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Shelf Discovery: I See Life through Rosé-Colored Glasses by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin laughs about life in general with I See Life through Rosé-Colored Glasses by mother/daughter duo Lisa Scott...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Biblical Mythology and Wholeheartedness
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Carol Delaney and Brene Brown
Carol Delaney deconstructs the myth of Abraham and Isaac and Brene Brown challenges us to Dare Greatly.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin curls up with real-life bedtime stories in Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli and Frances...

Bought by WLPR , KKRN, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin commiserates with a stressed-out mom in the audio edition of Bunmi Laditan's Confessions of a Domestic Fail...

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KRPS


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Rape of Eve: Newly Discovered Texts of Resistance
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Celene Lillie
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Fat Fridays by Judith Keim
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin dines with the girls in Judith Keim's Fat Fridays.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a young woman on the rocky road to recovery in author Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us.

Bought by KKRN, WMUU-LP, and WLPR


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: How to Be a Grown-Up by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Discovery, Kristin follows a single mom through New York City in How to Be a Grown-Up by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.

Bought by KKRN, WTIP, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Part Two: Teaching a Tribal College
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Previously on CC, we brought you Part One of “How Teaching at a Tribal College Changed My Life—Or at Least My Teaching” with Winona State Universit...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 27:05
Part One: Teaching at a Tribal College
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of CC, we bring you “How Teaching at a Tribal College Changed My Life—Or at Least My Teaching” with Winona State University Profess...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 50:24
Shelf Discovery: Opening Belle by Maureen Sherry
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin heads to Wall Street for Maureen Sherry's Opening Belle.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
J. California Cooper
From: Facts About Fiction
Caption: J. California Cooper, Credit: Ellen Banner / The New York Times
J. California Cooper loved playing with paper dolls--even as an adult.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
Drunk Mom / Acting and Activism! / Thrillers! / The Fun is in the Surprise! / Darn That Annoying Itch!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Jowita Bydlowska - drunk mom Segment 2: Tippi Hedren/actress Segment 3: Steve Berry/author poe, lincoln Segment 4: Denise Chaykum/Myst...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
Shelf Discovery: Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin commiserates with another tired mama in Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Harford Community Radio, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Under Magnolia (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
The Mysterious James Tiptree
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Alice Sheldon, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 23:44
  • Purchases: 2
Joyce Carol Oates and “The Sacrifice”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Story of an African childhood: Author Robyn Scott
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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The author of “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” is a social entrepreneur who works in southern Africa. But back when she was 7 she moved from England ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
Furious Flower: Rita Dove
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Every ten years, the Furious Flower Poetry Conference is held at James Madison University. This year, the event was dedicated to renowned poet Rita...

Bought by KENW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
Among The Janeites: A Journey Through The World Of Jane Austen Fandom
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: OCTOBER 2014
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From the above-named new book, author Deborah Jaffe reads an amusing passage illustrating how a classic novelist is celebrated in pop culture.... J...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Boy, Snow, Bird
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:21
  • Purchases: 2
A Proust Questionnaire with Helen Oyeyemi
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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When and where were you happiest? Novelist Helen Oyeyemi answers a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire, a set of questions made famous by ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
The Forgotten Fiction of Ann Petry
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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All around the country, summer reading lists will feature the same familiar authors of the literary canon. In recent decades, that canon has come t...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 3
Jaipur Lit. Fest.
From: KALW
Caption: Nayomi Muneewara
Sandip Roy meets Oakland, CA author Nayomi Muneewara at one of the world's greatest literature festivals. Her new book is "Island of a Thousand Mir...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Remembering Eudora Welty
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Eudora Welty, New Haven, CT, 1974, Credit: William Ferris
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
  • Purchases: 2