Scribner: 1672 books
by Ellie Kemper
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).
“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent, funny,...
Gonna Do Great Things
The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A major reappraisal of the life of legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., Gonna Do Great Things is at once an intimate portrait and an exuberant celebration of a wholly American icon. Through his multifaceted talent and personality, Sammy became one of the most magnetic and contentious figures in...
by Anne Heche
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2001
A beautifully written and evocative memoir of pain and redemption, of hurt and healing, from an actress whose private life and personal choices have made her a household name.
"My life is a life movies are made of," wrote Anne Heche in the proposal for her memoir. Yet what is truly surprising...
Wear and Tear
The Threads of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
“Tracy Tynan uses the universal medium of clothing to tell the highly specific story of her bohemian British upbringing, and she does so with wit, candor, and yes—style” (Lena Dunham).
Tracy Peacock Tynan grew up in London in the 1950’s and 60s, privy to her parents’ glamorous parties...
The Operator
Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This instant New York Times bestseller—“a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account” (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard...
by Laura Bush
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
**In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story. **
Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage...
Strangers on a Bridge
The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The #1 New York Times bestseller and subject of the acclaimed major motion picture Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan.
Originally published in 1964, this is the “enthralling…truly remarkable” (The New York Times Book Review) insider account...
by Ernest Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works....
Soldier Girls
The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
“A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship” (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and families**—**named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly.
“In...
Rebel Yell
The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero.
Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate...
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington
Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The “compelling…modern and readable perpective” (USA TODAY) of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washington’s family but turned by war against Washington’s crowning achievement, the Union.
On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy...
The Train to Crystal City
FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The New York Times bestselling dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II: “A must-read….The Train to Crystal City is compelling, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down” (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis).
During...
Untouchables
My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman. Their story has rarely been told. This remarkable book achieves...
Flying Through Midnight
A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Riveting, novelistic, and startlingly candid, John T. Halliday's combat memoir begins in 1970, when Halliday has just landed in the middle of the Vietnam War, primed to begin his assignment with the 606th Special Operations Squadron. But there's a catch: He's stationed in a kind of no-man's-land....