2016 election has presented...

From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of  Fox News Sunday , comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the American attack on Hiroshima. April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept...

The Texas Rangers came to life in 1823, when Texas was still part of Mexico. Nearly 200 years later, the Rangers are still going, one of the most famous of all law enforcement agencies. Countless movies, television shows, and pulp novels have celebrated the Rangers as Wild West supermen. In many cases, they deserve their plaudits. But often the truth has been obliterated.    In CULT OF G...

The first major biography of “a poet of the people” in 50 years,   CROSS OF SNOW: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas Basbanes. Cross of Snow gets its title from a sonnet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) wrote toward the end of his life to commemorate the devastating loss eighteen years earlier of his beloved wife Fanny, the victim of a frightful domestic accident that in a...

In her newest novel, ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW (Berkley Trade Paperback Original), Higgins tackles fractured family relationships through the story of a quietly unhappy nuclear family trapped in a narrative of their own making. Barb and John Frost, who entered marriage deeply in love, have become two people coexisting in the same house. Barb’s pride and joy is her favorite daughter, the beautiful an...

THE ANCESTOR by Danielle Trussoni —her triumphant return to fiction a decade after the critically acclaimed publication of her breakout novels Angelolgy and Angeloplis. As the horror columnist for the New York Times Book Review, Trussoni has a unique window into the world in which THE ANCESTOR is set. Her mastery and understanding of the genre has influenced this newest release with a captivating...

Among the extraordinary group of early Americans who became known as the Founding Fathers, James Monroe may be the least recognized.  But with the remarkable range of his service to the nation, and his extraordinary skill in shepherding the young nation through one of its most perilous periods, he and his achievements find new resonance and relevance in our own time.  Now, drawing on new...

About the Book: The Osiris Foundation is located in a vast rural area near the beautiful but remote Snoqualmie Gap in Washington State. It bills itself as a faith-based organization that helps troubled people overcome addiction and other problems. Its enigmatic and charismatic leader is known only “Master Eli,” who claims to have cheated death and become a prophet for a new age. But just who is th...

As November approaches, foreign interference in our election process weighs heavily on our public conscience. Novelist David Pepper—who in 2015 was unanimously elected Chairman of the Democratic Party of Ohio—lends his singular political expertise and sharp storytelling powers to a twisty, cautionary thriller—THE VOTER FILE —that sounds the alarm about election meddling and the loss of American fr...

In the   summer of 1932, at the beginning of the turbulent decade that would remake   America, baseball fans were treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in   the history of the sport. As the nation drifted deeper into the Great   Depression and reeled from social unrest, baseball was a diversion for a   troubled country—and yet the world of b...

A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist After Germany’s humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country’s brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Führer’s erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the er...

Based on exclusive, fresh reporting, HUNTING WHITEY is the thrilling, definitive inside story of the pursuit, capture, and killing of legendary South Boston mob boss, James “Whitey” Bulger, detailing as never before his years on the run, how he evaded arrest, and his brutal murder in prison. Sherman and Wedge draw on exclusive interviews and exhaustive investigative reportage to tell the complete...

With IN DEEP: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State” [W. W. Norton & Company], two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Rohde investigates whether an American “deep state” exists. Today, three-quarters of Americans polled believe that a group of unelected government and military officials are secretly manipulating national policy. To conservatives, the “deep state...

Willie Mays has long been recognized as baseball’s greatest all-around player. In the history of the sport, few have been as inspiring as Mr. Mays, who uplifted many generations since he first captivated the baseball world with his unparalleled combination of skills, flair and joyful exuberance.  This tremendous, heartfelt new book, co-authored with John Shea, and told in Mr. Mays’s voice, 24...

At the tender age of twenty-four, Lou Gehrig decided to tell the remarkable story of his life and career. He was one of the most famous athletes in the country, in the midst of a record-breaking season with the legendary 1927 World Series-winning Yankees. In an effort to grow Lou’s star, pioneering sports agent Christy Walsh arranged for Lou’s tale of baseball greatness to syndicate in newspapers...

Set among the steep streets and stunning vistas of San Francisco,  The Laundress: A Novel  (May 19, 2020; She Writes Press; paperback original) by  Barbara Sapienza is a coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever sought to understand where they came from in order to figure out who they’re meant to become. About the Author Barbara Sapienza, PhD, is a retired clinical psychologist and...

LINCOLN ON THE VERGE: Thirteen Days to Washington ( Simon & Schuster) by Ted Widmer is a deep history of thirteen days in the life of Abraham Lincoln as he boarded a train in Springfield, IL and journeyed to Washington, DC to take the oath of office and be sworn in as the sixteenth president of the United States. Widmer, a Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College of the City Universit...

My Kind of People (Atria) , Lisa Duffy’s third breathtaking and sensitive novel, will restore your hope in the world. For fans of Celeste Ng and Mary Beth Keane comes a profound story about the power of community as a members of a small New England island town rally around a recently orphaned ten-year-old girl. My Kind of People is Big Little Lies meets an Elin Hilderbrand novel, delving into them...

THE LAST TRIAL by Scott Turow is the courtroom drama his fans have been waiting for: the culmination of two incredible lives in one explosive case, as Turow’s beloved character, Sandy Stern, returns to the Kindle Country courtroom to defend one of his oldest friends from ruinous charges. In THE LAST TRIAL, Sandy Stern is a celebrated criminal defense lawyer nearing the end of his career. But when...