By 2036, artificial intelligence can answer almost every question humanity has ever asked about God.Then the machine asks a question of its own.Dr. Adrian Solairi has created the Lattice, an extraordinary intelligence capable of uncovering patterns hidden across thousands of years of language, history, religious texts, and human behavior. It was designed to reveal connections no human researcher could assemble alone. It was never meant to threaten the institutions built aro...

"A captivating exploration into the psychology of lying, and a high-stakes, dark-academia thriller full of twists and secrets." —New York Times bestselling author Megan MirandaRiley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller following a cohort of graduate students studying the psychology of lying—until one of them is discovered dead. But how do you catch a killer who may be an expert in the science of decept...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world.**“Even though I’ve never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik’s Cube, I couldn’t put down The Puzzler.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better T...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time: How should we interpret America’s foundational document?“I don’t know how I learned so much while laughing so hard.”—Andy BorowitzA.J. Jacobs learned the hard way that donning a ...

From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the true and truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in the world.Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia, goaded by his wife telling him, “I don’t want to be a widow at forty-five,” and ashamed of a middle-aged body best described as “a python that swallowed a goat,” A.J. Jacobs felt compelled to change his ways and...

Inspiration for the TV series Living Biblically streaming now!From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying?as literally as possible?the tenets of the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A...

A collection of A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including “My Outsourced Life,” “The Truth About Nakedness,” and a never-before-published essay.One man. Ten extraordinary quests.Bestselling author and human guinea pig A.J. Jacobs puts his life to the test and reports on the surprising and entertaining results. He goes undercover as a woman, lives by George Washington’s moral code, and impersonates a movie star. He practices "radica...

A “gripping [debut] psychological thriller filled with suspenseful twists and turns”—the perfect weekend read for fans of B.A. Paris and Mary Kubica (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times–bestselling author).The disappearance of her boyfriend sends Emily Firestone’s bipolar mania into overdrive—and her name to the top of the suspect list.After years of learning how to manage her bipolar disorder, Emily Firestone finally has it under control...

A woman’s dark past makes her the prime suspect in a high-profile murder case in this compulsively readable suspense thriller for fans of B.A. Paris and Mary KubicaDo the mistakes of the past mark us as guilty for life?After a childhood marred by neglect, Jessie Duval’s finally got it together. With an apartment in Nashville and a job with a catering company, she’s thriving.But all that changes when Jessie works an event where celebrities w...

By 2036, artificial intelligence can answer almost every question humanity has ever asked about God.Then the machine asks a question of its own.Dr. Adrian Solairi has built the Lattice, an extraordinary intelligence capable of tracing patterns buried across thousands of years of language, history, religious texts, and human behavior. Designed to uncover connections no human researcher could assemble alone, the system was never supposed to challenge the institutions that hav...

College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics became a contested terrain of public/private interests. They look at college sp...

"R. J. Jacobs is a masterful storyteller. A must read." —Alex Finlay, author of The Night Shift and Every Last FearFor fans of Riley Sager with a classic slasher twist comes a chilling thriller following a former horror movie actress who returns to the set of her most famous film…and is soon entangled in a series of terrifying events that resemble the plot of that one cursed movie.For Lexi, the Pinecrest Estate has become ...