Scribner imprint: 1661 books
by Colm Toibin
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora have come together, after a decade of estrangement, to tend to Helen's beloved brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. Under the crumbling roof of Dora's old house, Declan's two friends join the women as each waits for...
The Heather Blazing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Colm Tóibín’s second “lovely, understated” novel that “proceeds with stately grace” (The Washington Post Book World) about an uncompromising judge whose principles, when brought home to his own family, are tragic.
Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a completely...
The Story of the Night
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
From the award-winning author of Brooklyn and The Master, a powerful, brave, and moving novel set in Argentina.
In Argentina, in the time of the Generals, the streets are empty at night, and people have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay lives with his mother, hiding his sexuality...
Eating Pomegranates
A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters, and the BRCA Gene
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
An intensely powerful and moving memoir about genetics, mortality, family, femininity, and the author’s battle with cancer
After the grief of losing her mother to cancer when Sarah Gabriel was a teenager, she had learned to appreciate "the charms of simple happiness." With a career as a journalist,...
Babylon Revisited
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Written between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction. In them, Fitzgerald creates vivid, timeless characters -- a dissatisfied southern belle seeking adventure in the north; the tragic...
Flim-Flam Man
A True Family History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
One frosty winter morning, Jennifer Vogel opened the newspaper and read that her father had gone on the run. John Vogel, fifty-two, had been arrested for single-handedly counter-feiting nearly $20 million in U.S. currency -- the fourth-largest sum ever seized by federal agents -- and then released...
The Day I Turned Uncool
Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Available for the first time in eBook from the master of “Seinfeld-ian nothingness” (Time) a comic, not-so-coming-of-age tale of transitioning from his twenties to his thirties, recently optioned by Adam Sandler along with Dan Gets a Minivan.
Sooner or later, each of us must face the day...
War of the Encyclopaedists
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
“A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) about two best friends as their post-grad lives diverge—one into liberal academia, the other into the American military occupation of Iraq.
On a summer night in 2004,...
"All Governments Lie"
The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, "All Governments Lie" is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America's most independent and revered journalists, whose work carries the same immediacy it did almost a half century ago, highlighting the ever-present...
The Hard Way on Purpose
Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Award-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many aspects of Midwestern culture and life from an insider’s perspective.
In The Hard Way on...
Still Kicking
My Dramatic Journey As the First Woman to Play Division One College Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
It took just 1.28 seconds to make history.
On August 30, 2003, Katie Hnida became the first woman ever to play and score in NCAA Division I football. The struggle to get to that groundbreaking moment took eight long years, a journey filled with dogged commitment, horrifying setbacks, and finally,...
Boss Rove
Inside Karl Rove's Secret Kingdom of Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The epic 2012 presidential contest between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney represents the stunning comeback of GOP boss Karl Rove, the brilliant political operator whose scorched-earth partisanship infamously earned him the moniker “Bush’s Brain” and provoked some...
Curfewed Night
One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir, more than 70,000 people have been killed in the battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Born and raised in the war-torn region, Basharat Peer brings this little-known part of the world to life in haunting, vivid detail..
Peer...
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IX: Early Art
Uncollected Articles and Reviews Written Between 1886 and 1900
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IX: Early Articles and Reviews is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This first complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work,...