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Roddy Doyle with Lorrie Moore
Daniel Pink with Susan Cain
This event premieres on February 16, 2022 at 6pm PDT/9pm EDT
— $40 ticket includes a signed copy of the book
(* we only ship to US addresses). Books ship week of Feb 21.
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From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming power of our most misunderstood yet potentially most valuable emotion: regret.
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Daniel H. Pink is the author of several provocative, bestselling books about business, work, creativity, and behavior. His books include: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing; To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others; Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us; A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future.
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Pink was host and co-executive producer of Crowd Control, a television series about human behavior on the National Geographic Channel that aired in more than 100 countries. He has appeared frequently on NPR, PBS, ABC, CNN, and other TV and radio networks in the U.S. and abroad. His 2020 MasterClass on sales and persuasion is one of the most popular courses on the platform. He has been a contributing editor at Fast Company and Wired as well as a business columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. His articles and essays have also appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The New Republic, Slate, and other publications. Before venturing out on his own 20 years ago, he worked in several positions in politics and government, including serving from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He earned a B.A. in linguistics from Northwestern University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Visit his website.
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Susan Cain was named one of the top ten influencers in the world by LinkedIn. She is a renowned speaker and author of the award-winning books Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking; Quiet Power; and Quiet Journal. Translated into more than forty languages, Quiet has appeared on many best-of lists, spent more than seven years on the New York Times bestseller list, and was named the #1 best book of the year by Fast Company, which also named Cain one of its Most Creative People in Business. Her TED Talk on the power of introverts has been viewed over 40 million times. Her upcoming book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, will be published in April 2022. Visit her website.
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“If you have long assumed that ‘no regrets’ is the way to live life, then this book is for you. The incomparably candid, clear, and concise Daniel Pink summarizes the latest science on looking backward on what could have been and shows how it can vault you forward to a happier, more productive, and principled life.” —Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit
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The Power of Regret. Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains in The Power of Regret. They’re a universal and healthy part of being human. And understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives.
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Drawing on research in social psychology, neuroscience, and biology, Pink debunks the myth of the “no regrets” philosophy of life. And using the largest sampling of American attitudes about regret ever conducted as well as his own World Regret Survey—which has collected regrets from more than 15,000 people in 105 countries—he lays out the four core regrets that each of us has. These deep regrets offer compelling insights into how we live and how we can find a better path forward.
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As he did in his bestsellers Drive, When, and A Whole New Mind, Pink lays out a dynamic new way of thinking about regret and frames his ideas in ways that are clear, accessible, and pragmatic. Packed with true stories of people’s regrets as well as practical takeaways for reimagining regret as a positive force, The Power of Regret shows how we can live richer, more engaged lives.
Sarah J. Maas with Katherine Webber
This event premieres on February 15, 2022 at 6pm PDT/9pm EDT
— $45 ticket includes a special tour edition book, exclusively only available from this event.
(* we only ship to US addresses). Books ship on February 14.
— Tickets on sale on Monday, December 13 at 9am PST/12pm EST.
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Sarah J. Maas continues the sexy, action-packed Crescent City series with House of Sky and Breath, picking up Bryce and Hunt’s adventure where it left off!
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Sarah J. Maas is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Crescent City, Court of Thorns and Roses, and Throne of Glass series. Her books have sold eighteen million copies and are published in thirty-seven languages.
After an “electrifying” (Publishers Weekly) first installment, Sarah J. Maas takes readers back to Crescent City for more of Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar’s dizzying, action-packed adventures and an even steamier continuation of their love story. After saving Crescent City from destruction at the end of HOUSE OF EARTH AND BLOOD, Bryce and Hunt would love nothing more than to just catch their breath and figure out what their future might hold.
So far, those that rule Crescent City have kept their word and left Bryce and Hunt alone, but as the rebels chip away at the leaders’ power, danger nears. Bryce, Hunt, and their friends become entangled in the rebels’ plans and must make a choice: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what’s right and protect the world they love.
Complete with Sarah J. Maas’trademark world-building, richly sensuous romance, page-turning suspense, and surprises at every turn, HOUSE OF SKY AND BREATH is the epic, heart-pounding second installment in Bryce and Hunt’s story that readers have long been waiting for.
Katherine Webber is a YA and children’s author. Her upcoming YA novels include THE REVELRY (publishing in January 2022) and the YA fantasy rom-com TWIN CROWNS (publishing May 2022, co-written with Catherine Doyle). She also is the co-author of the young fiction series SAM WU IS NOT AFRAID and the bestselling DRAGON REALM books, which she co-writes with her husband Kevin Tsang.
