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Kennedy's Last Days Audiobook - Chapter 1 excerpt read by Edward Herrmann

Narrated by Edward Herrmann.

More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy—and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.

In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Alan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, powerful elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting the president and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene, only to be caught and shot dead while in police custody.

The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader.

This may well be the most talked about book of the year.

Kennedy's Last Days Audiobook - Prologue read by Bill O'Reilly

More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy—and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.

In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Alan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, powerful elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting the president and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene, only to be caught and shot dead while in police custody.

The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader.

This may well be the most talked about book of the year.

Prophet of Bones by Ted Kosmatka Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the audio book edition of Prophet of Bones, the new novel by author Ted Kosmatka, narrated by Scott Sowers.

Ted Kosmatka's sensational new thriller, Prophet of Bones, thrusts listeners into an alternate present.

Paul Carlson, a brilliant young scientist, is summoned from his laboratory job to the remote Indonesian island of Flores to collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange, new species of tool user unearthed by an archaeological dig. The questions the find raises seem to cast doubt on the very foundations of modern science, which has proven the world to be only 5,800 years old, but before Paul can fully grapple with the implications of his find, the dig is violently shut down by paramilitaries.

Paul flees with two of his friends, yet within days one has vanished and the other is murdered in an attack that costs Paul an eye, and very nearly his life. Back in America, Paul tries to resume the comfortable life he left behind, but he can't cast the questions raised by the dig from his mind. Paul begins to piece together a puzzle which seems to threaten the very fabric of society, but world's governments and Martial Johnston, the eccentric billionaire who financed Paul's dig, will stop at nothing to silence him.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/prophetofbones/TedKosmatka

My Beloved Brontosaurus by Brian Switek - Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the audio book edition of My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs by author Brian Switek, read by the author.

Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods. They loom over museum halls, thunder through movies, and are a fundamental part of our collective imagination. In My Beloved Brontosaurus, the dinosaur fanatic Brian Switek enriches the childlike sense of wonder these amazing creatures instill in us. Investigating the latest discoveries in paleontology, he breathes new life into old bones.

Switek reunites us with these mysterious creatures as he visits desolate excavation sites and hallowed museum vaults, exploring everything from the sex life of Apatosaurus and T. rex's feather-laden body to just why dinosaurs vanished. (And of course, on his journey, he celebrates the book's titular hero, "Brontosaurus"—who suffered a second extinction when we learned he never existed at all—as a symbol of scientific progress.)

With infectious enthusiasm, Switek questions what we've long held to be true about these beasts, weaving in stories from his obsession with dinosaurs, which started when he was just knee-high to a Stegosaurus. Endearing, surprising, and essential to our understanding of our own evolution and our place on Earth, My Beloved Brontosaurus is a book that dinosaur fans and anyone interested in scientific progress will cherish for years to come.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/mybelovedbrontosaurus/BrianSwitek

Eve Ensler Reads from Her Book, In the Body of the World

Read by Eve Ensler.

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, the self, and the world

Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body—a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. "Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth," she writes, "I could not feel or know their pain."

But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body—pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully—and gratefully—joined to the body of the world.

Unflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/inthebodyoftheworld/EveEnsler

Rage Against The Dying by Becky Masterman - Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the audio edition of Rage Against the Dying, the new novel by Becky Masterman, read by Judy Kaye.

You have never met an (ex) FBI agent like Brigid Quinn.

"Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that's hard to break even with the people closest to you, out of the business. For example, they say never trust a woman who tells you her age; if she can't keep that secret, she can't keep yours. I'm fifty-nine."

Brigid Quinn's experiences in hunting sexual predators for the FBI have left her with memories she wishes she didn't have and lethal skills she hopes never to need again. Having been pushed into early retirement by events she thinks she's put firmly behind her, Brigid keeps telling herself she is settling down nicely in Tucson with a wonderful new husband, Carlo, and their dogs.

But the past intervenes when a man named Floyd Lynch confesses to the worst unsolved case of Brigid's career—the disappearance and presumed murder of her young protégée, Jessica. Floyd knows things about that terrible night that were never made public, and offers to lead the cops to Jessica's body in return for a plea bargain.
It should finally be the end of a dark chapter in Brigid's life.

Except...the new FBI agent on the case, Laura Coleman, thinks the confession is fake, and Brigid finds she cannot walk away from violence and retribution after all, no matter what the cost.

