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“Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space” written by Carl Sagan

“Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space” written by Carl Sagan

Featured Daily Dose of Science Monday – Friday @ 8:30pm-9:00pm Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan traces our exploration of space and suggests that our very survival may depend on the wise use of other worlds. This stirring book reveals how scientific discovery has altered our perception of who we are and where we stand, and

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

“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 Sacks A 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

“THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND” written by Oliver Sacks

“THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND” written by Oliver Sacks

“THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND” written by Oliver Sacks   Featured Daily Dose of Science Monday – Friday @ 8:30-9:00pm   “An explorer of that most wondrous of islands, the human brain,” writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, “Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands.” Both kinds figure movingly in

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

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

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

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

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

Harpo Speaks!

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

There There

There There

Featured Fiction:  “ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Tommy Orange’s “groundbreaking, extraordinary” (The New York Times) There There is the “brilliant, propulsive” (People Magazine) story of twelve unforgettable characters, Urban Indians living in Oakland, California, who converge and collide on one fateful day. It’s “the year’s most galvanizing debut novel” (Entertainment

Defy The Stars: A Novel

Defy The Stars: A Novel

FEATURED YA LITERATURE: “From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline comes a thrilling sci-fi adventure that Kass Morgan, bestselling author of The 100 series, calls “startlingly original and achingly romantic…nothing short of masterful.”   She’s a soldier–Noemi Vidal is willing to risk anything to protect her planet, Genesis, including her own life. To their

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“Lessons in Chemistry” written by Bonnie Garmus

“Lessons in Chemistry” written by Bonnie Garmus

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Mon-Fri @ 9am, with replays @ 10pm, and overnight @ 3am #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • Meet Elizabeth Zott: “a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. • STREAM ON

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