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Midtown Scholar Bookstore Author Reading Series

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 public rea... Read more

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Opening Keynote with Tayari Jones: An American Marriage

Opening Keynote with Tayari Jones: An American Marriage

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FI... Read more

12 Oct 2018

1hr 18mins

Ranked #2

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Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea

Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea

A historian’s discerning, critical take on current American politics“Believe me” may be the most commonly used phrase in... Read more

10 Jul 2018

1hr 18mins

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall"Deftly unmasks quantum weirdness to reveal a strange but u... Read more

17 Sep 2019

1hr 18mins

Ranked #4

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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell Moore

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell Moore

From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three ... Read more

14 Aug 2018

1hr 18mins

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The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent

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A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to h... Read more

27 Aug 2019

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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and Americas Journey From Slavery to Segregation

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A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences.Plessy v. Ferguson, th... Read more

1 May 2019

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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives

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A celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countrie... Read more

3 Sep 2019

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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact... Read more

24 Jul 2018

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From the Corner of the Oval: An Evening with Beck Dorsey-Stein

From the Corner of the Oval: An Evening with Beck Dorsey-Stein

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New Yo... Read more

25 Jul 2018

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Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

In 2012, Mary Lambert was working three restaurant jobs when her life changed. An aspiring singer-songwriter, cellist, s... Read more

13 Oct 2018

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Coming of Age in the White House: An Afternoon with David Litt and Beck Dorey-Stein

Coming of Age in the White House: An Afternoon with David Litt and Beck Dorey-Stein

He was President Obama's Comedy Writer. She was the White House Stenographer. More than any other presidency, Barack Oba... Read more

15 Oct 2018

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Ranked #12

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The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation

The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washingt... Read more

7 May 2019

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Ranked #13

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The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best and Worst Chief Executives

The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best and Worst Chief Executives

The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Preside... Read more

30 Apr 2019

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Ranked #14

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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss

The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vo... Read more

11 Sep 2018

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Ranked #15

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Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger

Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger

Super Mad at Everything All the Time explores the polarization of American politics through the collapse of the space be... Read more

16 Apr 2019

1hr 18mins

Ranked #16

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Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words

Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words

In this evocative and gorgeously wrought memoir reminiscent of Rob Sheffield’s Love Is a Mixtape and George Hodgman’s Be... Read more

2 Oct 2018

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Ranked #17

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THE HIDDEN ARMY OF FEMALE CODEBREAKERS An Evening with Liza Mundy

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Who were the American women that secretly served as codebreakers during World War II? How did this hidden chapter of the... Read more

15 Oct 2018

1hr 18mins

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Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump

Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump

Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administrationWithin days ... Read more

10 Sep 2019

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PORTRAITS OF HOME: An Afternoon with Crystal Hana Kim and Lucy Tan

PORTRAITS OF HOME: An Afternoon with Crystal Hana Kim and Lucy Tan

What is the meaning of home? Is it a physical place, a sense of being — is it connected to our familial past? And what h... Read more

15 Oct 2018

1hr 18mins

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Flunk. Start. Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology with Sands Hall

Flunk. Start. Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology with Sands Hall

In Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology. Her time in the ... Read more

17 Jul 2018

1hr 18mins

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