<p>This story reveals much about the obsessiveness involved in the international game of chess. Bobby Fischer and his father were drawn into the bizarre world of Manhattan's seedy chess parlours and Park Square in Washington where chess fanatics sleep rough and hustle for two-dollar games. By contrast, Soviet chess players are feted like filmstars and the author unveils the anti-Semitism, political blackmail and drug-taking behind the Soviet chess establishment.</p>

Searching for Bobby Fischer: The World of Chess Observed by the Father of a Child Prodigy

Humor & Entertainment

Fred Waitzkin

Puzzles & Games

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Mortal Games: The Turbulent Genius of Garry Kasparov

Biographies & Memoirs

Simon Schuster Ltd

<p>Ambrogio Smythe, a hypochodriacal British nobleman, is obsessed by childhood memories of Gypsies. Ambrogio leaves his ancestral estate and makes his way to Florence, always aware of the lurking menace of the hated Napoleon Bonaparte. In Tuscany, Ambrogio meets a wondering storyteller, hears a magical yarn about a Gypsy babe kidnapped by a demon, buys a shred of parchment as evidence, and begins to write his own version of the saga, vowing one day to publish it in the finest Morocco leather. Noble Smith has created a historical comedy within a historical comedy that is as absurd and enjoyable as Monty Python's The Holy Grail and Goldman's The Princess Bride. The characters leap off the page in full costume.</p>

The Last Marlin: The Story of a Family at Sea

Memoirs

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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