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Wisconsin Public Radio - Chapter A Day.
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For Program On: Friday, July 3, 2009
at 11:00 PM
On Chapter A Day, Susan Sweeney reads from "How Far is the Ocean From Here?" - a novel by Amy Shearn.
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Chapter a Day® is heard daily at 12:30pm and 11:00pm
on the Ideas Network stations of Wisconsin Public Radio
The five most recent chapters are available for RealAudio
on-demand listening on the Chapter a Day® Webcasting page.
| Monday June 8 through Friday July 3, 2009 |
How Far is the Ocean From Here by Amy Shearn
read by Susan Sweeney
(Random House; ISBN-13: 9780307405340)
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 An unmarried surrogate mother flees her Chicago home and heads for the Southwest. This novel explores how people care for each other, whoever and wherever they are.
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Theme: First Impressions from Appalachia Waltz by Mark O'Connor; Yo-Yo Ma; Edgar Meyer; Mark O'Connor (Sony SK 68460) |
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| Monday July 6 through Friday July 17, 2009 |
Sweet and Sour Pie: A Wisconsin Boyhood by Dave Crehore
read by Jim Fleming
(Terrace Books; ISBN13: 9780299230609)
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 In 1950 the Crehores, 7-year-old Dave and his parents, moved from Ohio to Manitowoc, WI. His memoir is filled with the satisfying life and adventures of a Wisconsin in the middle of the 20th Century. |
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Theme: Rube Bloom: Spring Fever, Duke Ellington: Solitude; Alan Feinberg, piano (Argo 444 457-2) |
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| Monday July 20 through Friday August 14, 2009 |
The Other by David Guterson
read by Karl Schmidt
(Knopf; ISBN13: 9780307263155 )
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 A novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life. |
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Theme: Nico Muhly speaks volumes (HVALUR 1) |
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| Monday August 17 through Friday September 11, 2009 |
Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey by William Least Heat-Moon
read by Jim Fleming
(Little, Brown ; ISBN: 978-0-316-11025-9))
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 The author of Blue Highways returns to the back roads of America in search of “quoz” - things strange, incongruous, or peculiar. |
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Theme: Chuck Suchy; Blue Missouri Hills #1 from the album Different Line of Time |
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| Monday September 14 through Friday October 3, 2009 |
Without a Map by Meredith Hall
read by Susan Sweeney
(Beacon Press; ISBN13: 9780807072738)
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 Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned , kicked out of her mother’s house and banished by her father, she gives up her baby up for adoption. Finally she returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. |
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Theme: tba |
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***** SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2008 *****
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| Monday December 31, 2007 through Thursday January 24, 2008 |
Cage of Stars by Jacqueline Mitchard
read by Susan Sweeney
(Warner; ISBN-13: 9780446696722)
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 A twelve-year-old’s world is shattered when her sisters are murdered. Years later she decides to avenge them, in the process discovering the true meanings of crime and forgiveness.
Chapter a Day® will be preempted on Monday January 21 at 12:30 for a special Martin Luther King Jr Day Celebration. Monday evening 1/21 we will repeat the Chapter from Friday 1/18. The book will resume with a new chapter on Tuesday 1/22. |
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Theme: John Tavener: The Protecting Veil; Steven Isserlis, cello; London SO-Rozhdestvensky (Virgin 0946 3629321) |
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| Friday January 25, 2008 |
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
read by Karl Schmidt
(FSG; ISBN-13: 9780374280390)
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 John McPhee's books have always been about real people in real places. Here are his adventures with people who work in freight transportation. |
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Theme: Toots Footprints from Toots Thielemans Footprints (Emarch 846650) |
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| Monday January 28 through Wednesday February 20 |
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies At The Founding of the Republic by Joseph Ellis
read by Jim Fleming
(Knopf ISBN-13: 9780307263698)
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Theme: Ives: Variations on "America" (arr. William Schuman); Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Slatkin, cond (RCA 09026-61282-2) |
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| Monday March 10 through Friday March 21 |
The One That Got Away: a memoir by Howell Raines
read by Karl Schmidt
(Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0641802013)
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 Wry and funny memoir about fishing, and family, and the end of his newspaper career. |
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Theme: Bill Frisell: selections by the artist (ECM 440 014 198-2) |
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| Monday March 24 through Friday April 11, 2008 |
Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America by Andrew Ferguson
read by Karl Schmidt
(Atlantic ISBN-13: 9780871139672)
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 We all know who our 16th President was, but who is he today? Andrew Ferguson travels America looking for Lincoln in contemporary society. |
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Theme: America the Beautiful & Amazing Grace; Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra (Verve) |
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| Monday April 14 through Friday May 2, 2008 |
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
read by Jim Fleming
(Random House ISBN-13: 9780385525008)
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 A 3rd string NFL quarterback finds the meaning of American football when he’s run out of town and finds himself playing in Parma, Italy. |
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Theme: Bolero from Serenata by Beppe Gambetta with Carlo Aonzo (Acoustic Music POB 1945) |
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| Monday May 5 through Friday May 23, 2008 |
The Poet of Tolstoy Park: A Novel by Sonny Brewer
read by Karl Schmidt
(Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0345476326)
