Book Stew

Sometimes life isn't always as it seems... With HBO and Liane Moriarty's BIG LITTLE LIES, and now Robyn Harding's THE PARTY, readers get a peek behind the curtain and the life that seemed so perfect, begin to crack and crumble.

An excerpt from Chris McChesney’s popular talk on how successful engagement comes from employee morale, and the concept of “total winning.”

Why we are here in a universe where fact is stranger than fiction? In his new book, THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD...SO FAR, theoretical physicist and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality—a grand poetic vision of nature—and how we find our place within it.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough discusses the life and legacy of Abigail Adams, one of his most favorite people in American history and a key figure in his classic biography JOHN ADAMS.

At just 19 years old, Kathy Mckeon moved to America from Ireland and with a stroke of luck, became Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant for the next 13 years. JACKIE'S GIRL is a rare and engrossing look at the private life of one of the most famous women of the twentieth century, Jackie Kennedy.

Abraham Lincoln biographer, former presidential aide and author of WRESTLING WITH HIS ANGEL, Sidney Blumenthal discusses the collapse of the Whig Party and the rise of Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party, a watershed moment in American politics.

In REBEL MOTHER, professor and author Peter Andreas chronicles his unusual upbringing with his Marxist mother as she chases communist and socialist movements around the world.

An exquisite memoir about how to live—and love—every day with “death in the room,” from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, comes THE BRIGHT HOUR.

Watch the trailer for THE LYING GAME, the blockbuster new thriller from Ruth Ware, the New York Times bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 and IN A DARK, DARK WOOD.

Helene Cooper, author of Madame President, offers insight into how a system of inequality & turbulent history led Liberia to elect Africa’s first female president: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.