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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

FEATURED NON-FICTION: “Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.    Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has

This Week In Books (11/23 – 11/29)

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

This Week In Books (11/09 – 11/15)

This Week In Books (11/09 – 11/15)

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!) –  THE LAST DUEL: A TRUE STORY OF CRIME, SCANDAL, AND TRIAL BY COMBAT IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE by Eric Jager and read by

This Week In Books (10/26 – 11/01)

This Week In Books (10/26 – 11/01)

New and still going on WRBH! Up this week is… Best Selling Fiction – A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING by Ruth Ozeki and read by Ellen Hazzard and, starting Wednesday, THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt and read by Shawn Hollahan (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction –  A DEADLY WANDERING by Matt Richtel

This Week on WRBH: Books (8/03 – 8/09)

This Week on WRBH: Books (8/03 – 8/09)

  New and still going on WRBH! Up this week is… Best Selling Fiction – NATCHEZ BURNING by Greg Iles (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction – THE ORGANIZED MIND by Daniel J. Levitin (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM) Book Off The Shelf – CLUELESS IN NEW ORLEANS by Jack Saux (M-F 2:30PM-3PM; 10:30PM-11PM) Great Literature

The Secret History

The Secret History

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE “Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking

One For The Road: An Outback Adventure

One For The Road: An Outback Adventure

FEATURED NON-FICTION “Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia’s outback. What follows is a hilarious,

Lila

Lila

FEATURED FICTION A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award Finalist “Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of

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“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

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