Simon Schuster: 4797 books
A Brain Wider Than the Sky
A Migraine Diary
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
With more than one in ten Americans -- and more than one in five families -- affected, the phenomenon of migraine is widely prevalent and often ignored or misdiagnosed. By his mid-forties, Andrew Levy's migraines were occasional reminders of a persistent illness that he'd wrestled with half his life,...
The Match
Complete Strangers, a Miracle Face Transplant, Two Lives Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Joseph Helfgot, the son of Holocaust survivors, worked his way from a Lower East Side tenement to create a successful Hollywood research company. But his heart was failing. After months of waiting for a heart transplant, he died during the operation.
Hours after his death, his wife Susan was...
First Man
The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Soon to be a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history.
When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author...
by Joseph Heller, Speed Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
An uproarious and frank memoir of illness and recovery, No Laughing Matter is a story of friendship and recuperation from the author of the classic Catch-22.
It all began one typical day in the life of Joe Heller. He was jogging four miles at a clip these days, working on his novel God Knows,...
The Water Giver
The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Both a medical drama and meditation on motherhood, The Water Giver is Joan Ryan's honest account of her doubts and mistakes in raising a learning-disabled son and the story of how his near-fatal accident gave her a second chance as a parent.
The Inheritance
A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This gripping story of the doctors at the forefront of Alzheimer’s research and the courageous North Dakota family whose rare genetic code is helping to understand our most feared diseases is “excellent, accessible...A science text that reads like a mystery and treats its subjects with humanity...
The Players Ball
A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
“An engrossing microcosm of the internet's Wild West years” (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war for control for what still...
Big Science
Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The epic story of how science went “big” and the forgotten genius who started it all—“entertaining, thoroughly researched…partly a biography, partly an account of the influence of Ernest Lawrence’s great idea, partly a short history of nuclear physics and the Bomb” (The Wall Street Journal).
Since...
Scalia
A Court of One
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
“[Murphy’s] biography of Justice Scalia is patient and thorough, alive both intellectually and morally….Functions as an MRI scan of one of the most influential conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.” (The New York Times): An authoritative, incisive and deeply researched book about...
Unorthodox
The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.
As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism,...
The Soul of a Butterfly
Reflections on Life's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
Former boxing legend Muhammad Ali, one of the best-known and best-loved celebrities and an international good-will ambassador, offers inspiration and hope as he describes the spiritual philosophy that sustains him.
"During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just...
The Terrorist's Son
A Story of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
An extraordinary story, never before told: The intimate, behind-the-scenes life of an American boy raised by his terrorist father—the man who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on...
Soil and Sacrament
A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Part spiritual quest, part agricultural travelogue, this moving and profound exploration of the joy and solace found in returning to the garden is inspiring and beautiful.
A POWERFUL, PERSONAL STORY OF HOW GROWING AND SHARING FOOD PULLS US CLOSER TO GOD
Like many seekers of the authentic...
How's Your Faith?
An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In this “thoughtful, introspective, and moving account” (The Washington Post), former NBC news anchor David Gregory probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer important questions about who we want to be and what we believe.
When David Gregory was a...