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King Leopold’s Ghost: Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE:"In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian.Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually […]

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This Week In Books (11/23 – 11/29)

New and still going on WRBH! Up this week is...Best Selling Fiction -  THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt and read by Shawn Hollahan (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM)Best Seller Non- Fiction (NEW!) -   VITAMANIA: OUR OBSESSIVE QUEST FOR NUTRITIONAL PERFECTION by Catherine Price and, starting Friday, KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR: THE PATH TO A BETTER WAY OF DEATH by Katy Butler and read by Naomi Orlansky (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM)Book Off The Shelf  […]

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