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The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 19:45
Book bans and challenges have been on the rise in the past few years. When BPL launched a free eCard to give out-of-state teens access to our eBook...
- Added: Jun 13, 2022
- Length: 25:25
Marisel Vera talks about unpacking the history of late 19th century Puerto Rico for her novel “The Taste of Sugar.”
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
"The truth behind the legend from the voices of the Lakota.
The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, or "Custer's last stand," as it is also known, ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 06:40:27
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about Communism as a quasi-religious faith that might ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:27
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about fateful explorers in the Arctic.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:45
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about how an angry Ike came off the golf course to kic...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:46
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about the British army in Africa.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:35
Thomas Page on oddball Civil War history
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 03:59
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Shakespeare by Bill Bryson.
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 02:13
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 02:18
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A. J. Baime
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 02:31
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 03:14
Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
“It may well be that the Senate Republicans would be better off confirming some moderate Obama nominee to the Supreme Court now, rather than having...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
This is a series of quotations from women who were passionate about their politics, power and immortality. They sought justice, equality, knowledge...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 2
Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 09:47
- Purchases: 1
The new poet laureate of the United States and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow calls for everyone’s heart to speak out.
Bought by KPIP-LP, KFCF FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WLPR , KPVL and more
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 7
"I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.”
- Hunter S. Thompson, as told to Studs Terkel in 1967.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 17:15
- Purchases: 1
Based on a time-traveling English nurse in the 20th century who is married to an 18th century Scotsman, Diana’s eight books in The Outlander series...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2
Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2
CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D audio.
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 59:13
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 05:00
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1