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It's the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world—Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong, the future bright, so what happened?In his book, BETTER TO HAVE GONE, Akash Kapur explores what happened to John and Diane—his wife's parents—and tells the spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the often devastating cost of idealism.

Hollywood to the Himalayas is the enlightening memoir of a reluctant spiritual seeker who finds much more than she bargained for when she travels to India.

As a Stanford grad in the midst of getting her PhD in Psychology, Sadhvi Sarawati was comfortable with her life. Despite years of grappling with an eating disorder and trauma from her early childhood, she felt as if she was successfully navigating her way through early adulthood. When she agreed to travel to India to appease her husband—and because she loved the food—Sadhvi would have never imagined that she would be embarking on a journey of healing and awakening.

Hollywood to the Himalayas describes Sadhvi's odyssey towards divine enlightenment and inspiration through her extraordinary connection with her guru and renewed confidence in the pleasure and joy that life can bring. Now one of the preeminent female spiritual teachers in the world, Sadhvi recounts her journey with wit, honesty, and clarity and, along the way, offers teachings to help us all step onto our own path of awakening and discover the truth of who we really are—embodiments of the Divine.

Asha Ray is the brilliant coder behind WAI, the app she founded with her husband Cyrus that everyone is talking about. But there's a catch.

WAI is the way. Discover the app that gives meaning back to people and restores our faith in humanity.

New from Stephen King. The perfect crime doesn't exist. The perfect getaway . . . that's another story.

Meet Gilda...

Check out this behind-the-scenes clip of Madeleine Maby narrating THE FOREST OF VANISHING STARS by Kristin Harmel! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3j5NzTA The bestselling author of THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis—until a secret from her past threatens everything. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIOWeb: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audioTwitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/simon.audio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SimonAudio

Watch Linda Emond talk about narrating THE BONE CODE by Kathy Reichs! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3gFNzZi #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIOWeb: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audioTwitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/simon.audio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SimonAudio

Author Chelsea Wald takes us on a wild world tour exploring the world of sanitation and future of the toilet—including a compost toilet project in Haiti—along the way introducing us to the scientists, engineers, and philanthropists focused on making toilets more accessible and healthier for all in her book PIPE DREAMS.

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. A collection of novellas featuring a rat, a surprising dancer, a phone with an afterlife—and Holly Gibney.