Sarah Crichton Books imprint: 128 books
Overwhelmed
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?
According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing...
Aesop's Mirror
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
"Everything I needed to know about Fox and Grapes mirror, I knew the moment I first saw it"
What antiques restorer Maryalice Huggins knew when she stumbled across the mirror at a country auction in Rhode Island was this: She was besotted. Rococo and huge (more than eight feet tall),...
by Lisa Zeidner
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
"Subtle, astute . . . With Layover, Zeidner joins the ranks of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood and Fay Weldon." —Karen Karbo, The New York Times Book Review
Claire Newbold has watched her life collapse: her only child has died, her husband has been unfaithful, and she's just learned...
The Guilty Plea
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
With The Guilty Plea, a gripping sequel to the international bestseller Old City Hall, Robert Rotenberg has delivered another sharp, suspenseful legal thriller with an explosive conclusion.
On the morning his high-profile divorce trial is set to begin, Terrance Wyler, the youngest son of Toronto's...
Old City Hall
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
"Breathtaking . . . A tightly woven spiderweb of plot and a rich cast of characters make this a truly gripping read." —Jeffery Deaver, author of The Bodies Left Behind
It should be an open–and–shut case. Canada's leading radio–show host, Kevin Brace, has confessed to killing...
by Sheila Weller
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid—and brilliant—Carrie Fisher
In her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller—with heart and a profound feeling for the times—gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of three icons: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon....
Alphabet Juice
The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Ali G: How many words does you know?
Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them.
Ali G: What is some of 'em?
—Da Ali G Show
Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder...
The Loving Husband
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Be careful, Fran,” the man said quietly. “About what you think you know.”
In a dilapidated farmhouse out in the vast waterlogged plains of the English Fenlands, Fran awakes groggily to her baby’s cries one February night and finds the bed empty...
Only Connect
The Way to Save Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
An inspiring new vision for America's public schools from one of the nation's top educators
American fourth graders score twelfth in the world in math skills, after Latvia and Hungary. Our eighth graders are fifteenth, below Malaysia and Slovakia. And by the time they're fifteen years old,...
No Wall Too High
One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
"A masterpiece." —The Washington Post
"It was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days."
Mao Zedong’s labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet Gulag, they subjected their inmates to backbreaking labor,...
Shouting Won't Help
Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn't hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she...
Apple Tree Yard
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Soon To Be a STARZ Mini-Series, Starring Emily Watson
Yvonne Carmichael sits in the witness box. The charge is murder. Before all of this, she was happily married, a successful scientist, a mother of two. Now she is a suspect, squirming under florescent lights and the penetrating gaze of the...
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck
Why We Can't Look Away
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Why can't we look away?
Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass...
The Man from Primrose Lane
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
A mind-bending, genre-twisting debut novel
In West Akron, Ohio, there lived a reclusive elderly man who always wore mittens, even in July. He had no friends and no family; all over town, he was known as the Man from Primrose Lane. And on a summer day, someone murdered him.
Fast-forward...