Read Between The Lines

What if Plato, Buddha, and Jesus held the secrets to modern happiness? In The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt puts ten great ideas from ancient wisdom under the microscope of 21st-century science. From the nature of love and virtue to the sources of true meaning, this landmark book bridges the gap between the world's greatest thinkers and cutting-edge psychology. Prepare to challenge your assumptions and discover a powerful, evidence-based roadmap for living a wiser, more satisfying life in our complex modern world.

Ever dream of an adventure that lasts longer than a two-week vacation?

The American presidency stood on a knife's edge. In Peril, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa deliver the explosive, inside story of the transition between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, revealing just how close American democracy came to collapse.

Think you know the Reformation? A monk, a hammer, a church door. But that’s just the spark. In this masterful history, Diarmaid MacCulloch unpacks the continental firestorm that followed—an explosive mix of faith, politics, and revolution that shattered Christendom and forged the modern world. Journeying from Lisbon to Transylvania, this epic, award-winning account reveals the full, complex, and often shocking story of how our world was born. It is the definitive history of an age that forever changed how we think about God, power, and ourselves.

How well do you know the person sitting next to you? For crime writer Ann Rule, the answer became a nightmare. While investigating a series of brutal murders, she befriended a charming and intelligent man named Ted at a crisis hotline. They were colleagues, confidants. But as the manhunt for a cunning serial killer intensified, Rule was forced to confront a horrifying truth: the friend she trusted was the monster she was hunting. This is the chilling true story of the evil that hides in plain sight.

It is an ancient adversary, an emperor of illness that has haunted humanity for millennia. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee presents the definitive “biography” of cancer. Journey from its first documented appearance in ancient Persia to the front lines of modern medicine, where brilliant scientists and resilient patients wage a daily war against it. This is the epic, riveting, and deeply human chronicle of our most intimate enemy—a story of hubris, hope, and the long fight to understand our own cells.

Forget everything you think you know about how the world works.

What if a book penned sixty years ago felt as if it were written this morning? James Baldwin’s masterpiece, The Fire Next Time, does just that.

He was a visionary and a tyrant, a genius and a jerk. Steve Jobs, the man in the black turtleneck, was a bundle of contradictions who revolutionized six industries and put a dent in the universe. Based on more than forty exclusive interviews with Jobs himself—as well as his family, friends, and rivals—Walter Isaacson provides an unfiltered, riveting look at the creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive changed our world forever. This is the definitive story of a life as iconic as his designs.

The transition from one American president to another is a cornerstone of democracy. But what happens when it teeters on the brink of collapse? Legendary journalist Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa take you inside the White House, the Pentagon, and Congress during the explosive final days of the Trump administration and the fraught beginning of the Biden presidency. Peril is the definitive, harrowing account of a nation facing an unprecedented constitutional crisis.