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Married for 26 years, Jose and Kitty Menendez appeared to be a happy couple and proud parents. Twenty-one-year-old Lyle Menendez was enrolled at Princeton, where he was a star on the tennis team. Eighteen-year-old Erik Menendez had just graduated from Beverly Hills High and was about to start college at UCLA. The Menendezes appeared to be living the American dream. But it was all a façade.

In Failure to Disrupt, Justin Reich delivers a sobering report card on the latest supposedly transformative educational technologies. Reich takes listeners on a tour of MOOCs, autograders, computerized "intelligent tutors", and other educational technologies whose problems and paradoxes have bedeviled educators. Learning technologies often provide the greatest benefit to affluent students and do little to combat growing inequality in education. And institutions and investors often favor programs that scale up quickly, but at the expense of true innovation.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Expect insight, wit, and surprises.” —People “Deeply human...a beautifully quiet and devastating book.” —Sarah Jessica Parker A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about marriage, middle-age, and a man at a crossroads in his life. When Tom Layward’s...

Former client Sam Tabor, just out of Greenhaven after a five-year homicide stint, comes to Bill Smith with a strange request. A colossally talented painter whose parole was orchestrated by art world movers and shakers, Sam’s convinced that since he’s been out he’s killed two women. He doesn’t remember the killings but he wants Smith, one of the few people he trusts, to investigate and prove him either innocent or guilty.

Holden Parish survived his parents' horrific attempts to make him the perfect son. After a year's stint in a Swiss sanitarium to recover, he has vowed to never let anything, nor anyone, trap him again. Brilliant but broken, he seeks refuge behind alcohol, meaningless sex, and uses his wicked sense of humor to keep people away. He only has to ride out one year in the coastal town of Santa Cruz with his aunt and uncle before he inherits his billions and can make his escape and disappear. Falling in love is not in the plans. 

For most couples, a majority of issues can be resolved through healthy conversation. While couples often have the best intentions of engaging in this kind of communication, many tend to find themselves stuck in the same argumentative patterns. A single phrase, sideways look, or off-putting tone can quickly derail a productive discussion and escalate it into discord, leaving the couple more dazed, dejected, and disconnected than before.

In a world filled with chaos and uncertainty, there is one thing you can rely on… vengeance! The woke took his family and life from Braxton Knox. Now, he's out to pay them back. Braxton and his team of covert vigilantes have their hands full when a transvestite vegan cult goes on a killing...

Mega-bestselling author Aaron Blabey, creator of The Bad Guys, is back in a diabolically funny, new seven-book series where your pets are not what they seem . . . OK, here's the situation: Thanks to a diabolical intergalactic game show, we are all cooked. Luckily, Griff, an 11-year-old kid with...

Kennedy Cole's life stalled one year ago after she tragically lost her mom. She abandoned her plans to finish college and quit working for her family's professional hockey team, the Palmer City Wolves. She's finally ready to move forward with Wolves star player Justin Ward at her side, but when...

One of the most revered names in SF and fantasy, the incomparable Roger Zelazny was honored with numerous prizes—including six Hugo and three Nebula Awards—over the course of his legendary career. Among his more than fifty books, arguably Zelazny’s most popular literary creations were his...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Debut author Shen Tao introduces listeners to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress, a sweeping, epic and intimate fantasy perfect for fans of The Serpent & the Wings of Night, The Song of Achilles and She Who Became the Sun. "Narrators Katharine Chin and Eric Yang...

A girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen. 

Fifteen years ago, Sawyer Caldwell murdered four people—but left me alive. Now, on the run from my abusive ex, the dense Appalachian forest where I once escaped a killer's grasp is the only place I feel safe. Except someone's lurking in those trees. Watching me. Waiting. It can't be Sawyer Caldwell. He's dead. Shot by the police. So who's hunting me in the woods— And why do I wish it's the serial killer who let me live?

Has your cat been acting differently since the loss of a companion? Perhaps they're searching the house, sleeping more than usual, refusing meals, becoming unusually vocal, or following you everywhere. These subtle changes can leave even experienced cat parents wondering what happened and how...

No primeiro romance que assina com o próprio nome, Luciany Aparecida narra, com uma prosa lírica e de força singular, os trágicos acontecimentos que cercam um pequeno vilarejo rural no interior da Bahia. Mata Doce é um romance épico, delicado e poderoso, que entrelaça passado e presente...

“[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.”—The New York Times Book Review Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless...

Murder Beyond the Milky way earns every word of its five-star reviews. It takes the hard-boiled noir detective tradition and transplants it into the outer reaches of space. On the most isolated planet in the explored universe an elite member of one of the five corporations that control all of...

Dr. Paul Von Nieuwenhuyse has never been afraid of the law. Proudly unassimilated, he’s infamous for taking the government to court—and winning. But the law is changing, and it’s not the only enemy. When his son Nic betrays him, Paul loses custody of his daughter and finds himself on the...

When an unexpected snowstorm traps Ruby Starks and Amari Snowden together in her old home, neither expects the cold to thaw the walls they've built around their hearts. Ruby Starks, a warmly expressive first-grade teacher, returned to Farmerton, Georgia, to escape the ghosts of a hidden past...

Eine Verschwörung im Herzen des Reiches 63 vor Christus, eine Zeit des Friedens und des Wohlstands: Die Legionen der mächtigen Römischen Republik haben alle Feinde in die Knie gezwungen. Doch auf den Straßen Roms fließt das Blut. Während die Obrigkeit wegsieht, führt Decius Caecilius...