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Tomorrow night at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY they will be having a thriller night with bestselling authors Marshall Karp and Eric Rickstad. Marshall Karp is the author of the book “Don’t Tell Me How to Die” and Eric Rickstad of the author of the book “Remote: The Six.”

On this week's 51%, we chat with Minnesota Law Professor Jill Hasday about her book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality.

Edward Kanze's new book is called “The Nature of the Place: On the Flora and Fauna of the Adirondacks,” a love letter to his home. The Adirondack Park, where he gathers materials from his columns and elsewhere has revised them and tries to give us all a look of the flora and fauna of his home.

Vauhini Vara’s new book “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” is a deeply personal and provocative exploration of how tech companies have both fulfilled and exploited our human desires for understanding and connection. It shows how we are complicit in all of this.

Lisa A. Phillips' new book “First Love: Guiding Teens Through Relationships and Heartbreak” chronicles the challenges that adolescents face as they navigate the world of love and the challenges that adults face as they try to provide support and guidance from the perspective of a mother, professor, and award-winning journalist.

Amor Towles is the author of “The New York Times” bestsellers “Rules of Civility,” “A Gentleman in Moscow,” and “The Lincoln Highway.” The three novels collectively have sold five million copies and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He now shares some of his shorter fiction, six stories, based on and in New York City as well as a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The new book is “Table for Two: Fictions” it is just out in paperback from Penguin Books.

A Senior Fellow and Director for the Center of Community Uplift at the Brookings Institution and author of “Know Your Price,” Andre M. Perry’s new book “Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It” stresses the critical need for all Americans to come together and work towards a better future.

Bestselling Author Amity Gaige will talk about her new novel, “Heartwood,” at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts tonight at 7 p.m.

Shelley Fraser Mickle is an award-winning author and former storyteller for NPR’s “Morning Edition.” Her new book is “Itching to Love: The Story of a Dog” where she tells us about her decade long relationship with Buddy the mutt next-door who adopted her as his person.

On this week’s 51%, we learn how to prep for and survive a recession with Professor Suzanne Shu of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. We also chat with business journalist Alison Kosik about her new book What’s Up with Women and Money? Part memoir, part how-to guide, Kosik’s book explains how women can feel more confident navigating their finances, invest for the future, and avoid getting taken for a ride at the car dealership.