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Raised on Radio by Paul Rees (Excerpt)

Excerpted from RAISED ON RADIO: Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola—the AOR Glory Years 1976–1986 by Paul Rees, published on February 24, 2026. Copyright © 2026 by Paul Rees. Used by arrangement with Da Capo Publishing, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing and a division of Hachette Book Group. All

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (November 26, 2025)

Street dates December 2, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Giant Steps: My Impossible Journey from Stage Lights to Executive Heights By Derek Shulman with Jon Wiederhorn Jawbone Press Beginning with a young Shulman confidently telling his schoolteacher that he would grow up to become a pop star,

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (November 18, 2025)

Street dates November 25, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Finding Flannery: A Travel Memoir Exploring the Mystique of Flannery O’Connor and the Legacy She Has Left Us All By Christina Brajkovich, Karen Anne Mahoney, and Roxane B. Salonen En Route Books and Media Follow the journey…

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (November 11, 2025)

Street date November 18, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer’s Guide Through the Sleeping Mind By Michelle Carr Henry Holt and Co. To most, dreams are things that slip away when we reemerge into the waking world, their remnants jumbled up and

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (November 4, 2025)

Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You Street date November 11, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Ingram By Louis C.K. BenBella Books When Ingram is forced by overwhelming poverty and spiritual exhaustion to walk away from his home, he leaves behind a neglectful childhood on a

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (October 28, 2025)

Street date November 4, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Luigi: The Making and the Meaning By John H. Richardson Simon & Schuster The explosion of glee and sympathy for Luigi surprised everyone, but it was everywhere. Hours after the shooting of the United Healthcare executive, his company

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (October 21, 2025)

The Uncool: A Memoir By Cameron Crowe Avid Reader Press Available in Hardcover, ebook, and unabridged audio download Cameron Crowe was an unlikely rock and roll insider. Born in 1957 to parents who strictly banned the genre from their house, he dove headfirst into the world of music. By the

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (October 14, 2025)

Street date October 14, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur By Jeff Pearlman Mariner Books Available in Hardcover, ebook, or digital audiobook Scrutinized in life, mythologized in death, Tupac Shakur remains a subject of immense cultural significance

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (October 7, 2025)

Street date October 14, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher. A Wooded Shore and Other Stories By Thomas McGuane Knopf Available in Hardcover or ebook In these nine peerless stories, a family boating trip veers into emotional disaster while very narrowly avoiding the physical; a would-be cheater hands

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (October 1, 2025)

Street date October 7, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell By Deryck Whibley Gallery Books Available in Hardcover, unabridged audio download, and ebook From his earliest days growing up in Canada, Deryck Whibley loved music and couldn’t wait to

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (September 30, 2025)

Street date October 7, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida By Gilbert King Flatiron Books Available in Hardcover, digital audio, and ebook In 1987, Leo Schofield was arrested and charged with the murder of

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Book Excerpt — The Making of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Book Excerpt: The Making of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood By Jay Glennie Published by Insight Editions Hardcover “Rick, how are you doing with getting Hollywood Boulevard for me?” Quentin asked his location manager, Rick Schuler. “I’m doing well,” Schuler replied. Quentin looked at his

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Book Excerpt — These Truths: A History of the United States

Book Excerpt: These Truths: A History of the United States By Jill Lepore Published by W.W. Norton Hardcover Barack Obama had urged Americans 'to choose our better history,' a longer, more demanding, messier, and, finally, more uplifting story. But a nation cannot choose its past: it can

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Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You (September 16, 2025)

All book descriptions provided by the publisher. The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice By Dan Slepian — Celadon Books Available in Hardcover, ebook, audio book It wasn’t the September 11 attacks or the murders he’d investigated for the NYPD that

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Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You (September 9, 2025)

All book descriptions provided by the publisher. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution By Jill Lepore Liveright Available in Hardcover The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of

Family

Mother

My mother passed away on Tuesday, but she is not gone. After eighty-seven years on this Earth, she has moved on to whatever is next and the cliche is true that I am happy she no longer suffers the pain of this life. I am sorry for those of you

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Book Excerpt — Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail  By Cheryl Strayed  Vintage Books Paperback The trees were tall, but I was taller, standing above them on a steep mountain slope in  northern California. Moments before, I’d removed my hiking boots and the left one had fallen into

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Book Excerpt — We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir

We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir By Brian Buckbee with Carol Ann Fitzgerald Tin House Books Hardcover My rescue pigeon and I found each other at the very beginning of the pandemic, when we were both dealing with crippling health problems. As time went on, he got better. As

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Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You (August 26, 2025)

All book descriptions provided by the publisher. No Ordinary Bird: Drug Smuggling, a Plane Crash, and a Daughter’s Quest for the Truth By Artis Henderson Harper Books Available in Hardcover, ebook, digital audiobook Artis was five when a plane crash killed her beloved father. For years, it was simply

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Book Excerpt: Iron in the Blood: How the Alabama vs. Auburn Rivalry Shaped the Soul of the South

Iron in the Blood: How the Alabama vs. Auburn Rivalry Shaped the Soul of the South By Jay Busbee Published by Matt Holt Books/BenBella Books Hardcover Introduction There’s a small square of turf in the north corner of Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium that’s some of the most

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Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You (August 19, 2025)

All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Pig Latin: A Seriously Funny True Story of a Former Police Officer By Eric Tansey and Nick Palmisciano Atria Books Available in Hardcover, ebook, audio download Eric Tansey, a former Army scout and Special Operations military veteran, joined the police force with a

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Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You (August 12, 2025)

All book descriptions provided by the publisher. Anonymous Male: A Life Among Spies By Christopher Whitcomb Random House Available in Hardcover, ebook, audiobook In September 2001, Christopher Whitcomb was the most visible FBI agent in the world. His bestselling memoir, Cold Zero, had led to novels, articles in GQ, and

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For Your TBR Stack (Aug 5, 2025)

This week’s suggestions include the FBI looking for crooks at McDonalds, the inside story of the making of a classic rock album, and the untold story of the true relationship between Elvis Presley and his misunderstood manager Col. Tom Parker.  And, Khadijah Queen exposes life at sea as a

Sports

Baseball Doesn't Love Me Back

When I was ten-years-old, just after the dinosaurs had disappeared, it was still a normal thing in the summer for neighborhood kids to get together and play baseball.  The neighbors directly across the street from my boyhood home had two sons around my age, and, more importantly, a large enough

Food

NO TUNA. CHEESEBURGER?

I am not a foodie; not even close. But living on the road as I do, I no longer have a kitchen of my own, so I eat out a lot.  And I have noticed some new trends in restaurants that I do not like very much.  I say these