Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. B...
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of ...
Jon KrakauerWhen Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dang...
Kayla Shaw is a private banker in Arizona'smart and capable but underpaid and underappreciated. Rand McCree is a haunted man who paints landscapes in the Pacific Northwest, burning with a need for answers about the terrible event that...
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (S...
James LucenoThroughout the galaxy, it was believed that Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker–the Chosen One–had died on Coruscant during the siege of the Jedi Temple. And, to some extent, that was true. Anakin was dead.From the site of Anakin...
This is the sixth book in the highly acclaimed and beloved series of books chronicling the life of Laura Ingalls who lived at the end of the 19th century. The year that Laura was 13 and living in the Dakota Territory, there was a seve...
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Star ...
Sean Williams"The Sith always betray one another. . . . I'm sure you'll learn that soon enough."The overthrow of the Republic is complete. The Separatist forces have been smashed, the Jedi Council nearly decimated, and the rest of the Or...
Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, has become one of the country’s most trusted commentators on global politics. Following on the success of his bestselling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal pre...
WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVED TURNED OUT TO BE A LIE? Riley MacPherson is returning to her childhood home in North Carolina. A place that holds cherished memories. While clearing out the house she finds a box of old newspaper articl...
Bestselling author James Grippando is back with another innovative and action-packed thriller featuring the ever-popular Jack Swyteck. Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck guards his own family secrets as closely as anyone,...
Ernest Hemingway’s great post-World War I novel, his first major work and the classic novel of the "lost generation," is a vivid exploration of the moral wasteland of Europe in the Twenties, and of the sterility and de...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the ...
One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin de...
Osama bin Laden is dead. Saddam Hussein is buried. Baghdad lies in ruins. Now the eyes of the world are on Jerusalem as Jon Bennett - a Wall Street strategist turned senior White House advisor - his beautiful CIA partner Erin McCoy, a...
Mad River (A Virgil Flowers Novel)
John SandfordBonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robb...
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Amor TowlesA New York Times bestseller“The same gorgeous, layered richness that marked Towles’ debut, Rules of Civility, shapes [A Gentleman in Moscow]” –Entertainment Weekly“’The Grand Budapest Hotel’ and ‘Eloise’ meets all th...
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essay...
David Foster WallaceA collection of essays shares whimsical observations about such topics as the Bush-Kerry presidential race, the pain experienced by lobsters while they are being prepared for the feast, and Franz Kafka's questionable sense of humor.
A warm summer Saturday. An amusement park. David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife, Jan, and their four-year-old son. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a nightmare after an inexplicabl...
Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel ...
Karen ChanceIn the fifth entry in Karen Chance's Cassandra Palmer series, Cassie is busier than ever preparing for her upcoming coronation as Pythia, the world's chief clairvoyant. But someone doesn't want Cassie to become Pythia---and will go to...
Five Little Pigs: A Hercule Poirot My...
Agatha ChristieThis carefully crafted novel is perhaps the strongest proof that Agatha Christie was a gifted writer as well as a shrewd storyteller. It is the story of a woman's attempt to clear her mother's name 16 years after the mother was convic...
The Devil and Miss Prym of Temptation...
Paulo CoelhoA stranger arrives in the seemingly idyllic mountain town of Viscos and offers the villagers a devil's bargain: kill an innocent person in the next three days and the man will give the village a wealth in gold. The man, it turns out, ...
Dear Listener: Impulse is an exciting mystery suspense that first came out in 1990. I've done a bit of rewriting and updated it. Now, I want you to get ready. Rafaella Holland, a Pulitzer Prize winner, now a journalist for the Boston ...
Focus : Achieving Your Highest Priori...
Stephen R. CoveyThe Focus workshop presents an engaging and inspirational learning experience and will change your life in ways you never thought possible. With this audiobook, you will begin a process and journey to a new way of thinking about per...
Abridged, 5 CDs, 6 hours Read by Jason Culp The extraordinary new adventure from "the best storyteller in the business" (The New York Post).
More Twisted: Collected Stories, Vol....
Jeffery DeaverFrom the bestselling author of The Cold Moon, unabridged stories of spine-tingling suspense!In the tradition of O. Henry and Edgar Allen Poe, Jeffery Deaver's latest collection of intricately plotted, bone-chilling short fiction inclu...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a...
Thomas L. FriedmanThomas L. Friedman's no.1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped many listeners to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—...
Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family.When Aaron Maciver’s beautif...
The Last Sacrifice (The Last Disciple...
Hank HanegraaffRescued from a brutal death, legendary warrior Gallus Sergius Vitas is given a mysterious scroll that is the key to his destiny, but Helius, Nero's trusted advisor, will stop at nothing to confiscate this letter and keep it hidden fro...
Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years,' writes Sam Harris. 'Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S...
Read by br5 CD's Like many in the community of theoretical physicists, Professor Hawking is after the Grail of science-the Theory of Everything that lies at the heart of the cosmos. He involves us in the attempts at uncovering its sec...
One last battle against evil, one final journey to the magical land of Narnia. Narnia...where the last king makes a stand and sad farewells turn to joy...where the Adventure begins again. The Unicorn says that humans are brought to Na...