With a fiercely original and compelling voice, Becky Masterman's Rage Against the Dying marks the heart-stopping debut of a brilliant new thriller writer.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/rageagainstthedying/BeckyMasterman

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler - Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt of the audio edition of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler, Read by Jenna Lamia.

"I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined, Look closer...and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed."

When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. Her father is deeply unimpressed. But after Scott sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to Scribner's, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral and take the rest as it comes.

What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined attention and success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. Everyone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel—and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. Each place they go becomes a playground: New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French Riviera—where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein.

Everything seems new and possible. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning mist. But not even Jay Gatsby's parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous—sometimes infamous—husband? How can she forge her own identity while fighting her demons and Scott's, too? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler brings us Zelda's irresistible story as she herself might have told it.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/zanovelofzeldafitzgerald/ThereseFowler

The Good House by Ann Leary Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook edition of Ann Leary's The Good House. Narrated by actress Mary Beth Hurt.

The Prey: Book 2 of The Hunt Series by Andrew Fukuda - Audiobook Excerpt

"Action-packed, heart-pounding, page-flipping action. I'm thoroughly in love with this riveting, thrilling read. --YA Reads

Don't miss the electrifying second book in the must-listen trilogy of the year!

With death only a heartbeat away, Gene and the remaining humans must find a way to survive long enough to escape the hungry predators chasing them through the night. But they're not the only things following Gene. He's haunted by Ashley June who he left behind, and his burgeoning feelings for Sissy, the human girl at his side.

Their escape takes them to a refuge of humans living high in the mountains. Gene and his friends think they're finally safe, but not everything here is as it seems. And before long, Gene must ask himself if the new world they've entered is just as evil as the one they left behind. As their enemies close in on them and push Gene and Sissy closer, one thing becomes painfully clear: all they have is each other...if they can stay alive.

Chilling, inventive, and electrifying, The Prey is the second book in Andrew Fukuda's The Hunt series.

Learn More about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/theprey/AndrewFukuda

Power Trip by Jackie Collins Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to author Jackie Collins and a full cast read from Collins' new novel, The Power Trip.

From Hollywood icon and mega-seller Jackie Collins comes a thrilling new novel, The Power Trip, set on a state of the art luxury yacht off the coast of Cabo San Lucas. A tropical getaway with a cast of global power-hungry elites turns sour when they find out maybe they don't control as much of the world as they thought . . .

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/thepowertrip/JackieCollins.

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the audio edition of Scarlet, Book 2 or The Lunar Chronicles. Read by Rebecca Soler.

Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison--even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive.

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.

Learn more about the young adult science Fiction series at http://us.macmillan.com/scarlet-1/MarissaMeyer

A Memory Of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - Audio Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook of A Memory of Light, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, read by Michael Kramer.

Since 1990, when Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time® burst on the world with its first book, The Eye of the World, readers have been anticipating the final scenes of this extraordinary saga, which has sold over forty million copies in over thirty languages.

When Robert Jordan died in 2007, all feared that these concluding scenes would never be written. But working from notes and partials left by Jordan, established fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson stepped in to complete the masterwork. With The Gathering Storm (Book 12) and Towers of Midnight (Book 13) behind him, both of which were # 1 New York Times hardcover bestsellers, Sanderson now re-creates the vision that Robert Jordan left behind.

Edited by Jordan's widow, who edited all of Jordan's books, A Memory of Light will delight, enthrall, and deeply satisfy all of Jordan's legions of readers.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass.
What was, what will be, and what is,
may yet fall under the Shadow.
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

Read more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/amemoryoflight/RobertJordan

Habits of the House by Fay Weldon Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt of Habits of the House, the new novel by Fay Weldon. Read by Katherine Kellgren.

From the award winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey.

Read more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/habitsofthehouse/FayWeldon

Young Philby by Robert Littell Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the audio book for Young Philby, the new novel by author Robert Littell, read by John Lee.

In Young Philby, Robert Littell recounts the little-known story of the spy's early years. Through the words of Philby's friends and lovers, as well as his Soviet and English handlers, we follow the evolution of a mysteriously beguiling man who kept his masters on both sides of the Iron Curtain guessing about his ultimate loyalties. As each layer of ambiguity is exposed, questions surface: What made this infamous double (or should that be triple?) agent tick? And, in the end, who was the real Kim Philby?

