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The Catcher In The Rye

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE: "Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children.  The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, […]

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This Week in WRBH (07/02 – 07/08)

Books Best Seller Fiction  -   HIDDENSEE: A TALE OF THE ONCE AND FUTURE NUTCRACKER by Gregory McGuire and read by Lisa Houck (M-F 9AM-10AM; 10-11PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction  -  THE HERO OF THE EMPIRE: THE BOER WAR, A DARING MISTAKE, AND THE MAKING OF WINSTON CHURCHILL by Candice Millard and read by Jillian Richman (M-F 6AM-7AM; 4PM-5PM) Book Off The Shelf -  AT THE EXISTENTIALISM CAFE: FREEDOM, BEING, AND […]

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Book Week 4.0 Comes to WRBH on Monday, June 25th!

Starting Monday, June 25th to Friday, June 29th, WRBH will begin our fourth annual Book Week! During that time, we’ll be switching from our regular schedule to play some of our favorite books from the last few years so that our staff can do some organizing and housekeeping.  The Newspaper of the Air will remain at its regularly scheduled time of 7AM to 9AM-- as will our airing of The […]

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Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

FEATURED NON-FICTION:  "Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize   Shortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award   Finalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism   Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction   On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge […]

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This Week in WRBH (06/11 – 06/17)

Books Best Seller Fiction  -   LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng and read by Jillian Richman and starting on Wednesday, TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT by Maria Semple and read by Jackie Bullock (M-F 9AM-10AM; 10-11PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction  -  THE PEOPLE'S GROCER: JOHN G. SCHWEGMANN, NEW ORLEANS, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN RETAIL WORLD by David Cappello and read by Ray Lang and starting Tuesday, ANOTHER DAY IN […]

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This Week in WRBH (06/04 – 06/10)

Books Best Seller Fiction  -   LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng and read by Jillian Richman (M-F 9AM-10AM; 10-11PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction  -  THE PEOPLE'S GROCER: JOHN G. SCHWEGMANN, NEW ORLEANS, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN RETAIL WORLD by David Cappello and read by Ray Lang(M-F 6AM-7AM; 4PM-5PM) Book Off The Shelf -  AT THE EXISTENTIALISM CAFE: FREEDOM, BEING, AND APRICOT COCKTAILS by Sarah Bakewell and read by […]

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Today Will Be Different: A Novel

FEATURED FICTION: "A brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future. Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't […]

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE: "From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may […]

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Little Fires Everywhere

FEATURED FICTION: "The runaway New York Times bestseller! Named a Best Book of the Year by:  People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many more! From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother […]

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About WRBH

WRBH 88.3 FM, Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is the only full-time reading service on the FM dial in the United States. At WRBH, our mission is to turn the printed word into the spoken word so that the blind and print handicapped receive the same ease of access to current information as their sighted peers.

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