Aug 3, 2015 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Non-Fiction
This powerfully moving account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, shows how their military service affected their friendship, their personal lives, and their families. Deeply reported and beautifully written, Soldier Girls is truly groundbreaking.
Jul 29, 2015 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Non-Fiction
Hart discusses his new book, The Republic of Conscience, a meditation on the growing gap between the founding principles of the United States Constitution and our current political landscape.
Jul 7, 2015 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Non-Fiction
Using first-hand accounts, declassified documents from both sides of the conflict, and featuring unpublished photographs, The Hunter Killers takes readers into the skies, and up close to the bloody duels that left half the Weasels dead or captured. At its center are the men who risked everything to fight the most dangerous anti-aircraft weapons the world had seen.
Jun 22, 2015 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Fiction
Neal Stephenson, the New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon, reads from and discusses his eagerly anticipated new book Seveneves, an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic — a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.
Jun 8, 2015 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Fiction, iRead Mysteries
When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found surfaces in Sheriff Walt Longmire’s jurisdiction, it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum-until Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on whose property the remains were discovered, turns up dead, floating face down in a turtle pond.
May 26, 2015 | iRead Best Sellers, iRead Fiction
T. C. Boyle reads from and discusses his eagerly anticipated new novel The Harder They Come, a powerful, gripping novel that examines the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character. As he explores a father’s legacy of violence and his powerlessness in relating to his equally violent son, Boyle offers unparalleled psychological insights into the American psyche.