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August 1, 2016 • 39 mins
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.
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July 26, 2016 • 35 mins
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.
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July 11, 2016 • 25 mins
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.
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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 prem...
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April 13, 2016 • 64 mins
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?
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April 4, 2016 • 50 mins
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.
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February 22, 2016 • 41 mins
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.
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February 16, 2016 • 63 mins
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.
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February 2, 2016 • 61 mins
“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 lo...
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January 25, 2016 • 56 mins
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...
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January 11, 2016 • 78 mins
Hancock discusses Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization, his sequel to his seminal work, filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light.
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January 6, 2016 • 55 mins
In this magisterial biography, Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military.
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December 21, 2015 • 38 mins
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.
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December 18, 2015
A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.
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November 16, 2015 • 45 mins
Lunden discusses her new book Had I Known: A Memoir of Survival, in which the mother of seven, and grandmother of two, speaks candidly about her very recent battle against breast cancer, her quest to learn about it and teach others, and the transformative effect it has had on her life.
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November 2, 2015 • 58 mins
With The Alloy of Law, Sanderson surprised readers with a bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America. Now Sanderson reads from and discusses Shadows of Self, the next eagerly anticipated book in the series.
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October 27, 2015 • 49 mins
Jonathan Evison, whose previous works include the award-winning novels All About Lulu, West of Here, and The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (currently in development for a film starring Paul Rudd), reads from and discusses his new novel This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, an irresistible, inventive novel, filled with racing, breathless, and vibrant prose.
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October 19, 2015 • 63 mins
John Lahr discusses his new book Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows, a collection of biographical detail and critical analysis which explores with insight and panache not only the lives of the theatricals but the liveliness of the stage worlds they have created.
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October 12, 2015 • 62 mins
With everything Drizzt’s fans crave – action, adventure, characters that resonate with equal measures of warrior spirit and deep compassion, and no shortage of wicked dark elves – Archmage is another exciting addition to Salvatore’s bestselling series.
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September 28, 2015 • 25 mins
Eli Gottlieb, author of several critically acclaimed novels, including the 2008 Indie Next pick Now You See Him, reads from and discusses his new novel Best Boy, a September, 2015, Indie Next pick. Written astonishingly in the first-person voice of an autistic adult man, Best Boy is a piercing, achingly funny, shattering novel no reader will forget.
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