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Hear best-selling authors talking about their new books, from some of the top book and author podcast showsLive: Donald Ray Pollock Podcasts The Heavenly Table
The Heavenly Table tells the story of two hardworking men, Pearl Jewett and Ellsworth Fiddler, whose paths collide on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory.
Live: Bonnie Nadzam Podcasts Lions
Set on the high plains of Colorado, a young couple find their love and – and everything they know to be true – threatened by the arrival of an unwelcome stranger. A story of awakening, Lions is an exquisite novel that explores ambition and the responsibilities we have to ourselves and each other.
Live: Brad Thor Podcasts Foreign Agent
Brad Thor, the New York Times bestselling author of Full Black and Blowback, reads from and discusses Foreign Agent, his brilliant new thriller as current as tomorrow’s headlines.
Live: Douglas Brinkley Podcasts Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
In his book The Wilderness Warrior, Brinkley celebrated Theodore Roosevelt’s spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect 234 million acres of wild America. Now, in Rightful Heritage, he turns his attention to another indefatigable environmental leader, Theodore’s distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to chronicle his essential yet undersung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the premier protector of America’s public lands.
Live: Joyce Maynard Podcasts Under the Influence
This provocative, complex, and relentlessly gripping novel contains a story about emotional seduction and betrayal, asking: Where do the boundaries of friendship lie? And at what point does generosity become a form of deadly manipulation?
Live: Jeffery Deaver Podcasts The Steel Kiss
In this new blockbuster thriller, forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme, and his colleague Amelia Sachs find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a brilliant killer who turns common products into murder weapons. As the body count threatens to grow, Sachs and Rhyme must race against the clock to unmask his identity – and discover his mission.
Live: Stewart O’Nan Podcasts West of Sunset
O’Nan reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his bestselling novel West of Sunset, his graceful, subtle, and and haunting novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood.
Live: Amy Cuddy Podcasts Presence
Amy Cuddy is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School who studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments affect people. Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered by NPR, New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, and more.
Live: Chris Bohjalian Podcasts The Guest Room
“A good man’s momentary moral lapse plunges his happy, prosperous life into a nightmare of murderous gangsters and remorseless sex traffickers. Bohjalian’s deftness as a storyteller is on full display here, as he couples the urgency of a compulsively readable crime thriller with a quiet meditation on the meaning of family and relationships; the painstaking, quotidian, essential business of how we win love, and how swiftly we can lose it.” – Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning author of March
Live: Adam Makos Podcasts Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom Hudner passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi, Jesse Brown became the navy’s first black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn’t even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32, and when one of the duo was shot down behind enemy lines and pinned in his burning plane, the other faced an unthinkable choice: watch his friend die or attempt history’s most audacious one-man rescue mission.