Scribner: 1672 books
by Alice Sebold
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
The timeless, fearless, #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from the author of The Lovely Bones—a powerful account of her sexual assault at the age of eighteen and the harrowing trial that followed, now with a new afterword by the author.
In a memoir hailed for its searing candor, as well...
The Big Rewind
A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Nathan Rabin viewed pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape throughout his childhood and adolescence. As an adult, pop culture became his life. Head writer for A.V. Club for more than a decade, Rabin uses specific books, songs, albums, films, and television shows as springboards for dissecting...
Mindhunter
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1998
Now a Netflix original series
Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.
In...
Heavy
An American Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
*Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics*
In this powerful,...
In Our Prime
The Invention of Middle Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Now in paperback from New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen, a “lively, well-researched chronicle” (The New York Times Book Review) of the concept of middle age, from the nineteenth century to the present.
The director behind the Hollywood close-up and the inventor of the “midlife crisis,”...
The Anatomy Of Motive
The Fbis Legendary Mindhunter Explores The Key To Understanding And Catching Vi
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1999
Why?
In this eagerly anticipated new book from the international bestselling authors of Mindhunter, Journey into Darkness, and Obsession, legendary crime fighter John Douglas explores the root of all crime -- motive.
Every crime is a mystery story with a motive at its heart. Understand the motive...
Heartland
A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
*Finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize*
*Instant New York Times Bestseller*
*Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, The New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly*
An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in...
Last Call
The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.
From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel...
by Claude Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time—the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature.
Published during a literary era marked...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
A Low Culture Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Over half a million copies sold!
From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture—set in Chuck Klosterman’s den and your own—covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial...
Unholy Messenger
The Life and Crimes of the BTK Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
To all appearances, Dennis Rader was a model citizen in the small town of Park City, Kansas, where he had lived with his family almost his entire life. He was a town compliance officer, a former Boy Scout leader, the president of his church congregation, and a seemingly ordinary father and husband....
I Don't Want to Talk About It
Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1999
A revolutionary and hopeful look at depression as a silent epidemic in men that manifests as workaholism, alcoholism, rage, difficulty with intimacy, and abusive behavior by the cofounder of Harvard’s Gender Research Project.
Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has...
It Will Shock You How Much It Never Happened
An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture, this essay is about advertising.
Porn
An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture, this essay is about porn.