Read more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/youngphilby/RobertLittell

Power Systems by Noam Chomsky Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt of Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire, a new collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky.

A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers

In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.

Read more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/powersystems/NoamChomsky

Political Suicide by Michael Palmer Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt of Political Suicide, the new thriller by author Michael Palmer. Read by Robert Petkoff.

In Political Suicide, Michael Palmer delivers another gripping thriller at the crossroads of politics and medicine.

Dr. Lou Welcome, from Palmer's New York Times bestselling Oath of Office, is back in this heart stopping medical thriller. A desperate phone call embroils Lou in scandal and murder involving Dr. Gary McHugh, known around the Capital as the "society doc." Lou has been supervising McHugh, formerly a black-out drinker, through his work with the Physician Wellness Office. McHugh has been very cavalier about his recovery, barely attending AA and refusing a sponsor. But Lou sees progress, and the two men are becoming friends. Now, McHugh has been found unconscious in his wrecked car after visiting a patient of his, the powerful Congressman Elias Colston, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Soon after McHugh awakens in the hospital ER, Colston's wife returns home to find her husband shot dead in their garage. She then admits to the police that she had just broken off a long-standing affair with McHugh.

Something about McHugh's story has Lou believing he is telling the truth, that the Congressman was dead when he arrived and before he blacked out. Lou agrees to look into matters, but when he encounters motive, method and opportunity he is hard pressed to believe in his friend—that is until a deadly high-level conspiracy begins to unravel, and Lou acquires information that makes him the next target.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/politicalsuicide/MichaelPalmer

The Power Trip: Jackie Collins in studio

Listen to author Jackie Collins read from her new novel, The Power Trip.

A luxurious yacht in the Sea of Cortez, a birthday cruise for one of the world's most beautiful women and an invitation no one can refuse. The Power Trip—take it if you dare.

From Hollywood icon and mega-seller Jackie Collins comes a thrilling new novel, The Power Trip, set on a state of the art luxury yacht off the coast of Cabo San Lucas. A tropical getaway with a cast of global power-hungry elites turns sour when they find out maybe they don't control as much of the world as they thought . . .

In The Power Trip you will meet Aleksandr Kasianenko, a billionaire Russian oligarch, as he sets sail on The Bianca. You'll meet his sexy supermodel girlfriend, whom The Bianca is named after, and five dynamic, powerful, and famous couples invited on the yacht's maiden voyage: Hammond Patterson, a driven Senator, and his lovely but unhappy wife, Sierra; Cliff Baxter, a charming, never-married movie star, and his ex-waitress girlfriend, Lori; Taye Sherwin, a famous black UK footballer and his interior designer wife, Ashley; Luca Perez, a male Latin singing sensation with his older decadent English boyfriend, Jeromy; and Flynn, a maverick journalist with his Asian renegade female friend, Xuan.

You will also meet Russian mobster, Sergei Zukov, a man with a grudge against Aleksandr. And Sergei's Mexican beauty queen girlfriend, Ina, whose brother, Cruz, is a master pirate with orders to hold The Bianca and its illustrious rota of guests for ransom.

The Power Trip explorers the decadent playgrounds of the super-rich . . . and leaves you hungry for more.

Learn more about this exciting new novel at http://us.macmillan.com/thepowertrip/JackieCollins

My Heart Is An Idiot: Essays by Davy Rothbart--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from the essay collection My Heart is an Idiot, by author Davy Rothbart. Read by the author.

Davy Rothbart is looking for love in all the wrong places. Constantly. He falls helplessly in love with pretty much every girl he meets—and rarely is the feeling reciprocated. Time after time, he hops in a car and tears across half of America with his heart on his sleeve. He's continually coming up with outrageous schemes, which he always manages to pull off. Well, almost always. But even when things don't work out, Rothbart finds meaning and humor in every moment. Whether it's humiliating a scammer who takes money from aspiring writers or playing harmless (but side-splitting) goofs on his deaf mother, nothing and no one is off-limits.

But as much as Rothbart is a tragically lovable, irresistibly brokenhearted hero, it's his prose that's the star of the book. In the tradition of David Sedaris and Sloane Crosley but going places very much his own, his essays show how things that are seemingly so wrong can be so, so right.

