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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: Elizabeth Church Podcasts The Atomic Weight of Love
Lawyer and debut author Elizabeth Church was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Her father, a research chemist, was drafted out of Carnegie Mellon University, and was sent to join other scientists working in secret on the Manhattan Project. Church’s mother, a biologist, eventually joined her husband in Los Alamos. Church discusses her sweeping, beautiful novel The Atomic Weight of Love, the story of many of the women who sacrificed their careers so that their husbands could pursue unique opportunities in scientific research.
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.
Live: Anna Newell Jones Podcasts The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living
Anna Newell Jones, creator of the popular blog AndThenWeSaved.com, reads from and discusses her helpful, timely new guidebook.
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: Amy Haimerl Podcasts Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home
Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband were priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decided to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy.
Live: Elizabeth Church Podcasts The Atomic Weight of Love
Lawyer and debut author Elizabeth Church was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Her father, a research chemist, was drafted out of Carnegie Mellon University, and was sent to join other scientists working in secret on the Manhattan Project. Church’s mother, a biologist, eventually joined her husband in Los Alamos. Church discusses her sweeping, beautiful novel The Atomic Weight of Love, the story of many of the women who sacrificed their careers so that their husbands could pursue unique opportunities in scientific research.
Live: Matteson Perry Podcasts Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch
Perry discusses his hilarious new book Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch, a real-life romantic comedy about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being single, and how a nice guy survived dating in the twenty-first century.
Interview: Shannon Stacey discusses Falling for Max
Max Crawford has reached the point in life where he’s starting to think about settling down. Unfortunately, he’s always been a little awkward when it comes to social interactions, and working from home doesn’t help. He spends so much time alone, painting beautiful, historically accurate model trains that half of Whitford has begun to joke that he may be a serial killer. Not exactly prime husband material.
Interview: Anne Girard discusses Madame Picasso
The mesmerizing and untold story of Eva Gouel, the unforgettable woman who stole the heart of the greatest artist of our time.
When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world.
Interview: Lori Foster discusses No Limits
A surprise inheritance reunites a mixed martial arts fighter with the woman he’s never forgotten in the first in a smoldering hot Ultimate series from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster.
Live: Randy Henderson Podcasts Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free
In this sequel to his acclaimed debut novel, Finn Fancy Necromancy, Finn Gramaraye is settling back into the real world after his twenty-five-year-long imprisonment in the otherworld of the Fey. But trouble always seems to follow Finn, and the present is no different!
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: Marissa Meyer Podcasts Winter
Marissa Meyer, author of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, which includes Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, reads from and discusses the eagerly anticipated, epic conclusion to the series, Winter.