Scribner: 1672 books
Demon Camp
The Strange and Terrible Saga of a Soldier's Return from War
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A “chilling” (O, The Oprah Magazine), “darkly brilliant” (Bookforum) account of “the effects of war on the psyches of the soldiers who fight” (Esquire).
In 2005 a Chinook helicopter carrying sixteen Special Ops soldiers crashed during a rescue mission in Afghanistan, killing everyone...
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Combining the insight of Franklin Foer’s How Soccer Explains the World and the intrigue of Ben Affleck’s Argo, Ping Pong Diplomacy traces the story of how an aristocratic British spy used the game of table tennis to propel a Communist strategy that changed the shape of the world.
THE SPRING...
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
Stories of Loss and Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work...
Batting Stance Guy
A Love Letter to Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Batting Stance Guy never expected he would become a YouTube celebrity, racking up more than two million views, landing profiles in The New York Times and USA Today, and even scoring an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. But when a friend and neighbor started capturing this man’s unusual...
Death Dance
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein takes readers behind the scenes of New York City's theater world -- from Lincoln Center to the lights of Broadway -- in a riveting new novel, rich with her trademark blend of cutting-edge legal issues, skillful detective work, and heart-stopping suspense.
Teaming...
The Vanishing Velázquez
A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016
“As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century...
Prayers for the Assassin
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2006
In this “provocative and compelling” (The Seattle Times) thriller set in the future, Islamic and Christian forces battle for the fate of the United States as a young historian discovers the shocking truth about the devastating nuclear attacks that plunged the world into chaos.
2040: New...
You Can Be Right (or You Can Be Married)
Looking for Love in the Age of Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Fast approaching the age when bachelors go from seeming curious to seeming weird, Oscar-nominated documentarian Dana Adam Shapiro set out across the country with a tape recorder in search of modern answers to an age-old question:
Why does love die—and what can we do to prevent it from happening?
It...
by P.D. James
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Hailed as “mystery at its best” by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book in bestselling author P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh mystery series.
The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students...
Innocents and Others
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
From Dana Spiotta, the author of Eat the Document and Stone Arabia, “A brilliant novel…about female friendship, the limits of love and work, and costs of claiming your right to celebrate your triumphs and own your mistakes” (Elle).
Innocents and Others is about two women who grow up in...
Man vs. Baby
The Chaos and Comedy of Real-Life Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
From a “hero for dads everywhere” (Daily Mirror), a hilarious, insightful, and heartfelt take on parenting based on a viral blog post that Ashton Kutcher called, “one of the best descriptions of fatherhood I’ve ever read.”
One evening, while his three-month-old son Charlie briefly...
by Ernest Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002
Dateline: Toronto collects all 172 pieces that Hemingway published in the Star, including those under pseudonyms. Hemingway readers will discern his unique voice already present in many of these pieces, particularly his knack for dialogue. It is also fascinating to discover early reportorial accounts...
Smoke Signals
A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
A bestselling author of Acid Dreams tells the great American pot story— a panoramic, character-driven saga that examines the medical, recreational, scientific, and economic dimensions of the world’s most controversial plant.
Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana...
Rainbow's End
A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .
In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks...