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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
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...
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 5
Author Michael Schumacher talks about his new book "Too Much Sea For Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North Shore and Isle Royale"
- Added: Aug 10, 2023
- Length: 09:29
Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...
Bought by WNJR and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 29, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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Jenna Soleo Shanks, Assistant Professor of Theater History at UMD, grew up surrounded by her Italian American family on Long Island. Later in life ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 08:37
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
WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest Jon Meacham.
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 53:58
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
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
CONTENT WARNING: Be wary of listening to this episode around young children, as there may be life spoilers. Historian Greg Jenner traces the origin...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
Most people who visit Calistoga -- a town in the Napa Valley -- come for the wine and the spa treatments; few come for the literary history. But th...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 10:19
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 10:21
- Purchases: 1
You'd think you could trust dictionaries, but it turns out, they are riddled with LIES.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
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
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
MN Reads talks with Kate Roberts, co-author (with Adam Scher) of Toys of the '50s, '60s and '70s (Minnesota Historical Society Press), a snapshot o...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 08:38
- Purchases: 2
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Jun 02, 2014
- Length: 01:34
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 01:26
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 01:48
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 01:34
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 01:43
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
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 01:38
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Apr 07, 2014
- Length: 01:40
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 01:20
