Our Story
The name is Italian for friends. Everyone knows Pedro, Francis, and Taylor. Fewer people know the ravine in Manoguayabo, what Francis's earliest witnesses actually wrote down, or how a singer lost the recordings of her own voice. Amici Books goes back to the record and brings out what the first telling missed: the strange, funny, human detail that got sanded off. We name our sources, and we keep later memory labeled as memory. We don't invent intimacy. We do keep the paperwork.
Meet the author, Allan S. Martin · About the imprint
Featured Titles
Pedro Martínez, Boston and a Pitching Peak for the Ages
By Allan S. Martin · Amici Books
In 1999 and 2000, a slight right-hander from Manoguayabo gave Fenway two summers with no real precedent in their era. The industry had first filed him as too small to start. This book goes back to where that started: a ravine, a rock, and a system that measured the wrong thing.
Kindle and paperback pre-order. October 23, 2026. Pre-order on Amazon (Kindle)
Paperback ISBN 979-8-952889-00-2 · Ebook ISBN 979-8-952889-01-9
Pedro Martínez, Boston y una cima de picheo para la historia
By Allan S. Martin · Amici Books · Dominican Spanish edition
Dominican Spanish edition. Same book, same date.
Coming October 23, 2026. Pre-order on Amazon (Kindle)
Paperback ISBN 979-8-952889-03-3 · Ebook ISBN 979-8-952889-04-0 · Hardcover ISBN 979-8-952889-08-8
Francis of Assisi: Witness and Memory
By Allan S. Martin · Amici Books
A merchant's son who treated the gospel as instructions and found that what remained was enough. Earlier voices first. Later legend labeled.
Kindle pre-order. October 30, 2026. Pre-order on Amazon (Kindle)
Paperback ISBN 979-8-952889-05-7 · Ebook ISBN 979-8-952889-06-4 · Hardcover ISBN 979-8-952889-07-1
How Taylor Swift Lost Her Music and Got It Back
By Allan S. Martin · Amici Books
A recorded song is two pieces of property. The songs were hers. The recordings of her own voice were sold. An independent, unauthorized account of how that happened, and how she took them back.
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Las dos columnas
By Allan S. Martin · Amici Books
Spanish edition. Same book.
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