Jay Gould was the 19th century's greatest robber baron, yet he isn't a household name like Vanderbilt or Rockefeller. Here are five things you didn't know about the man who created the Black Friday market collapse of 1869. Learn more about Jay Gould in American Rascal: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/American-Rascal/Greg-Steinmetz/9781982107406 CONNECT WITH HISTORY IN FIVE Website: https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/historyinfive Twitter:...

Jim Thorpe emerged from the Sac and Fox Nation upon the Oklahoma plains to become one of America's first sports superstars, earning Olympic gold before pioneering professional football and baseball. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author David Maraniss, author of the Thorpe biography ‘Path Lit By Lightning,' discusses the life and legacy of the man who was heroic on the field but complicated off of it.

Watch Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T talk about his audiobook, SPLIT DECISION, co-written and co-narrated with his friend Spike. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3RKz3iM Ice-T unveils a compelling and astonishing memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune—while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter:...

Watch Chris Belcher read an excerpt from her audiobook PRETTY BABY. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3o9l4Wk A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles's Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix in this searing and darkly funny memoir that upends our ideas about desire, class, and power. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simon.audio/ Facebook:...

Check out this behind-the-scenes video of longtime Black Dagger Brotherhood narrator Jim Frangione recording DARIUS by J.R. Ward! Learn more: https://bit.ly/39JhKh8 In this powerful audio exclusive, #1 New York Times bestseller J.R. Ward shares the star-crossed love story of fan favorite, and original member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Darius. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudio Instagram:...

Journalist Katy Tur discusses how her new memoir ROUGH DRAFT came about, some of the surprising things she learned about herself while writing it, and how it all connects with a life in and around journalism.

Watch Melissa Bond read an excerpt from her audiobook BLOOD ORANGE NIGHT. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3NXdqcK A visceral, propulsive memoir detailing Melissa Bond’s accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence and the life-threatening impacts of the drugs’ long-term use. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simon.audio/ Facebook:...

From decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself.

Watch talented narrator Bahni Turpin read an excerpt from YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY by Akwaeke Emezi. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3PNVJhn A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive story about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter:...

Watch Kellyanne Conway talk about her audiobook HERE’S THE DEAL. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3GFL8kv In this open and vulnerable account, the first woman in American history to manage a winning presidential campaign takes listeners on a journey all the way to the White House and beyond with her trademark sharp wit, raw honesty, and level eye. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudio Instagram:...

Check out this behind-the-scenes video of Arrow and Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes in the studio recording his audiobook MISS MEMORY LANE. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3N99Zj3 A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simon.audio/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SimonAudio

Watch bestselling author Jack Carr talk about what he's excited for listeners to hear in his audiobook IN THE BLOOD. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3sG8Bw6 The #1 New York Times bestselling Terminal List series continues as James Reece embarks on a global journey of vengeance. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simon.audio/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SimonAudio

From “the undisputed boss of the beach read” (The New York Times), The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, this is Jennifer Weiner's love letter to the Outer Cape and the power of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call family, and the endless ways love can surprise us. Learn more:...

A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future.Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it. Available August 16, 2022.

Watch TikTok sensation KC Davis talk about her audiobook HOW TO KEEP HOUSE WHILE DROWNING. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LyiP91 This revolutionary approach to cleaning and organizing helps free you from feeling ashamed or overwhelmed by a messy home. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simon.audio/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SimonAudio

Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade.

On Sale 5/31/22 The dark side of paradise is exposed when a terrified couple reveals their daunting experience on a remote island to their rescuers—only to realize they're still in the grips of the island's secrets. “Paradise never felt so sinister.” – Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin Ten https://cbs.box.com/s/g6yg4ptaxrt25lsg3oq3s9c48nafsexr

National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker reads an excerpt from her audiobook GATHERING BLOSSOMS UNDER FIRE. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3KW8of5 From Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women's activist, and intellectual. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web:...

Watch Cara Gee read an excerpt from FEVERED STAR by Rebecca Roanhorse. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3uSldlb Return to The Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse's sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sun—finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, and Locus awards. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudioInstagram:...

Watch Barry M. Prizant discuss his audiobook UNIQUELY HUMAN. Learn more: https://bit.ly/37ZwDuy A groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world's leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of being human—this is “required reading....Breathtakingly simple and profoundly positive” (Chicago Tribune). CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudio Instagram:...

Author Reyna Grande takes a deep dive into the historical events and places that inspired her new novel! A BALLAD OF LOVE AND GLORY follow a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, at first for their survival and then for their love, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War. When Ximena and John meet, a dangerous attraction blooms between them. As the war intensifies, so does their passion. Swept up by forces with the power to change history, they fight not only for the...

Watch the longtime narrator of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series Jim Frangione read an excerpt from LOVER ARISEN by J.R. Ward. Learn more: https://bit.ly/35Cfwhl True love brings a deadly threat to the Black Dagger Brotherhood in this sizzling new novel in J.R. Ward's #1 New York Times bestselling series. CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIOWeb: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audioTwitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/simon.audio/Facebook:...

Watch the founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of BRAVE, NOT PERFECT Reshma Saujani talk about her audiobook PAY UP, which confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America's working women today. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3w0X1Ox CONNECT WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO Web: https://www.simonandschuster.com/audio Twitter: https://twitter.com/simonaudio Instagram:...