Booktalk with Diana Korte
By Diana Korte
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Top authors are interviewed on this 20-minute program about their books and often the story behind the story. Diana has spoken with hundreds of authors from national politicians and scientists to novelists and storytellers of all kinds. Listeners stream from around the world and on many community & public radio stations across the U.S. The show, hosted by Diana and engineered by her husband Gene Korte, has been in production for 30 years. Together they've traveled in, sometimes reporting from, more than 100 countries, now and then interviewing authors along the way.
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Bestselling novelist Lisa See’s DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN AND MOON
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Best-selling Novelist Kevin Powers' CHILDREN OF THE WILD
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Novelist Jane Smiley’s “LIDIE. The Further Travels And Adventures Of Lidie Newton”
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May 15, 2026 |
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Historian Daniel Rood’s IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT HOUSE
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May 01, 2026 |
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British Science Journalist Helen Pearson's BEYOND BELIEF
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Craig Fehrman's "This Vast Enterprise. A New History of Lewis & Clark"
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Bestselling novelist Marie Benedict’s DAUGHTER OF EGYPT
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Psychology Professor Harry Reis's HOW TO FEEL LOVED
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Pilot Caroline Paul’s WHY FLY
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Literary Agent Alia Hanna Habib’s “TAKE IT FROM ME”
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Ex-Evangelical Josiah Hesse’s “On Fire for God"
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Novelist Meg Donohue's THE MEMORY GARDENER
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Wild West Historian Mark Lee Gardner's "Brothers of the Gun"
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Military Historian Phillips O'Brien's WAR AND POWER
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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TRUE CRIME. Writer Skip Hollandsworth’s “SHE KILLS”
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Writer Priyanka Kumar's "The Light Between Apple Trees"
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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"What a Time to be Alive" by Novelist Jade Chang
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Science Writer Mary Roach's "REPLACEABLE YOU"
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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TRUE CRIME. Investigative journalist Artis Henderson's "No Ordinary Bird"
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Bill McKibben's "Here Comes the Sun"
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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A Holocaust Family. Georgia Hunter's "We Were the Lucky Ones"
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Bestselling historian Scott Ellsworth's "Midnight on the Potomac"
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Julie McFadden (@hospicenursejulie) and “The Nothing to Fear Journal"
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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America’s First Women WWII Pilots. Becky Aikman’s “SPITFIRES”
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May 16, 2025 |
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Anne Hillerman’s SHADOW OF THE SOLSTICE (#10 in her Navajo Detectives Series)
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May 02, 2025 |
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UK Foreign Policy Adviser Chloe Dalton’s “RAISING HARE”
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Former FBI Agent Scott Payne’s “CODENAME: PALE HORSE"
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Novelist Karen Russell's THE ANTIDOTE
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Greenwood’s PLAYING DEAD. A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Historical Fiction Writer Marie Bennett's QUEENS OF CRIME
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Crime Writer Robert Crais's THE BIG EMPTY (#20 Elvis Cole & Joe Pike)
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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It's ok to forget where you left the keys??? Neurologist Scott Small's FORGETTING
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Journalist Lydia Reeder's "The Cure for Women"
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Game Show Host Ken Jennings, author of “MAPHEAD"
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Musicologist Todd Decker's MUSIC MAKES ME: Why Fred Astaire was a King of Jazz
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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World Traveler Ella Morton's ATLAS OBSCURA: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Salman Rushdie's "Quichotte: A Novel"
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Author and historian Silvia Pettem’s “SEPARATE LIVES"
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Middle School Librarian Amanda Jones’ “THAT LIBRARIAN. The Fight Against Book Banning in America”
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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United Airlines pilot and author, Carole Hopson’s A PAIR OF WINGS
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Author Gayle Forman's NOT NOTHING
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Journalist Brantley Hargrove's "Man Who Caught the Storm"
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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CBS Sunday Morning Correspondent Mo Rocca’s ROCTOGENERIANS. Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs”
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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PR Operative Phil Elwood’s “All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians”
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Mystery writer James Lee Burke's “The House of the Rising Sun”
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler’s memoir, “And Then? And Then? What Else?”
