Jonathan Haidt skillfully combines two genres-philosophical wisdom and scientific research-delighting the listener with surprising insights. He explains, for example, why we have such difficulty controlling ourselves and sticking to our plans; why no...

The Happiness Hypothesis

Alex Cross chases a cold-blooded killer with a conscience.  Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, DC. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city's police force scrambling for answe...

Cross the Line

New York Times best-selling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century. As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment...

New York 2140

In the best-selling tradition of Malcom Gladwell, James Gleick, and Nate Silver, prominent professor László Barabási gives us a trail-blazing book that promises to transform the very foundations of how our success-obsessed society approaches their pr...

The Formula

A psychological thriller about the murder of a teenage girl, from the author of Lacy Eye.  On a cold December day in northern upstate New York, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a pond. She had been ...

How Will I Know You?

"Alexis Schaitkin's splashy debut novel, Saint X, is an audiobook lover's dream.... Queue this one up for a murderous, dreamy delight." (Paste) Hailed as a "marvel of a book" and "brilliant and unflinching", Alexis Schaitkin’s stunning debut, Saint X...

Saint X

Three pulse-pounding stories from the world's number-one best-selling writer in one book! The Lawyer Lifeguard with Doug Allyn: Are you the lawyer who got blown up with his girlfriend? Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his f...

Murder in Paradise

She destroys the men she loves - and escapes every time. The most dangerous killer James Patterson has ever created is also his most seductive. On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O’Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified 20-yea...

Death of the Black Widow

The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), which terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a decade.  When Baltimore Police Sergeant Wayne Jenkins said he had a monster, he meant he had found a bi...

I Got a Monster

Are you the lawyer who got blown up with his girlfriend?  Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancée. Out of work and out of his mind, he takes on a lifeguard job at the beach. But there's one wave he'll never see coming....  BookShotsLightning-Fast Stories by James Patterson    Novels you can devour in a few hours  Impossible to stop listening  All original content from James Patterson   

The Lawyer Lifeguard

New York Times best-selling author Steven Kotler crafts a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy.   Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind ...

Last Tango in Cyberspace

The touching, triumphant story of a young Black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions, as if The Blind Side were set in the world of opera.   Ryan Speedo Green had a tough upbringing in Southea...

Sing for Your Life

The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the Black liberation era, The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers, Afri...

The New Huey P. Newton Reader

The best-selling author of Mosquitoland brings us another batch of unforgettable characters in this tragicomedy about first love and devastating loss.  Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell.  It begins with the death of Vic's father....

Kids of Appetite

A major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin.   He rescued 118 enslaved people  He won a medal at the first World's ...

The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War

On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers.  Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized residents find joy on Friday nights when the Cougars of Edna Karr High School take the field. For yea...

Across the River

Alex Cross chases a cold-blooded killer...with a conscience.   Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, DC. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city's police force scrambling for an...

An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how the explosion of rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice. You have the right to remain silent and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. Th...

How Rights Went Wrong

Life is supposed to be easy and carefree when you are young, but if you live in Washington, DC, that's not always the case.  Flashing back to the 1990s, listeners enter the lives of four black men looking to gain money, power, and respect. These four...

Capital City

From a New York Times best-selling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality In Separate and Unequal, New York Times best-selling historian Steven M. Gill...

Separate and Unequal

The ground-breaking international best seller that reveals the indisputable scientific laws that can turn your achievements into success and how to use them to your own advantage. In The Formula, Albert-László Barabási, one of the world's leading exp...

Issa, tribal chieftain and warrior, dies trying to protect his family and tribesmen from slave traders but is given a second chance at life as an angel. Having lost his home, daughters, and life by forces beyond his control, Issa, a guardian angel fo...

Fire, Fury, Faith

A collection of provocative essays exploring the key social justice issues of our time - from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court. Kennedy is "among the most incisive American commentators on race" (The New York Times).  In...

Say It Loud!

A collection of the year’s best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the listener a “sen...

The Best American Short Stories 2021

Zora James knows the pain of loss, the lick of flames, the passion of purpose. But she's never known the heat of love. Yet when she meets Alastar, the sexy Ranger with a hero complex, Zora knows her life will never be the same. Alastar Adams knows th...

Heat, Hunt, Hope

Based on John Ball's novel which inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series, In the Heat of the Night pits a visiting black detective from California against a small Alabama town simmering with anger over desegregation. A ...

John Ball's In the Heat of the Night

Brought to you by Penguin. The 24th novel in the best-selling Alex Cross series. A killer with a twisted sense of justice has Washington DC under siege. Only Alex Cross can bring them down. When a police officer is killed, Detective Alex Cross steps ...

A classic romantic tale with a modern twist, this dazzling Indies Introduce pick follows two New York teenagers as they secretly fall in love for the first time. Izzy, a practical-minded teen who intends to become a doctor, isn't happy about her rece...

Izzy + Tristan

This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today - Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - to give voice to the un...

There's a Revolution Outside, My Love

Someone knows what really happened.... On a cold December day, teenager Joy Enright is found drowned at the edge of a frozen pond. When an autopsy reveals she was strangled first, suspicion is thrown onto Martin, the young graduate who was last to se...

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