Scribner: 1672 books
Racing the Rain
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner—acclaimed by Runner’s World as “the best novel ever written about running”—comes that novel’s prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and ’60s on Florida’s Gold Coast.
Quenton Cassidy...
The SABR Baseball List & Record Book
Baseball's Most Fascinating Records and Unusual Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
From the authority on baseball research and statistics comes a vast and fascinating compendium of unique baseball lists and records.
The SABR Baseball List & Record Book is an expansive collection of pitching, hitting, fielding, home run, team, and rookie records not available online or in...
Jump Attack
The Formula for Explosive Athletic Performance, Jumping Higher, and Training Like the Pros
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Legendary trainer Tim Grover’s internationally acclaimed training program used by the pros, including Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant—now completely revised, updated, and expanded, with 100 new photos.
Since 1989 when Tim Grover began training Michael Jordan, hundreds of elite competitors...
Just Kick It
Tales of an Underdog, Over-Age, Out-of-Place Semi-Pro Football Player
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Nearing 40, standing five feet eight, weighing in at 160 pounds, Mark St. Amant was most definitely not a football player. He had never played a single down of real football in his life and even in the sports he did play, his greatest skill seemed to be choking when the game was on the line. So why...
Becoming Manny
Inside the Life of Baseball's Most Enigmatic Slugger
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Authorized by the future Hall of Famer himself, and written by a clinical psychologist and an award-winning investigative journalist, Becoming Manny is the incredible story behind one of the greatest baseball sluggers of all time. Manny Ramirez ranks seventeenth in career home runs and eighth in career...
The Call of Sedona
Journey of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Call of Sedona speaks to anyone seeking greater fulfillment and deeper meaning in their lives. With practical advice on meditation and profound insights on the healing power of the earth, this book gives you the guidance you need to embark on your own journey of the heart.
If you haven’t...
33: Celtics vs. Lakers
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 Celtics fans and Lakers fans.
Brooklyn Bounce
The Highs and Lows of Nets Basketball's Historic First Season in the Borough
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
“A breezy, cautionary tale for modern sports fans” (Booklist) of the Brooklyn Nets’ inaugural season, which brought back pro sports to the borough of Brooklyn—now updated to include the 2013-2014 season.
When the Brooklyn Nets played their first game at Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn...
The Perfect Pass
American Genius and the Reinvention of Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
An “excellent sports history” (Publishers Weekly) in the tradition of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how two unknown coaches revolutionized American football at every level, from high school to the NFL.
Hal Mumme spent fourteen...
Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
Widely acclaimed for his groundbreaking crime novels Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake, award-winning author John Dunning triumphantly returns with a riveting new thriller that takes us back to the summer of 1942, when radio was in its prime, when daylight saving time gave way to "wartime," when...
Solomon Time
An Unlikely Quest in the South Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Who hasn't fantasized about dismantling his or her hassled, wired-up life for a simpler existence? Yet who among us has the will and opportunity to do it? The answer, of course, is very few.
Will Randall, a young English schoolmaster, had such a chance -- and took it. He uprooted his conventional...
by Richard Bach
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Biplane is the story of Richard Bach’s solo flight into the American skies—a flight that became a personal quest to discover everything that lies beyond the ordinary. Includes an introduction by Ray Bradbury.
Nine Months at Ground Zero
The Story of the Brotherhood of Workers Who Took on a Job Like No Other
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Hours after two airplanes hit the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, Charlie Vitchers, a construction superintendent, and Bobby Gray, a crane operator, headed downtown. They knew their skills would be crucial amid the chaos and destruction after the towers fell.
What they...
Letitia Baldrige's New Manners for New Times
A Complete Guide to Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO MANNERS, REVISED AND UPDATED TO ACCOMODATE TODAY'S HIGH-SPEED LIFESTYLES, SHIFTING VALUES, AND EVER-EVOLVING DEFINITION OF FAMILY.
Letitia Baldrige is universally recognized as the country's leading authority on executive, domestic, and social manners. She began writing...