In 2026 the Speakers Bureau is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Twenty years in, what stands out most isn’t just the scale of what we’ve done, it’s the community behind it.
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Award-winning, bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman searches for answers. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.
In The Art of Fighting, Priya Parker offers a paradigm-shifting exploration of how healthy conflict helps relationships, teams, and communities grow. Rejecting the idea that strong groups do not fight, she helps audiences rethink conflict as a skill, recognize their own conflict style, and engage in the conversations that matter most.
New York Times bestselling historical fiction author Ariel Lawhon invites readers to venture onto the high seas with her latest release, The Pirate Queen. This thrilling, action-packed novel is sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people.
The Castle takes internationally bestselling author Jon Ronson deep inside the crisis of modern masculinity, opening up a broader conversation about identity, belonging, loneliness, radicalization, and why people searching for purpose and certainty can find themselves drawn toward increasingly extreme communities.
Under Story is both an intimate, epic love story and sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. A breathless page-turner and a love letter to our planet, the novel invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love.
Abdelrahman ElGendy’s powerful debut memoir, Huna, explores the politics of dissent and erasure through the lens of his six-year political incarceration in Egypt. Huna tells ElGendy's remarkable story of survival, education, and resistance, offering readers not a promise of hope but a provocation.
