Fall 2023 Scribner Catalog
Category: History
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TitleThe Six
AuthorGrush, Loren
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1HISTORY / United States/20th Century
Category Full 2SCIENCE / Space Science/General
Category Full 3SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
ISBN-139781982172800
On Sale09/12/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$32.5
CDN Price$39.99
Pages432
Cover StatusReady to Feed
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America’s first women astronauts—six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle.
TitleThe Song of the Cell
AuthorMukherjee, Siddhartha
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1MEDICAL / History
Category Full 2SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Category Full 3HISTORY / Civilization
ISBN-139781982117368
On Sale09/12/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$21
CDN Price$28
Pages496
Cover StatusReady to Feed
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences!

Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!

In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Gene “blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner” (Oprah Daily).
TitleGreat Short Books
AuthorDavis, Kenneth
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1HISTORY / Study & Teaching
Category Full 2REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes
Category Full 3LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American/General
ISBN-139781982180058
On Sale09/19/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$19
CDN Price$26
Pages448
Cover StatusReady to Feed
This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the “perfect gift for busy bibliophiles” (BookPage).
TitleThe Island of Extraordinary Captives
AuthorParkin, Simon
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1HISTORY / Modern/20th Century/Holocaust
Category Full 2HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts/World War II/General
Category Full 3HISTORY / Modern/20th Century/General
ISBN-139781982178536
On Sale10/31/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$20
CDN Price$27
Pages432
Cover StatusReady to Feed
The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians, intellectuals, artists, and—possibly—genuine spies.
TitleEinstein in Time and Space
AuthorGraydon, Samuel
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
Category Full 2HISTORY / Modern/20th Century/General
Category Full 3SCIENCE / Physics/Relativity
ISBN-139781982185107
On Sale11/14/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$30
CDN Price$39.99
Pages384
Cover StatusReady to Feed
Walter Isaacson’s Einstein meets Craig Brown’s 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes.
TitleThe Meditations
AuthorAurelius, Marcus
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys/Ancient & Classical
Category Full 2SELF-HELP / Meditations
Category Full 3HISTORY / Ancient/Rome
ISBN-139781668050804
On Sale11/14/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$11
CDN Price$15
Pages160
Cover StatusNo Cover
TitleSailing the Graveyard Sea
AuthorSnow, Richard
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category Full 1HISTORY / Military/Naval
Category Full 2HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy
Category Full 3HISTORY / United States/19th Century
ISBN-139781982185442
On Sale11/21/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$29
CDN Price$39
Pages304
Cover StatusReady to Feed
A riveting account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known event that cost three innocent young men their lives—part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and dramatic as the bestselling novels of Patrick O’Brian.
TitleThe Lighthouse of Stalingrad
AuthorMacGregor, Iain
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category Full 1HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts/World War II/General
Category Full 2HISTORY / Europe/Germany
Category Full 3HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
ISBN-139781982163594
On Sale12/05/23
Title StatusNYP
US Price$19
CDN Price$26
Pages384
Cover StatusReady to Feed
A thrilling, vivid, and “compelling” (Wall Street Journal) account of the epic siege during one of World War II’s most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie.