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"Amazon Is Said to Be Planning an Expansion Into Retail Bookstores" is from the Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Nick Wingfield and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"E.M. Nathanson, Author of 'The Dirty Dozen,' Dies at 88" is from the April 8, 2016 Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Bruce Weber and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"China Charges Dozen Officials Over Deadly Shenzhen Landslide" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Edward Wong and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Shocking and inspirational, Daybreak provides a clear breakdown of all that we have lost, and all that we have to gain.

The Obama White House staff invites us behind-the-scenes of history for a deeply personal and moving look at the presidency and how a president's staff can change the nation When we elect a president, we elect with them an entire team that will join them in the West Wing to help run the country...

The case against Lyndon B. Johnson and his role in Kennedy's assassination has never been sounder. LBJ aims to prove that Vice President Johnson played an active role in the assassination of President Kennedy and that he began planning his takeover of the U.S. presidency even before being named the vice presidential nominee in 1960. Nelson's careful and meticulous research has led him to uncover secrets from one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in our country's history.

They adore her in Manhattan. They worship her in Hollywood. They idolize her in the liberal media. But out in the real world are those of us who see through her lies about her husband, reject her socialist economics, and despise her radical social agenda. We are the members of what Hillary Clinton described as a "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", and at VRWC headquarters, we've been keeping a file on her.

Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including two with active directors of Central Intelligence, William H. Webster and Robert M. Gates, and with three former D.C.I.s, Inside the C.I.A. is the first in-depth, unbiased account of the Agency's core operations, its abject failures, and its resounding successes.

"Apple iPhone, Once a Status Symbol in China, Loses Its Luster" is from the April 27, 2016 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Paul Mozur and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Books about the Kennedys are legion. Yet missing until now has been the exploration of the bond between Jack and Bobby, and the part that it played in their rise and fall. Richard D. Mahoney gives us Jack and Bobby in all their hubris and humanity, youthfulness and fatalism. Here is American history as it unfolds. The Kennedy Brothers is a fresh and masterful account of the men whose legacy continues to hold the American imagination.

Is India ready to emerge as a world leader? Our times are characterized not by estranged Superpowers building formidable arsenals but by engaged societies building a robust global economy. Emerging countries are redefining the geo-economic (and geopolitical) dynamic. The twenty-first century...

Donald Trump is unquestionably the most unique and charismatic figure in American politics in a generation. Yet despite his familiarity on the public stage, he remains an enigmatic, mysterious figure. Not since Lincoln has a man drawn such intensely opposite responses, of love and hate, and even in Lincoln’s case the intensity was over the issue of slavery. With Trump, the intensity is over the man. In an original, searching examination, bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza considers the issue of tyranny in Vindicating Trump.

Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure.

"The Formula for a Richer World? Equality, Liberty, Justice" is from the September 02, 2016 Financial section of The New York Times. It was written by Deirdre N. Mccloskey and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Advice for Living" is from the October 1, 2016 Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and narrated by Caroline Miller.

A remarkable analysis linking the assassination of JFK and 9/11, and how both events were used to influence war policy. Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by “accidents” and other events in the field, in some cases despite moves toward peace that were directed by presidents. This book explores the “deep politics” that exerts a profound but too-little-understood effect on national policy outside the control of traditional democratic processes.

Al Qaeda is no longer the central organizing force that aids or authorizes terrorist attacks or recruits terrorists. It is now more a source of inspiration for terrorist acts carried out by independent local groups that have branded themselves with the Al Qaeda name. Building on his previous groundbreaking work on the Al Qaeda network, forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman has greatly expanded his research to explain how Islamic terrorism emerges and operates in the 21 century.

"After Quake, an Italian Crisis Unit Races to Rescue a Region's Heritage" is from the September 18, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Elisabetta Povoledo and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"The Right to Privacy for Children Online — Even Beyoncé's" is from the April 15, 2016 Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Teddy Wayne and narrated by Paul Ryden.

Brought to you by Penguin. In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment...