Scribner imprint: 1661 books
by Peter Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
A policeman is stabbed to death at an anti-nuclear demonstration outside the Eastvale Community Centre in Yorkshire. In a politically motivated move, Detective Superintendent Richard “Dirty Dick” Burgess is pulled in from London to run the investigation. With a long list of suspects and an old...
The Dirty Life
On Farming, Food, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
"This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer."
Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living...
by Peter Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
When a faceless body is found in a tranquil valley just south of the village of Swainshead, Chief Inspector Alan Banks soon finds that no one in the village is willing to talk about it, except to say, “Not again.” An unsolved murder from five years before and the unsolved disappearance of a prominent...
by Peter Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
An admired local historian is found dead and half-buried in a farmer’s field in the village of Gratly. A slimy land-developer, an editor, a local thriller writer, and a beautiful folk singer are all figures from the historian’s past, and all of them are suspects. Sally, a young would-be actress,...
by Peter Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
It’s the holiday season in a peaceful Yorkshire village, but there are no glad tidings for Caroline Hartley, brutally stabbed to death in her own home. Her body, naked and bloody, is found by her lover, Veronica, three days before Christmas. Detective Constable Susan Gay and Chief Inspector Alan...
by Peter Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A well-dressed couple claim to be social workers responding to abuse allegations and pressure Brenda Scupham into allowing them to take her seven-year-old daughter, Gemma, into protective care. When they fail to return, Brenda realizes her catastrophic mistake, and soon Chief Inspector Alan Banks...
Dixie
A Personal Osyssey Through Historic Events That Shaped the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2002
Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial and political upheavals.
Wilkie's personal take on some of the landmark events of modern American history...
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2004
The first comprehensive collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories and essays is now available in eBook only. This definitive edition pulls together the complete works from such celebrated titles as Tales of the Jazz Age, Babylon Revisited, Flappers and Philosophers, and many others. For the...
The Honest Toddler
A Child's Guide to Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
As seen on Good Morning America, the irreverent, bracingly honest, and “awfully funny” (The Boston Globe) satirical parenting guide from the Internet’s most infamous tot, whose unchecked sense of entitlement and undeniable charm have captivated hundreds of thousands of fans.
Are you the...
The Art of Sleeping Alone
Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Sophie Fontanel, bestselling novelist and iconic editor of French Elle, tells the provocative story of her decision to stop having sex—a choice that profoundly changed her view of herself and her place in the world.
At the age of twenty-seven, after many years of having (and, for the most...
by Ann Beattie
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters’ drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation. Her name...
Kremlin Rising
Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow correspondents.
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet...
The Girl Behind the Door
A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
“A moving and riveting memoir about one family’s love and tragedy…beautifully researched, and expressed” (Anne Lamott).
Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter’s room. Casey was gone, but she had left a note: The car is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge....
A Thousand Naked Strangers
A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A former paramedic’s visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta’s mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.
In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his...