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Featured Book: Love in the Time of Cholera

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“Love in the Time of Cholera” written by Gabriel García Márquez

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am, with replays @ 11pm and 4am (overnight) INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he […]

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Featured Book: Burn It Down

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“Burn it Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call to Change in Hollywood” written by Maureen Ryan

Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday-Friday @ 6am with replays @ 2:00pm and 1:00am (overnight) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER In this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid on patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited. It is never just One Bad […]

todayAugust 30, 2023 58

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“When the Emperor Was Divine” written by Julie Otsuka

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday - Friday @ 10am, with replays @ 11pm and 4am (overnight) “Spare, incisive. . . . The mood of the novel tensely reflects the protagonists’ emotional state: calm surfaces above, turmoil just beneath.” –Boston Globe From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a […]

todayAugust 23, 2023 97

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“Rebecca” written by Daphne Du Maurier 

Featured Great Literature Monday – Friday @ 7am-8am / 3pm – 4pm / 2:00am – 3:00am "Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again..."   With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband […]

todayAugust 9, 2023 31

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“Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Body and Mind at the Limits of Human Endurance” written by Kenneth Kamler

Featured Daily Dose of Science Monday – Friday @ 8:30pm-9:00pm "Surviving the Extremes brings personal experience and scientific knowledge together beautifully, giving us narrative that are powerful, moving, and very real." -Oliver SacksA true-life scientific thriller no reader will forget, Surviving the Extremes takes us to the farthest reaches of the earth as well as into the uncharted territory within the human body, spirit, and brain. A vice president of the legendary Explorers […]

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“Demon Copperhead” written by Barbara Kingsolver

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday – Friday @ 9am-10am | 10pm – 11pm (replay)  |3-4am (replay)] WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022" • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller  "Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth […]

todayJuly 19, 2023 48

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“Neverwhere” written by Neil Gaiman

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:00am – 5:00am The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his “preferred text”—and including the special “Neverwhere” tale “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.” Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman’s darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of this major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Over the […]

todayJuly 12, 2023 43

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“The Little Free Library Book: Take a Book | Return a Book” written by Margret Aldrich

Featured Little Free Library Program Monday – Friday @ 8:00-8:30pm "The Little Free Library is a terrific example of placing books—poetry included—within reach of people in the course of their everyday lives. Free is always a good thing, and the project has a nice give-and-take feel to it. Here's hoping we bump into literature when we turn the next corner—before we have time to resist!"—Billy Collins "Take a book. Return […]

todayJune 28, 2023 58

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“Cat’s Cradle” written by Kurt Vonnegut

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:00am – 5:00am “A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times  “[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s Magazine“Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget […]

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