books by Arcade Publishing     books:       Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel Mo Yan Arcade Publishing, 2012 WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Today’s most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero—or antihero—of Mo Yan’s new novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his benevolence to his peasants. His story is a deliriously unique journey and absolutely riveting tale that reveals the ...             Ring of Flowers: A Novella Arcade Publishing, 2013 Ring of Flowers, a 46-page novella, is a bittersweet love story and a companion piece to the full length novel The Calypso Directive , written by the same author... In 1665, in the Derbyshire village of Eyam, the tailor George Vicars orders a bolt of fabric from London to make a wedding dress for his betrothed daughter, Kathryn. To escape her fate of marrying the town's wealthiest and most odious bachelor, she elopes with her true love, ...             Under Tower Peak Arcade Publishing, 2013 A missing aviator’s billion-dollar fortune and a fool’s mistake bring mayhem down on a small-town ranching and resort community in this unrelenting, tautly written debut thriller. After two tours as a sniper in Iraq, Tommy Smith has returned to his former life as a cowboy and wilderness guide in California’s Sierra Nevada, hoping to reclaim the simplicity of his youth and heal the wounds the world can’t see. When, high on a mountain ...             French Country Cooking: Authentic Recipes from Every Region Françoise Branget Arcade Publishing, 2012 Members of the French National Assembly share advice, expertise, and family lore in this beautiful, full-color celebration of French cuisine. Here are 180 recipes of traditional French appetizers, entrees, and desserts that members of the French National Assembly, representing the myriad regions of their native country, have decided to share with the world. From a challenging slow-cooked hare recipe that predates the French Revolution to the ...             Malcontenta, The: A Brock and Kolla Mystery (Brock and Kolla Mysteries) Arcade Publishing, 2013 "Barry Maitland's first mystery, The Marx Sisters, introduced American readers to an exciting new duo in crime fiction, Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector David Brock of Scotland Yard. Now, in The Malcontenta, Kathy and Brock make their eagerly awaited return in a complex, nuanced new thriller. Kathy is on temporary assignment away from London with Family and Juvenile Crime and is desperate to escape the second-rate ...             Marrying Off Mother : And Other Stories Arcade Publishing, 2013 A collection of short stories by a world-renowned naturalist and author of My Family and Other Animals introduces an eccentric cast of characters including a prize-truffling pig in France and an aging Memphis belle.             Auschwitz Arcade Publishing, 2011 Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is, as the New York Review of Books said, "the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available."When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific ...             Hitler's Last Secretary Arcade Publishing, 2011 Hitler's personal secretary reveals the story of day-to-day life beside one of history's true monsters.             Long Way Back to the River Kwai Arcade Publishing, 2011 Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies—now Indonesia—where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave labor camps, building a railroad through ...             How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?: Inside My Autistic Mind Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay Arcade Publishing, 2011 An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome the “problem” by teaching him to read and write. The result was that between the ages of eight and eleven he wrote stories and poems of exquisite ...             Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words John Ayto Arcade Publishing, 2011 For reference or for fun, here are the origins of thousands of English words. A mini OED! What is the link between map and apron, acrobat and oxygen, zeal and jealousy, flour and pollen, secret and crime? Did you know that crimson originally comes from the name of tiny scale insects, the kermes, from whose dried bodies a red dyestuff is made? That Yankee began as a nickname for Dutchmen? That omelette evolved from amulette, “a thin sheet of ...             The Garlic Ballads: A Novel Mo Yan Arcade Publishing, 2012 WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers ...             Twentysomething Girl: 1001 Quick Tips and Tricks to Make Your Life Easier Melissa Fiorenza, Laura Serino Arcade Publishing, 2013 Quick tips for surviving and thriving in your twenties! Did you know that spritzing vodka on your clothes can kill musty odors? That airline tickets are the cheapest on Tuesdays? And that exboyfriendjewelry.com is a reputable place to peddle old baubles from your ex? These are just a few of the 1,001 bite-sized pieces of wisdom that fill the pages of the fun, friendly, and practical  Twentysomething Girl . As anyone who has survived their ...             The Trouble with Being Born E. M. Cioran Arcade Publishing, 2013 “One of the most delicate minds of real power writing today.”—Susan Sontag In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, ...             Edwardian Cooking: 80 Recipes Inspired by Downton Abbey's Elegant Meals Larry Edwards Arcade Publishing, 2012 A celebration of the Edwardian table with 80 tantalizing and easy-to-make recipes. The PBS Masterpiece series Downton Abbey has taken the world by storm. With 80 delicious recipes, this cookbook celebrates the phenomenal success of the series and the culinary wonders enjoyed by the aristocracy in Edwardian England. Starting with an elegant array of savory tea sandwiches and sweets from traditional high tea, this book guides you through dinner ...             The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language Melvyn Bragg Arcade Publishing, 2011 “The ideal tour guide . . . both entertaining and informative.”— Booklist Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world. It is a magnificent adventure, full of jealousy, intrigue, and war—against a ...             Big Breasts and Wide Hips: A Novel (Arcade Classics) Mo Yan Arcade Publishing, 2012 WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In his latest novel, Mo Yan—arguably China’s most important contemporary literary voice—recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum . In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological earthquake, this epic novel is first and foremost about women, with the female body serving as ...             Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent Jean-Claude Ellena Arcade Publishing, 2011 The exclusive in-house perfumer to Hermès reveals for the first time the secrets behind the art and business of creating perfume. To women the whole world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume, Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar. In this one-of-a-kind book, the master himself takes you through the doors of his laboratory and explains the process of creating precious fragrances, revealing the key methods and recipes involved ...             Zelda Fitzgerald Arcade Publishing, 2012 The definitive biography! Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “the first American flapper.” Their romance transformed a symbol of glamour and spectacle of the Jazz Age. When Zelda cracked up, not long after the stock market crash of 1929, Scott remained loyal to her through a nightmare of later breakdowns and final madness. Sally Cline ...             The Kennedy Brothers Arcade Publishing, 2011 The authoritative, gripping, and sometimes jaw-dropping account of the brothers who shaped a generation, and whose story of tragedy and triumph were intertwined. 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