Mr. Harris’ book is now in its ninth printing and for the week ending 8/17 was ranked #16 on the LA Times and #34 on Indie Bound best seller list. Learn more about the science of meditation in this clip from his Big Think interview. IT books published the book in hardcover March 11, 2014.

Mr. Waldman’s book tells the remarkably dramatic story of man versus corrosion. Mary Roach, author of GULP, says of it, “The clarity and quiet wit of Waldman’s prose, his gift for narrative, his zeal for reporting and his eye for detail, these things and more put him in a class with John McPhee and Susan Orlean.” Simon & Schuster will publish March 10, 2015.

The final book in THE MAGICIANS trilogy by Lev Grossman will debut at number one on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller list for the week of August 24th. The Times also reviewed the book saying, “by the end… you feel that breathless, stay-up-all-night, thrumming excitement that you, too, experienced as a child, and that you felt all over again when you first opened up “The Magicians” and fell headlong into Mr. Grossman’s world.” Viking published the book on August 5, 2014.

A PERFECT LIFE, the latest novel by Danielle Steel, made its debut on the New York Times Bestseller list at number 2 on the Combined E-book and Print list and number 4 on the Hardcover list for the week of August 10th. Delacorte published the book July 22, 2014.

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s A PATH APPEARS: TRANSFORMING LIVES, CREATING OPPORTUNITY received a starred review in Booklist, which called it, “a slow-go read in the most positive sense; it is hard not to constantly put down the book in order to further investigate the many exemplary causes that are profiled.” Knopf publishes the book on September 23, 2014.

I STAND CORRECTED: How Teaching Western Manners in China Became Its Own Unforgettable Lesson by Eden Collinsworth received a starred review in Booklist. The review calls the book “patiently, delightfully hilarious” and “a handbook of sorts, but one to the enormous never ending challenges of living not just well or right but—perhaps despite it all—happily. A rare, true gift.” Doubleday/Nan A. Talese will publish the book October 7, 2014.

The August 1, 2014 issue of Kirkus says “A newspaperman’s sharp focus and beveled prose lend emotional power to this debate.” Simon & Schuster will publish the book on September 16, 2014.

Elliot Ackerman’s appeared on CNN to discuss, the air strikes in Iraq and the U.S. Strategy to combat ISIS. His essay “The Islamic State's Strategy Was Years in the Making” was recently published in the New Republic. Scribner will publish his first novel, GREEN ON BLUE, in spring 2015.

Samantha Hunt’s THE INVENTION OF EVERYTHING ELSE was listed on Flavorwire’s “50 Excellent Novels by Female Writers Under 50 That Everyone Should Read.” Samantha’s next novel MR. SPLITFOOT is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Lin Enger’s THE HIGH DIVIDE was reviewed by Kirkus, which said, “Enger's novel embraces not one but three journeys that involve guilt, expiation and redemption . . . Enger writes in an expansive style suitable to his sprawling subject.” Algonquin Books will publish the book on September 23, 2014.

Rene Steinke’s FRIENDSWOOD was reviewed in O Magazine and Booklist. Booklist said, “With exceptional perception and deft artistry, Steinke (Holy Skirts, 2005) traces a matrix of poisonous acts in this magnetizing and sensitive tale of hidden dangers, the tyranny of the status quo, trust betrayed, crimes personal and planetary, and individuals transformed.”

NPR's Arun Rath talks to Josh Weil about his new novel THE GREAT GLASS SEA, which imagines a dystopian Russia of 24-hour daylight and 24-hour labor under a greenhouse dome. Grove Atlantic published the book on Jul 2, 2014.