Read more about this essay collection by Davy Rothbart at http://us.macmillan.com/myheartisanidiot/DavyRothbart

The Gemini Virus by Wil Mara--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Wil Mara's thriller novel The Gemini Virus. It starts with a sneeze, it kills in four days, and there is no cure...

While a pair of charismatic CDC researchers and their team search frantically for the cause of and cure for a wildly contagious virus that kills within four days, a married couple and their children, seeking safety, flee to an isolated mountain cabin, not knowing that they are heading into the heart of the infection's source. Meanwhile, panic spreads around the globe as the US falls rapidly into chaos and other countries seem to be not far behind.

Read more about the book The Gemini Virus at http://us.macmillan.com/thegeminivirus/WilMara

Find out more about author Wil Mara at http://us.macmillan.com/author/wilmara

An Irish Country Wedding by Patrick Taylor--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Patrick Taylor's novel An Irish Country Wedding, read by John Keating. In this heartwarming tale from New York Times bestselling author Taylor, love is in the air in the colorful Ulster village of Ballybucklebo. Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly has finally proposed to the darling of his youth, Kitty O'Hallorhan. There's a wedding to be planned, but before O'Reilly can make it to the altar, he and his young colleague, Barry Laverty, M.B., must deal with the usual round of eccentric patients and crises both large and small.

Read more about the book An Irish Country Wedding at http://us.macmillan.com/anirishcountrywedding/PatrickTaylor

Learn more about New York Times bestselling author Patrick Taylor at http://us.macmillan.com/author/patricktaylor

Read about audiobook narrator John Keating at http://us.macmillan.com/author/johnkeating

Lullaby by Amanda Hocking--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Amanda Hocking's young adult fantasy novel Lullaby, read by Nicola Barber. Lullaby is book 2 in the Watersong series, which started with Wake.

Harper wants only a safe, normal life. But when her younger sister Gemma runs off with a dangerous clique of beautiful girls, Penn, Thea, and Lexi, everything changes. Vowing to get her sister back no matter what the cost, Harper must face dangers unlike any she's ever experienced. Fortunately, she has Daniel by her side, a gorgeous guy who's devoted to helping her find her sister and who's immune to the girls' dark powers.

While Harper searches for her sister, Gemma struggles to adjust to her new life. Her powers are growing by the day, and the longer she lives with her new "sisters," the harder it is to resist their magical world...

Learn more about the paranormal YA novel Lullaby at http://us.macmillan.com/lullaby-1/AmandaHocking

Find out more about New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking at http://us.macmillan.com/author/amandahocking

Read about audiobook narrator Nicola Barber at http://us.macmillan.com/author/nicolabarber

Whispers at Moonrise by C. C. Hunter--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from C. C. Hunter's young adult fantasy novel Whispers at Moonrise, book 4 in the Shadow Falls series, narrated by Katie Schorr. Shadow Falls Camp is back in session with the most explosive installment yet. A shocking new threat will rock Shadow Falls--changing it forever and altering Kylie's journey in ways she never imagined.

Even at a camp for supernatural teens, Kylie Galen has never been normal. Not only can she see ghosts, but she doesn't seem to belong to any one species: she exhibits traits from them all. As Kylie struggles to unlock the secrets of her identity, she begins to worry that Lucas will never be able to accept her for what she is, and what she isn't...a werewolf. With his pack standing in their way, Kylie finds herself turning more and more to Derek, the only person in her life who's willing to accept the impossible.

Read more about the paranormal YA novel Whispers at Moonrise at http://us.macmillan.com/whispersatmoonrise/CCHunter

Find out more about author C.C. Hunter at http://us.macmillan.com/author/cchunter

Learn about audiobook narrator Katie Schorr at http://us.macmillan.com/author/katieschorr

Tier One Wild by Dalton Fury--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Dalton Fury's thriller novel Tier One Wild, book two in the Delta Force series, read by Ari Fliakos. Former disgraced Delta Force commander Kolt "Racer" Raynor has earned his way back into The Unit after redeeming himself during an explosive operation at a black site in Pakistan. But he is about to face his deadliest challenge yet. Dramatic and revealing, Tier One Wild takes readers on an international thrill ride from the black ops nerve center of JSOC to the bloody streets of Cairo in a story only a former Delta Force commander could tell.

