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Bellweather Rhapsody

FEATURED FICTION Fifteen years ago, a murder/suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the young bridesmaid who witnessed it. Now hundreds of high school musicians, including quiet bassoonist Rabbit Hatmaker and his brassy diva twin, Alice, have gathered in its cavernous, crumbling halls for the annual Statewide festival; the grown-up bridesmaid has returned to face her demons; and a snowstorm is forecast that will trap everyone […]

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Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty: A Memoir

FEATURED NON-FICTION Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty, she shares the wisdom she’s accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon. This is a book only Diane Keaton could write—a smart and funny chronicle of the ups and downs of living and working in a world obsessed […]

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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.   Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small […]

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WRBH Blog: Please Allow Me To Cat-roduce Myself…

                          The Cat’s Out of the Bag! Written by Natalia Gonzalez, January 27, 2015 In case you weren’t aware, WRBH recently “hired” a new employee – but not your typical employee – this one walks on 4 legs and is covered in grey fur! Yes, we have embraced the trend and now have a five-year old office cat […]

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Slaughterhouse-Five (or The Children’s Crusade: A Dirty-Dance With Death)

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time." So begins Vonnegut's absurdist 1969 classic. Slaughterhouse-Five is one of  the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the  infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey  of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning  in what we are afraid to know.

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Flash Boys

FEATURED NON-FICTION Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys […]

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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

FEATURED FICTION A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present.  When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent […]

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Nation’s Only FM Radio Station For The Visually Impaired Launches New, Resource-Packed Website

IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 8, 2015   Nation’s Only FM Radio Station For The Visually Impaired Launches New, Resource-Packed Website WRBH.org, based in New Orleans, becomes a leading international resource for the blind WRBH 88.3 in New Orleans is the only full-time reading service on the FM dial in the U.S. and 1 of just 3 in the world Website makes information more accessible for the visually impaired and streams live broadcasts worldwide The […]

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WRBH 88.3 FM, Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is the only full-time reading service on the FM dial in the United States. At WRBH, our mission is to turn the printed word into the spoken word so that the blind and print handicapped receive the same ease of access to current information as their sighted peers.

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