Simon Schuster: 4797 books
Ten Years Later
Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Now a New York Times bestseller, in Ten Years Later, Today show co-anchor Hoda Kotb tells the incredible stories of people who, when faced with impossibly challenging or tragic life situations, persevere—and even thrive—and asks, What if you, facing a game-changing event or decision right now,...
Party Monster
A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1999
When Party Monster was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageous depiction of the hedonistic world of the 90s New York City club kids, for whom nothing was too outré—including murder. Nominated for the Edgar Award for best true-crime...
The Christmas Box Miracle
My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2001
Since it was first published, more than seven million people have been touched by the magic of The Christmas Box, a holiday classic that is as beloved in our time as A Christmas Carol was in Dickens's.
When New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans wrote The Christmas Box, he intended...
The Night of the Gun
A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own.
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
From David Carr (1956–2015), the “undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist” (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bestseller that the Chicago Sun-Times called “a compelling tale of drug abuse, despair, and, finally, hope.”
Do we remember only the stories...
The Know-It-All
One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
33,000 pages
44 million words
10 billion years of history
1 obsessed man
Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.
To fill the...
How to Murder Your Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.
At...
by Hunter S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
From the legendary journalist and creator of “Gonzo” journalism Hunter S. Thompson comes the bestselling critical look at Nixon and McGovern’s 1972 presidential election.
Forty years after its original publication, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of...
Mary Poppins, She Wrote
The Life of P. L. Travers
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
THE ONLY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CREATOR OF MARY POPPINS
The remarkable life of P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins—perfect for fans of the movie Mary Poppins Returns and the original Disney classic!
“An arresting life…Lawson is superb at excavating the details.” —Library...
The Year of Lear
Shakespeare in 1606
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. “The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review).
In...
Kingdom of Fear
Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson’s life as a rebel—from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction,...
More, Now, Again
A Memoir of Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
I crush up my pills and snort them like dust. They are my sugar. They are the sweetness in the days that have none. They drip through me like tupelo honey. Then they are gone. Then I need more. I always need more.
For all of my life I have needed more.
A precocious literary light, Elizabeth...
The Great Shark Hunt
Strange Tales from a Strange Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style.
Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers” is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s...
Kitchen Privileges
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
Angela’s Ashes comes home to the Bronx in a brilliant, touching, charming, and bittersweet account of a childhood during the Depression from America’s Queen of Suspense.
Mary Higgins Clark’s memoir begins with the death of her father in 1939. With no money in the house—the Higgins Bar...
by Helen Keller
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
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