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Cover of the book "A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest J. Gaines. The cover features the title and author's name in bold letters, along with a small black-and-white photograph of a person standing outside a window and a quote from the Chicago Tribune.

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A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

Featured Great Literature Monday – Friday @ 7am-8am / 3pm – 4pm / 2:30am – 3:30am NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.A “majestic, moving novel ... an instant classic, a book that will be […]

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Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday – Friday @ 9am-10am / 10pm – 11pm / 3:30am - 4:30am   A New York Times Notable Book, a Barack Obama favorite, selected as a Top 10 Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, and Entertainment Weekly, and a Best Book of the Year by Goodreads Choice Awards, the Associated Press,and many more“If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” —TheWashington PostThe instant New York Times bestseller and finalist for the […]

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The cover of the book "The Premonition: A Pandemic Story" by Michael Lewis. The background is yellow, and the title and author's name are in bold, dark blue font. There are three red dots—one at the top, two in the middle—arranged vertically on the cover.

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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am / 2pm – 3pm / 1:30am - 2:30am New York Times BestsellerAn American Scientist Science Book of 2021A Bloomberg Best Book of 2021A Fortune Best Books of 2021A Guardian Best Book of 2021A Mother Jones Best Book of 2021A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021One of Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of 2021For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing […]

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Blindness

Featured Best-Selling Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:30am - 5:30am The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen’s understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows […]

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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am / 2pm – 3pm / 1:30am – 2:30am The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen’s understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the […]

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Harpo Speaks!

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:30am - 5:30am "This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx Brother. Highly recommended." -Library Journal"A funny, affectionate and unpretentious autobiography done with a sharply […]

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This Tender Land

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday – Friday @ 9am-10am / 10pm – 11pm / 3:30am - 4:30am   “If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, you’ll love This Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come.” —ParadeThe unforgettable story of four orphans who travel the Mississippi River on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression. In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is […]

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City of a Million Dreams

Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am / 2pm – 3pm / 1:30am - 2:30am In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary […]

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This is How It Always Is

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday – Friday @ 9am-10pm / 10pm – 11pm / 3:30am - 4:30am New York Times BestsellerThe Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick“Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected.” ―Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick)People Magazine’s Top 10 Books of 2017Bustle’s 17 Books Every Woman Should Read From 2017PopSugar’s Our Favorite […]

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