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“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 APPLE TV+This novel is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel” (The New York Times Book […]

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“Birnam Wood” written by Eleanor Catton

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Mon-Fri @ 9am w/ replays @ 10:00pm and overnight (Tues-Sat) @ 3am INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, The Financial Times, The Chicago Public Library, KirkusA Notable Book of the Year at The Washington PostA Best Book of the Year (So Far) at The New Yorker, The BBC, Vulture, CrimeReadsA Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick“[A] savagely satirical thriller.” ―PeopleThe Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a […]

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“The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You” written by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday-Friday @ 9:00am w/ replays @ 10:00pm and overnight (Tues-Sat) @ 3:00am “The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You is an ode to all that makes us human. Each story grabs your heart, squeezes the hell out of it, and then, somehow, makes it fuller. I couldn’t stop feeling. Ruffin is a writer whose work will make you a better person without your knowing it.”—Mateo Askaripour, author […]

todayOctober 11, 2023 6

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“Demon Copperhead” written by Barbara Kingsolver

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday – Friday @ 9am-10am | 10pm – 11pm (replay)  |3-4am (replay)] WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022" • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller  "Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth […]

todayJuly 19, 2023 6

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“Cat’s Cradle” written by Kurt Vonnegut

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:00am – 5:00am “A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times  “[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s Magazine“Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget […]

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“Tales from Earthsea” written by Ursula K. Le Guin

  Featured Young Adult Literature Saturday & Sunday @ 9:30-10:00am The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Earthsea Cycle. "The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." (Neil Gaiman) This collection contains the novella "The Finder," and the short stories "The Bones of the Earth," "Darkrose […]

todayJune 6, 2023 4

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“Fresh Water for Flowers” written by Valérie Perrin

  “Fresh Water for Flowers” written by Valérie Perrin Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday – Friday @ 9am-10am | 10pm – 11pm (replay)  |3-4am (replay) A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2021A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE & INDIE NEXT LIST PICK A #1 international best-seller, Fresh Water for Flowers is an intimately told story about a woman who defiantly believes in happiness, despite it all. Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in […]

todayMay 24, 2023 3

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“The Hubris of an Empty Hand” written by Dr. Mahyar A. Amouzegar

Featured Best-Selling Fiction Monday – Friday @ 9am-10am | 10pm-11pm (replay) | overnight @ 3am-4am (replay) In eight ethereal stories, The Hubris of an Empty Hand encompasses the frailty and complexity of being human. When some divine gifts fall into decidedly earthly hands, the results are almost beyond reckoning for humans and gods both. Through its wide cast of characters and fascinating settings, terrestrial, divine, or somewhere in-between, Mahyar A. […]

todayMay 3, 2023 7

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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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