Scribner: 1672 books
Body Counts
A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The founder of POZ magazine shares “a captivating…eyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemic” (Next) and “a moving, multi-decade memoir of one gay man’s life” (San Francisco Chronicle).
As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, DC, from...
Power Concedes Nothing
One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
The “fierce” and “remarkable” memoir from one of the nation’s most influential and celebrated civil rights attorneys—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—is “a rallying cry for social justice” (More magazine).
Connie Rice has taken on the bus system,...
Spider Bones
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Kathy Reichs—#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones—returns with the thirteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan.
John Lowery was declared dead in 1968—the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried...
by Martha Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In Send Bygraves, Martha Grimes has given us her most fascinating book, a dramatic mystery poem that uses the conventions of the traditional British mystery to explore the very nature of crime, the criminal, and the criminal investigator. Illustrated with thirty-five line drawings by acclaimed artist...
Unfriending My Ex
Confessions of a Social Media Addict
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
“In this candid and insightful new memoir, Kim Stolz discusses the trials and tribulations of our obsession with social media and mobile technology...a Tweet-worthy, share-worthy, Instagrammable look into our society and the lives we create online.” —Harper’s Bazaar
An incisive, hilarious,...
The Extra Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 1998
Jonathan Ames, whose debut novel I Pass Like Night was enthusiastically praised by Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates, has followed up with a brilliant and comic second novel.
Louis Ives, the narrator of The Extra Man, fancies himself a young gentleman fashioned after his heroes in the books of F....
Bear v. Shark
The Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2002
So it's kind of like a parlor game, then?...
The question is apparently of Ancient Eastern extraction....
It seems to be a gut thing. The answer just feels right and then you come up with reasons....
Given a relatively level playing field -- i.e., water deep enough so that a Shark could maneuver proficiently,...
Beginnings
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Since 1939, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled with compassion and acuity the experience of American life both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screenplay Tender Mercies earned him Academy Awards. He has won a...
Finding Chandra
A True Washington Murder Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
It was the mystery that gripped the nation during the summer of 2001: the sudden disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young, promising intern, and the possible involvement of Congressman Gary Condit. And then the case went cold. By 2007, satellite trucks and reporters had long since abandoned the story...
by Ernest Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple,...
Watchdogs of Democracy?
The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
In the course of more than sixty years spent covering Washington politics, Helen Thomas has witnessed a raft of fundamental changes in the way news is gathered and reported. Gone are the days of frequent firsthand contact with the president. Now, the press sees the president only at tightly controlled...
The Other Side of Paradise
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Lottery, Jamaica, on Christmas Day. Staceyann's mother did not want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive.
It...
by Tom Groneberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
"One of the stories I tell myself when I am trying to fall asleep is that I have tried. I've tagged along after myself in the pages of my own modern Western, and every few years is another chapter to the story. The myth of the cowboy. I chased a dream and it kicked me in the teeth. Yet I find myself...
Rejuvenate!
(It's Never Too Late)
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2002
The purr-fect guide to staying mentally and physically healthy and vital from the legendary star who defines longevity.
From her hit songs in the 1950s and television stardom as Catwoman on Batman in the 1960s to her sold-out shows at New York's Café Carlyle in the 1990s, her Tony-nominated role...