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Shelf Discovery: The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows three different women as they find safety in books in The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan.

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Shelf Discovery: From Dust to Stardust by Kathleen Rooney
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin sets out to find stardom with a young girl in Hollywood’s Silent Film Era in From Dust to Stardust by Kathl...

Bought by KKRN, RADIOLEX, WCNY, WRMU, and WUTC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
773: As Read By The Author / 774: Hope: Where Does It Come From?, 3/4/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
Prize Winning Fiction Writer George Saunders
From: New Letters on the Air
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George Saunders, the renowned short story writer, talks about his debut novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, winner of Britain's 2017 Man Booker Prize for ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Shelf Discovery: Kent State by Deborah Wiles
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin looks back on a tragic moment in history with author Deborah Wiles’s Kent State.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist Larry Watson
From: New Letters on the Air
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While at the Woodneath Library Center, novelist Larry Watson reads from his tenth book, AS GOOD AS GONE, now out in paperback. He reveals how cowbo...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Shelf Discovery: Code Girls by Liza Mundy
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin meets a group of unsung war heroes in author Liza Mundy's Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Wome...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
215: Even Stranger Things / 216: Story Worlds, 10/28/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Even Stranger Things" - Paranormal psychic spy hunters? It was a real U.S. Army project. Join us for an hour of even stranger things. ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Shelf Discovery: Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels back to the early days of radio with author Sarah-Jane Stratford's Radio Days.

Bought by KHSU and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Jane Smiley
From: New Letters on the Air
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Jane Smiley discusses her 2014 book, SOME LUCK, the first in a trilogy that follows an Iowa farm family for more than a century. Smiley talks about...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
How The Bard Meant It (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Searching for the way Shakespeare really sounded. And more...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, KREV-LP, and KKRN


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 4
How The Bard Meant It (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Searching for the way Shakespeare really sounded. And more...

Bought by WJCT, KUER, WTJU, WLIW, and KENW


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
A Box Within a Box Within a Box: The Riddle of the Raintree
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 57:06
Shelf Discovery: Kennedy's Last Days by Bill O'Reilly
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes a step back in time to learn about the life and death of a president with Bill O'Reilly's Kennedy's L...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reading Chekhov
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our “Reading Chekhov” series culminates in a full hour on the Russian physician who spun the small happenings of old Russia into some of the most p...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin examines the Easter story with the audio version of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's Killing Jesus.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 03:00
Heroes of Medieval Literature (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You've heard of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and even Beowulf. But Bevis of Hampton?

Bought by WJCT and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Heroes of Medieval Literature (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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You've heard of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and even Beowulf. But Bevis of Hampton?

Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 4
Novelist Alex George
From: New Letters on the Air
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After working for years as a corporate lawyer in England, Alex George moved to the states with his family and opened his own law practice in mid-Mi...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Butterfly in the Typewriter
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WABE, and WTJU


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 4
Gail Carriger on the Parasol Protectorate Series
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Maddi Frick's conversation with Gail Carriger.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 19:19
Beer
From: Dictionary.com Word Explorer
Series: Dictionary.com Word Explorer
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This week we raise our glasses to the word BEER.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:52