Susannah Cahalan

Susannah Cahalan

Susannah Cahalan is an award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author, journalist, and public speaker. Her 2012 memoir, Brain on Fire has sold over a million copies and was made into a Netflix original movie. Her second book, The Great Pretender was shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society’s Science Book Prize. She has written for The New York Times, New York Post, Elle, The New Scientist, and BBC’s Focus, as well as academic journals The Lancet and Biological Psychiatry. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and twin toddlers.

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Brain on Fire
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Brain on Fire
  • By: Susannah Cahalan
  • Narrator: Susannah Cahalan
  • Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
  • (2334 ratings)
(2334 ratings)
INCLUDES A NEW AUDIO AFTERWORD!NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOE GRACE MORETZ A “captivating” (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical... Read more
The Great Pretender
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The Great Pretender
  • By: Susannah Cahalan
  • Narrator: Christie Moreau
  • Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: November 05, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (9149 ratings)
(9149 ratings)
“One of America’s most courageous young journalists” and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine... Read more

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Daughter of No Worlds A former slave fighting for justice. A reclusive warrior who no longer believes it exists. And a dark magic that will entangle their fates.Ripped from a forgotten homeland as a child, Tisaanah learned how to survive with nothing but a sharp wit and a touch of magic. But the night she tries to buy her freedom, she barely escapes with her life.Desperate to save the best friend she left behind, ... Read Book
Blue Velvet I’m the heir to an empire, but I left the army as a broken man. A dangerous man.I should stay clear of her. She’s too fragile, too broken herself-and too beautiful to resist. Worst of all: She wants me to take her. But where she seeks solace, I seek sanity.The Velvet Rooms provide our sanctuary. A place of safety, bliss and unbridled play, untainted by the clamor of reality. Here, there is no ... Read Book
The Girl Who Knew Too Much High-school senior Riley Ozment is desperate to change her reality after making a fool of herself on social media. She needs to do something drastic to repair her social standing–like trying out for a Survivor-style reality TV show. Suddenly, Riley’s dropped onto a deserted tropical island with nineteen other teens competing for a million dollars and a rumored treasure lost on the island. But ... Read Book
Kill City Blues New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s fifth Sandman Slim adventure. James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has lost the Qomrama Om Ya, an all-powerful weapon from the banished older gods. Older gods who are returning and searching for their lost power. The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall infested with tribes of squatters. Somewhere in this kill zone is a dead man with the ... Read Book
The Immortal Hunter Even vampires need a vacation. But Decker Argeneau’s ends abruptly when he’s asked to help hunt the group of rogue vampires targeting mortals — one that might include a defector in his own family. Before he can worry about that, though, he’s got to rescue the latest victim. It’s all part of the job, including taking a bullet for a beautiful doctor. Dr. Danielle McGill doesn’t know if ... Read Book
Gallows View Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors-among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night’s shadows spying on attractive, unsuspecting ladies as they prepare ... Read Book
Every Rogue Has His Charm Caroline, Marchioness of Chesleigh, has been married for six years–at least in name. In fact, Caro has hardly seen her husband since the early days of their union. Scarred and reclusive, Maxim wasn’t ready to trust his wife with his secrets–or his heart. Instead, he quickly resumed his life of espionage in France, believing Caro was better off alone. When the spy who left her returns upon ... Read Book
The Widower’s Tale In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary ... Read Book
Christmas Letters Katherine O’Connor often spends her days at a cozy cafe on Blossom Street in Seattle, where she writes Christmas letters for other people. She’s good at making their everyday lives sound more interesting. More humorous. More dramatic.But for Dr. Wynn Jeffries, who also frequents the cafe, Christmas means lies and deception. In fact, the renowned child psychologist recommends that parents ... Read Book
Blue Moon Haven Can the good old-fashioned warmth of a rural small town make a broken family whole? New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey explores the healing power of love and the enduring allure of the drive-in movie theater in the latest novel in her New Americana series …Kelly Jenkins heads to bucolic Blue Moon Haven, Alabama, believing a new life will heal the two abandoned children in her care. ... Read Book
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