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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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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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