Tom Wolfe’s best-selling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader who has it all: wealth, power, prestige, a Park Avenue apartment, a beautiful wife, and an even more beautiful mistress – until one wrong turn sends Sherman spiraling downward into a humiliating fall from grace.
A car accident in [...]
Seven-year-old Autumn Backman has a gift: she can communicate telepathically with others. Not everyone, mind you, but with a select few with whom she shares a special kinship. When Autumn and her mother, Joanna, take her father’s ashes to be buried in the family plot in Brickers Bowl, Georgia, she witnesses a horrifying sight: her [...]
The Bourne Deception picks up where The Bourne Sanction left off. Jason Bourne’s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new [...]
An enchanting New York Times and international best seller and award-winner about life, art, literature, philosophy, culture, class, privilege, and power, seen through the eyes of a 54-year-old French concierge and a precocious but troubled 12-year-old girl.
Renee Michel is the 54-year-old concierge of a luxury Paris apartment building. Her exterior (short, ugly,and plump) and demeanor [...]
From a master of suspense comes a chilling new novel that explores the dangers lurking closer than you think. Because even in the perfect family, you never know what is going on behind closed doors.
This is what happened…
It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy: a young mother, blond and pretty, disappears [...]
The number-one New York Times best-selling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck revisits Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
“If you believe it’s time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all – then I ask you to read this book….”
In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach [...]
No one fictional or factual embodies the Jazz Age as completely as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby. First published in 1925, this legendary novel continues to enthrall generations as it serves as a lens to view our not so distant past. Many of our notions about that period are taken from the pages of this [...]
When you’re the best at what you do, it’s not always easy to walk away. Nathan McBride was retired. The former Marine sniper and cover CIA operative had put the violence of his former life behind him. But not anymore. A deep-cover FBI agent has disappeared along with one ton of powerful Semtex explosive, enough [...]
Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and of an India that modern literature has [...]
The popular, myth-busting guide to the neuroscience of everyday life, by two high-profile neuroscientists.
In this lively audiobook, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang dispel common myths about the brain and provide a comprehensive, useful overview of how it really works. In its pages, you’ll discover how to cope with jet lag, how your brain affects your [...]