Between The Covers
By Jay Ruud and Stacey Margaret Jones
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Episodes: 96
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Author Jay Ruud has read every ”100 Best Book” list there is, so it’s only natural that he would create his own. Listen to each episode as he and his wife, author Stacey Margaret Jones discuss a book from his carefully cultivated ”100 Lovable Books” list. Stacey interviews Jay on what makes the book ”lovable” and where it ranks on the master list. They’ll also discuss current books in the CHAOS READER segment.
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Get Haunted by The Woman in White
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Two Book Lovers Yap about The Odyssey by Homer
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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The Most Lovable of the Rabbit Novels
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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An ’80s Novel about Self and Money
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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The Roman Empire is Jay’s Roman Empire
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Is Parade’s End One Book or Four?
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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The Choice to Include Sophie’s Choice
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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An Express Train to a Closed-Circle Mystery
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Elementary, My Dear Listener
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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The Genius of Toole’s Ignatius J. Reilly
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Ellison’s Novel Shouldn’t Be Invisible on Your TBR List
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May 26, 2026 |
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A Prime Novel of Ms. Muriel Spark's
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May 19, 2026 |
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In a World of Nurse Ratcheds, Be The Chief …?
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May 12, 2026 |
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A Good Book of Short Stories is Hard to Find
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May 05, 2026 |
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The Jewel of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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A Passage to Colonialism
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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The Continuing Relevance of LORD OF THE FLIES
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Who is Really the Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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I want, I want, I want… to read Henderson the Rain King
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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That Epic Book By That One New Jersey Guy
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Postmodern Suspense in The Crying of Lot 49
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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The Black Comedy of A Clockwork Orange
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Hardy’s Take on 19th Century Values
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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A Novel without a Hero? Vanity Fair!
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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A Wacky-Sounding Book Can Be Great in the Hands of the Right Writer
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Exploring Gulliver’s Travels
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Ivanhoe Walked so Frodo Could Run
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Kick off the Christmas Season with some Little Women
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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The Call of London’s The Call of the Wild
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Go Read Go Tell It on the Mountain!
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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The Rich, Rewarding, Historical World of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Faulkner’s (Somewhat) Accessible Novel Light in August Makes the List
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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It’s a Good Time to Pick Up Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Henry James (Barely) Makes the List with The Turn of the Screw
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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If You Don't Love Ulysses, Try Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Beyond the Book Banning: Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Celebrate Banned Books Week with Huckleberry Finn
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Enter the Mysterious World of Dickens’ Bleak House
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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The Way They Lived Then is The Way We Live Now
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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The Lord of the Rings isn’t an Allegory, but it is Applicable
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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A Hardboiled MacGuffin: The Maltese Falcon
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Shut Your Response Hole: Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Go Through the Looking-Glass to Wonderland with Alice … and Us
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Step with Us to the Original Pirate Tale: Treasure Island
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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A Post-Modernist Tale Inspired by an OG Novel: The Sot-Weed Factor
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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“The most perfect” novel, Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Come Away to Wuthering Heights With Us
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Charlotte Brontë Makes the List with Her Gothic Classic Jane Eyre
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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A Fable of Colonial Power in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the. Barbarians
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Atwood’s Dystopian Novel Makes the List
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The Wonderful World of Wodehouse’s Woosters
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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A Timeless War Novel from More than a Century Ago
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Kingsolver’s Conversation with Dickens: Demon Copperhead
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Jane Austen’s Emma, with a Healthy Dose of Movie Talk Thrown In
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Philip Pullman's Subversive Fantasy
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May 27, 2025 |
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A Twentieth Century Take on a Legendary King
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May 20, 2025 |
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"A Record of Hate More than Love"
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May 13, 2025 |
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An Odd Best Friend with a God Complex
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May 06, 2025 |
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Things We Love: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Journey into Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Spend the Day with Mrs. Dalloway!
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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The Best of Best-Selling British Author Terry Pratchett's Novels: Night Watch
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Return to Old New York Guided by Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Our Lovable Novels Guide to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Big Feelings in a Small British Town in George Eliot's Middlemarch
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Grandeur, Nostalgia and Family Drama in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Going Gothic in the Haunting Novel The Little Stranger
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Colson Whitehead's Beautifully Written Tragedy: The Nickel Boys
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Truth of Fiction in All the King's Men
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Sisterhood trumps Patriarchy in The Color Purple
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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🎁 Last-Minute Holiday Gift Ideas: Our Favorite Books to Give and Get! 📚✨
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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From Rags to Riches: The Charm of David Copperfield
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Decoding the Mystique of The Catcher in the Rye
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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The Midnight Miracle: How Rushdie Captured a Nation’s Soul
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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How A Single Lie Changed Everything: A Deep Dive into “Atonement”
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Watership Down, The Most Epic Bunny Saga Ever Told!
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Escaping into Adventure: The Magic of Kavalier & Clay Revealed!
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Epic Quests & Family Secrets – Inside Song of Solomon 🚀📚
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Tales of Terror: The Genius of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Romance Under Fire: Why You’ll Fall for A Farewell to Arms
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Fake News, Surveillance, and Control: What 1984 Teaches Us About Today
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Love, Lies, and Champagne! The Great Gatsby is Still a Vibe!
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Why Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried" Will Change How You See War Forever
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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BONUS EPISODE - “Special Banned Books Week Edition: Revisiting To Kill a Mockingbird”
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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A Wild Literary Ride You Never Saw Coming! - “Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Is the American Dream a lie? Or is Babbitt having a midlife crisis? - “Babbitt” by Sinclair Lewis
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Your Heart Will Break & You’ll Love Every Minute! - “Never Let Me Go” 💔📚
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Obsession and Revenge on the High Seas in Moby Dick
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Love Lies and Redemption in “Atonement”
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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History Meets Drama in “Wolf Hall"
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" Between The Covers Ep 4
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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"Brave New World" Between The Covers Ep3
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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"Catch 22" Between The Covers Ep 2
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Pride and Prejudice Between The Covers
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Trailer Between The Covers
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Jul 18, 2024 |