Sarah Crichton Books imprint: 128 books
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In the last days of World War II, German forces are sent to occupy the Italian hill town, Santa Vittoria, and claim its great treasure: one million bottles of the Santa Vittoria wine that is its lifeblood. The clownish mayor, Bombolini, matches wits with the urbane German captain, Von Prum, as the...
The Great Impostor
The Amazing Career of Ferdinand Waldo Demara, who Posed as a Surgeon, a Prison Warden, a Doctor of Philosophy, A Trappist Monk and Many, Many Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The fantastic lives and careers of Ferdinand Waldo Demara make a fantastic irony of the platitude that truth is stranger than fiction. For with Ferdinand Demara, truth is fiction.
Demara wanted to be a hero, to lead an epic life dedicated to the benefit of others, and to gain adulation for...
The Camerons
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
On her 16th birthday, Maggie Drum sets out from the grimy streets of her Scottish coalmining town to find a man of pride, independence and spirit fit enough to be her husband. She finds her man in Gillon Cameron, a tall fisherman from the Highlands, who will learn to go down into the mines yet refuse...
The Anchoress
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
England, 1255**. What could drive a girl on the cusp of womanhood to lock herself away from the world forever?**
Sarah is just seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a cell that measures only seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing...
We Killed
The Rise of Women in American Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
No matter how many times female comedians buck the conventional wisdom, people continue to ask: "Are women funny?" The question has been nagging at women off and on (mostly on) for the past sixty years. It's incendiary, much discussed, and, as proven in Yael Kohen's fascinating oral history,...
by David Finkel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by American Sniper Writer Jason Hall and Starring Miles Teller
The wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David...
by Leanne Shapton
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
A love story told in the form of an auction catalog.
Auction catalogs can tell you a lot about a person -- their passions and vanities, peccadilloes and aesthetics; their flush years and lean. Think of the collections of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Truman Capote, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
In...
Radiance of Tomorrow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone
When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that...
Sparta
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Going from peace to war can make a young man into a warrior. Going from war to peace can destroy him.
Conrad Farrell has no family military heritage, but as a classics major at Williams College, he has encountered the powerful appeal of the Marine Corps ethic. "Semper Fidelis" comes...
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
9 Kids, 3 Continents, 2 Parents, 1 Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood
When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes,...
The Wild Oats Project
One Woman's Midlife Quest for Passion at Any Cost
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
What if for just one year you let desire call the shots?
The project was simple: Robin Rinaldi, a successful magazine journalist, would move into a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a beautiful flat a few blocks away, that she was forty-four,...
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow
A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Nunavut tigummiun!
Hold on to the land!
It was just fifty years ago that the territory of Alaska officially became the state of Alaska. But no matter who has staked their claim to the land, it has always had a way of enveloping souls in its vast, icy embrace.
For William L. Iggiagruk...
by Cathleen Schine
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
From one of America’s greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness, and love
The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don’t just grow, they grow old, and the clan’s...
Against Happiness
In Praise of Melancholy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Americans are addicted to happiness. When we're not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling...