Books from Scribner Book Company
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The Body Artist: A Novel
By Don DeLilloArtist Lauren Hartke, living in a rented coastal house, meets a strange, ageless man with an uncanny knowledge of her life.
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A Shadow of Himself
By Jay Williams, Michael DelvingI understand they have been known to put the balls in a stocking and use them as weapons . In this case , they seem to have thrown them ... I shouldn't imagine it would take much , in any case , to bring out the devil in these lads .
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Heritage of Freedom
By Donald A. RitchieHeritage of Freedom
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A Question of Honour: Inside New Labour and the True Story of the Cash F
By Lord Michael LevyHe was cleared of all the allegations made but on the way, his name and reputation were dragged through the media. Now, he tells his side of the story for the first time. Michael Levy has had a remarkable life.
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The Best American Poetry, 1989
By Donald Hall, David LehmanThis volume presents 75 poets--both new and established--published in the preceding year.
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Circle William: A Novel
By Bill HarlowTurning to the boat's coxswain , Arnold could be heard shouting “ Now that's how you shoot an approach , sailor . ... Seems to me you'll want to analyze the computer tapes from CIC and that can't be done in theater .
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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota
By Reneé S. FloodOlder brother Stephenson recalled the old folks ' dilemma : “ The noise and confusion of seven healthy active children soon became irksome to them ... Thomas went to town one day and married a “ sturdy beauty , ” Jane Boynton Cox ...
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Any Place I Hang My Hat
By Susan IsaacsA New York Times Bestselling AuthorRaised by a shoplifting grandma after being abandoned by her parents, upscale political reporter Amy Lincoln can't resist the tabloid-worthy story she's just been handed: a student claims that a leading ...
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Goldberg Variations: A Novel
By Susan IsaacsA septuagenarian business owner evaluates her grandchildren as possible successors to her multi-million-dollar beauty empire, including New York movie studio editor Daisy, womanizing sports PR representative Matt, and religious Legal Aid ...
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Past Perfect
By Susan IsaacsHaving been fired from her CIA dream job without an explanation thirteen years earlier, cable television writer Katie Schottland is enlisted for help by a former colleague who offers insight into the mystery of Katie's dismissal.
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A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance
By Sarah Ban BreathnachIn loco parentis Keith Johnson I always pass on good advice . ... In The Seasons of a Man's Life , his classic analysis of the stages of male psychological development , Daniel J. Levinson concludes that in early adulthood ...
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Fifty Faces of Football
By Harold RosenthalThere were other bidders , but Wolman got it . Concurrently he gave Kuharich a fifteen - year contract as head coach and general manager . Kuharich served only one - third of that fifteen - year span . Wolman lost the club when his ...
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The High Riders
By Margaret HodgesForced by his late arrival in England to stay in separate lodgings from the rest of his school's crew team, 14-year-old Larry Dunlap finds himself becoming increasingly involved with the...
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The Tent of Orange Mist: A Novel
By Paul West... write prose so immaculate as that of Paul West . ” - Jonathan Yardley , The Washington Post “ This vital writer and man of irrepressible spirit is able to analyze his every last dilemma . " --Alexander Theroux , The Chicago Tribune ...
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A Pawn for a Queen: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Court
By Fiona Buckleybright cushions , and a table spread with white damask , on which wine and cakes stood waiting . And on a couch near the fireside , with an embroidery frame in her hands and a glossy rug of dark fur drawn over her , lay the crippled ...
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Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream: NPR's Roving Correspondent Reports from the Bumpy Road to Success
By Bob GarfieldThere were the sand sharks taken in the Delaware Bay , from the garvey with the motor with no power . I landed two such fish , two sinewy mockeries of sharkness . Yes , but then there was the walleye — the walleye of which so many still ...
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The Scribner Jane Austen Companion
By A. Walton Litz, J. David Grey, Brian SouthamThe Scribner Jane Austen Companion
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Cloud Chamber: A Novel
By Michael DorrisFrom late-nineteenth-century Ireland to present-day America, the diverse members of a family--men, women, and children--speak out in their own voices about their emotions, passions, determination, memories, and, above all, the persistence ...
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A Death to Remember
By Roger OrmerodAfter government investigator Cliff Summers is attacked, garage owner Tony Clayton is sent to jail leaving Summers to unravel the truth behind the attack with the help of a woman and a corpse
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Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas
By Richard Dean Burns, Fredrik Logevall, Alexander De CondeEssays by subject experts treat concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control, with specific articles on topics ranging from anti-imperialism to environmental diplomacy, from refugee policies to ...