The Avid Reader Show - Seven And a 1/2 Lessons About The Brain Lisa Feldoman Barrett
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Seven And a 1/2 Lessons About The Brain Lisa Feldoman Barrett

itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15190866.jpg] Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears. In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized story about how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You'll learn where brains came from, how they're structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you'll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a "lizard brain" and the alleged battle between

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Episode 601: Flowers of Darkness - Tatiana de Rosnay
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 600: Land of Big Numbers - Te-Ping Chen
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24/2 2021 • 41 MIN

Episode 600: Land of Big Numbers - Te-Ping Chen

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000-0x0+0+0_15371925.jpg] Land of Big numbers is ten short stories and as you know I love short stories. The characters are...
Episode 600: Land of Big Numbers - Te-Ping Chen
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 599: 1Q1A Te-Ping Chen - Land of Big Numbers
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24/2 2021 • 1 MIN

Episode 599: 1Q1A Te-Ping Chen - Land of Big Numbers

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000-0x0+0+0_15371925.jpg] Land of Big numbers is ten short stories and as you know I love short stories. The characters are...
Episode 599: 1Q1A Te-Ping Chen - Land of Big Numbers
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 598: My Year Abroad. Chang-Rae Lee
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24/2 2021 • 47 MIN

Episode 598: My Year Abroad. Chang-Rae Lee

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15371643.jpg] Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life,...
Episode 598: My Year Abroad. Chang-Rae Lee
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 597: 1Q1A. My Year Abroad Chang-Rae Lee
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24/2 2021 • 0 MIN

Episode 597: 1Q1A. My Year Abroad Chang-Rae Lee

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15371635.jpg] Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life,...
Episode 597: 1Q1A. My Year Abroad Chang-Rae Lee
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 596: The Midnight Library. Matt Haig
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24/2 2021 • 16 MIN

Episode 596: The Midnight Library. Matt Haig

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15371625.jpg] Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books,...
Episode 596: The Midnight Library. Matt Haig
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 595: Luckenbooth. Jenni Fagan
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24/2 2021 • 46 MIN

Episode 595: Luckenbooth. Jenni Fagan

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15371606.jpg] Luckenbooth, her third novel, about an Edinburgh tenement and the curse that haunts it, infecting the lives of all...
Episode 595: Luckenbooth. Jenni Fagan
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 594: 1Q1A Luckenbooth. Jenni Fagan
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24/2 2021 • 1 MIN

Episode 594: 1Q1A Luckenbooth. Jenni Fagan

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15371601.jpg] Luckenbooth, Jenni's third novel, about an Edinburgh tenement and the curse that haunts it, infects the lives of all...
Episode 594: 1Q1A Luckenbooth. Jenni Fagan
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 593: Hurdy Gurdy. Christopher Wilson
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24/2 2021 • 50 MIN

Episode 593: Hurdy Gurdy. Christopher Wilson

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15371589.jpg] It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague. Novice friar Brother...
Episode 593: Hurdy Gurdy. Christopher Wilson
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 592: 1Q1A. Hurdy Gurdy Christopher Wilson
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24/2 2021 • 0 MIN

Episode 592: 1Q1A. Hurdy Gurdy Christopher Wilson

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15371582.jpg] It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague. Novice friar Brother...
Episode 592: 1Q1A. Hurdy Gurdy Christopher Wilson
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 591: The Love Proof Madeleine Henry
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5/2 2021 • 41 MIN

Episode 591: The Love Proof Madeleine Henry

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15333878.jpg] Sophie Jones is a physics prodigy on track to unlock the secrets of the universe. But when she meets...
Episode 591: The Love Proof Madeleine Henry
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 590: 1Q1A The Love Proof Madeleine Henry
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5/2 2021 • 0 MIN

Episode 590: 1Q1A The Love Proof Madeleine Henry

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15333874.jpg] Sophie Jones is a physics prodigy on track to unlock the secrets of the universe. But when she meets...
Episode 590: 1Q1A The Love Proof Madeleine Henry
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 589: Math Without Numbers
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27/1 2021 • 60 MIN

Episode 589: Math Without Numbers

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15316159.jpg] The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly...
Episode 589: Math Without Numbers
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 588: 1Q1A Math Without Numbers. Milo Beckman
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27/1 2021 • 1 MIN

Episode 588: 1Q1A Math Without Numbers. Milo Beckman

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15316153.jpg] The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly...
Episode 588: 1Q1A Math Without Numbers. Milo Beckman
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 587: The Ancient Hours Michael Bible
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26/1 2021 • 59 MIN

Episode 587: The Ancient Hours Michael Bible

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15312614.jpg] Harmony, North Carolina is a typical town—full of saints and sinners you can’t tell apart... Its history echoes with...
Episode 587: The Ancient Hours Michael Bible
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 586: Metazoa Peter Godfrey-Smith
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12/1 2021 • 48 MIN

