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Jane Steele

FEATURED FICTION: "“Reader, I murdered him.” A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre “last confessions” of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her […]

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Odds Against Tomorrow

FEATURED BOOK OFF THE SHELF: "NEW YORK CITY, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of a cavernous office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-case scenarios in the most intricate detail, and his schemes are sold to corporations to indemnify them against any future […]

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This Week In Books (04/03 – 04/09):

Best Selling Fiction  (NEW!) -  ZERO K by Don Delillo and read by Geoff Worden and, starting Wednesday, JANE STEELE by Lyndsay Fay and read by Kathleen Langan (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction  -  WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Paul Kalanithi and read by Ellen Hazard (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM) Book Off The Shelf (NEW!)  -  ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW by Nathaniel Rich and read by Lyn Lonsdale (M-F 2:30PM-3PM; 10:30PM-11PM) Great Literature […]

todayApril 3, 2017 10

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Wise Blood

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE: "Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In […]

todayMarch 30, 2017 10

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When Breath Becomes Air

FEATURED NON-FICTION: "At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a […]

todayMarch 30, 2017 10

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Zero K

FEATURED FICTION: "The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time—an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote […]

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This Week In Books (03/27 – 04/02):

Best Selling Fiction (NEW!) -  ZERO K by Don Delillo and read by Geoff Worden (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction (NEW!) -  THIS IS THE STORY OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE by Ann Patchett and read by Adrien Petrosini and, starting Tuesday, WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Paul Kalanithi and read by Ellen Hazard (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM) Book Off The Shelf  -  READY PLAYER ONE by Ernst Cline and read by […]

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This Week In Books (03/20 – 03/26):

Best Selling Fiction  -  FATES AND FURIES by Lauren Groff and read by Allison Freeman (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction -  THIS IS THE STORY OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE by Ann Patchett and read by Adrien Petrosini (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM) Book Off The Shelf  -  READY PLAYER ONE by Ernst Cline and read by Candice Huber (M-F 2:30PM-3PM; 10:30PM-11PM) Great Literature -  ALAS, BABYLON! by Pat Frank and read by Elizabeth […]

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This Week In Books (03/13 – 03/19):

Best Selling Fiction  -  FATES AND FURIES by Lauren Groff and read by Allison Freeman (M-F 11AM-12PM; 9:30PM-10:30PM) Best Seller Non- Fiction -  THIS IS THE STORY OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE by Ann Patchett and read by Adrien Petrosini (M-F 9AM-10AM; 7PM-8PM) Book Off The Shelf  -  READY PLAYER ONE by Ernst Cline and read by Candice Huber (M-F 2:30PM-3PM; 10:30PM-11PM) Great Literature -  ALAS, BABYLON! by Pat Frank and read by Elizabeth […]

todayMarch 13, 2017 12

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