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“Benediction” written by Kent Haruf

Featured Contemporary Classic Mon-Fri @ 10am, with replays @ 11pm, and overnight @ 4am A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make […]

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“The Count of Monte Cristo” written by Alexandre Dumas

Featured Great Literature Monday-Friday @ 7am with replays @ 3:00pm and 2:00am (overnight) "On what slender threads do life and fortune hang." Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he […]

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“Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim” written by D.T. Max

Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday-Friday @ 6am with replays @ 2:00pm and 1:00am (overnight)   “Brazenly entertaining. . . . It summons to the page a Broadway voice like no other.”—Los Angeles Times “[An] erudite and affably self-conscious memoir of the creative process.”—Vulture   An intimate portrait of a genius: the late Stephen Sondheim in a series of illuminating and deeply personal interviews from the last years of his life—conversations that […]

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“Birnam Wood” written by Eleanor Catton

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Mon-Fri @ 9am w/ replays @ 10:00pm and overnight (Tues-Sat) @ 3am INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, The Financial Times, The Chicago Public Library, KirkusA Notable Book of the Year at The Washington PostA Best Book of the Year (So Far) at The New Yorker, The BBC, Vulture, CrimeReadsA Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick“[A] savagely satirical thriller.” ―PeopleThe Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a […]

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“Authority (Book 2 of the Southern Reach Trilogy)” written by Jeff Vandermeer

Featured Contemporary Classic Mon-Fri @ 10am, with replays @ 11pm, and overnight @ 4am In Authority, the New York Times bestselling second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been […]

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“Dracula” written by Bram Stoker

Featured Great Literature Mon-Fri @ 7:00am with replays @ 3:00pm and overnight @ 2:00am (Tues-Sat) Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship runs aground on the shores of Whitby, its crew vanished; beautiful Lucy Westenra […]

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“Annihilation (Book 1 of the Southern Reach Trilogy)” written by Jeff Vandermeer

Featured Contemporary Classic Mon-Fri @ 10am, with replays @ 11pm, and overnight @ 4am A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAACThe Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson).Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent […]

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“The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You” written by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday-Friday @ 9:00am w/ replays @ 10:00pm and overnight (Tues-Sat) @ 3:00am “The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You is an ode to all that makes us human. Each story grabs your heart, squeezes the hell out of it, and then, somehow, makes it fuller. I couldn’t stop feeling. Ruffin is a writer whose work will make you a better person without your knowing it.”—Mateo Askaripour, author […]

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“Walde” written by Henry David Thoreau

Featured Great Literature Monday-Friday @ 7am with replays @ 3:00pm and 2:00am (overnight) “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” ― Henry David Thoreau, WaldenWalden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance.First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course […]

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