Scribner imprint: 1661 books
My Early Life
1874-1904
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Here, in his own words, are the fascinating first thirty years in the life of one of the most provocative and compelling leaders of the twentieth century: Winston Churchill.
As a visionary, statesman, and historian, and the most eloquent spokesman against Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill was...
King of Cuba
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A “darkly hilarious” (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this “clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows what connects and divides Cubans inside and outside of the...
by Peter Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Chief Inspector Alan Banks moved away from London to the quaint village of Eastvale to find some peace, but trouble can be found in a village as well as in the city. Soon Banks must contend with a Peeping Tom, a group of thieving young thugs, and the brutal murder of an elderly woman in her home....
A Woman Among Warlords
The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament....
The Idealist
Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society—and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons—written by Slate correspondent Justin Peters “captures Swartz...
Listen Up, Mr. President
Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Helen Thomas has covered the administrations of ten presidents in a career spanning nearly sixty years. She is known for her famous press conference closing line, "Thank you, Mr. President," but here she trades deference for directness. Thomas and veteran journalist Craig Crawford hold nothing back...
Stand Up That Mountain
The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In the tradition of A Civil Ac tion—the true story of a North Carolina outdoorsman who teams up with his Appalachian “mountain people” neighbors to save treasured land from being destroyed
Living alone in his wooded mountain retreat, Jay Leutze gets a call from a whip-smart fourteen-year-old,...
The Party Faithful
How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
As late as the 1960s, religion was a decidedly nonpartisan affair in the United States. In the past forty years, however, despite abundant evidence that Americans care about their candidates' personal faith, Democrats have beat a retreat in the competition for religious voters and the discussion of...
War in a Time of Peace
Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post Cold War America.
Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions...
No Echo
Hanne Wilhelmsen Book Six
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
When one of Oslo’s hottest celebrity chefs is murdered, Hanne Wilhelmsen is called back into action in “a nearly pitch-perfect procedural layered over a moving exploration of rejection and abandonment” (Booklist) in the sixth installment of the award-winning series from Norway’s #1 bestselling...
Odd Numbers
Hanne Wilhelmsen Book Nine
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
When bombs explode at the Islamic Cooperation Council’s headquarters in Oslo, detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case in the ninth installment of the award-winning series from Norway’s bestselling crime writer Anne Holt whose tenth and final book in the series Dust and Ashes will be published...
by Robert Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2002
For years Robert Cohen has been praised by reviewers and readers alike for his masterful prose and his exuberant and penetrating comic vision. The New York Times has even called his writing redemptive -- so satisfying as to "remind readers why they continue to cast their lines into the shrinking lake...
Blue on Blue
An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In one of the most illuminating portraits of police work ever, Chief Charles Campisi describes the inner workings of the world’s largest police force and his unprecedented career putting bad cops behind bars. “Compelling, educational, memorable…this superb memoir can be read for its sheer entertainment...
Treating People Well
The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Two White House Social Secretaries offer “an essential guide for getting along and getting ahead in our world today…by treating others with civility and respect. Full of life lessons that are both timely and timeless, this is a book that will be devoured, bookmarked, and read over and over again”...