Author: Myra MacPherson
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: journalist, stone, rebel, times, lie, life, governments
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2008-04-08
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 1416556796
ISBN-13: 9781416556794

Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, "All Governments Lie" is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America’s most independent and revered journalists, whose work carries the same immediacy it did almost a half century ago, highlighting the ever-present need for dissenting voices. In the world of Washington political journalism, notorious for trading independence for access, I. F. "Izzy" Stone was so unique as to be a genuine wonder. Always skeptical -- "All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the s

Author: William Gaddis
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: own, frolic
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1995-02-10
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0684800527
ISBN-13: 9780684800523

A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions, Carpenter’s Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on the American legal system. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Author: Perri Knize
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: odyssey, piano, obsession, grand
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0743276396
ISBN-13: 9780743276399

A fascinating, lyrical memoir about one woman’s obsessive search for the perfect piano-and about finding and pursuing passion at any ageHow can a particular piano be so seductive that someone would turn her life upside down to answer its call? How does music change human consciousness and transport us to rapture? What makes it beautiful? In this elegantly written and heartfelt account, Perri Knize explores these questions with a music lover’s ardor, a poet’s inspiration, and a reporter’s thirst for knowledge. The daughter of a professional musician, Knize was raised in

Authors:Mary Buffett, David Clark,
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: personal, business, success, tools, proven, buffett, management, secrets, warren
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-12-08
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1439149372
ISBN-13: 9781439149379

Even in today’s economic climate, when so many investors and major companies are failing, Warren Buffett continues to be successful in all aspects of his life. Mary Buffett and David Clark have written the first book ever to take an in-depth look at Warren Buffett’s philosophies for personal and professional management -- what they are, how they work, and how you can use them.Through close examination of Warren Buffett’s life and career from his earliest days to now, Buffett and Clark shed light on his decision-making processes and reveal his strategies for keeping on track a

Author: Linda Grant
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: novel, backs, clothes
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2008-11-25
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 143914236X
ISBN-13: 9781439142363

Orange Prize winner and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008, Linda Grant has created an enchanting portrait of a woman who, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals. In vivid and supple prose, Grant subtly constructs a powerful story of family, love, and the hold the past has on the present.Vivien Kovacs, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from the world by her timid Hungarian refugee parents, who conceal the details of their history and shy away from any encounter with the outside world. She learns how to navigate British

Author: Paul Monette
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: woods, life, tale, sanctuary
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1997-02-14
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0684832860
ISBN-13: 9780684832869

The final work by the critically acclaimed late author presents a classic fairy tale that brings the world of the Great Horned Owl to life as he sets his intolerant agenda for the forest, perceptively capturing the strangeness of society’s rules and the liberating nature of love. 50,000 first printing.

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: stories, kilimanjaro, snows
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1995-10-03
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0684804441
ISBN-13: 9780684804446

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway’s most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway’s mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for the first time in Hemingway’s career, to his father’s suicide; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," a "brilliant fusion of personal observation, heresay, a