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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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“Authority (Book 2 of the Southern Reach Trilogy)” written by Jeff Vandermeer

Featured Contemporary Classic Mon-Fri @ 10am, with replays @ 11pm, and overnight @ 4am In Authority, the New York Times bestselling second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been […]

todayNovember 3, 2023 5

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“Dracula” written by Bram Stoker

Featured Great Literature Mon-Fri @ 7:00am with replays @ 3:00pm and overnight @ 2:00am (Tues-Sat) Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship runs aground on the shores of Whitby, its crew vanished; beautiful Lucy Westenra […]

todayOctober 25, 2023 6

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“Annihilation (Book 1 of the Southern Reach Trilogy)” written by Jeff Vandermeer

Featured Contemporary Classic Mon-Fri @ 10am, with replays @ 11pm, and overnight @ 4am A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAACThe Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson).Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent […]

todayOctober 18, 2023 4

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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

Featured Great Literature: Walden

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“Walde” written by Henry David Thoreau

Featured Great Literature Monday-Friday @ 7am with replays @ 3:00pm and 2:00am (overnight) “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” ― Henry David Thoreau, WaldenWalden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance.First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course […]

todaySeptember 20, 2023 3

Featured Book: Love in the Time of Cholera

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“Love in the Time of Cholera” written by Gabriel García Márquez

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday – Friday @ 10am, with replays @ 11pm and 4am (overnight) INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he […]

todaySeptember 6, 2023 5

Featured Book: Burn It Down

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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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“When the Emperor Was Divine” written by Julie Otsuka

Featured Contemporary Classic Monday - Friday @ 10am, with replays @ 11pm and 4am (overnight) “Spare, incisive. . . . The mood of the novel tensely reflects the protagonists’ emotional state: calm surfaces above, turmoil just beneath.” –Boston Globe From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a […]

todayAugust 23, 2023 4

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