Beat: 105 books

FOUND IN SPACE... Jennifer may be the luckiest grad student ever. The PhD-to-be is part of a scientific team that made an amazing discovery on Mars with a tool she helped design. What the discovery means for us Earthlings looks huge. A harmless microbe she nicknamed “Crimsy,” it...

Revised for 2015! This essential fan guide takes members of the Colbert Nation on an encyclopedic journey through 9 years of the Colbert Report's best-known segments and obscure favorites, crammed with details only the show’s most knowledgeable fans can deliver. What was The Word modeled after? Was...

September 1982.  In a working class neighborhood in Queens, New York, sixteen year old Nico Razza is a perpetual outcast, often victim to the taunts of his classmates, peers and neighborhood bullies.  Steeped in Punk Rock culture, he is not only rebelling against society, authority and his peers,...

What happens when an American poet, a Uruguayan painter, a Peruvian chef,  a Syrian belly dancer, an Algerian musician and an Italian religious fundamentalist are all searching for meaning and their lives intersect on the streets of Paris?  “Nadería” is a story about failed hopes, unrealized...

Former playwright and current high school drama teacher Dante Russo gets word that his friend and mentor is on his deathbed. Jacques Martre had always been an inspiration to him and over the years they had established a very strong friendship. Knowing that he doesn’t have much time, he travels to...

It is the twilight of a continent. After centuries of exploration, innovation, invention and colonial conquests it now faces bank failures, high unemployment and economic collapse. In a cold, blustery corner of Europe - the city of Budapest - a group of misfits are trying to navigate through the changing...

Mario e Cristiana hanno superato i sessant’anni e sono divorziati da quindici. Lui è un ingegnere idraulico che si è appena trasferito a Rio de Janeiro con una giovane moglie e un figlio di poco più di un anno. Lei è rimasta a Roma con i loro due figli ormai grandi e un secondo, felice matrimonio....