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Live: Paolo Bacigalupi Podcasts The Water Knife
“A fresh cautionary tale classic, depicting an America newly shaped by scarcity of our most vital resource. The pages practically turn themselves in a tense, taut plot of crosses and double-crosses, given added depth by riveting characters. This brutal near-future thriller seems so plausible in the world it depicts that you will want to stock up on bottled water.” — Library Journal, starred review
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: Ken Ilgunas Podcasts Trespassing Across America
Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Trespassing Across America is both a fascinating account of one man’s remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves both physically and mentally.
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: Governor Bill Ritter Podcasts Powering Forward: What Everyone Should Know about America’s Energy Revolution
A historic energy revolution is underway in the United States. Wind, sunlight, and other sustainable resources are now the fastest growing sources of energy in the U.S. and worldwide. Governor Ritter’s book discusses the forces behind the energy revolution, the new ways we must think about energy, and the future of fossil and renewable fuels.
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: Gina Wohlsdorf Podcasts Security
Riveting to the final sentence, Security is fierce, wry, and impossible to put down. With a deep bow to the literary tradition of Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Daphne du Maurier, Wohlsdorf’s razor-wire prose blitzes readers with quick twists, sharp turns, and gasp-inducing terror.
Live: Governor John Hickenlooper Podcasts The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics
Governor Hickenlooper reads from and discusses his new memoir The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer & Politics, his candid, and very funny story, from early loss to college on the ten-year plan, to remarkable business and political success.
Live: J. Kael Weston Podcasts The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the U.S. State Department in some of the most dangerous frontline locations. Upon his return home, while traveling the country to pay respect to the dead and wounded, he began to ask himself many questions about the costs and legacies of the wars.
Interview: Terri Brisbin discusses Yield to the Highlander
Fearsome warrior Aidan MacLerie may be brave and unquestionably loyal to his family and clan, but his heart remains restless. Until he meets stunning Catriona MacKenzie. She’s a married woman, so he can never truly possess her, yet he seeks her surrender—one kiss at a time…
Interview: Ann Aguirre discusses I Want it That Way
Nadia Conrad has big dreams, and she’s determined to make them come true—for her parents’ sake as well as her own. But between maintaining her college scholarship and working at the local daycare to support herself, she barely has time to think, let alone date. Then she moves into a new apartment and meets the taciturn yet irresistible guy in 1B…
Live: Nicholas Sparks Podcasts At First Sight
Nicholas Sparks, best-selling author of “The Notebook,” discusses his new novel, “At First Sight.”
Live: Jennifer McMahon Podcasts The Night Sister
Jennifer McMahon discusses The Night Sister, an atmospheric, gripping, and suspenseful tale that probes the bond between sisters and the peril of keeping secrets.
Live: Carrie Vaughn Podcasts Kitty Saves the World
Carrie Vaughn discusses Kitty Saves the World, the fourteenth and final novel in the series featuring everybody’s favorite werewolf DJ and out-of-the-closet supernatural creature, Kitty Norville.
Live: C.J. Box Podcasts Badlands
Box reads from and discusses his new novel Badlands, a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won’t soon forget.