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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
National Writers Series: Randall Sullivan
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Journalist Randall Sullivan and Marty Lagina talk with Patrick Livingston about "The Curse of Oak Island."

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
Show business veteran Dudley Riggs, founder of the Brave New Workshop, on The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dudley Riggs is a fifth-generation member of a distinguished show business family. He's worked in many areas of the biz, as everything from an aeri...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 18:32
TPV04 My Throwback - Murder 1 At Latitude 82.91 Degrees North
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
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
TPV03 My Throwback - Khartoum Goes Boom!
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
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
TPV02 My Throwback - Lee Wallace
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Thomas Page on oddball Civil War history

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:59
GPV24 Book Review - Bill Bryson's Shakespeare
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Shakespeare by Bill Bryson.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:13
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
Bill Schutt discusses "Hell's Gate"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Bill Schutt is a zoologist, professor of biologist, and author.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 13:39
Magical Realism
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Author Kelly Link discusses the archetypes of magical realism and William McKelvy explains the hallmarks and legacy of Gothic literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:52
The Crack-Up
From: PRX
Series: Esquire Classic
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In 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald, then a struggling writer battling depression and alcoholism, published “The Crack-Up,” a radical series of essays in ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 34:17
Frank Sinatra Has A Cold
From: PRX
Series: Esquire Classic
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Fifty years after it was first published, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” remains the most influential and talked-about magazine story of all time. Auth...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 32:58
  • Purchases: 1
Coming Home to Big Stone Gap (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani talks about life growing up in the small Appalachian town of Big Stone Gap. Plus: What are the biggest challen...

Bought by WCNY, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 6
How The Bard Meant It (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-How did Shakespeare's plays really sound 400 years ago. Plus: The big ideas in the plays of Shakespeare. And more….

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, Troy Public Radio, KRDP, WLIW and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
Allusionist 26: Xmas Man
From: The Allusionist
Series: Allusionist festive episodes
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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
Great Expectations part two
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
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Pip returns to Miss Havisham's and learns the secrets of Satis House.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 27:41
The Falling Man
From: PRX
Series: Esquire Classic
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“The Falling Man”, Esquire’s most-read story of all time, is discussed by host David Brancaccio (APM's Marketplace Morning Report) and Esquire Writ...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 34:07
  • Purchases: 3
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