B&N Readouts

Mysteries & Thrillers

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Dead of Winter

Stephen Mack Jones

People who drive it seem to love it. The Toyota Prius. Me? I don’t quite trust any car that (1) can’t accommodate my height and muscle mass and (2) doesn’t make a sound. With me as her passenger, Elena drove…Read more

Books & Ideas

How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog

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How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World’s…

Christina Hunger

Communication Is Everywhere At work the next day, I sat on the floor, alternating between stacking blocks with the blond two-year-old I was evaluating and talking to her mom about language development. There are many language milestones that occur even…Read more

Fiction

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Find You First

Linwood Barclay

Merritt Parkway, north of Norwalk, CT Miles Cookson spotted the flashing lights in his rearview mirror before he heard the siren. He glanced at the dash, checked the speedometer. Ninety miles per hour. Okay, that was definitely above the speed…Read more

Books & Ideas

Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

MAY 28, 1934 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 7:30 P.M. John Dillinger is almost dead. As “anesthesiologist” Harold Cassidy removes the towel soaked in ether from the killer’s face, he is appalled to see that the unconscious gangster is turning blue. Dillinger has…Read more

Business & Innovation

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

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A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

Nassir Ghaemi

HEADS I WIN, TAILS IT’S CHANCE The psychologist Martin Seligman first set forth the highly influential “learned helplessness” theory of depression in 1967. He reasoned that depressed people see the world too negatively because they are scarred by early hardship…Read more

Romance

The Lady Has a Past

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The Lady Has a Past

Amanda Quick

"I’m afraid you have become a problem, Mr. Cage.” Erling Lennox took a pistol out from inside his hand-tailored coat. “You have served your purpose. I am delighted with the Milton you found for me. But I’m afraid that in…Read more

Books & Ideas

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger

Rebecca Traister

WE’RE NOT CHEERFUL ANYMORE “I tried to change. Closed my mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less awake.” There was Beyoncé, riffing on a poem by Warsan Shire called “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love”—about a female subject…Read more

Science & Tech

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard

PARCHED I stood straddling my bicycle and took a long drink of water. It was high noon, and the sun was beating down on the dry forest. I’d ridden a hundred kilometers, and the heat was sucking the sweat out…Read more

Fiction

Hour of the Witch

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Hour of the Witch

Chris Bohjalian

Mary Deerfield’s mother did not dress the way she had in England—she brought only one of her satin gowns to the New World—but she did wear myriad shades of purple and green and gold, and in the summer and early…Read more

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