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“Life on the Mississippi” written by Rinker Buck

"Life on the Mississippi" written by Rinker Buck Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am | 2pm-3pm (replay) | overnight @ 1am-2a (replay) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion.” —The Christian Science MonitorThe eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller […]

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“A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers” written by V.S. Ramachandran

Featured Book off the Shelf Monday – Friday @ 1:30pm-2pm / overnight @ 5:00am – 5:30am How can some people come to believe that their poodle is an impostor? Or see colors in numbers? Internationally acclaimed neuroscientist, V.S. Ramachandran, now shares his unique insight into human consciousness in an entertaining, inspiring, and intellectually dazzling brief tour of the ultimate frontier—the thoughts in our heads. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness is […]

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‘Convenience Store Woman’ written by Sayaka Murata

Featured Book off the Shelf Monday – Friday @ 1:30pm-2pm / overnight @ 5:00am – 5:30am A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine. The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, […]

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‘The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found’ by Frank Bruni

Featured Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am / 2pm – 3pm / 1:30am – 2:30am From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right […]

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The cover of the book "Antkind: A Novel" by Charlie Kaufman. The title "ANTKIND" appears in bold, three-dimensional block letters at the top, with the author's name "Charlie Kaufman" in a cursive script below. The background has a starburst pattern.

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Antkind by Charlie Kaufman

Featured Fiction Monday – Friday @ 9am-10am / 10pm – 11pm / 3:30am – 4:30am The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York.LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon . . . propelled by Kaufman’s deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull’s-eye wit."—The […]

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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

Featured Best-Selling Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:30am - 5:30am From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America.This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours; but since Dylan is white and Mingus is […]

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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

Featured Great Literature Monday – Friday @ 7am-8am / 3pm – 4pm / 2:30am – 3:30am   Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine’s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy’s debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature. Insightful, romantic, and humorous, it is the story of a young man’s search for meaning amid a shallow consumerist landscape.Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker, […]

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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Featured Self-Help Saturday-Sunday @ 11am-12pm A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNNThis seminal book, which has been called “one of the outstanding contributions […]

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Cover of the book "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The text features the author's name in bold, capital letters at the top, with the book title in a distressed font below. The background is textured, resembling a page from a newspaper or printed material.

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Featured Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am / 2pm – 3pm / 1:30am – 2:30am #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” […]

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