On January 1, 2014, homebrewer and writer Derek Dellinger began a journey that would change nearly everything he thought he knew about fermented food and beverage—and as a beer expert, he knew a lot.
On an spring afternoon in 1978 in the loft of a church outside Cambridge, England, an organ tuner named Malory loses his virginity to a dyslexic math genius named Louiza. When Louiza disappears, Malor
Renowned Irish historian Diarmaid Ferriter presents a fresh look at the Irish revolutionary period from 1913-1923, drawing from newly available historical sources as well as the testimonies of the peo
Only one of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s plays in the author’s masterful The American Century Cycle has never been seen on Broadway—until now. A major work by two-time Pulitzer Prize
Dada Woof Papa Hot, the new play by Peter Parnell, smartly captures the urban parent experience at this head-spinning cultural moment—as well as what comes after #LoveWins.It's a fall night in New Yor
Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Asmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker’s world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrk
Master storyteller, social historian, and folklorist Sybil Marshall scoured English history to bring together a fascinating collection of folk tales in one glorious edition. Out-of-print for over thir
A simple Twitter question posed by John Cleese—“What is your biggest pet peeve?”—inspired Jen Campbell to start a blog collecting all the ridiculous conversations overheard in her bookstore.“Did Beatr
The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteu
What they do have, however, is a very awkward encounter after spending one hot night together following a drunken wedding reception they attend. They wake up to a blurry morning where the rules of att
The book's title refers to the classic joke in which a father tells his son that anything is better than being a journalist, including being a piano player in the brothel. The Piano Player in the Bro
Throughout their 300-year history, patterned paper wallcoverings have alternated wildly between being absolutely Oof the moment1 or totally out of fashion. Recently, after more than a decade of blank
Robert Bloch's Psycho captivated a nation when it appeared in 1959. The story was all too real-indeed this classic was inspired by the real-life story of Ed Gein, a psychotic murderer who led a dual l
A tome of well-mannered high comedy, from the "unrivaled master of the comedy of manners" (Entertainment Weekly) In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen Bertie Wooster withdraws to the village of Maiden Eggesford
The Elvis Encyclopedia, the product of over six years of research, was created to help bring order to the massive amount of material written about Elvis Presley. In doing so, it stands as the most co
A translation of a follow-up to The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebeard finds young writer Optimus Yarnspinner inheriting from his beloved godfather an unpublished anonymous short story, a bequest that
Charts the efforts of a group of "natural philosophers" in seventeenth-century England who were to become the founding fathers of the Royal Society, placing their collaborations against a backdrop of
Working as a projectionist at the Apollo movie theater during a sweltering summer in 1928 Berlin, Sascha Knisch is wrongfully accused of murder when his latest sexual fetish partner is found dead, a c
Haunted by the ghost of his scientist father, young Dutch geologist Alfred Issendorf hopes to win fame by being the first to identify craters in the landscape made by meteorites, joining a small geolo
"A lonely woman of vanishes while out on her morning run. The police aren't alarmed. But when a 22-year-old girl never returns from a walk, an old man disappears too, no one can denied that somethin
A republication of a first novel by the author of Old Boys finds a small group of international agents embarking on a car trip from Switzerland to the Sudan, a journey marked by the actions of one of
Second Sight is the seventh in the series that follows the legendary spy Paul Christopher - a man ensnared by his line of work that never failed to exert insidious influence outside professional boun
Charts the efforts of a group of "natural philosophers" in seventeenth-century England who were to become the founding fathers of the Royal Society, placing their collaborations against a backdrop of
"In nine of Wodehouse's ripest stories from the 1920s, the characters are united by their worship of golf. From Rodney Spelvin, the sickeningly good-looking romantic poet who comes to his senses when
For this early 20th century French poet-philosopher, life, in its most dynamic sense, can only be experienced after the facade of self-identity has been systematically negated through a kind of metaph
Spring brings four more antic novels by P. G. Wodehouse. In Quick Service a complicated chain of events is set into motion after Mrs. Chavender takes a bite of breakfast ham, and readers are reminded
Spring brings four more antic novels by P.G. Wodehouse. In Quick Service a complicated chain of events is set into motion after Mrs. Chavender takes a bite of breakfast ham, and readers are reminded
Jeff Gusky, a doctor of emergency medicine, decided at the age of 42 that he wanted to better confront the reality of modern Jewish history. A self-taught photographer who subsequently learned to mak
Overlook is proud to present four more antic selections from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse. A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about the aristocratic Marshmoreton family-a precursor to the Blandin
In Hot Water, J. Wellington Gedge is the man who has everything-but finds himself caught in a series of international events which will, if he doesn't put a stop to them, leave him wearing the sissy u
The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World War I. The author's greatest
In his tantalizing debut novel, John Fusco marvelously traces the unforgettable trajectory of twelve-year-old Nunzio Paradiso's last summer of innocence.To Kill a Mockingbird depicted such a summer-th
Kelderek, a lone hunter, pursues the secret of Shardik, the reincarnation of a giant bear, in an odyssey that takes him across the landscape of a fabled world. Reprint.
A young man growing up in Truckstown, Pennsylvania, fascinated by the "Sacred Voodoo Chamber" of the Scranton Art Museum, is transformed into a zombie, a process that becomes his guiding force in life
Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing p
It is the winter of 1946, the wake of World War II. A group of refugees at a quarantine camp is southern Poland has fallen victim to a horrific, unidentifiable disease. Robert Watt, a young, callow S
The annual Fat Pig competition in Shropshire, England, is tainted by a string of pig thefts when the reigning Empress of Blandings' title is threatened by the Queen of Matchingham, a new plump sow.
Berekiah Zarco, a young manuscript illustrator, searches for the killer of his uncle Abraham, a renowned kabbalist discovered murdered in a secret synagogue, in a historical mystery set in sixteenthce
