Random House Audio Publishing

Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to readers all over the world.
Now, in a major publishing event, Hawking returns with a lavishly illustrated sequel that unravels the mysteries of the major breakthroughs that have occurred in the years since the release of his acclaimed first book.
The Universe in a Nutshell
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One of the great series in the history of the American detective story gets even better when Spenser is hired by a jilted bride to follow a cheating husband, only to cross paths with a detective hired to tail the two-timing wife. They aren't the most trusting couple in town, but as it turns out, they are the most dangerous.

In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border. Nearly thirty years later, and spanning locales from those peaks to New York City, a terrible truth will be revealed. Jonathan Ransom returns as the resourceful doctor thrown into a shadowy world of double and triple agents where absolutely no one can be trusted. To stay alive, Ransom must unravel the mystery surrounding his wife, an enigmatic...

An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his 20-year old son. Daniel Allen has always been a good kid but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. When a Democratic candidate for president is shot at a rally, Daniel is caught on video as the assassin. His father, a doctor, struggles to understand...

A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City. A package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don't have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade....

The firebird: When Ivan brings a golden feather from the Firebird to the Tsar, he is ordered to present the entire bird, or lose his life. In addition, he is commended to retrieve the princess Vassilisa from afar for the Tsar to marry. However, the archer Ivan falls in love with the princess. The monkey people: A folktale about Tepe, a little boy from a prosperous but lazy Amazonian village, who discovers an old man who carves monkeys out of leaves....