Open Road Media imprint: 6782 books
On Killing
The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A controversial psychological examination of how soldiers’ willingness to kill has been encouraged and exploited to the detriment of contemporary civilian society.
Psychologist and US Army Ranger Dave Grossman writes that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to pull the trigger in battle....
Islands, the Universe, Home
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Ten essays on nature, ritual, and philosophy “that are so point-blank vital you nearly need to put the book down to settle yourself” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Gretel Ehrlich’s world is one of solitude and wonder, pain and beauty, and these elements give life to her stunning prose. Ever...
The Pleasure Quartet
Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This erotically charged follow-up to the Eighty Days series deliciously reveals all the ways “desire comes in more shades than grey” (Belle De Jour).
Follow the complete erotic odyssey of sexual discovery, abandon, and healing in this boldly sensual and seductive foursome from the author...
by Harry Turtledove
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A great leader rises when forced to defend his troubled lands against an onslaught of monsters in the second book of this remarkable fantasy series featuring Gerin the Fox
Peace in the North has been fragile and tentative in the five years since the terrible Werenight, when the light of four...
Two Gerin the Fox Novels
Werenight and Prince of the North
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
An action-packed pair of fantasy adventures from the Hugo Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling author.
Before his renown as “the standard bearer for alternate history” (USA Today)*,*New York Times–bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author Harry Turtledove’s first published...
Sailing to Byzantium
Six Novellas
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Six science fiction novellas by the author hailed as “a master” by Robert Jordan—including two Nebula Award winners and two finalists.
Robert Silverberg’s novellas open the door to new worlds: In “Born with the Dead,” a woman wills her body to be “rekindled” after death, allowing...
by Timothy Zahn
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Ex-government agent Frank Compton must halt a murderous plague that threatens to turn the galaxy-spanning Quadrail into a ghost train in the fourth installment of Hugo Award–winning author Timothy Zahn’s acclaimed Quadrail series
The Chahwyn created the Spiders to keep their intra-galactic...
by Poul Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Four explorers from different backgrounds are marooned in space—and must unite to escape their floating prison—in this novel by a Nebula Award winner.
In the twenty-third century, when humankind has spread itself throughout the cosmos, with many intergalactic colonies teetering on the brink...
Songs of Earth and Power
The Complete Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Music, myth, and magic mix—in this two-volume fantasy masterpiece by a New York Times–bestselling author that is a “joy to read” (Publishers Weekly).
Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Greg Bear explores the power of music to open a portal between worlds in this pair of brilliantly...
The Search for an Abortionist
The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This eye-opening look at the abortion process prior to the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 is now more relevant than ever, with a new introduction by the author revisiting history that is still salient half a century later
In the years before Roe v. Wade, women seeking...
The Wages of War
When America's Soldiers Came Home: From Valley Forge to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A disturbing chronicle of the US government’s mistreatment of American soldiers and veterans throughout history, with a new introduction by Charles Sheehan-Miles
Time and time again, the sacrifices made by veterans and their families have been repaid with scorn, discrimination, lack of health...
Loss of Eden
A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
For the first time, Joyce Milton gives us the dual biography of the wonder couple, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Their love prevailed against a horrifying kidnapping and murder splashed throughout the media, their careers, and even the criticism they underwent following their involvement in the...
by John Brunner
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Nebula Award Finalist: A “brilliantly crafted, engrossing” dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar (The Guardian).
In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring,...
by Joe Haldeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A dystopian future Earth is thrown into turmoil by the imminent arrival of extraterrestrials in this alien-contact novel by the author of The Forever War.
With The Coming, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction Grand Master Joe Haldeman ingeniously combines a troubling dark...