Read more about the book and audio book Tier One Wild at http://us.macmillan.com/tieronewild/DaltonFury

Learn more about New York Times bestselling author and former Delta Force commander Dalton Fury at http://us.macmillan.com/author/daltonfury

Read about audiobook narrator Ari Fliakos at http://us.macmillan.com/author/arifliakos

The Husband List by Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly--Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from the historical romance novel The Husband List, by blockbuster bestselling author Janet Evanovich at Dorien Kelly. The audiobook is read by Lorelei King. Based on the family from the bestselling Love In A Nutshell, The Husband List is the story of an heiress longing to marry for love or not at all.

Caroline Maxwell would like nothing more than to join her brother, Eddie, and his friend, Jack Culhane, on their adventures. While Jack and Eddie are off seeing the world, buying up businesses and building wildly successful careers, Caroline's stuck at home frightening off the men her mother hopes will ask for her hand in marriage. She longs for adventure, passion, love, and most of all . . . Jack Culhane, an unconventional Irish-American bachelor with new money and no title.

Read more about the book The Husband List at http://us.macmillan.com/thehusbandlist/JanetEvanovich

Find out more about Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels at http://us.macmillan.com/author/janetevanovich

Read more about co-author Dorien Kelly at http://us.macmillan.com/author/dorienkelly

Learn more about audiobook narrator Lorelei King at http://us.macmillan.com/author/loreleiking

Vengeance by Benjamin Black - Audio excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the audio book edition of Vengeance, the new Quirke novel by Benjamin Black.

In Vengeance, a bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as Benjamin Black reveals a world where money and sex trump everything.

It's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his partner's son—who becomes the sole witness when Delahaye produces a pistol, points it at his own chest, and fires.

This mysterious death immediately engages the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett, who in turn calls upon the services of his sometime partner Quirke, consultant pathologist at the Hospital of the Holy Family. The stakes are high: Delahaye's prominence in business circles means that Hackett and Quirke must proceed very carefully. Among others, they interview Mona Delahaye, the dead man's young and very beautiful wife; James and Jonas Delahaye, his identical twin sons; and Jack Clancy, his ambitious, womanizing partner. But then a second death occurs, this one even more shocking than the first, and quickly it becomes apparent that a terrible secret threatens to destroy the lives and reputations of several members of Dublin's elite.

Why did Victor Delahaye kill himself, and who is intent upon wreaking vengeance on so many of those who knew him?

Learn more about this novel at http://us.macmillan.com/vengeance-1/BenjaminBlack

The Walking Dead: The Road To Woodbury - Audio excerpt

Read by Fred Berman

The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walkers are multiplying. Dogged by their feral hunger for flesh and crippled by fear, Lilly relies on the protection of good Samaritans by seeking refuge in a walled-in town once known as Woodbury, Georgia.

At first, Woodbury seems like a perfect sanctuary. Squatters barter services for food, people have roofs over their heads, and the barricade expands, growing stronger every day. Best of all, a mysterious self-proclaimed leader named Philip Blake keeps the citizens in line. But Lilly begins to suspect that all is not as it seems. . . . Blake, who has recently begun to call himself The Governor, has disturbing ideas about law and order.

Ultimately, Lilly and a band of rebels open up a Pandora's box of mayhem and destruction when they challenge The Governor's reign . . . and the road to Woodbury becomes the highway to hell in this riveting follow-up to Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga's New York Times bestselling The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.

Read more about this exiting novel at http://us.macmillan.com/thewalkingdead-1/RobertKirkman

When in Doubt, Add Butter by Beth Harbison - Audio Book Excerpt

From the New York Times bestselling author of Shoe Addicts Anonymous and Always Something There to Remind Me, When in Doubt, Add Butter by Beth Harbison a delicious new novel about the search for true love and all the ingredients that go into it.

Read more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/whenindoubtaddbutter/BethHarbison

Where We Belong by Emily Giffin - Audio Book Excerpt

The author of five blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin, delivers an unforgettable story of two women, the families that make them who they are, and the longing, loyalty and love that binds them together.

Learn more about Where We Belong, the new book by Emily Giffin at http://us.macmillan.com/wherewebelong/EmilyGiffin

Father Night by Eric Van Lustbader - Audio Book Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the audio book edition of Father Night,the exiting new novel from author Eric Van Lustbader.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/fathernight/EricLustbader

Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer - Audio Book Excerpt

A debut of singular power and intelligence, Shine Shine Shine is a unique love story, an adventure between worlds, and a stunning novel of love, death, and what it means to be human.

