The bestselling authors of the classic Difficult Conversations teach us how to turn evaluations, advice, criticisms, and coaching into productive listening and learning We swim in an ocean of feedback. Bosses, colleagues, customers-bu...

The fourth novel in the Burgdorf Cycle by Stones from the River author Ursula Hegi, Children and Fire tells the story of what results when a gifted teacher in Burgdorf, Germany becomes seduced by Hitler's propaganda and encourages her...

Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and r...

This National Book Award-winning novel focuses on Paco Sullivan, the traumatized lone survivor of a massacre by the Viet Cong in Vietnam, who travels back to the United States, becomes a dishwasher in a short-order restaurant, and is ...

The "work from home" phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) an...

[Read by Tom Weiner]One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is in a bar, drinking away his troubles. Then a space pilot buys him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knows, he's shanghaied to Mars. Smythe suddenly finds himself ag...

Farmer In The Sky is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenage boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in the process of being terraformed. A condensed version of the novel w...

Farmer In The Sky is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenage boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in the process of being terraformed. A condensed version of the novel w...

Matt Dodson arrives at Space Academy little prepared for the rigorous program he is about to enter. But that's the point of the academy: to take young men and steep them in a demanding tradition of honor, courage, and sacrifice until ...

Matt Dodson arrives at Space Academy little prepared for the rigorous program he is about to enter. But that's the point of the academy: to take young men and steep them in a demanding tradition of honor, courage, and sacrifice until ...

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] Heinlein fans rejoice, for the science fiction master's most beloved characters here gather once more. Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man a...

Don't count out the underdog... Two classic short novels by Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction's Grand Master. Waldo North Power Air is in trouble. Their aircraft are crashing at an alarming rate and no one can figure out the cause....

A winning new novel from the bestselling author of The Sixteen Pleasures---whose engaging, emotionally true characters could be right at home in the stories of Alice Munro or Bobbie Ann Mason.

DASH Your Way to a Younger YouThe most trusted brand in diets-the DASH diet-has helped millions of people lower blood pressure, lose weight, and improve their health. Now, in this groundbreaking new program, it can help you look and f...

Tibet’s Tsangpo Gorge, inspiration for Shangri La and one of the world’s most insurmountable stretches of river, remained unconquered until a team of seven world-class kayakers rose to the challenge, a journey chronicled i...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A fiery tour de force… I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." –Alison Borden, The Denver PostFrom the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two colleg...

Helprin, the author of 'A Dove of the East and Other Stories,' offers an extraordinarily funny allegory of a most peculiar British royal family--a mocking of contemporary monarchy that is deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught i...

The definitive collection of the stories of Ernest Hemingway, with a preface by the author, originally published in 1938. Hemingway's short stories are considered his best work because of their controlled economy, the simplicity of th...

It began as President Ulysses S. Grant's bid for international glory after the Civil War-America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with Captain Charles Hall's death under suspicious circumstances, dissension among sail...

[Read by Brett Barry]In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and making use of their mastery ...

An encounter at a party changed Gay Hendricks forever. A stranger asked him to imagine himself on his deathbed and to consider this question:"Was your life a complete success?" If not, then "What would be the things you...

Cutting-edge recording delivers the complete text of the NRSV in a convenient audio format. Carefully read word-for-word by masterful narrator Stephen Johnston, the spoken Scriptures are available in both Protestant and Catholic editi...

pbChange the relationship you have into the one you want.br/bbrWelcome to the Relationship Revolution! iMaking Marriage Simple /iis the accessible, essential road map to building a strong marriage in the modern world. Bestselling aut...

Following on the success of the Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Aled Jones combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers: Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini and Shostakovich. Their co...

The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, with surprising and shocking new details from Madoff himself.

"A triumph of storytelling. Henríquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will sta...

Escorting souls to the afterlife leaves Madeline Black little time for socializing---until devilishly handsome Gabriel Angeloscure agrees to rent the empty apartment in her building. But when demons start appearing on Maddy's front la...

Nobody could capture the Phantom. She was the wildest mare on Assateague Island. They said she was like the wind, that the white 'map' on her shoulders was her mark of freedom. Paul and Maureen Beebe had their hearts set on owning h...

Kate Vaughan is no stranger to tough choices. She's made them before. Now it's time to do it again. Kate has a secret, something tucked away in her past. And she's getting on with her life. Her business is thriving. She has a strong r...

Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband — between her reality and the woman she wants to be — she doesn't quite seem t...