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Money Changes Everything

Nov 27, 2025

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8 min read

Money Changes Everything

A quick ride through the history of economics by economist, author, and member of the Australian Parliament Andrew Leigh

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Keeping All My Secrets Safe Tonight

Nov 22, 2025

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6 min read

Keeping All My Secrets Safe Tonight

A loving father, quiet about his past, is harboring secrets too dark and too painful to reveal.

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Steve's Book Stuff
Oh-ho-ho, It's Magic!

Nov 13, 2025

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5 min read

Oh-ho-ho, It's Magic!

The catchy tune helped sell Ozempic, which suddenly was everywhere. But the weight loss drug had a long road to overnight success.

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And All The Rest…

Ticket to Ride

Nov 7, 2025

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6 min read

Ticket to Ride

Gemini, the middle child between Mercury and Apollo in the 1960's US space program, gave Apollo its ticket to the moon.

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Steve's Book Stuff
With a bit of a mind flip, you're into the time slip

Oct 30, 2025

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5 min read

With a bit of a mind flip, you're into the time slip

Emily St. John Mandel masters the slow build as moments from different centuries are bleeding into one another, like a glitch in time.

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Steve's Book Stuff
I Want You to Want Me

Oct 23, 2025

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6 min read

I Want You to Want Me

Cable news anchor Chris Hayes takes a deep dive into the attention economy - how and why the internet works to steal your attention

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Steve's Book Stuff
Massachusetts is someplace I have seen

Oct 16, 2025

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5 min read

Massachusetts is someplace I have seen

A dozen interwoven stories of life, love and connections across the centuries in the Bay State.

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Steve's Book Stuff
Freedom, freedom, where are you?

Oct 9, 2025

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5 min read

Freedom, freedom, where are you?

Kamala Harris on her unique, time-shortened campaign for the presidency

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Steve's Book Stuff
I've seen the future and it will be...  Batman

Oct 2, 2025

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6 min read

I've seen the future and it will be... Batman

An expert gives us the inside story of bats and the scientists who study them.

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Steve's Book Stuff
It Would Take A Strong, Strong Man

Sep 25, 2025

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7 min read

It Would Take A Strong, Strong Man

Jacob Heilbrunn explores a century of the American Right's romance with foreign dictators

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Steve's Book Stuff
If That Mockingbird Don't Sing

Sep 18, 2025

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7 min read

If That Mockingbird Don't Sing

A murder in the big city apartment building called Mockingbird Court brings another case to Shady Hollow for Vera Vixen to unravel - a case she herself is implicated in...

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Steve's Book Stuff
Habemus Papum - We Have a Pope

Sep 11, 2025

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8 min read

Habemus Papum - We Have a Pope

Behind the scenes of the conclave that elected Pope Leo, and an exploration of the papacy of Francis, which made his election possible

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