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Zero Waste Home
Scribner |
April 9, 2013 |
304 pages
Part inspirational story of Bea Johnson (the “Priestess of Waste-Free Living”) and how she transformed her family’s life for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing one liter per year; part practical, step-by-step guide that gives readers tools and tips to diminish their... More Info
$29.99
The Flamethrowers
Scribner |
April 2, 2013 |
400 pages
From the bestselling author whose debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was nominated for a National Book Award and reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review comes an extraordinarily ambitious new novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the... More Info
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Equal of the Sun
Scribner |
March 19, 2013 |
448 pages
Based on the life of an Iranian princess this is “a fine historical novel, a story of intrigue and action…its scheming and parricide rival A Game of Thrones…and may remind you of Mary Renault’s stunning The Persian Boy” (San Francisco Chronicle). Iran in 1576 is a place of wealth and... More Info
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Because I Said So!
Scribner |
December 4, 2012 |
256 pages
Don’t cross your eyes or they’ll stay like that! Feed a cold, starve a fever! Don’t touch your Halloween candy until we get it checked out! Never run with scissors Don’t look in the microwave while it’s running! This will go down on your permanent record Is any of it true? If so, how... More Info
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The Light Between Oceans
Scribner |
April 2, 2013 |
384 pages
This months-long New York Times bestseller is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page,” (O, The Oprah Magazine). After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper... More Info
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Pandora's Lunchbox
Scribner |
February 26, 2013 |
288 pages
In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma a fascinating and cutting-edge look at the scary truth about what really goes into our food. If a piece of individually wrapped cheese retains its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed... More Info
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Scribner |
February 7, 2012 |
368 pages
30th Anniversary Edition Updated with new insights from the next generation You can stop fighting with your children! Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be more effective with your children—and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents... More Info
Far From the Tree
Scribner |
November 13, 2012 |
976 pages
From the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find... More Info
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The Ripple Effect
Scribner Book Company |
April 10, 2012 |
448 pages
Reveals how access to and preservation of fresh water is the planet's most pressing issue in the 21st century, in a book by the best-selling co-author of My Life in France that presents an array of colorful, obsessive, brilliant--and sometimes shadowy--characters through which these issues come... More Info
Empire of the Summer Moon
Scribner |
May 10, 2011 |
371 pages
In the tradition of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," Gwynne presents a stunningly vivid historical account of the 40-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.
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Shock of Gray
Scribner |
October 2, 2012 |
416 pages
The New York Times bestselling author of China, Inc. reports on the astounding economic and political ramifications of our aging world. The world’s population is rapidly aging—by the year 2030, one billion people will be sixty-five or older. And for the first time in history, the number of... More Info
Smoke Signals
Scribner |
August 14, 2012 |
528 pages
A bestselling author of Acid Dreams tells the great American pot story— a panoramic, character-driven saga that examines the medical, recreational, scientific, and economic dimensions of the world’s most controversial plant. Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana from its... More Info
The American Way of Eating
Scribner |
October 2, 2012 |
352 pages
When award-winning (and working-class) journalist Tracie McMillan saw foodies swooning over $9 organic tomatoes, she couldn’t help but wonder: What about the rest of us? Why do working Americans eat the way we do? And what can we do to change it? To find out, McMillan went undercover in three... More Info
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The Visible Man
Scribner Book Company |
June 5, 2012 |
256 pages
Treating a delusional scientist who has been using cloaking technology from an aborted government project to render himself nearly invisible, Austin therapist Victoria Vick listens to his accounts of spying on the private lives of others, a situation with which Victoria becomes obsessed to the... More Info
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An Everlasting Meal
Scribner Book Company |
September 4, 2012 |
288 pages
In "An Everlasting Meal, " Tamar Adler has written a book that "reads less like a cookbook than like a recipe for a delicious life" ("New York" magazine).In this meditation on cooking and eating, Tamar weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on feeding ourselves well. With... More Info
Eight Girls Taking Pictures
Scribner |
November 6, 2012 |
352 pages
Bestselling author Whitney Otto’ s Eight Girls Taking Pictures i s a profoundly moving portrayal of the lives of women, imagining the thoughts and circumstances that produced eight famous female photographers of the twentieth century. This captivating novel opens in 1917 as Cymbeline Kelley... More Info
Makeup to Breakup
Scribner |
October 23, 2012 |
384 pages
LEGENDARY founding KISS drummer Peter “Catman” Criss has lived an incredible life in music, from the streets of Brooklyn to the social clubs of New York City to the ultimate heights of rock ’n’ roll success and excess. KISS formed in 1973 and broke new ground with their elaborate makeup,... More Info
Stone Arabia
Scribner |
July 10, 2012 |
256 pages
In the sibling relationship, “there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other,” says Denise Kranis. For Denise and her brother, Nik, now in their forties, no relationship is more significant. They grew up in Los Angeles in the late seventies and early eighties. Nik... More Info
The Dovekeepers
Scribner Book Company |
April 3, 2012 |
528 pages
The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel: “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly).Nearly 2,000 years ago, nine hundred Jews held... More Info
Bed
Scribner |
August 7, 2012 |
272 pages
Mal Ede, a child of untamed manners and unbounded curiosity, is the eccentric eldest son of an otherwise typical middle-class family. But as the wonders of childhood fade into the responsibilities of adulthood, Mal’s spirits fade too. On his twenty-fifth birthday, disillusioned, Mal goes to... More Info
How to Piss in Public
Scribner Book Company |
March 20, 2012 |
288 pages
The cartoonist from the award-winning comic Pervert and creator of Vice magazine unabashedly recounts such outrageous misadventures as his streaking through New York City during the 2003 blackout and his invention of the "Warhol Children." 50,000 first printing.