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Ballerina Karlya Shelton-Benjamin in “Swans of Harlem"
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May 17, 2024 |
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Angler & Travel Writer David Coggins’s “The Believer. A Year In The Fly Fishing Life”
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May 03, 2024 |
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US Senator Tim Kaine's "Walk Ride Paddle: A Life Outside"
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Crime Writer Don Winslow's CITY IN RUINS (#3 in trilogy)
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Women's Advocate Manal al-Sharif’s “Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening”
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Literary Powerhouse Joyce Carol Oates and “The Sacrifice”
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Adventurer Michael Benanav's HIMALAYA BOUND
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Crime Novelist Tracy Clark’s FALL (2nd in Series)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Native American Scholar R. David Edmunds's "Voices in the Drum: Narratives from the Native American Past"
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Writer & explorer Douglas Preston’s “The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder"
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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British actor Cary Elwes with “As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride”
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Fuchsia Dunlop's INVITATION TO A BANQUET. The Story of Chinese Food
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Thanksgiving Special: Historian Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War”
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Alexander McCall Smith’s “From a Far and Lovely Country” #24 in series
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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In Memoriam—Madeleine Albright’s "PRAGUE WINTER” and What Her Comments in 2012 Say About Today's World Crises
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Canadian Journalist Taras Grescoe's "THE LOST SUPPER. Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past"
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Western writer Craig Johnson's THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE (19th in a series)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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National Security Expert Miles Taylor’s "BLOWBACK: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump”
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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National Book Award winner James McBride’s THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Educator & Advocate Chasten Buttigieg's I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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CNN Jake Tapper’s ALL THE DEMONS ARE HERE (#3 in a series)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Lisa See's newest historical novel LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Revisiting Political Activist Gloria Steinem's "My Life on the Road"
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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True Crime writer Silvia Pettem’s “In Search of the Blonde Tigress. The Untold Story of Eleanor Jarman”
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Kenyan Ecologist Paula Kahumbu’s SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS
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May 19, 2023 |
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Bestselling Storyteller Lisa Scottoline's LOYALTY, her 35th novel
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May 05, 2023 |
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Middle East Expert Steven Simon's GRAND DELUSION: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Debut novelist Laura Spence-Ash’s “BEYOND THAT, THE SEA”
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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True Crime writer Katherine Corcoran's IN THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Psychologist Marc Schultz's THE GOOD LIFE. Lessons From the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Journalist Elaine Weiss's "THE WOMAN’S HOUR: The Great Fight to Win the Vote"
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Novelist & literary agent Jennifer Herrera's THE HUNTER, first in a series
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Movie star, Philanthropist, and Race Car Driver Paul Newman's memoir--PAUL NEWMAN, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Futurist Ari Wallach’s “LONGPATH. Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs”
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Journalist Ted Conover’s “CHEAP LAND COLORADO. Off-Gridders at America’s Edge”
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Christopher McDougall’s “Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero”
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Novelist Delia Owens's "Where the Crawdads Sing"
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Thriller writer Robert Crais, author of “Racing the Light: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel”
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Historian Candice Millard's "RIVER OF THE GODS. Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile"
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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British Mystery Writer Richard Osman’s "THE BULLET THAT MISSED" (#3 in "The Thursday Murder Club" series)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Travel Writer Patricia Schultz’s “WHY WE TRAVEL: 100 Reasons to Get Up and Go”
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Kimberly Garza’s “The Last Karankawas”
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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LaDoris Hazzard Cordell's "HER HONOR, My Life on the Bench..."
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Jason Kander's "INVISIBLE STORM. A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD"
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Gun Industry Expert Ryan Busse, author of “GUNFIGHT"
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Mark Lee Gardner’s “THE EARTH IS ALL THAT LASTS: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation"
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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White House Adviser David Gergen’s “Hearts Touched with Fire. How Great Leaders Are Made”
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Bill McKibben’s “The Flag, The Cross and the Station Wagon”
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Crime writer Sara Paretsky’s “Overboard” (V.I. Warshawski’s #21)
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May 20, 2022 |
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Cold Case Investigator Paul Holes with UNMASKED. My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
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May 06, 2022 |
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Travel Writer Brandon Presser’s THE FAR LAND: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, And Mutiny in The South Pacific
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Similarities between Mr. Putin's War and the Confederacy? Roger Lowenstein, author of “WAYS & MEANS," explains.
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Ted Conover's IMMERSION: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Novelist Elise Hooper’s ANGELS OF THE PACIFIC (US nurses during WWII)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Brit Bennett's "THE VANISHING HALF"
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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CHEZ BOB by Bob Shea (fun kid's book)
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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How Difficult is it to Commit Election Fraud?
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Sarah Vogel’s The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Could a world war happen again? British novelist Ken Follett asks that question in NEVER
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Need a little pandemic-times cheering up? Todd Doughty’s “Little Pieces of Hope. Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World” is for you.
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Novelist Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land”
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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Historian Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Travels with George. In Search of Washington and His Legacy”
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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World Traveler Dylan Thuras’s “Gastro Obscura A Food Adventurer’s Guide”
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Art Crime Fighter and Historian Noah Charney's "The Devil in the Gallery. How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Made the Art World"
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Magician Joshua Jay’s “How Magicians Think. Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters”
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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Professor Jennifer Reich’s “Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines”
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Neurologist Scott Small’s “Forgetting. The Benefits of Not Remembering”
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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Novelist Hilma Wolitzer’s “Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories”
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Novelist Alex Michaelides’s “The Maidens”
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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True Crime writer Silvia Pettem’s “Cold Case Chronicles. Mysteries, Murders & The Missing”
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Debut novelist and former book editor Zakiya Dalila Harris’s “The Other Black Girl”
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Journalist and film maker Sebastian Junger’s "Freedom"
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Jory Fleming’s “How to Be Human. An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life”
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May 21, 2021 |
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Novelist Flynn Berry’s thriller “Northern Spy”
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May 07, 2021 |
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Debut Novelist Sanjena Sathian’s “Gold Diggers”
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Sam Turnbull’s “Fast Easy Cheap Vegan”
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir’s “Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal”
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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New Yorker staffer John Colapinto’s "This is the Voice"
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Mar 05, 2021 |