Episode 586: Metazoa Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15287541.jpg] Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more...
Episode 586: Metazoa Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 585: In The Land Of The Cyclops. Karl Ove Knausgard
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4/1 2021 • 53 MIN

Episode 585: In The Land Of The Cyclops. Karl Ove Knausgard

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15273603.jpg] In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English....
Episode 585: In The Land Of The Cyclops. Karl Ove Knausgard
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 584: In1Q1A. The Land Of The Cyclops. Karl Ove Knausgard
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4/1 2021 • 1 MIN

Episode 584: In1Q1A. The Land Of The Cyclops. Karl Ove Knausgard

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15273600.jpg] In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English....
Episode 584: In1Q1A. The Land Of The Cyclops. Karl Ove Knausgard
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 583: Prisoners Of History Keith Lowe
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31/12 2020 • 69 MIN

Episode 583: Prisoners Of History Keith Lowe

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15267639.jpg] Humankind has always had the urge to memorialise, to make physical testaments to the past. There’s just one problem:...
Episode 583: Prisoners Of History Keith Lowe
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 582: Prisoners Of History Keith Lowe
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31/12 2020 • 1 MIN

Episode 582: Prisoners Of History Keith Lowe

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15267635.jpg] Humankind has always had the urge to memorialise, to make physical testaments to the past. There’s just one problem:...
Episode 582: Prisoners Of History Keith Lowe
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 581: Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley
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31/12 2020 • 34 MIN

Episode 581: Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15267621.jpg] From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives...
Episode 581: Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 580: 1Q1A Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley
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31/12 2020 • 1 MIN

Episode 580: 1Q1A Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15267616.jpg] From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives...
Episode 580: 1Q1A Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 579: Interior Chinatown Charles Yu
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31/12 2020 • 47 MIN

Episode 579: Interior Chinatown Charles Yu

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15267608.jpg] Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he...
Episode 579: Interior Chinatown Charles Yu
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 579: 1Q1A Interior Chinatown Charles Yu
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31/12 2020 • 1 MIN

Episode 579: 1Q1A Interior Chinatown Charles Yu

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15267601.jpg] Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he...
Episode 579: 1Q1A Interior Chinatown Charles Yu
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 578: Wild Thing Philip Norman
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31/12 2020 • 41 MIN

Episode 578: Wild Thing Philip Norman

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15267590.jpg] A shattering new biography of rock music’s most outrageous―and tragic―genius. Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970)...
Episode 578: Wild Thing Philip Norman
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 577: 1Q1A Wild Thing Philip Norman
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31/12 2020 • 1 MIN

Episode 577: 1Q1A Wild Thing Philip Norman

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15267584.jpg] A shattering new biography of rock music’s most outrageous―and tragic―genius. Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970)...
Episode 577: 1Q1A Wild Thing Philip Norman
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 576: Nights When Nothing Happened Simon Han
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8/12 2020 • 45 MIN

Episode 576: Nights When Nothing Happened Simon Han

The Avid Reader Show
From the outside, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, she and Liang...
Episode 576: Nights When Nothing Happened Simon Han
The Avid Reader Show - Episode 575: 1Q1A. Nights When Nothing Happened. Simon Han
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8/12 2020 • 1 MIN

Episode 575: 1Q1A. Nights When Nothing Happened. Simon Han

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15228310.jpg] From the outside, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, she...
Episode 575: 1Q1A. Nights When Nothing Happened. Simon Han
The Avid Reader Show - The Orchard Havid Hopen
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19/11 2020 • 65 MIN

The Orchard Havid Hopen

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15190893.jpg] Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense...
The Orchard Havid Hopen
The Avid Reader Show - Seven And a 1/2 Lessons About The Brain Lisa Feldoman Barrett
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19/11 2020 • 37 MIN

Seven And a 1/2 Lessons About The Brain Lisa Feldoman Barrett

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15190866.jpg] Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray...
Seven And a 1/2 Lessons About The Brain Lisa Feldoman Barrett
The Avid Reader Show - Money: The True Story Of A Made Up Thing. Jacob Goldstein
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11/11 2020 • 42 MIN

Money: The True Story Of A Made Up Thing. Jacob Goldstein

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15176053.jpg] The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money...
Money: The True Story Of A Made Up Thing. Jacob Goldstein
The Avid Reader Show - The Sun Collective. Charles Baxter
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11/11 2020 • 50 MIN

The Sun Collective. Charles Baxter

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15176043.jpg] Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some...
The Sun Collective. Charles Baxter
The Avid Reader Show - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab
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5/11 2020 • 69 MIN

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15164400.jpeg] France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed...
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab
The Avid Reader Show - We Keep The Dead Close Becky Cooper
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28/10 2020 • 41 MIN

We Keep The Dead Close Becky Cooper

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15148613.jpeg] 1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest;...
We Keep The Dead Close Becky Cooper
The Avid Reader Show - A Golden Fury Samantha Cohoe
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28/10 2020 • 36 MIN

