Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and cohost of Pod Save America, a sharp political playbook for how Democ...
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NEW podcast from one of the nation’s premier independent bookstores, in Pennsylvania’s capital city. We proudly host national award-winning authors and emerging literary sensations for free...
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The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia—an elusive type...
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth i...
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** “Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African-Americ...
Long Bright River, An Evening with Liz Moore
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "[Moore’s] careful balance of the hard-bitten with the heartfelt...
An Afternoon with Christopher McDougall and Alexandra Horowitz
"Running with Sherman" by Christopher McDougall "A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor . . . McDougall is a gifted storyteller who...
An Evening with Salman Rushdie,
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” (Time) from internationa...
Agents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
As World War II raged into its second year, Britain sought a powerful ally to join its cause-but the American public was sharply divided on...
Rush: Revolution, Madness & The Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
The monumental life of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WA...
The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South
Jim Crow was not a regional sickness, it was a national cancer. Even at the high point of twentieth century liberalism in the North, Jim Cro...
Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds
A thought-provoking exploration of how people really change their minds, and how persuasion is possible. In Stop Being Reasonable, Eleanor G...
How to Be an Anti-Racist with Ibram X. Kendi and Imani Perry
From award-winning authors Ibram X. Kendi and Imani Perry comes a powerful conversation on racial justice in America, showing us how to unde...
An Afternoon with Tea Obreht, Author of "Inland"
Internationally bestselling novelist Téa Obreht mesmerized readers with her timeless debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife. Weaving a brilliant latt...
An Evening with Stephen Chbosky
We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us. Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywh...
Emerging Voices: An Afternoon with R.O. Kwon and Joanne Ramos
From two new emerging voices in fiction — these page-turning debut novels show us the power and transcendence of storytelling. In The Farm,...
Political Parody in the Age of Trump
For readers craving a humorous antidote to the sound and the fury of American politics, these clever parodies offer an escapist reprieve for...
Story Time with Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox
In their debut picture book, author/illustrator team Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox introduce young readers to the comical, the studious,...
Story Time with Vashti Harrison
Join New York Times bestselling author & illustrator Vashti Harrison as she introduces young readers to trailblazing women who changed the w...
Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
In the early morning of April 14, 2014, the militant Islamic group Boko Haram violently burst into the small town of Chibok, Nigeria, and ab...
WITF Smart Talk Live with Eric Foner
From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Eric Foner, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s found...