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Equal of the Sun
Scribner Book Company |
June 5, 2012 |
448 pages
When the court of 16th-century Iran is thrown into turmoil by the heirless Shah's death, his daughter, Princess Pari, incites dissent with her efforts to instill order and taps the assistance of a eunuch servant to navigate a Machiavellian power struggle. By the Orange Prize-nominated author of The... More Info
The Bathing Women
Scribner |
October 9, 2012 |
368 pages
FROM AWARD-WINNING and bestselling Chinese writer Tie Ning comes a stunningly original novel that captures the spirit of a new generation of young professionals in contemporary China. The Bathing Women follows the lives of four women—Tiao, a children’s book editor; Fan, her sister, who thinks... More Info
The sun also rises
Scribner Book Company |
May 23, 2013 |
251 pages
A profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.
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The Last of the Tribe
Scribner Book Company |
June 15, 2010 |
288 pages
Explains how an effort to save a Brazilian Indian, the last of his tribe, was marred by businessmen and politicians; hostile, territorial farmers; and the Indian himself.
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Power Concedes Nothing
Scribner Book Company |
January 10, 2012 |
368 pages
An influential civil rights attorney and second cousin to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice describes the family beliefs and achievements that inspired her career, recounting her dedication to civil rights causes in areas ranging from transportation and education to the death penalty and... More Info
All Governments Lie
Scribner |
April 8, 2008 |
592 pages
A portrait of the twentieth-century independent journalist offers insight into his outspoken, five-decade pursuit of truthful, anti-establishment journalism, in an account that includes coverage of his denouncements of Cold War policies, McCarthyism, and the Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin incident.... More Info
The Dirty Life
Scribner Book Company |
April 12, 2011 |
304 pages
On an impulse, Kimball shed her city self and moved to 500 acres near Lake Champlain to start a new farm with her husband. "The Dirty Life" is the captivating chronicle of their first year on Essex Farm, from the cold North Country winter through the following harvest season--complete with their... More Info
The Blessing of a B Minus
Scribner Book Company |
September 13, 2011 |
224 pages
New York Times bestselling author, internationally known clinical psychologist, and lecturer Wendy Mogel returns with a revelatory new book on parenting teenagers. Mogel’s sage advice on parenting young children has struck a chord with thousands of readers and made her one of today’s most... More Info
Henry's Demons
Scribner Book Company |
February 14, 2012 |
256 pages
On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the Newhaven estuaryoutside Brighton, England, and nearly drowned. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist Patrick Cockburn learned from his wife,... More Info
An Everlasting Meal
Scribner Book Company |
October 18, 2011 |
250 pages
Inspired by M.F.K. Fisher's 1942 How to Cook a Wolf, a practical guide to cooking and eating well regardless of financial circumstances explains how to shop and cook with an eye toward future meals while using scraps and leftovers to prepare nutritious, satisfying secondary foods. 25,000 first... More Info
The lady matador's hotel
Scribner Book Company |
January 3, 2012 |
240 pages
A novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a hotel in an unnamed Latin American country in the midst of political turmoil.
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The American Way of Eating
Scribner Book Company |
February 21, 2012 |
336 pages
An award-winning journalist traces her 2009 immersion into the national food system to explore issues about how working-class Americans can afford to eat as they should, describing how she worked as a farm laborer, Wal-Mart grocery clerk and Applebee's expediter while living within the means of... More Info
Three Stages of Amazement
Scribner Book Company |
February 7, 2012 |
320 pages
In San Francisco during the first year of Barack Obama's presidency, Lena Rusch and her husband Charlie Pepper must deal with a stillborn child, an economic crash, a ruthless business rival and the attentions of an old lover.
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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
Scribner Book Company |
March 6, 2012 |
272 pages
Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. She has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers—students, successful businesswomen, midwives,... More Info
11/22/63
Scribner |
November 8, 2011 |
864 pages
ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTSRANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENTKENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED.WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen Kingwho has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and... More Info
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
Scribner Book Company |
October 20, 2009 |
231 pages
Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new... More Info
A Woman Among Warlords
Scribner Book Company |
October 20, 2009 |
231 pages
In the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's "Infidel," and also the subject of an award-winning documentary, this impassioned, first-person account tells of a courageous young Afghani woman who risks her life by denouncing the powerful warlords in her country.
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The emperor of all maladies
Scribner Book Company |
November 16, 2010 |
571 pages
A historical assessment of cancer addresses both the courageous battles against the complex disease and the misperceptions and hubris that have compromised modern understandings, providing coverage of such topics as ancient-world surgeries and the developments of present-day treatments.
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