Read more about this exciting new novel from author Lydia Netzer at http://us.macmillan.com/shineshineshine/LydiaNetzer

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny - Audio Book Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the audio edition of The Beautiful Mystery, the brilliant new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/thebeautifulmystery/LouisePenny

Spring Fever by Mary Kay Andrews - Audio Book Excerpt

In Spring Fever, the New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews delivers her delicious new escapist novel about small towns, old flames, and deep secrets.

Read more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/springfever/MaryKayAndrews

Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? by Jesse Bering - Audio Book Excerpt

Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does free will really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?     

In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist and award winning columnist Jesse Bering features more than thirty of his most popular essays from Scientific American and Slate, as well as two new pieces, that take readers on a bold and captivating journey.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/whyisthepenisshapedlikethat/JesseBering

Fated by Alyson Noël - Audio Book Excerpt

From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortals, Alyson Noël, comes Fated a breathtaking new saga brimming with magic, mystery, and an intoxicating love story that will steal your heart away.

Read more about this exciting new book, the first volume in the Soul Seekers series, at http://us.macmillan.com/fated/AlysonNo%C3%ABl

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides - Audio Book Excerpt

In The Marriage Plot, author Jeffrey Eugenides creates a new kind of contemporary love story in "his most powerful novel yet" (Newsweek).

learn more about this critically acclaimed and award wining novel at http://us.macmillan.com/themarriageplot/JeffreyEugenides

Howard's Gift by Eric C. Sinoway - Audio Book Excerpt

For more than 40 years, Howard Stevenson has been a towering figure at Harvard Business School the man who literally defined entrepreneurship and taught thousands of the world s most successful professionals. Now, spurred by Stevenson's heart stopping brush with death his student, colleague, and dear friend Eric Sinoway shares the mann's wisdom and inspiration.

Learn more about the amazing new book Howard's Gift: Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life's Work by Eric C. Sinoway with Merrill Meadow at http://us.macmillan.com/howardsgift/EricSinoway

Gone Missing by Linda Castillo - Audio Book Excerpt

A missing child is a nightmare to all parents, and never more so than in the Amish community, where family ties run deep. When the search for the presumed runaway turns up a dead body, the case quickly becomes a murder investigation. And chief of Police Kate Burkholder knows that in order to solve this case she will have to call upon everything she has to give not only as a cop, but as a woman whose own Amish roots run deep.

Learn more about author Linda Castillo's exciting new novel at http://macmillanstage.hbpub.com/gonemissing/LindaCastillo

The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan - Audio Book Excerpt

Dirty politics, dirty tricks, and a barrage of final twists, The Other Woman is the first in an explosive new series by Hank Phillippi Ryan. Seduction, betrayal, and murder—it'll take a lot more than votes to win this election.

Read more about this new thriller from author Hank Phillippi Ryan at http://us.macmillan.com/theotherwoman-1/HankPhillippiRyan

Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day - Audio Book Excerpt

As a former Buddhist monk with over 10 years of teaching experience, Andy Puddicombe has been acknowledged as the UK s foremost mindfulness meditation expert. Like his students, he began his own meditation practice as a normal, busy person with everyday concerns, and he has since designed a program that fits neatly into a jam packed daily routine proving that just 10 minutes a day can make a world of difference.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/getsomeheadspace/AndyPuddicombe

Kill You Twice By Chelsea Cain - Audio Book Excerpt

At once terrifying and magnetic, "Beauty Killer" Gretchen Lowell and Detective Archie Sheridan return with a vengeance in Kill You Twice, Chelsea Cain's latest razor-sharp psychological thriller.

Read more about this exciting new novel at http://us.macmillan.com/killyoutwice/ChelseaCain

The Last Refuge by Ben Coes - Audio Book Excerpt

Dewey Andreas, a former Army Ranger and Delta, owes his life to Commander Meir and his team of Israeli commandos. Now, to repay his debt, Dewey has to attempt the impossible ---to both rescue Meir from one of the world's most secure prisons and to find and eliminate Iran's nuclear bomb before it's deployed---all without the help or sanction of Israel or America (at the near certain risk of detection by Iran).

