Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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Free Library Podcast
100 books in the library with interviews on this podcast.
From Free Library of Philadelphia
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The Free Library Podcast shares author events and lectures from Parkway Central Library. Its recordings allow listeners to encounter programming beyond the live venue. Books and their authors provide an important part of that programme. The format preserves public-library literary events in audio. Readers can use the collection below to connect particular talks with the books discussed.
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We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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Until the End of Time: Mind Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
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A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crisis
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
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Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
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Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir
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The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492 – 1900
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
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