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“Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space” written by Carl Sagan

Featured Daily Dose of Science Monday – Friday @ 8:30pm-9:00pm Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan traces our exploration of space and suggests that our very survival may depend on the wise use of other worlds. This stirring book reveals how scientific discovery has altered our perception of who we are and where we stand, and challenges us to weigh what we will do with that knowledge. 

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“Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Body and Mind at the Limits of Human Endurance” written by Kenneth Kamler

Featured Daily Dose of Science Monday – Friday @ 8:30pm-9:00pm "Surviving the Extremes brings personal experience and scientific knowledge together beautifully, giving us narrative that are powerful, moving, and very real." -Oliver SacksA true-life scientific thriller no reader will forget, Surviving the Extremes takes us to the farthest reaches of the earth as well as into the uncharted territory within the human body, spirit, and brain. A vice president of the legendary Explorers […]

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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 […]

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“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 this book--part travelogue, part autobiography, part medical mystery story--in which Sacks's journeys to a tiny […]

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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

Featured Best-Selling Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:30am - 5:30am From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America.This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours; but since Dylan is white and Mingus is […]

todayApril 6, 2022 4

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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Featured Self-Help Saturday-Sunday @ 11am-12pm A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNNThis seminal book, which has been called “one of the outstanding contributions […]

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Blindness

Featured Best-Selling Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:30am - 5:30am 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 […]

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Harpo Speaks!

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am-11am / 11pm – 12am / 4:30am - 5:30am "This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx Brother. Highly recommended." -Library Journal"A funny, affectionate and unpretentious autobiography done with a sharply […]

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There There

Featured Fiction:  "ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Tommy Orange’s “groundbreaking, extraordinary” (The New York Times) There There is the “brilliant, propulsive” (People Magazine) story of twelve unforgettable characters, Urban Indians living in Oakland, California, who converge and collide on one fateful day. It’s “the year’s most galvanizing debut novel” (Entertainment Weekly). As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow—some generous, […]

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