Scribner: 1672 books
Come Up and See Me Sometime
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
With Mae West as her ingenious guiding spirit, Erika Krouse introduces us to thirteen young, single, geographically and emotionally nomadic women looking for self-knowledge and trouble.
"I like to sleep with other women's husbands," says the narrator of "The Husbands" by way of introduction;...
Flesh and Bone and Water
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a seductive, dazzling, atmospheric story of family, class, and deception set against the mesmerizing backdrops of Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon River, and London.
André is a listless Brazilian teenager and the son of a successful plastic surgeon...
by John Baillie
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Editor Susanna Wright offers this updated edition of a Christian devotional classic—invoking the daily prayers and timeless imagery of the original text through modern, accessible language.
In this wonderful collection, famed theologian Dr. John Baillie shares personal prayers for people...
George Will vs. Nick Hornby
An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Sports, this essay is about baseball and soccer.
The Cheese Monkeys
A Novel in Two Semesters
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2002
A hilarious debut novel that could only be described as a portrait of the designer as a young man.
"Um...so what exactly is a Cheese Monkey?"
Good question. But strictly off-limits. We can tell you that The Cheese Monkeys is a witty and effervescent coming-of-age novel about headless waterfowl, fake...
The Year that Changed the World
The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
ON THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, MICHAEL MEYER PROVIDES A RIVETING EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE THAT BRILLIANTLY REWRITES OUR CONVENTIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE COLD WAR CAME TO AN END AND HOLDS IMPORTANT LESSONS FOR AMERICA'S CURRENT...
Tall Man
The Death of Doomadgee
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured....
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
From international bestseller Stephen King, a classic story that engages our emotions on the most primal level, a fairy tale grimmer than Grimm but aglow with a girl’s indomitable spirit.
What if the woods were full of them? And of course they were, the woods were full of everything you didn’t...
by Robert Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The body of a young man, almost naked, found in the car park behind a Haworth restaurant marks the beginning of the case, and it is his identity that is the first puzzle for DC Charlie Peace and his superior, Detective Superintendent Oddie. But before long the puzzle that most concerns them is the...
Chuck Klosterman on Sports
A Collection of Previously Published Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Chuck Klosterman IV; and Eating the Dinosaur, these essays are now available in this ebook collection for fans, in particular, of Klosterman’s sportswriting.
Little League Confidential
One Coach's Completely Unauthorized Tale of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A journalist dad tells of his exhilarating experiences coaching his son’s Little League team with anecdotes about a ballerina batter, an unfair umpire uncle, and other stories that provide a fresh perspective on an American institution.
Super Bowl XL: "When Blogging Was Young, We Were Already Old"
A Previously Published Essay
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally a blog for ESPN.com and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Sports, this essay is about Super Bowl XL.
Late to the Ball
A Journey into Tennis and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
An award-winning author attempts to become a nationally competitive tennis player—at the age of sixty—in this “soulful meditation on aging, companionship, and the power of self-improvement” (The Wall Street Journal).
Being a man or a woman in your early sixties is different than it...
My Bat Boy Days
Lessons I Learned from the Boys of Summer
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
On the evening of March 28, 1956, Steve Garvey's father, a Greyhound bus driver in the Tampa Bay area, asked his young son if he'd like to accompany him as he drove the Brooklyn Dodgers to a spring-training game with the New York Yankees. For Garvey, a baseball card collector and an aspiring Little...