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This Week In Original Programming (03/02 – 03/06): One Book One New Orleans Book Announcement, Author Sunil Yapa, and Anna Timmerman from Xavier University’s Agrowtopia

What's new this week on WRBH's original programming? Check it out! PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Airs on Wednesday at 4PM and again on Sunday at 7:30AM. This week we welcome on One Book One New Orleans Co-Project Leader Megan Holt to speak about the campaign for 2016 and announce the chosen book for this year. There's also a very special guest to be announced on the show. Find out more about One Book One […]

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The Irish In New Orleans

FEATURED SPECIALTY BOOK"In this well-researched volume, historian Dr. Laura D. Kelley tells the colorful, entertaining, and often adventurous history of the Irish in New Orleans. From Bloody O'Reilly in the eighteenth century to the great churches and charitable organizations built by the Irish Famine immigrants in the nineteenth century to the Irish-dominated politics of the twentieth century, and including Irish dance, music, and sports, the author introduces readers to a […]

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Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection

FEATURED NON-FICTION"Absorbing and meticulously researched." -- The New York Times"[M]easured, funny and fascinating. . . . If you need vitamins to survive (you do), you should read this book." --Scientific American, Food Matter"A hidden, many-faceted, and urgent story." --Booklist, *STARRED*Should I take a multivitamin? Does vitamin C really prevent colds? Can I get enough vitamin D from the sun? Are dietary supplements safe? How much of each vitamin do I […]

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WRBH Volunteer of the Month: Peter Spera

Interview by Sarah Holtz Our Volunteer of the Month is Peter Spera, registered yoga teacher and one of the voices of WRBH’s Friday edition of the Newspaper of the Air! Check out the full interview recording below: https://soundcloud.com/wrbhreadingradio/volunteer-of-the-month-peter-spera-september-2015 How long have you been reading for WRBH? I began reading, I believe, in the spring of 2008, so a little over seven years now. In 2008, I was working with a Catholic priest from Pakistan, […]

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Book Week Starts Today!

Welcome to WRBH Book Week! From Monday, August 17 to Friday, August 21, we're dusting off our shelves, digging into the archives, and broadcasting some of the best of our literature and original programming from the past ten years. Here's your Book Week schedule for Monday: 6-7am Old Time Radio   7-9am Times Picayune Newspaper of the Air    9am-12pm Best-Selling Non-Fiction: Wild by Cheryl Strayed       12-12:30pm News@Noon   12:30-1pm The Writer’s Forum (Replay): […]

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Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

FEATURED NON-FICTION"Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrative nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes.When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his late aunt’s personal belongings, he was unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his […]

todayJune 29, 2015 9

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Natchez Burning

FEATURED FICTION"#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet and his first in five years—Natchez Burning—the first installment in an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage.Growing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows about honor and duty […]

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Freud’s Mistress

FEATURED FICTION His theories would change the world—and tear hers apart. A page-turning novel inspired by the true-life love affair between Sigmund Freud and his sister-in-law. "It is fin-de-siècle Vienna and Minna Bernays, an overeducated lady’s companion with a sharp, wry wit, is abruptly fired, yet again, from her position. She finds herself out on the street and out of options. In 1895, the city may be aswirl with avant-garde […]

todayMay 7, 2015 8

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Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors

FEATURED NON-FICTION"The story of the generation of hidden child survivors told through the true experiences of three Jewish girls—from Poland, Holland, and France—who transcended their traumatic childhoods to lead remarkable lives in America.Only one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust, many in hiding. In Such Good Girls, R. D. Rosen tells the story of these survivors through the true experiences of three girls.Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, who spent the […]

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