A Golden Fury Samantha Cohoe

The Avid Reader Show
itunes pic [https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/b9/36/info18232/3000x3000_15148517.jpeg] Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them...
A Golden Fury Samantha Cohoe
The Avid Reader Show - What's Left of Me Is Yours. Stephanie Scott
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22/10 2020 • 46 MIN

What's Left of Me Is Yours. Stephanie Scott

The Avid Reader Show
In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the "wakaresaseya" (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to...
What's Left of Me Is Yours. Stephanie Scott
The Avid Reader Show - Footprints: In search of future fossils
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22/10 2020 • 43 MIN

Footprints: In search of future fossils

The Avid Reader Show
What will the world look like in ten thousand years―or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about...
Footprints: In search of future fossils
The Avid Reader Show - A World Beneath The Sands Toby Wilkinson
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16/10 2020 • 41 MIN

A World Beneath The Sands Toby Wilkinson

The Avid Reader Show
From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a...
A World Beneath The Sands Toby Wilkinson
The Avid Reader Show - White Ivy Susie Yang
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16/10 2020 • 47 MIN

White Ivy Susie Yang

The Avid Reader Show
From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a...
White Ivy Susie Yang
The Avid Reader Show - The Memory Monster. Yishai Sarid
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7/10 2020 • 56 MIN

The Memory Monster. Yishai Sarid

The Avid Reader Show
Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed...
The Memory Monster. Yishai Sarid
The Avid Reader Show - Bestiary. K-Ming Chang
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7/10 2020 • 48 MIN

Bestiary. K-Ming Chang

The Avid Reader Show
One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman’s body. She was called...
Bestiary. K-Ming Chang
The Avid Reader Show - Missionaries. Phil Klay
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7/10 2020 • 58 MIN

Missionaries. Phil Klay

The Avid Reader Show
A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him...
Missionaries. Phil Klay
The Avid Reader Show - Monogamy Sue Miller
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24/9 2020 • 34 MIN

Monogamy Sue Miller

The Avid Reader Show
Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. A golden couple, their seemingly effortless devotion has long been...
Monogamy Sue Miller
The Avid Reader Show - Leave It As It Is David Gessner
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24/9 2020 • 54 MIN

Leave It As It Is David Gessner

The Avid Reader Show
“Leave it as it is,” Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time. “The ages have...
Leave It As It Is David Gessner
The Avid Reader Show - Set My Heart To Five Simon Stephenson
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24/9 2020 • 64 MIN

Set My Heart To Five Simon Stephenson

The Avid Reader Show
Set in a 2054 where humans have locked themselves out of the internet and Elon Musk has incinerated the moon,...
Set My Heart To Five Simon Stephenson
The Avid Reader Show - The Motion Of The Body Through Space Lionel Shriver
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24/9 2020 • 70 MIN

The Motion Of The Body Through Space Lionel Shriver

The Avid Reader Show
After an ignominious early retirement, Remington announces to his wife Serenata that he’s decided to run a marathon. This from...
The Motion Of The Body Through Space Lionel Shriver
The Avid Reader Show - The Motion Of The Body Through Space Lionel Shriver
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9/9 2020 • 57 MIN

The Motion Of The Body Through Space Lionel Shriver

The Avid Reader Show
After an ignominious early retirement, Remington announces to his wife Serenata that he’s decided to run a marathon. This from...
The Motion Of The Body Through Space Lionel Shriver
The Avid Reader Show - Private Means Cree LeFavour
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9/9 2020 • 52 MIN

Private Means Cree LeFavour

The Avid Reader Show
A deliciously compulsive first novel from New York Times Editor’s Choice author of Lights On, Rats Out, Cree LeFavour’s Private...
Private Means Cree LeFavour
The Avid Reader Show - The Innovation Delusion
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9/9 2020 • 47 MIN

The Innovation Delusion

The Avid Reader Show
It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new...
The Innovation Delusion
The Avid Reader Show - Can't Even HelenAnn Petersen
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9/9 2020 • 42 MIN

Can't Even HelenAnn Petersen

The Avid Reader Show
Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because...
Can't Even HelenAnn Petersen
The Avid Reader Show - How To Astronaut. Terry Virts
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25/8 2020 • 48 MIN

How To Astronaut. Terry Virts

The Avid Reader Show
Ride shotgun on a trip to space with astronaut Terry Virts. A born stroyteller with a gift for the surprising...
How To Astronaut. Terry Virts
The Avid Reader Show - Our Lady Of Perpetual Hunger. Lisa Donovan
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25/8 2020 • 55 MIN

Our Lady Of Perpetual Hunger. Lisa Donovan

The Avid Reader Show
Renowned southern pastry chef Lisa Donovan's memoir of cooking, survival, and the incredible power in reclaiming the stories of women Noted...
Our Lady Of Perpetual Hunger. Lisa Donovan
The Avid Reader Show - The Exiles Christina Baker Kline
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25/8 2020 • 47 MIN

The Exiles Christina Baker Kline

The Avid Reader Show
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel that captures...
The Exiles Christina Baker Kline
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