Scribner imprint: 1661 books
by Andras Forgach
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
For readers of The Lives of Others and The Reader, and based on a true story, No Live Files Remain is a beautiful and moving novel of family, lies, betrayal and forgiveness.
He wanted to understand the past.
Now he must live with the truth.
Thirty years after the fall of communism in...
The Blessing of a B Minus
Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In the follow-up to her bestselling book, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, Dr. Wendy Mogel shows parents how to navigate the teenage years.
When a child becomes a teenager, her sense of entitlement and independence grows, the pressure to compete skyrockets, and communication becomes fraught...
Amen, Amen, Amen
Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things)
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Until the age of ten, Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. But when her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands, counting her steps, and collecting sharp objects...
Pitching My Tent
On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship, and Other Leaps of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
From the bestselling author of The Red Tent and Good Harbor, a collection of intimate, autobiographical reflections on the milestones, revelations, and balancing acts of life as a wife, mother, friend, and member of a religious community.
Before The Red Tent won her international literary acclaim,...
by Reynolds Price
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In Three Gospels, the esteemed novelist, dramatist, scholar, essayist, and poet, Reynolds Price turned his attention back to a literary love he had discovered earlier in his career: translation. But for Reynolds that didn’t mean abandoning his passion for writing original work; powerful and imaginative,...
by Bernard Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it.
Drawing on material from a multitude of sources,...
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2001
The beloved bestseller that offers a practical, inspiring new roadmap for raising self-reliant, ethical, and compassionate children.
In the trenches of a typical day, every parent encounters a child afflicted with ingratitude and entitlement. In a world where material abundance abounds, parents...
Seeing Through Places
Reflections on Geography and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2002
Mary Gordon, bestselling author of Spending and The Shadow Man, investigates the role that place plays in the formation of identity -- the connections between how we experience place and how we become ourselves. From her grandmother's house, which stood at the center of her childhood life, to a rented...
Dreams from the Monster Factory
A Tale of Prison, Redemption, and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Dreams from the Monster Factory tells the true story of Sunny Schwartz's extraordinary work in the criminal justice system and how her profound belief in people's ability to change is transforming the San Francisco jails and the criminals incarcerated there. With an immediacy made possible by a twenty-seven-year...
A Measureless Peril
America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him—what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat campaign.
In that global conflagration, only one battle—the struggle for the Atlantic—lasted from the very first hours...
by Anita Diamant
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Newly revised and updated, the definitive guide to planning a Jewish wedding, written by bestselling novelist Anita Diamant—author of The Red Tent and The Boston Girl—and one of the most respected writers of guides to contemporary Jewish life.
This complete, easy-to-use guide explains everything...
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Old church meets new with a vengeance when a monk is brutally murdered at St. Botolph’s.
Tearing the Silence
On Being German in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age eighteen. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of German-born Americans, and their confrontations with the taboo of the Holocaust.
Come Up and See Me Sometime
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
With Mae West as her ingenious guiding spirit, Erika Krouse introduces us to thirteen young, single, geographically and emotionally nomadic women looking for self-knowledge and trouble.
"I like to sleep with other women's husbands," says the narrator of "The Husbands" by way of introduction;...