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This Week in WRBH (06/04 – 06/10)

Books Best Seller Fiction  -   LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng and read by Jillian Richman (M-F 9AM-10AM; 10-11PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction  -  THE PEOPLE'S GROCER: JOHN G. SCHWEGMANN, NEW ORLEANS, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN RETAIL WORLD by David Cappello and read by Ray Lang(M-F 6AM-7AM; 4PM-5PM) Book Off The Shelf -  AT THE EXISTENTIALISM CAFE: FREEDOM, BEING, AND APRICOT COCKTAILS by Sarah Bakewell and read by […]

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Today Will Be Different: A Novel

FEATURED FICTION: "A brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future. Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't […]

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE: "From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may […]

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Little Fires Everywhere

FEATURED FICTION: "The runaway New York Times bestseller! Named a Best Book of the Year by:  People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many more! From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother […]

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At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

FEATURED BOOK OFF THE SHELF: "From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the 20th century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it. Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them […]

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The People’s Grocer: John G. Schwegmann, New Orleans, And The Making of the Modern Retail World

FEATURED NON-FICTION: "The People's Grocer is a business-based biography of John G. Schwegmann, founder of a legendary New Orleans' supermarket chain and the most innovative and courageous retailer of the postwar era. Virtually unrecognized in retail history, visionary Schwegmann pioneered the modern big-box concept. Even more important, his 1951 Supreme Court victory over "fair trade" laws played a key role in legalizing discount pricing. A marketer extraordinaire, Schwegmann's offbeat and […]

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This Week in WRBH (05/14 – 05/20)

Tulane Baseball Games: Green Wave vs. Louisiana-Lafayette: Tuesday, May 15th, 6pm – 9pm (CST) @ Lafayette Green Wave vs. University of Central Florida: Thursday, May 17th, 5:30pm – 8:30pm (CST) @ UCF Green Wave vs. University of Central Florida: Friday, May 18th, 5:30pm – 8:30pm (CST) @ UCF Green Wave vs. University of Central Florida: Sunday, May 19th, 12pm – 3pm (CST) @ UCF Books Best Seller Fiction  -   SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn […]

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

FEATURED FICTION: "In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing journeys through Mississippi’s past and present, examining the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power—and limitations—of family bonds. Jojo is […]

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Wonder Boys

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE: "A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn’t grown up. He’s now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinish-able manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer. During one lost weekend at a writing festival with Leer and debauched editor Terry Crabtree, […]

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