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“Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim” written by D.T. Max

Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday-Friday @ 6am with replays @ 2:00pm and 1:00am (overnight)   “Brazenly entertaining. . . . It summons to the page a Broadway voice like no other.”—Los Angeles Times “[An] erudite and affably self-conscious memoir of the creative process.”—Vulture   An intimate portrait of a genius: the late Stephen Sondheim in a series of illuminating and deeply personal interviews from the last years of his life—conversations that […]

todayDecember 6, 2023 8

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“Burn it Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call to Change in Hollywood” written by Maureen Ryan

Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday-Friday @ 6am with replays @ 2:00pm and 1:00am (overnight) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER In this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid on patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited. It is never just One Bad […]

todayAugust 30, 2023 7

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“The Little Free Library Book: Take a Book | Return a Book” written by Margret Aldrich

Featured Little Free Library Program Monday – Friday @ 8:00-8:30pm "The Little Free Library is a terrific example of placing books—poetry included—within reach of people in the course of their everyday lives. Free is always a good thing, and the project has a nice give-and-take feel to it. Here's hoping we bump into literature when we turn the next corner—before we have time to resist!"—Billy Collins "Take a book. Return […]

todayJune 28, 2023 3

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“Life on the Mississippi” written by Rinker Buck

"Life on the Mississippi" written by Rinker Buck Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am | 2pm-3pm (replay) | overnight @ 1am-2a (replay) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion.” —The Christian Science MonitorThe eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller […]

todayApril 26, 2023 3

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‘The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found’ by Frank Bruni

Featured Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am / 2pm – 3pm / 1:30am – 2:30am From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right […]

todayJuly 6, 2022 7

Cover of the book "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The text features the author's name in bold, capital letters at the top, with the book title in a distressed font below. The background is textured, resembling a page from a newspaper or printed material.

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Featured Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am / 2pm – 3pm / 1:30am – 2:30am #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” […]

todayFebruary 16, 2022 4

The cover of the book "The Premonition: A Pandemic Story" by Michael Lewis. The background is yellow, and the title and author's name are in bold, dark blue font. There are three red dots—one at the top, two in the middle—arranged vertically on the cover.

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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am / 2pm – 3pm / 1:30am - 2:30am New York Times BestsellerAn American Scientist Science Book of 2021A Bloomberg Best Book of 2021A Fortune Best Books of 2021A Guardian Best Book of 2021A Mother Jones Best Book of 2021A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021One of Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of 2021For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing […]

todayJanuary 12, 2022 8

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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am / 2pm – 3pm / 1:30am – 2:30am 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 forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the […]

todayNovember 10, 2021 6

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City of a Million Dreams

Featured Best-Selling Non-Fiction Monday – Friday @ 6am-7am / 2pm – 3pm / 1:30am - 2:30am In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary […]

todayOctober 13, 2021 4

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