Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about North Korea, The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. Critics have compared him to Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, and George Saunders, ...

Fortune Smiles

From New York Times best-selling author Cixin Liu comes a short story collection of captivating visions of the future and incredible re-imaginings of the past.  In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain co...

To Hold Up the Sky

This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me.  Yunjae was born with a brain condition called alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He does not have friends - the two...

Almond

Classic writings from the great Zen master in exquisite versions by Thomas Merton, with a preface by his holiness the Dalai Lama, now in audio for the first time. Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions...

The Way of Chuang Tzu (Second Edition)

For Jack Cho, a fortysomething gay man, being able to marry someone he loves is so unfamiliar it’s terrifying. Then a wedding invitation from a college friend brings about a collision with those fears--and his own secret history. Jack and his new boy...

The Weddings

A short story collection from New York Times best-selling author Cixin Liu. The title story, "The Wandering Earth", was a blockbuster international film, currently streaming on Netflix.  These 11 stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award winners, ...

The Wandering Earth

This program includes sections recorded by Steve Aoki while on tour. The music. The mix. His life.  "Sometimes I think my whole life can be seen through shades of blue...." (Steve Aoki)  Blue is the remarkable story of Steve Aoki, the superstar DJ/pr...

Blue

The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books, surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit. The personal tones of the translations and the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him s...

The Wisdom of the Desert

For fans of The Librarian of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals - a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl - as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war. "I r...

This Light Between Us

Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners. "Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively begins in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of...

Zen and the Birds of Appetite

In this “timeless and original” sci-fi thriller (New York Times), a hardboiled baseball scout must solve the murder of his brother in a world transformed by body modification, perfect for listeners of William Gibson and Max Barry. In the future you c...

The Body Scout

As business leaders, we are so often called to do things: make decisions, fix problems, manage money. The irony is, the more we do, the less control we have. Effective leadership requires composition, control, and focus - skills that are all strength...

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