Dean Koontz with Tess Gerritsen
This event premieres on February 9, 2022 at 6pm PDT/9pm EDT
— $40 ticket includes a signed copy of the book
(* we only ship to US addresses). Books ship on February 10.
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#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz takes a surprising and exhilarating road trip with a man in pursuit of his strange past―mile by frightening mile.…
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Dean Koontz was only a senior in college when he won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition. He has never stopped writing since. Koontz is the author of seventy-nine New York Times bestsellers, fourteen of which rose to #1, including One Door Away from Heaven, From the Corner of His Eye, Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, The Husband, Odd Hours, Relentless, What the Night Knows, and 77 Shadow Street. He’s been hailed by Rolling Stone as “America’s most popular suspense novelist,” and his books have been published in thirty-eight languages and have sold over five hundred million copies worldwide. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he now lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirits of their goldens Trixie and Anna. For more information, visit his website.
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Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career: it wasn’t until she was on maternity leave from her job as a physician that she began to write. Since then, she’s written twenty-eight suspense novels, with more than thirty million copies sold. Her books have been translated into forty languages, and her series featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the hit TNT television series Rizzoli & Isles, starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander. Gerritsen now writes full-time and lives in Maine.
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Quicksilver
Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery―abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.
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During a shoot-out at a forlorn dude ranch, he finally meets his destined companions: Bridget Rainking, a beauty as gifted in foresight as she is with firearms, and her grandpa Sparky, a romance novelist with an unusual past. Bridget knows what it’s like to be Quinn. She’s hunted, too. The only way to stay alive is to keep moving.
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Barreling through the Sonoran Desert, the formidable trio is impelled by that same inexplicable magnetism toward the inevitable. With every deeply disturbing mile, something sinister is in the rearview―an enemy that is more than a match for Quinn. Even as he discovers within himself resources that are every bit as scary.
Norman Lear
This event premieres on December 15, 2021 at 6pm PDT/9pm EDT
NOTE: This virtual event was taped in-person in our studio and is a 75 minute conversation that also includes several clips from the show that are discussed in the event.
— $15 tickets to watch the virtual event.
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All in the Family creator Norman Lear takes fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking sitcom on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
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Producer, philanthropist, and activist Norman Lear has the distinction of being among the first seven television pioneers inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. He won his first two Emmy® Awards in 1971 (for All in the Family’s premiere season) and his most recent one in 2020, for Live in Front of a Studio Audience: ”All In The Family” and ”Good Times.” His memoir, Even This I Get to Experience, was published in 2014.
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Jim Colucci is a Los Angeles-based freelance entertainment writer whose work has appeared in such publications as TV Guide and CBS’ Watch! magazine, where he served as a Deputy Editor. He has appeared on such shows as CNN’s History of the Sitcom, and for a decade delivered a weekly on-air entertainment report on The Frank DeCaro Show on Sirius XM radio. His previous books include Will & Grace: Fabulously Uncensored, The Q Guide to The Golden Girls and the New York Times best-seller Golden Girls Forever.
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Television was changed forever in 1971 with the premiere of All in the Family. Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor), his wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers), and son-in-law Mike“Meathead” Stivic (Rob Reiner) instantly became—and half a century later still are—four of the most iconic characters in television.
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All in the Family creator Norman Lear takes fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking sitcom on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in All in the Family: The Show that Changed Television and shares his take on fifty episodes that exemplify why All in the Family remains as funny and relevant as ever. Its boundary-pushing approach to hot-button topics like race relations, homosexuality, war, religion, and social inequity are examined with commentary from its costars, writers, directors, and guest stars, as well as prominent contemporary showrunners—a veritable who’s-who of television royalty.
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Jim Colucci’s interviews with Lear for the book revisit casting decisions and how the scripts were borne of the news of the day, familial influences, network mandates, political correctness, and more. With previously unseen notes from Lear, script pages, production designs, and a foreword by superfan Jimmy Kimmel, who revived the show in 2019 with his live re-creation featuring a bevy of today’s finest actors, this book is the ultimate companion to this seminal series and a must for fans of television comedy.
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Alan Cumming, Martin Short, Mindy Kaling, Sally Field, Demi Moore, Jenifer Lewis, Gabrielle Union, Gabrielle Byrne and more…
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