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"My book is about one night in 1862, Lincoln was president and his 11-year-old son Willy passed away."

S2 E09: George Saunders, Author of Lincoln in the Bardo

The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln&rsquo;s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. &ldquo;My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,&rdquo; the president says at the time. &ldquo;God has called him home.&rdquo; Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy&rsquo;s body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state&mdash;called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo&mdash;a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie&rsquo;s soul. Lincoln in the Bardo&#160;is an astonishing&#160;feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction&rsquo;s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we&#160;know that everything we love must end? Praise for Lincoln in the Bardo &ldquo;A luminous feat of generosity and humanism.&rdquo;&mdash;Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;A masterpiece.&rdquo;&mdash;Zadie Smith &ldquo;Ingenious . . . Saunders&mdash;well on his way toward becoming a twenty-first-century Twain&mdash;crafts an American patchwork of love and loss, giving shape to our foundational sorrows.&rdquo;&mdash;Vogue &ldquo;Saunders is the most humane American writer working today.&rdquo;&mdash;Harper&rsquo;s Magazine &ldquo;The novel beats with a present-day urgency&mdash;a nation at war with itself, the unbearable grief of a father who has lost a child, and a howling congregation of ghosts, as divided in death as in life, unwilling to move on.&rdquo;&mdash;Vanity Fair &ldquo;A brilliant, Buddhist reimagining of an American story of great loss and great love.&rdquo;&mdash;Elle &ldquo;Wildly imaginative&rdquo;&mdash;Marie Claire &ldquo;Mesmerizing . . . Dantesque . . . A haunting American ballad.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) &ldquo;Exhilarating . . . Ruthless and relentless in its evocation not only of Lincoln and his quandary, but also of the tenuous existential state shared by all of us.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews (starred review) &ldquo;It&rsquo;s unlike anything you&rsquo;ve ever read, except that the grotesque humor, pathos, and, ultimately, human kindness at its core mark it as a work that could come only from Saunders.&rdquo;&mdash;The National

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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, read by Author, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Various

"My book THE FOUR TENDENCIES is about a personality framework that I’ve identified called the Four Tendencies that divides all of humanity into four types: Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, and Rebel. I got my first insight into this framework when I had lunch with a friend and she said something that got me obsessed with this question of personality types. She said, 'I know I would be happier if I would go running, and when I was in high school I was on the track team and I never missed track practice, so why can’t I go running now?' And I thought, 'Well, why? It’s the same person, the same behavior, at that time it was effortless but now she can’t do it. What’s going on?' My determination to figure out the answer to that question, in the end, led me to write a whole book, called THE FOUR TENDENCIES."

S2 E66: Gretchen Rubin, Author of The Four Tendencies

"I think that I realized there were a lot of stories and ideas that didn’t really make sense to talk about on stage in a stand-up context because they were just too embarrassing, or not funny enough, or just too personal, and I couldn’t figure out a way to perform them live. And so I started writing them down and they just sat in this document, and I just hoped one day I’d get brave enough to do it or smart enough to figure out how to do them on stage, and I just couldn’t. People kept suggesting I write a book and I always just felt like, 'Oh God, that’s something you do when you have a long life.' I just didn’t feel like I had enough to offer, and then I thought, “Oh, maybe I should do all those stories that I've never figured out how to tell on stage. Maybe they’re a book.' And I started looking at them and I was like, “Wow this stuff’s embarrassing, I’m never gonna be able to say this in front of people.' So I just gave up on that ever happening and I started turning it into a book.  And then to get through it I had to get an intention together, I had to get a mantra together and I was like, 'Okay, I’m gonna write the book that I wish had been available to me when I was 18. I wanna write a bible for people who want to grow and feel better about their awful choices.'"

S2 E70: Whitney Cummings, Author of I'm Fine...and Other Lies

In keeping with his trademark style, Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art, and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind&rsquo;s two most enduring questions, and the earthshaking discovery that will answer them. From the Compact Disc edition.

Origin by Dan Brown, read by Paul Michael

This is a signed edition. Limited quantities available. &#160; #1 bestselling author John Green returns with his first new novel since&#160;The Fault in Our Stars! &#160; Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there&rsquo;s a hundred thousand dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett&rsquo;s son, Davis. &#160;&#160;&#160; Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within&#160;the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.&#160; &#160; In his long-awaited return, John Green, the acclaimed, award-winning author of&#160;Looking for Alaska&#160;and&#160;The Fault in Our Stars,&#160;shares Aza&rsquo;s story with shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship. Available for purchase at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525591028?tag=randohouseinc7911-20">Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-8373827-11819508?sid=PRHD39095A662&url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/?ean=9780525591023">Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8373827-10876509?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780525591023&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9780525591023">Books A Million - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/book/9780525555360?utm_source=prh&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=301&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780525555360&utm_campaign=9780525555360">Hudson Booksellers</a><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525591023?aff=PenguinGroupUS">IndieBound - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.powells.com/book/-9780525591023?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780525591023">Powell's - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://goto.target.com/c/128773/81938/2092?subId1=PRHD39095A662--9780525555360&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fs%3FsearchTerm%3D9780525555360">Target</a><a href="http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=&offerid=183959.1&type=10&tmpid=273&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780525591023&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-ng.do%3F&RD_PARM2=search_query%3D9780525591023%2526ic%3D16_0%2526Find%3DFind%2526search_constraint%3D3920">Walmart - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011ld4r/pubref:PRHD39095A662--9780525555353/destination:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780525555353&c=books">Google Play Store</a><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/id1292023265?at=11l3IH&ct=PRHD39095A662--9780525591030">iBooks - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780525555353}&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fsearch%3FQuery%3D9780525555353">Kobo</a><a href="http://www.qksrv.net/click-8373827-10273919?url=http://www.audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=Turtles+All+the+Way+Down+John+Green&source_code=COMA0213WS031709&SID=PRHD39095A662--9780525591030">Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8373827-11117375?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780525591030&url=http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/9780525591030">audiobooks.com - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a>

