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.

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.

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.

Xiaolu Guo will be in the US during September and October, promoting her new novel I AM CHINA, which Nan A Talese will publish on September 2, 2014. The dates are as followed: Wednesday, 9/3: Asia Society Texas Center (Houston, TX), Tuesday, 9/9: PEN American Center (New York, NY), Wednesday, 9/10: Asia Society (New York, NY), Sunday, 9/21: Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn, NY) Monday, 9/22: University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) Tuesday, 9/23: Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA) Thursday, 9/25: Colgate University (Hamilton, NY) Wednesday, 10/1: British Consulate General New York (New York, NY) Saturday, 10/4: Brown University (Providence, RI).

Rene Steinke's essay “The Driver Just Didn’t See You” was published in the “Lives” column of the August 10th, 2014 issue of the New York Times Magazine. Riverhead will publish her latest book, FRIENDSWOOD, on August 14.

For the week ending 8/3 Dan Harris’ 10% HAPPIER: How I Tamed The Voice In My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works- A True Story was #16 on the LA TIMES list and #37 on the IndieBound list for Hardcover Nonfiction. Recently Dan Harris was interviewed on Eric Zimmer’s The One Your Feed podcast and on Twitter by Talks With Teachers as part of their Nonfiction Book club. IT books published the book in hardcover March 11, 2014.

Richard Preston, author of THE HOT ZONE, has a piece in the August 11/18th issue of The New Yorker about the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa. Random House published the #1 New York Times bestseller THE HOT ZONE in 1994.

Malcolm Brooks’s PAINTED HORSES is an Amazon Best Book of the Month pick for August 2014. Jon Foro says of the novel, “Brooks's prose is stylistically bold, announcing his artistic aspirations from the opening sentence… Ultimately, Brooks accomplishes no small feat in this remarkable debut: a tale of literary ambition that lives comfortably inside its genre roots, but not by its conventions.” Grove Atlantic will publish the book on August 5th, 2014.

After 178 weeks on the New York Times’s bestseller list, Lauren Hillenbrand’s UNBROKEN is back at number one for the second week in a row. An account of Louis Zamperini’s experience of World War II, UNBROKEN will soon be in theatres this winter in a film directed by Angelina Jolie and with a screenplay written by the Coen brothers. Random House originally published UNBROKEN in November, 2010. For more information, please check the book’s website:

For years, Sarah Farber and her best friend, Jennifer, kept what they called the Never List: a list of actions to be avoided at all costs, for safety’s sake. But one night, against their best instincts, they accept a cab ride—one with grave, everlasting consequences. Jeffrey Deaver, author of the Lincoln Rhyme series, warns and entices readers of THE NEVER LIST by Koethi Zan by saying, “Psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It’s that kind of book.” Plenty of people have taken his advice, as the book is now the 7th bestselling debut novel in the United Kingdom for 2014. Penguin Books published the paperback edition on June 24th, 2014.