Learn more about this exciting new thriller from author Ben Coes at http://us.macmillan.com/thelastrefuge/BenCoes

Time Untime: A Dark Hunter Novel by Sherrilyn Kenyon - Audio Book Excerpt

From 1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon comes the next thrilling installment in her blockbuster Dark Hunter series.

Learn more about this exciting new novel at http://us.macmillan.com/timeuntime/SherrilynKenyon

Assassin's Code: A Joe Ledger Novel by Jobnathan Mayberry - Audio Book Excerpt

In ASSASSIN'S CODE, the fourth book in New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series, Joe Ledger and the DMS go on a relentless chase to stop an ancient order of killers from plunging the entire world into Holy War. 

To learn more about this exciting new novel, go to http://us.macmillan.com/assassinscode/JonathanMaberry

Fallen Masters by John Edwards - Audio Book Excerpt

What do you get if you combine William Young's The Shack with Dan Brown's Angels and Demons?  The answer is Fallen Masters, by New York Times bestselling author John Edward.     An internationally renowned psychic, John Edward has helped millions of people to connect with loved ones on the Other Side. In Fallen Masters, Edward has written a riveting novel of metaphysical suspense, a final confrontation between good and evil as it unfolds on both the Earthly plane and the Other Side.

Learn more about this exciting new novel at http://us.macmillan.com/fallenmasters/JohnEdward

Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet by Darynda Jones - Audiobook excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Darynda Jones' paranormal novel Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet, read by Lorelei King. This is the fourth book in the fun and sexy New York Times bestselling series starring Charley Davidson.

Sometimes being the grim reaper really is that. Grim. And since Charley' Davidson's last case went so awry, she has taken a couple months off to wallow in the wonders of self pity. But when a woman shows up on her doorstep convinced someone is trying to kill her, Charley has to force herself to rise above. Or at least get dressed. She quickly realizes something is amiss when everyone the woman knows swears she's insane. The more they refute the woman's story, the more Charley believes it...

Read more about the book Fourth Grave Beneath by Feet at http://us.macmillan.com/fourthgravebeneathmyfeet/DaryndaJones

Learn more about bestselling author Darynda Jones at http://us.macmillan.com/author/daryndajones

Read about audiobook narrator Lorelei King at http://us.macmillan.com/author/loreleiking

Monstrous Beauty - Audiobook excerpt

Read by Kathryn Kellgren

Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. Almost one hundred forty years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. For generations, love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra's help, Hester investigates her family's strange, sad history. The answers she seeks are waiting in the graveyard, the crypt, and at the bottom of the ocean—but powerful forces will do anything to keep her from uncovering her connection to Syrenka and to the tragedy of so long ago.

The Cursing Mommy Book Of Days by Ian Frazier - Audiobook Excerpt

Audiobook read by Cynthia Nixon.

Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, the book follows the Cursing Mommy—beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and eight—as she tries (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life.

Frazier has demonstrated an astonishing ability to operate with ease in a variety of registers: from On the Rez, an investigation into the lives of modern day Oglala Sioux written with a mix of humor, compassion, and imagination, to Dating Your Mom, a sidesplitting collection of humorous essays that imagines, among other things, how and why you might begin a romance with your mother. Here, Frazier tackles another genre with his usual grace and aplomb, as well as an extra helping of his trademark wicked wit. The Cursing Mommy's failures and weaknesses are our own—and Frazier gives them a loving, satirical spin that is uniquely his own.

Learn more about the book at http://us.macmillan.com/thecursingmommysbookofdays/IanFrazier

Gangster Squad: Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt of the audiobook for Gangster Squad by Paul Lieberman.

A harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels—the real events behind the blockbuster Warner Brothers film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O'Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick. About all they had in common was their obsession. So O'Mara set a trap to prove Mickey was a killer. And Wooters formed an alliance with Mickey's budding rival, Jack "The Enforcer" Whalen. Two cops -- two hoodlums. Their fates collided in the closing days of the 1950s, when late one night "The Enforcer" confronted Mickey and his crew. The aftermath would shake both LA's mob and police department, and signal the end of a defining era in the city's history.

In 2008, award-winning journalist Paul Lieberman's seven-part Los Angeles Times series "Tales from the Gangster Squad" was optioned by Warner Bros. He spent over a decade tracking down surviving members of the real police unit as well as families and associates of the mobsters they pursued. GANGSTER SQUAD is a tour-de-force narrative reminiscent of LA Confidential.