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, read by Kate Rudd

"Our book is about...well the short answer is our book is about meditation. The slightly longer answer is our book is for people who think meditation is not for them or that they could never do it. I had written a previous book called 10% HAPPIER which was all about how I, as a skeptical news man, stumbled upon meditation and how it made a significant difference in my life. I assumed, kind of naively, that when I wrote my book and explained all of my reasons for meditating, including the fact that there's science that suggests it's really good for you, I kind of assumed that everyone would start meditating."

S2 E79: Dan Harris, Author of Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

"Hope Nation is a collection of stories and essays about hope written by some of my personal favorite YA writers writing for readers today."

Learn more: http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/561595/hope-nation/

S3 E101: Rose Brock, Author of Hope Nation

"ASTROBALL is really the result of several twists of fate. In 2014, in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, I wrote a cover story about what was then the worst team in baseball, one of the worst teams in baseball history, and we predicted on the cover that they would win the 2017 World Series. And then they actually did. I just had to write a book about the new techniques they used to get from the bottom to the top."

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S3 E102: Ben Reiter, Author of Astroball

"My book is about my five years that I spent in the white house in the Obama administration and the two months I spent in the Trump administration as a stenographer. I actually got the job on Craigslist so I was a bit of a fish out of water. The story is really about a young woman, me, finding her way along the corridors of power and making a lot of bad decisions and poor life choices, and having a lot of embarrassing moments, but also figuring out what’s important and what’s not—all while having a front row seat to history."

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S3 E103: Beck Dorey-Stein, Author of From The Corner Of The Oval

"I was inspired to write this book because I actually wrote a book called GIRL CODE a couple of years ago, which was all about women coming together and supporting one another. But I noticed there was an issue. Women were totally excited and on board to support one another, and they knew that they’d be happier if they did that, but they couldn’t get there if they didn’t have confidence in themselves first."

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S3 E104: Cara Alwill Leyba, Author of Like She Owns The Place

"I wrote my book because I didn’t want to have any secrets and I thought that it would be important to talk about the abuses that women face in jail. I also thought it would be important to talk about books, because even though we live in the digital age, there’s nothing better than holding a book in your hand."

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S3 E105: Leslie Schwartz, Author of The Lost Chapters

"The inspiration for this book came from a few places; It was really a knitting together of a number of stories and themes that I had been working on for years, having to do with problems with the welfare system, and the kind of grand promise of just giving people cash coming from developing countries, like Brazil. "

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S3 E107: Annie Lowrey, Author of Give People Money

"Here I was really kind of cruising into the very heart of middle age and suddenly there was this compound called Omega-3’s and also this Omega-3 compound was implicitly and explicitly connected to the entire food system of the ocean, at least in how it’s discussed in most magazines and newspapers. I thought this was a good way in to look at a lot of different things going on in the ocean but yet remain focused on what readers are interested in, which is their health and their food."

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S3 E108: Paul Greenberg, Author of The Omega Principle

"I was inspired to write my book HAPPIER AT HOME because I realized that for me, one of the most important elements for my happiness was feeling happy at home. And I wanted to really dig deep. I wanted to think about how I could be more "at home" at home."

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S3 E110: Gretchen Rubin, Author of Happier At Home

"I was inspired by Isabel Allende’s memoir PAULA, which she wrote when her daughter was in a coma, which she ultimately did not recover from. I remember I found that book when I was in my MFA program, already pretty close to done with my book. I read that and I saw how she was addressing her daughter directly, and giving the family history to her daughter in an effort to revive her daughter and bring her back to this world. And I realized that what I had wanted to do all along with this book, which felt a little crazy to me in my head, was something that could actually be done."

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S3 E111: Jean Guerrero, Author of Crux

"My novel is titled IMMIGRANT, MONTANA. A young man comes to America from India, and hears Dr. Ruth on the radio. He also wants to fall in love, have sex."

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S3 E112: Amitava Kumar, Author of Immigrant, Montana

"I was inspired to write the book when my old editor-in-chief from SAVEUR Magazine reached out to me while I was in France because he'd read some online post that I'd written and said, 'You should think about writing a book.' And I remember telling him, 'No, I don’t want to write a book.'"

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S3 E113: Camas Davis, Author of Killing It

"What inspired me to write this memoir was I had a daughter four years ago, and my mother, who had been dead for a long time, was an alcoholic. And as I began to write about motherhood I realized that one thing that was very important to me, in my life with my daughter, was to sort of break a cycle of silence and secrecy that exists within most alcoholic families."

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S3 E114: Laura June, Author of Now My Heart Is Full

The Whistle-Blower Complaint Released by the House Intelligence Committee, 9/26/2019

Read by Saskia Maarleveld

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