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Featured Specialty Book We are happy to begin broadcasting Stephen King's classic horror novel, The Shining! Here's a bit about the book: Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets […]
Featured Non-Fiction Defending Hurricane Katrina's most notorious couple. In the media storm that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005, nursing home owners Sal and Mabel Mangano were vilified for allegedly causing the deaths of 35 residents of St. Rita's Nursing Home in low-lying St. Bernard Parish. This book, written by the lawyer who defended them, reveals the gripping, true story behind the couple's heartrending decision not to evacuate and their persecution […]
FEATURED NON-FICTION Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys […]
FEATURED FICTION A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent […]
IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 8, 2015 Nation’s Only FM Radio Station For The Visually Impaired Launches New, Resource-Packed Website WRBH.org, based in New Orleans, becomes a leading international resource for the blind WRBH 88.3 in New Orleans is the only full-time reading service on the FM dial in the U.S. and 1 of just 3 in the world Website makes information more accessible for the visually impaired and streams live broadcasts worldwide The […]
FEATURED FICTION "In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner […]
FEATURED NON-FICTION Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the […]
For 32 years, WRBH has been serving its mission to turn the printed word into the spoken word so that the blind and print handicapped can receive the same ease of access to current information as their sighted peers. WRBH seeks to empower, inform, and entertain a segment of the population that is much larger than most people realize. WRBH’s audience includes the blind and illiterate as well as individuals […]
FEATURED FICTION In a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night and then set fire to her home. When their lifelong neighbor Akhmed finds Havaa hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the […]
Rediscover literary treasures with readings from a diverse selection of books pulled right off the shelf, offering timeless stories and hidden gems across all genres
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