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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY: "This "historically engaging and pressingly relevant" biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature and revives the life and work of a neglected master. Still known to millions primarily as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America […]

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To Kill A Mockingbird

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE:  "Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the […]

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The Likeness

FEATURED BOOK OFF THE SHELF:  "In the "compelling"* and "pitch perfect"** follow up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, it's six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder squad.  But an urgent telephone call beckons Cassie to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. […]

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Lab Girl

FEATURED NON-FICTION: "Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in […]

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The Wangs Vs. The World

FEATURED FICTION:  "Charles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, has just lost everything in the financial crisis. So he rounds up two of his children from schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn’t repossessed. Together with their wealth-addicted stepmother, Barbra, they head on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the […]

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This Week In WRBH (02/19- 02/25)

Tulane Baseball/BasketballGames: Green Wave (Women's Basketball vs. Connecticut Huskies: Wednesday, February 21st, 7pm – 9pm @ Green Wave Green Wave vs. Ole Miss: Friday, February 23rd, 4pm – 7pm @ Green Wave Green Wave vs. Ole Miss : Saturday, February 17th, 3pm – 6pm (CST) @ Green Wave Green Wave  vs. Ole Miss : Sunday, February 18th, 1:30pm – 4:30pm (CST) @ Lady Tigers Books Best Seller Fiction  -   THE FISHERMEN by Chigozie Obiama […]

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This Week In WRBH (02/05- 02/11)

Tulane Women's Basketball Games Green Wave vs. Temple Owls: Wednesday, February 7th, 7pm – 9pm @ Green Wave Green Wave vs. Cincinnati Bearcats  : Saturday, February 10th, 1pm – 3pm (CST) @ Bearcats Books Best Seller Fiction  -   EVERYONE'S FOOL by Richard Russo and read by Geoff Worden (M-F 9AM-10AM; 10-11PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction  (NEW!) -  THE UNDOING PROJECT: A FRIENDSHIP THAT CHANGED OUR MINDS by Michael Lewis and read by Ellen […]

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This Week In WRBH (01/29- 02/04)

Tulane Women's Basketball Games Green Wave vs. Houston Cougars: Wednesday, January 31st, 7pm – 9pm @ Cougars Green Wave vs. South Florida Bulls : Saturday, February 2nd, 1pm – 3pm @ Green Wave Books Best Seller Fiction  -   EVERYONE'S FOOL by Richard Russo and read by Geoff Worden (M-F 9AM-10AM; 10-11PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction  -  THE UNDOING PROJECT: A FRIENDSHIP THAT CHANGED OUR MINDS by Michael Lewis and read by Ellen Hazard […]

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This Week In WRBH (01/22- 01/28)

Tulane Women's Basketball Games Green Wave vs. East Carolina Lady Pirates: Wednesday, January 24th, 7pm – 9pm @ Green Wave Green Wave vs. Connecticut Huskies : Sunday, January 27th, 11am – 1pm @ Huskies Books Best Seller Fiction  -   EVERYONE'S FOOL by Richard Russo and read by Geoff Worden (M-F 9AM-10AM; 10-11PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction (NEW!)  -    BLOOD IN THE WATER: THE ATTICA PRISON UPRISING OF 1971 AND ITS LEGACY by […]

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