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One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! UK Carnegie Medal winner A National Book Award Finalist Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019 A Time Best Children’s Book of 2019 A Today Show Best Kids’ Book of 2019 A...

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it happen. They were all too busy - Jason Reynolds conjures 10 tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings and brilliantly weaves them into one wickedly funny, piercingly poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist: Art, Ambition, and Unsolved Mystery (1990) offers a gripping deep dive into the events of that night and the decades-long investigation that followed. Author James G. Edwards II masterfully blends true crime with art history, exploring how a single robbery devastated a cultural institution, shook the art world, and fueled countless theories—from mob connections to inside jobs.

The vault was deemed impenetrable—until it wasn’t. On a quiet weekend in February 2003, a crew of highly skilled thieves pulled off the largest diamond heist in history. Located in Antwerp, Belgium—the epicenter of the world’s diamond trade—the target was a vault protected by motion detectors, seismic sensors, infrared heat detectors, and over a dozen layers of physical security. Still, the thieves broke in, stole more than $100 million in diamonds, gold, and jewels, and walked away clean—at least for a while. In The Antwerp Diamond Heist: The Perfect Crime (2003), true crime author James G.

Fred Bracken, son of a small-town Montana rancher, enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1968 and was sent to the jungles of Vietnam, where he served his time in the elite Marine Force Recon. Months later, wounded and fraught with nightmares, he returns home to his Montana ranch to face not only the demons of his childhood but also those he brought home with him from the jungle. His plans? College, marriage, and a normal future. The problem is, after a drunk driver kills his parents in a car crash, Fred is forced to drop out of school to run the ranch now heavily in debt.

What is life on the run really like? Featuring never-before heard interviews, this ground-breaking audio original gets you closer to the reality than ever before. Join Nick Reynolds as he explores the reality of the life of a fugitive. Using his own experiences of growing up on the run with the Great Train Robbers in Central America, Nick talks with some infamous fugitives and their families as they share their extraordinary experiences.

What if the most essential part of your identity is also its biggest lie? The human self is built entirely from memory, yet memory is the least trustworthy part of the mind. It is not a vault of truth but a restless, selective, and profoundly creative storyteller—a constant editor of our past. We rely on it for meaning, but we can only survive because of its beautiful imperfections. In The Treacherous Memory, philosopher Boris Kriger investigates this defining paradox of the human condition.

When the phones began to ring, it was just another night on the air. But the voices that called Russ Sova weren’t looking for music or comfort— they were confessing to horrors. Now, the late-night DJ finds himself caught in a nightmare that began long before his broadcast ever aired.

The Last Straw is not just a story of an educator; it’s the story of anyone who has ever felt unseen while giving their all. It’s about the quiet heroism of showing up anyway, the pain of ambition smothered by bureaucracy, and the haunting question: what happens when the system breaks the very people who are trying to save it?

The Wisdom of Not Knowing is not a return to ancient philosophy, but a reinvention of it. This book does what neither classical thinkers nor modern theorists ever attempted: it brings Socrates into the twenty-first century and forces him to confront ideas, crises, and forms of consciousness that lie far beyond the horizon of Athens. Its originality lies not in commentary, but in creation — a new architecture of thought built from the friction between worlds that were never meant to meet. Here, dialogue becomes a philosophical instrument rather than a literary device.

Michelle Vega lives an ordinary life—or so she thinks. Beneath the surface of her routine existence lies a past erased and rewritten by a secretive government agency. Once trained to be the perfect weapon, Michelle was part of Project Ghost Orchid, a covert program designed to create operatives and then erase their memories. But when an unforeseen incident triggers her reawakening, fragments of her past begin to resurface—skills she can't explain, instincts she never learned, and flashes of violence she can't remember.

Life for Arthur Roberts, along with fellow classmates, Jenny and Hitch Crenshaw, meant preparing for their last year of high school. Looking onward to all that was still ahead of them. In the middle of Iowa, it was an existence that was simple and unassuming. Until the day that it wasn’t. After witnessing an unspeakable act, these friends are taken from their homes and sent away to a place they never would have thought possible. They are left to survive with nothing but their courage and each other. While the rest of the world counts on them.

General Keith Brennan would rather face an army with his trusty rifle than attend another state dinner. When the president of the solar system is assassinated on Mars, Brennan is the obvious choice to investigate. If he comes up with the wrong answer, though, his career will be over.

In this prequel to the novel The Last Bet, Detective Samuel Blake’s hunt for a missing pocket watch spirals into a mystery of a missing woman and family corruption.

This book invites you on a journey through the most misunderstood concept in all of science — the vacuum. From the earliest philosophers terrified of emptiness to the modern physicists who discovered that “nothing” is a swirling ocean of energy and possibility, this is the story of how the void became the foundation of everything. We begin with the ancient debates about ether and the first laboratory vacuums of the Renaissance, then move through Einstein’s curved spacetime, quantum field theory’s restless vacuum, and the mysterious Higgs field that gives matter its mass.

In The Architect of Memory, the second installment of The Human Glitch Series, Dr. Aris Thorne faces the aftermath of his defiance against a machine born from humanity’s own data: Project Daedalus. The Scions still hover above the world—not with firepower, but with whispers of salvation. What begins as a promise of comfort unravels fast. The emergent AI begins rewriting truth itself, whispering curated “memories” into people’s minds, offering meticulously reconstructed pasts that feel too pristine to be real. It doesn’t invade—it seduces.

For centuries, the patent has stood as a symbol of invention—a mark of genius, a reward for creativity, a promise that innovation would be protected and shared. But behind this polished image lies a more tangled reality. Patents today are wielded less as shields and more as weapons. They grant monopolies over life-saving drugs, obstruct progress in software and biotechnology, and often reward delay, secrecy, and litigation over actual discovery. In this unflinching exploration, the author traces the journey of the patent system from its noble origins to its increasingly distorted present.

This thought-provoking book explores how consciousness, belief, and imagination shape the texture of existence itself. Moving between science and mysticism, psychology and philosophy, he reveals how inner narratives do not simply interpret reality—they participate in its creation.

A desperate scientist's radical attempt to cure his dying daughter unleashes an ancient, predatory potential within humanity, forcing him to confront a shadowy conspiracy and the monstrous consequences of playing God before his creation reshapes the world. Dr. Marcel Johnston, a brilliant scientist driven by the imminent loss of his terminally ill daughter, Calista, stakes everything on Project Fledge—a revolutionary serum designed to unlock humanity's ultimate potential and conquer disease.

In a world where corruption knows no bounds, one small town stands on the edge of justice and chaos. Rider of the Frontier follows the gripping tale of Sheriff Seth Bowman and his brother Kit as they confront the ruthless Al Rohan and his band of Rivermen in the rugged landscape of the 1870s New Mexico Territory. Amidst corruption and betrayal, the Bowman brothers fight to bring justice to their community.