Speaking of Writers

Tragedy strikes in 1853 when President-Elect Franklin Pierce is travelling with his family to D.C. In an instant, their train derails, violently flinging passengers about its cabins. The only fatality is the Pierces’ eleven-year-old son, Bennie. Something unspeakable invades the only haunted house residents are not permitted to leave. Only by confronting the depths of their grief and their darkest...

A family of five lives on a dairy farm in Maine. They put up hay and separate milk and clean the barn and wean the calves. When something unimaginable—yet somehow inevitable—occurs, they become a family of four. From that moment, guilt permeates and propels this novel.  MEREDITH HALL is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Without a Map , which was named Best Book of the Year b...

Eric just wants to do his job as an EMT. He’s mostly recovered from the freak accident that put him in the hospital. There’s just one thing still bothering him—the ghosts. At least, he thinks they’re ghosts. They only seem to show up when one of his patients is close to death. In Eric’s case, “close to Death” is more than a figure of speech. The Reaper is not thrilled about Eric’s newfound abiliti...

Since the country’s founding, Americans in power have subjugated others for personal gain, making their fortunes through slavery, plundering resources and land, fighting to prevent and destroy organized labor, and weaving inequality into the nation’s laws. In AMERICAN RULE: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People (Dutton), Jared Yates Sexton, author of the critically acclaimed The M...

In MAINLINING PHILLY: Survival, Hope and Resisting Drug Addiction, Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter, PsyD., tells her disturbing but inspirational story of growing up as the child of drug addicts. Meeting Dr. Geri-Lynn , a Philadelphia native for the first time, it would be easy to assume she’s the product of the elite schools and glossy social life of the Mainline. But in fact, Geri-Lynn grew up in Kensington...

The New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World series  welcomes the 21st and 22nd additions to the collection this fall: I AM ANNE FRANK and I AM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . The inception for this series, now with more than 3.5 million copies in print, came from a personal place for Brad Meltzer: he wanted to give his own children heroes of character, kindness, and compassion – he di...

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of MINDHUNTER and THE KILLER ACROSS THE TABLE returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer and one of the most disturbing psychopaths...

Whether you know her from her million-copy and #1 New York Times bestselling phenomena Then She Was Gone or her Good Morning America book club pick The Family Upstairs, or even if you haven’t read her at all, Lisa Jewell’s INVISIBLE GIRL (Atria Books) should be your must-read suspense novel of the fall. From her very first novel, Ralph’s Party, which was published in the States way back in 1999 an...

Over the past months, viewers have watched Clarissa Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent, report  from the Syria-Turkish border as Kurdish families fled Turkish artillery; Ukraine, where she went to the front lines of the Ukrainian army’s fight against Russian-backed separatists; from inside a Russian troll factory in Ghana; and most recently on COVID-19 vaccine human trials at the U...

David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of nineteenth century American history, understands the currents in which Abraham Lincoln swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography ABE: Abraham Lincoln in His Times (Penguin Press) is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the...

In this breathtaking new publication, James Rollins brings together twelve thrilling stories that dig deeper into his creative stomping grounds and open vistas into new landscapes and characters. At the center of UNRESTRICTED ACCESS is the never-before-published novella "Sun Dogs.” While trekking through the Sonora desert, a gunshot thrusts Tucker and Kane into an adventure that challenges their c...

Seldom has our free press faced so great a threat, and yet, the tension between presidents and journalists is as old as the republic itself. George Washington, upon seeing an unflattering caricature of himself in a local newspaper “got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself,” according to then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Every president since has been tested by the Amer...

About Confessions on the 7:45: Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when the train stalls out on the tracks. She strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat, and their connection is fast and easy. The woman introduces herself as Martha and confesses that she's been stuck in an affair with her boss. Selena, in turn, confesses that she suspects her husban...

New York Times bestselling author Tana French is that rare breed of writer who creates great excitement with the publication of each of her crime novels. Her eighth novel and second standalone, THE SEARCHER (Viking), has already become a standout and a critic favorite. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tana French is the author of seven previous books, including In the Woods, The Likeness, and The Witch Elm. Her...

Based on new archival discoveries, the first biography of a man who was at the center of U.S.  foreign policy for a generation Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did—in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that influence under preside...

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Everyone knows the catch phrase, but few know who coined it—much less anything about him. His name was Drew “Bundini” Brown, and in Bundini: Don’t Believe the Hype , Todd D. Snyder tells his story. One of boxing’s most intriguing characters, Bundini was literally and figuratively a constant in Muhammad Ali’s corner, working forty-four of his sixty-one pr...

White collar crime is running rampant in the United States, and it’s costing Americans an untold amount of money. White collar crimes like fraud and embezzlement rob victims anywhere from $300 billion to $800 billion annually, while street level crimes like burglary and theft cost about $16 billion a year, according to the FBI. But despite this eye-opening statistic, the true extent of white colla...

On the heels of his National Book Critics Circle Award-winning memoir Half a Life , Darin Strauss, author of the New York Times bestseller Chang & Eng , presents us with a wild and indelible story based on the loves and losses of Lucille Ball, the woman who became Hollywood’s first true female mogul while navigating a tumultuous personal life. In The Queen of Tuesday , Strauss mixes fact and f...

Historian David Nasaw is the author of the acclaimed biographies The Patriarch, Andrew Carnegie, and The Chief, which together have been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, winner of Bancroft Prize, Lukas Prize, New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize, and one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times. In his sweeping new masterwork, THE LAST MILLION: Europe’s...

In Not a Gentleman’s Work: The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road to Truth , Gerard Koeppel combines history with true crime, revealing long-buried evidence from the most notorious murder in American nautical history. The book chronicles an incident that took place aboard the Herbert Fuller , a three-masted vessel loaded with New England lumber and headed for Buenos Aires....

Steven Dudley is the co-founder and co-director of  InSight Crime , a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas, and a senior fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. Dudley combines reporting from the ground with deep analysis. He has written for newspapers, magazines and think tanks. He has reported for weeklies and some of...

For the thirtieth anniversary of its premiere comes the vivid and immersive history behind Martin Scorsese’s signature film Goodfellas , hailed by critics as the greatest mob movie ever made. About the Author Glenn Kenny is a long time film critic based in New York. He has written for publications such as Film Comment, the Village Voice, and Rolling Stones and contributes film reviews to the New Y...

Long before Deborah Tannen became a bestselling author and internationally renowned linguist at Georgetown University, she was a young girl who adored her father—profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. In her riveting memoir, FINDING MY FATHER—her most personal and revealing work yet—Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her fat...

With REAGANLAND: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 , historian Rick Perlstein concludes his sweeping four-volume account of the rise of modern American conservatism. Over two decades (and more than three thousand pages), Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in American politics: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of American Conse...

In the next thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, it’s a race against the clock when ISIS takes out the entire US power grid and throws the country into chaos. When Mitch Rapp captures ISIS’s top technology expert, he reveals that he was on his way to meet a man who claims to have the ability to bring down America’s power grid. Rapp is determined to eliminate this shadow...