Scribner imprint: 1661 books
Destined for Destiny
The Unauthorized Autobiography of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
In Destined for Destiny, George W. Bush offers readers an intimate, plainspoken, and often readable look at the character-shaping achievements that led to his inevitable rise to the office of President of the United States.
Written from the heart, not from the brain, this definitive autobiography...
The Unknown Knowns
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Jim Rath's wife has grown tired of his hobbies: his immaculately maintained comics collection, his creepy underwater experiments, and his dreams of building a museum based on the Aquatic Ape Theory of Human Evolution. On the night that she leaves him, Jim thinks he has spotted an emissary from a lost...
Delicate
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest.
Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-living, blue-collar women who fight quietly and fiercely...
The Thoughtful Dresser
The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
“You can’t have depths without surfaces,” says Linda Grant in her lively and provocative new book, The thoughtful Dresser, a thinking woman’s guide to what we wear*.* For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain, empty-headed women. Yet, clothes matter,...
Without Fidel
A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
From the award-winning reporter and go-to source on Cuban-Miami politics Ann Louise Bardach comes a riveting, eye-opening account of the last chapter in the life of Fidel Castro: his near death and marathon finale, his enemies and their fifty-year failed battle to eliminate him, and the carefully...
Pearl Harbor
From Infamy to Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
“A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author.
The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on...
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar
A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America’s bloodiest battle ever—World War I’s Meuse-Argonne Offensive—and the shocking American cover-up at its heart.
The year is 1918. German engineers have fortified Montfaucon, an elevated fortress in northern France, with...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
“Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world.” —Stephen Greenblatt
“A captivating adventure…For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every page…Magnificent.” —The New York Times Book Review
Named a Best Book...
Never Surrender
Winston Churchill and Britain's Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
“WWII scholar John Kelly triumphs again” (Vanity Fair) in this remarkably vivid account of a key moment in Western history: The critical six months in 1940 when Winston Churchill debated whether England should fight Nazi Germany—and then decided to “never surrender.”
London in April,...
by Douglas Southall Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Douglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. This reissue chronicles all the major aspects and highlights of the general’s military career, from his stunning accomplishments in the Mexican...
Lee's Lieutenants Third Volume Abridged
A Study in Command
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who...
by Douglas Southall Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review).
Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall Freeman...
Journey to the Sun
Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junípero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West.
The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junípero Serra, the intrepid...
God, War, and Providence
The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time” (Booklist, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused...