From the bestselling National Book Award finalist, a masterful blend of history and memoir featuring the author’s four brothers and iconic brothers in history—the Thoreaus, the Van Goghs, the Kelloggs, the Marx brothers, and the Booths.

George Howe Colt believes that he would be an entirely different man had he not grown up in a family of four brothers. He...

The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks that 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 on...

In the opening pages of THE VAULT (Scribner, September 13, 2011), Martin Rokeby says to his wife "I've often wondered what's under that lid thing but never bothered to have a look." Readers of Ruth Rendell's 1999 knockout of a novel A Sight for Sore Eyes will suppress a shiver of horror. We know what's under that lid thing - three dead bodies. At least we...

Based on a popular New York Times article, a hilarious and compulsively readable memoir by a former Second City writer who combats his Asperger Syndrome and reinvents himself by creating a list of "best practices" to manage his quirky behavior and try to save his marriage.

Wickedly funny and undeniably winning, The Journal of Best Practices offers a...

A book-length manifesto for the post-Pollan reader, and modeled on M.F.K. Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf--written in 1941 during wartime rations to convince readers that good eating was always possible--An Everlasting Meal teaches how to cook well regardless of circumstance, offering a practical, pleasurable path to the kitchen.

Tamar Adler describes how to...

From Norway’s bestselling female crime writer comes a suspenseful locked-room mystery set in an isolated hotel in Norway, where guests stranded during a monumental snowstorm start turning up dead.

A TRAIN ON ITS WAY to the northern reaches of Norway derails during a massive blizzard, 1,222 meters above sea level. The passengers abandon the train for a...

Stephen King’s #1 bestselling time-travel novel—now a limited series on Hulu starring James Franco!

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his...

From a writer described as "a worthy successor to Raymond Chandler" (Michael Connelly), the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Shortcut Man, featuring Dick Henry in a rousing tale of sin and salvation in the City of Angels.

In the second installment of the Shortcut Man series, Dick Henry--who believes that the shortest answer to many problems may not...

Iran in 1576 is a place of peace, wealth, and dazzling beauty. But when the Shah dies without having named an heir, the court is thrown into tumult. Princess Pari, the Shah’s daughter and closest advisor, knows more about the inner workings of the state than almost anyone, but the princess’s maneuvers to instill order...

Written by a promising young historian, AMERICAN CANOPY tells the extraordinary story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of the nation's history (Scribner; on-sale April 17, 2012). Like bestsellers Michael Pollan with Second Nature and Mark Kurlansky with Cod, Eric Rutkow reconceives America's historical relationship...

A taut, suspenseful, assured literary debut that explores the dark side of desire and ambition through one woman’s calculated entry into an elite world and a destiny of her own design.

On a bitter winter’s night, a young woman named Frances comes upon the aftermath of a car crash and, while comforting the dying driver...

In his obituary of famous ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq (known as Tanny), long-time dance critic Clive Barnes wrote: "The world of Balanchine ballets, like the world of Shakespearean comedy, [was] dominated by beautiful women. No one was more beautiful than Tanny."

The Master's Muse (Scribner; on-sale May 8, 2012; 978-1-4516-5538-4) is based on...

An exciting debut novel set in the exotic, bustling streets of coastal China—a woman whose life is restored when she opens a small café and gains the courage to trust what’s in her heart.

Lost among the mayhem that defines Macau, Grace’s life is slowly unraveling. Her marriage to Pete is fraying and her dreams of having...

An exquisite memoir about the eartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage and fatherhood by a talented new writer from the University of Iowa MFA program.

Joe Blair always had big plans. As a child, he would lie in his bed and study the Easy Rider poster stapled to his wall, dreaming of the day he could wear a leather jacket and be free. In his early twenties...

Scribner is delighted to announce the publication, on October 4, 2011, of Alice Hoffman's glorious new novel, THE DOVEKEEPERS. It took Hoffman five years to research and write this book, and in addition to being her most ambitious we also think it is her masterpiece - her Beloved. So it is especially gratifying that Toni Morrison herself has weighed in...

From the "remarkable storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle) and highly acclaimed author of The Wettest Country in the World comes a suspenseful novel about a young American couple who win a pub on the southernmost tip of Ireland and become embroiled in local violence and intrigue.