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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin enrolls in a school for the criminally gifted with Jeffrey Salane's Lawless.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin tries on a new identity with Allie Larkin's Why Can't I Be You.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin reunites with a troubled heroine in Black Sheep by C. J. Lyons.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin indulges in Jessica Beck's Illegally Iced.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin sets out on a classic spy mission with the 1941 thriller Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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During this program, Kate Davis, an award-winning photographer who specializes in raptors, talks about how she captured the 100+ spectacular images...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin braces herself for the end of the world in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Time Untime.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes to New York City's underground with the graffiti artists of Adam Mansbach's Rage Is Back.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to the New World with Rhys Bowen's Murphy's Law.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin loses her heart to a zombie in Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: The MacDowell Colony, Medal Day 2012
Cathy Byrd recorded this Fresh Talk episode when she visited The MacDowell Colony, a highly regarded New Hampshire retreat for artists, writers and...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 12:33
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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:39
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When naming the most important stories of the 20th century, gossip writer Liz Smith rattled off the assassination of JFK, the Lindbergh kidnapping,...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
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In the Erotic Memoir Novel LAURA MEETS JEFFREY written from two perspectives - Jeffrey Michaelson and Laura Bradley detail their lives during the N...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 11:42
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Charles Dickens turns 200 this year, and two new films based on his books are in the works. But one scholar says there’s more to Dickens than his m...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
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In the “Great Golf Marathon of 1938,” an eccentric Chicago stockbroker attracted international attention by wagering he could play 33 rounds of gol...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Laura Lippman talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. [30:30]

Bought by KPIP-LP and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 30:12
  • Purchases: 2
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Chicks who dig comics, fighting the epic battle against sexism

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRVO Public Media, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 4
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Welcome to the Jazz Age. This lyrical portrait of The Great Gatsby features readings by actor Sam Waterston and commentary by Robert Redford, among...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:13
  • Purchases: 7
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Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote central Oregon and spent her days dreaming about leaving her small town for adventure. By the age of 21, Lawren...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ursula K. Le Guin, Credit: Photo Credit: Richard Jensen
Dmae Roberts features author Ursula K. Le Guin.

Bought by Room Tone Selects and KLCC


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
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So, is that a vasectomy in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Find out the answer to this question as Arts and Cultural Heritage Report...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2010
  • Length: 23:31
Caption: Henry Winkler, Credit: Photo Credit: Richard Jensen
Actor Henry Winkler didn't know he had dyslexia till his oldest son was diagnosed with it. Winkler was 31 at the time. He has become the author of...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2010
  • Length: 06:32
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Twin Cities-based author Greg Breining has written a new book about the culture of ice fishing.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2010
  • Length: 19:56
Caption: The Gift of Thanks
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Visser about her book The Gift of Thanks.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KTXK, KWMR, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 4