Scribner: 1672 books
Breaking Trail
A Climbing Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Arlene Blum is a legendary trailblazer by any measure. Defying the climbing establishment of the 1970s, she led the first teams of women on successful ascents of Mt. McKinley and Annapurna, and was the first American woman to attempt Mt. Everest. In her long, adventurous career, she has played a leading...
Underdawgs
How Brad Stevens and the Butler Bulldogs Marched Their Way to the Brink of College Basketball's National Championship
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Butler University in Indianapolis became the smallest school in 40 years to reach the NCAA championship game. Prior to the tournament, a statistician calculated the Bulldogs as a 200-to-1 shot to win. But as fascinating as what Butler accomplished was how they did it. Underdawgs tells the incredible...
More than a Game
The Glorious Present--and the Uncertain Future--of the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Today's National Football League is more successful, more exciting, and more popular than ever. But the game in the twenty-first century is also ruled by a constant quest for more money. Super Bowl-winning head coach Brian Billick's More Than a Game examines how the relentless competition off the...
Willie Mays
The Life, The Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
The “enormously entertaining and wide-ranging” (Seattle Times)authorized, definitive, New York Times bestselling biography of Willie Mays, the most complete baseball player of all time.
Willie Mays is arguably the greatest player in baseball history, still revered for the passion he brought...
Again to Carthage
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Again to Carthage is the "breathtaking, pulse-quickening, stunning" sequel to Once a Runner that "will have you standing up and cheering, and pulling on your running shoes" (Chicago Sun-Times). Originally self-published in 1978, Once a Runner became a cult classic, emerging after three decades to...
Running Like a Girl
Notes on Learning to Run
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The inspiring, hilarious memoir of a “Bridget Jones-like writer” (The Washington Post) who transforms her life by learning to run, with stories of miserable defeat, complete victory, and learning to choose the right shoes.
When Alexandra Heminsley decided to take up running, she had hopes...
by Richard Bach
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Richard Bach’s first book, Stranger to the Ground is above all else an insight into the character of a man whose great compulsion is to measure himself against storm and night and fear. On the surface it is the tale of a memorable mission of a young fighter pilot utilizing his skills in a lonely...
The Price of Silence
The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A Duke alumnus whose work has been hailed as “authoritative” (The Washington Post), “seductively engrossing” (Chicago Tribune), “riveting” (The Economist), and “masterful” (Los Angeles Times), presents a stunning new account of the infamous Duke lacrosse team case.
Despite it...
Faithful
Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
A fan's notes for the ages, Faithful grew from an email exchange last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan fired off a note to fellow Sox fan, Stephen King, who responded with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller,...
Four Seasons in Rome
On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, a "dazzling" (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome.
Anthony Doerr has received many awards—from the New York Public Library,...
Don't Make Me Pull Over!
An Informal History of the Family Road Trip
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
“A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews), Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips—before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps.
The birth of America’s first interstate highways in the 1950s hit...
Retirement Without Borders
How to Retire Abroad--in Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, Costa Rica, Panama, and Other Sunny, Foreign Places (And the Secret to Making It Happen Without Stress)
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Barry Golson knows all about retiring abroad -- he and his wife, Thia, have lived in six different countries. Now they choose expatriate-friendly locales around the world for their low cost and their high quality of living and explain how to investigate and settle in each country with minimum hassle...
Rosemary and Bitter Oranges
Growing Up in a Tuscan Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Patrizia Chen's childhood was suffused with the scent of simmering pots of cacciucco -- a local, hearty seafood stew -- and of the pittosporum blooming along the Tuscan coast. Her family's house and sumptuous garden in the Italian seaside town of Livorno are at the center of this captivating book...
Red Summer
The Danger, Madness, and Exaltation of Salmon Fishing in a Remote Alaskan Village
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
A vivid, unforgettable account of the danger, pain, and joy of working on a salmon fishing boat and living in a small village on the farthest edge of Alaska
Set in the tiny Native village of Egegik on the shores of Alaska's Bristol Bay, Bill Carter's Red Summer is the thrilling story of one...