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United We Stand: In Our Words (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Teenagers have long turned to books for a guide on how to live, but for kids of immigrant parents, those guides can be particularly important.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WJCU and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
United We Stand: In Our Words (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Teenagers have long turned to books for a guide on how to live, but for kids of immigrant parents, those guides can be particularly important.

Bought by KECG and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
United We Stand: In Our Words (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Teenagers have long turned to books for a guide on how to live, but for kids of immigrant parents, those guides can be particularly important.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
United We Stand: In Our Words (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Teenagers have long turned to books for a guide on how to live, but for kids of immigrant parents, those guides can be particularly important.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
MN Reads: "Shannon in the Spotlight" by Kalena Miller
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Kalena Miller talks about her Minnesota Book Award-nominated middle-grade novel "Shannon in the Spotlight"

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 08:33
MN Reads: "Finding Family" by Laura Purdie Salas
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Laura Purdie Salas talks about the Minnesota Book Award Nominee "Finding Family: The Duckling Raised By Loons"

  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 07:10
It's Good to "Tinker!"
From: KSRQ
Series: Community Voices
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Floating while tinkering? Find out more on Campbell Corner!

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 15:49
Hal Higdon discusses "Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewi...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:28
Battle of the Classics
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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Banning of so-called “classics” grabs public attention, but books like To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 don't need your defense. It's the more recent...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 19:25
All for a Library Card
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
When a high school teacher in Norman, Oklahoma shared a QR code with her students that would grant them access to BPL’s digital collection, she too...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 1
Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis
From: Samuel Robinson
Caption: Spiral design on the street
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
MN Reads: "Controlled Burn" by Erin Soderberg Downing
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Erin Soderberg Downing talks about her NEMBA nominated book "Controlled Burn"

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 07:40
MN Reads: "The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen" by Gary Eldon Peter
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Gary Eldon Peter talks about the Minnesota Book Award winner "The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen"

  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 11:09
MN Reads: "The Counterclockwise Heart" by Brian Farrey
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Minnesota Book Award winner Brian Farrey talks about his book "The Counterclockwise Heart"

  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 07:47
Shelf Discovery: Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a teenager’s quest to find a place where she fits in Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Ale...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
MN Reads: “Born in a Red Canoe” by Katharine Johnson
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Minnesota Book Award finalist Katharine Johnson talks about her book “Born in a Red Canoe”

  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 08:07
The Write Question - Jules Ohman
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Portland, Oregon-based novelist Jules Ohman discusses her debut novel, "Body Grammar."

Bought by KVNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - Bil Lepp's "Fire Bike" + Pippi Longstocking
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories about daring feats and stories about love.

Bought by KKRN, WVPE, KSJE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KTXK and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
Books Unbanned
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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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
Coping 101: WRITING w/ Ezra Conklin
From: C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
Series: Coping 101
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Coping 101: WRITING w/ Ezra Conklin continues C89.5's student-hosted series capturing Artist Mental Health Stories. Listen and learn as Seattle-bas...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 24:38
Tales on Sale!
From: KSRQ
Caption: Annual Book Sale at Campbell
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN announces a sale of books to top all sales of used books at Cam...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 14:44
T Jefferson Parker discusses "A Thousand Steps"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:49
La Burquenita & Women's History Month
From: Generation Justice Admin
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This week, Generation Justice proudly features seventeen-year-old poet, Sarita Sol Gonzalez, also known as “La Burquenita '' a Chicana, and feminst...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:25
The Wonder Years (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Being a Black girl in a mostly white space can bring stress, frustration, anger, and all kinds of mixed emotions.

Bought by WMMT, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Wonder Years (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Being a Black girl in a mostly white space can bring stress, frustration, anger, and all kinds of mixed emotions.

Bought by WTJU, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7