Akashic Books

The winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, presented by The National Poetry Series; presented in both English and Spanish.Author: Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, Eduardo AparicioPublisher: Akashic...

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. The Mississippi Delta is a region ripe and long overdue for a volume in the...

"[Readers] will be rewarded with deeper insight into the political and economic turmoil engulfing that region." --Historical Novel Society"The Night of the Rambler is revolutionary, a reliquary, an...

Akashic Books continues its ground-breaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighbourhood or location within the city of the...

Palm Springs joins Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley in the Noir Series arena. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies,...

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 withBrooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the...

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the...

Grief, violence and history collide to offer a radical look at childhood and migration in suburban New England. Siddharth Arora lives an ordinary life in the New England suburb of South Haven, but...

Comprised of short fiction spanning the early 1970s to the twenty-first century-most of which has never been published-Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America's most...

The Accidental Hunter marks the debut of D Hunter, Nelson George's unforgettable bodyguard-turned-PI whom Library Journal calls " . . . as world weary, yet steadfast, as Philip Marlowe." A security...

A refreshingly non-doctrinaire collection of writings on the theory, practice, and history of anti-capitalist politics from the most well-versed activists and scholars in the movement. Since the...

During WWII, two African American musicians are captured by the Nazis in Paris and imprisoned at the Buchenwald concentration camp.Author: Bernice L. McFaddenPublisher: Akashic BooksPublication Date:...

Baps, a Jamaican shopkeeper, drops dead unexpectedly one Saturday morning and finds himself being transported to heaven via a crowded minibus. Everything about Paradise that he had been raised to...

The World War II trilogy, From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle established James Jones as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The Ice-Cream Headache-out of...

A gripping, intricately plotted political thriller set on the campaign trail of the USA's next--and because of crucial flaws in the electoral system--its last election; from former presidential...

This voyage into the noir heart of present-day Guatemala is based on the true story of a man who orchestrated his own assassination and left behind a video accusing the Guatemalan president of his...

"Jones's best novel after From Here to Eternity." --Denver Post, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and others."The only one of my contemporaries who I felt had more talent than myself was James...

AStevo's Book Reviews on the Internet "Best of the Bunch" Fiction Pick "High school basketball player Nancy Takahiro's future is uncertain. She's courted by recruiters from various colleges, but...

It's 1997 at the dawn of the digital age in San Francisco. Ex-journalist and struggling alcoholic David 'Itchy' Crane's fledgling 'information consultancy' business is getting slowly buried by bad...

A collection of essays and articles from one of the mainstays of the Washington, DC, underground rock and roll scene, The Psychic Soviet is Ian F. Svenonius's groundbreaking first book of writings...

The Third Squad is an arresting, ripped-from-the-headlines noir novel that deftly explores how in recent decades, to ostensibly combat the rising tide of criminality in Mumbai's underworld, the...

These Boots Are Made for Walkin': A Children's Picture Book (LyricPop)Author: Lee HazlewoodPublisher: Akashic BooksPublication Date: Oct 06, 2020Number of Pages: 24 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

"Great writers by definition are outriders, raiders of a sort, sweeping down from wilderness territories to disturb the peace, overrun the status quo and throw into question everything we know to be...

Two fourteen-year-old runaways hell-bent on reaching California end up aboard the Tamzene, a mysterious riverboat that runs on alternative fuel. Piloted by the enigmatic Dr. Seabrook, the Tamzene...

An impassioned history of the final, turbulent years of The Clash under the dark shadow of Reagan and Thatcher.Author: Mark Andersen|Ralph HeibutzkiPublisher: Akashic BooksPublication Date: Jul 03,...

In West Jerusalem Noir--published simultaneously with East Jerusalem Noir--the Akashic Noir Series visits one of the world's most complex locales, in this volume from the perspective of Israeli...

In Trinie Dalton's tweaked vision of reality, psychic communications between herself and Mick Jagger, The Flaming Lips, Marc Bolan, Lou Reed, and Pavement are daily occurrences. Animals also populate...

A rhyming book for adults portrays the difficulties parents endure when trying to get their children to eat.Author: Adam MansbachPublisher: Akashic BooksPublication Date: November 12, 2014Number of...