What We're Reading

Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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What We're Reading is Northern Community Radio's discussion on the books we're reading and talking about. Hosted and produced by Tammy Bobrowsky.

What We're Reading is Northern Community Radio's discussion on the books we're reading and talking about. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


213 Pieces

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The end of the year is a good time to look back and reflect on the previous year and this is no different when it comes to books! Maybe you kept up...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 11:00
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On this edition of What We're Reading: Tracy Kampa, Children's Librarian at the Grand Rapids Area Library gets us pumped up for the upcoming Americ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 07:57
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The 2023 American Library Association Youth Media Awards has just wrapped up and we are joined again by Grand Rapids Area Library’s Children’s Libr...

Bought by WKSU


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Learn about new books and events from Ara at the Bemidji Public Library and Amanda at the Brainerd Public Library.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 06:13
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Mark Christensen is a recently retired professor of English at Bemidji State University, is active in local theater, and has just published a new c...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 10:51
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MN writer Paul Radomski's new book focuses on what is arguably Minnesota’s favorite fish, the walleye. In addition to being a writer, Paul is a fis...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 13:33
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Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa reviews and recommends new children's books for What We're Reading. Our children's libr...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 08:43
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Windswept is a middle-grade fantasy about a girl named Tag who must save the children of her world from being windswept, taken by the wind not to b...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 13:01
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This week on What We're Reading, Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa shared two new picture books on tough topics for kids a...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 09:41
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Learn about new books and events from the Brainerd and Bemidji public libraries. Also, readers chime in on favorite books about the great outdoors.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 09:35
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The Minnesota Book Awards is an exciting event, and not just because of the drama and fanfare and anticipation of the winners. Ultimately, it is a ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 09:26
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Dubbed the “King of Midwestern novels” by Entertainment Weekly, J. Ryan Stradal is the author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest, The Lager Queen, an...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2023
  • Length: 11:57
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This week on What We're Reading, Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa shared new picture and middle-grade books. Kampa recom...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 09:42
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In our What We're Reading conversation, we hear how Kling got his start as a storyteller, how he knows when a story really catches an audience, and...

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 09:23
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Minnesota writer Timothy Cochrane's new book, Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater, tells us the story of a Métis man and ...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 12:26

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 10:47

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 11:14
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David Mura’s new book "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives," urges us to change our racial narratives.

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 12:39
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Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa reviews and recommends new children's books of interest for "What We're Reading."

  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 06:49
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Minnesota writer and motivational speaker Shelly Breen is the author of the "Shelly Bean, the Sports Queen" series and will be a keynote speaker at...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 11:59