Friday, October 28, 2011

Non Fiction New Releases

How to Win Friends & Influence People in the Digital Age by Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie could never have predicted the trajectory that new media would take, and the ways that the simple television screen would be adapted into computers and handheld communication devices. He didn't know the term "social media" and Facebook was something not even dreamed of in Buck Rogers cartoons. And yet his lessons remain relevant for everyone who communicates online today.  [read more]

The Secrets of the FBI by Ronald Kessler

The Secrets of the FBI, by New York Times best-selling author Ronald Kessler, reveals the FBI's most closely guarded secrets and the secrets of celebrities, politicians, and movie stars uncovered by agents during their investigations.  Based on inside access, the book presents revelations about the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, the recent Russian spy swap, Marilyn Monroe's death, Vince Foster's suicide, and J. Edgar Hoover's sexual orientation.  [read more]

The 3rd Alternative by Stephen Covey

The 3rd Alternative introduces a breakthrough approach to conflict resolution and creative problem solving. One of Time magazine’s 25 most influential Americans, Dr. Stephen R. Covey has helped millions transform their lives. In The 3rd Alternative, Covey turns his formidable insight to a powerful new way to resolve professional and personal difficulties and create solutions to great challenges in organizations and society.  [read more]

Willpower by Ray Baum

For years, our concept of the self and well-being has been dominated by the notion of self-esteem, while the old fashioned value of willpower has been disparaged by psychologists who argued that we’re largely driven by unconscious forces beyond our control. In Willpower Baumeister and Tierney turn this misinformation on its head to reveal self-control as arguably the single most powerful indicator of success.  [read more]

Fiction New Releases

The Affair by Lee Child

Everything starts somewhere.... For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup.  A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.  Reacher is ordered undercover - to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish.  [read more]

Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke

Celebrated crime master and two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke returns with a gorgeously crafted, brutally resonant chronicle of violence along the Texas-Mexico border.  Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town, meting out punishment and delivering justice in his small square of this magnificent but lawless land.  [read more]

The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory

Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she met his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and saw her own power reflected in the young woman accused of witchcraft. They share the mystery of the tarot card of the wheel of fortune before Joan is taken to a horrific death at the hands of the English rulers of France. Jacquetta understands the danger for a woman who dares to dream.  [read more]

The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table” - as far from the Captain’s Table as can be - with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury.  [read more]

Monday, October 24, 2011

Interview with Nora Roberts

No romance author is more popular around here than Nora Roberts, so we were excited to see this great interview with her at USA Today's Happy Ever After blog.  Did you know she owns an inn?  Or that she's second only to Oprah in charitable donations amongst celebrities? 

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Friday, October 21, 2011

Sample of the new Walking Dead audiobook

For those of you who follow the TV series The Walking Dead (or the original comic books), here's a link to a sample of the new audiobook version.  It should be perfect Halloween listening.

Click here for "Exclusive Audiobook Excerpt: 'The Walking Dead - Rise of the Governor'"

Monday, October 17, 2011

Free samples of Stephen King's newest audiobook


For all you Stephen King fans out there, here's a link to free samples of his upcoming audiobook, 11/22/63, which will be about the assassination of JFK:

Click here for the details.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Wilbur Smith, still popular after all these years

Once in awhile, an author's popularity slowly and unexpectedly creeps up on us.  They may have been writing for years, but suddenly everyone is interested.  Wilbur Smith is one of the authors of the moment in our stores, and he's excellent for people who like a good thriller along the lines of Clive Cussler.  Check out his newest audiobook if you haven't yet: Those in Peril

Not convinced?  Here's what Milo's Rambles has to say:

"The narrative is astonishingly fresh and grabs you from the start. I found the flow interesting – on the edge action scenes, realistic scenarios and fluidity that will leave you breathless counteract Smith’s steady scene building prose – unquestionably masterful, why on earth had I left it so long between novels?"

Click here for the rest of the review..

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Also new this week: is Richard Dawkins mellowing?

Richard Dawkins is not known for his delicate approach in persuading people that atheism is the way to go, but his new audiobook looks decidedly less abrasive.  The Magic of Reality, out this week, explains the many cool things that scientists agree definitely exist in the world.  It probably still won't please the devout, but that's probably not his goal in any case.  The Washington Post has an interview with Dawkins with a surprising revelation:

"Despite his criticism of superstitions, he allows, with a chuckle, 'I’m only human. Intellectually I don’t believe in ghosts, but I might be reluctant to spend the night in a haunted house, being there alone in the middle of the night.'"

Click here for the rest of the interview, or click here for the audiobook.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

New this week: Boomerang by Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis is on a roll--his last audiobook, The Big Short, was a huge bestseller, and the film adaptation of Moneyball is a hit in theatres.  New this week, check out Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, about the recent financial crisis.  From the New York Times review:

"Mr. Lewis’s ability to find people who can see what is obvious to others only in retrospect or who somehow embody something larger going on in the financial world is uncanny. And in this book he weaves their stories into a sharp-edged narrative that leaves readers with a visceral understanding of the fiscal recklessness that lies behind today’s headlines about Europe’s growing debt problems and the risk of contagion they now pose to the world. "

Click here for the rest of the review, or click here for the audiobook.