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 A 67-year-old man, given a year to live by his doctors, decides instead to read Tolstoy and “perfect his soul.” |
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Theme: Ligeti: Cello Sonata; David Geringas (Teldec 8573-88262-2) |
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| Monday May 26 through Friday June 6, 2008 |
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and The Brain by Oliver Sacks
read by Jim Fleming
(Knopf ISBN13: 9781400040810)
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The renowned neurologist and author brings us stories of the power of music to affect patients’ lives, from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist to “brainworms” and sticky tunes, to dementia, music and identity. |
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Theme: selections from "Russian Piano School Vol 17: Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Chopin & Liszt (Melodiya 74321 33215 2) |
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| Monday June 9 through Friday June 27, 2008 |
Never Surrender: a novel of Winston Churchill by Michael Dobbs
read by Karl Schmidt
(Sourcebooks ISBN-13: 9781402210440)
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 This work of historical fiction examines three crucial weeks in 1940 when Churchill was at his lowest ebb, but England as a whole was lower. |
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Theme: John Adams: Violin Concerto - chaconne; Gidon Kremer, vln; London SO-Nagano (Nonesuch 79360-2) |
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| Monday June 30 through Friday July 25, 2008 |
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
read by Karl Schmidt
(Random House ISBN-13: 9780375759314)
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 A magnificent story of youthful idealism and mature realism that takes two couples from the beginnings of friendship during the Depression in Madison, Wisconsin to success and heartbreak in the years that follow. |
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Theme: Sonata in A, Andantino - Schubert - Brendel Philips 411477-2 |
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| Monday July 28 through Friday August 22, 2008 |
The Appeal by John Grisham
read by Jim Fleming
(Doubleday ISBN13: 9780385515047)
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 John Grisham returns to form with the compelling story of the race for a Mississippi Supreme Court seat following a judgement against a polluting chemical company. |
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Theme: Bolcom: The Serpent's Kiss; Elizabeth & Marcel Bergmann, pianos (Naxos 8.559244) |
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| Monday August 25 through Friday September 12, 2008 |
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
read by Norman Gilliland
(Crown ISBN-13: 9780307339881)
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 Dr. John R. Brinkley had his own way with the truth, including a medical degree of questionable value and clinics in Kansas, Texas, and Arkansas. He parlayed it all into an amazing ride through the worlds of politics, radio broadcasting, country music, and the rich and powerful. |
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Theme: Virgil Thomson: excerpt from "The Plow that Broke the Plains" New London Orch - Ronald Corp, cond (Hyperion CDA 66576) |
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| Monday September 15 through Friday September 26, 2008 |
Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan
read by Jim Fleming
(Wisconsin; ISBN: 0-299-22210-1)
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 The brutal murders at Frank Lloyd Wright's Spring Green prairie cottage helped shape the rest of the famous architect's life.
Now available as a 4-CD audiobook. To order, call 1-800-747-7444. |
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Theme: Beethoven: String Quartet Nr 11 - allegretto ma non troppo; Quartetto Italiano (Philips 420 104-2) |
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| Monday September 29 through Friday October 17, 2008 |
Notes from Little Lakes by Mel Ellis
read by Jim Fleming
(Cabin Bookshelf; ISBN: 0-9653381-0-X)
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 Memories from one of Wisconsin's premier newspaper columnists.
Now available as a 5-CD audiobook. To order, call 1-800-747-7444. |
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Theme: selections from "Beyond Six Strings: A Collection of New Music for Harp Guitar" (HGM-CD-001) |
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| Monday October 20 through Friday November 7, 2008 |
A Sound Like Thunder by Sonny Brewer
read by Karl Schmidt
(Libri ISBN13: 9780345476333)
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 A story of fathers and sons, Set in the small gulf town of Fairhope, Alabama, as World War II is just beginning. The author of “The Poet of Tolstoy Park” has another stirring tale of remembrance |
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Tom Morley: Tolstoy Park Suite - excerpts (Flying Frog Music FF0601) |
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| Monday November 10 through Friday November 28, 2008 |
Night Sisters : A Novel by Sara Rath
read by Susan Sweeney
(UW Press; ISBN-13: 9780299228705)
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 Dark shadows and lively ghosts in this tale set in Wisconsin. |
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Bill Douglas: Circle of Moons (HS 11048-2) |
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| Monday December 1 through Friday December 19, 2008 |
Undiscovered Country: A Novel by Lin Enger
read by Karl Schmidt
(Little Brown; ISBN: 978-0316006941)
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 A 17-year old boy decides to explore events leading up to a hunting accident in Minnesota in which his father apparently took his own life. |
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Miles Davis: Blue Miles - "Blues for Pablo" (Columbia Legacy CK 61405) |
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| Monday December 22 through Wednesday January 7, 2008 |
Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
read by Jim Fleming
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 including The Cricket on the Hearth and The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and a New Year In |
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”Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day” & “Greensleeves” from “A Midnight Clear: A Celtic Christmas” with Robin Bullock (Dorian DOR 93250) |
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Wednesday January 8 through Friday January 30, 2009
(There will be no 12:30 p.m. broadcast on 1/19 & 1/20) |
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
read by Karl Schmidt
(Knopf; ISBN-13: 978-0307266392)
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 The New York Times correspondent takes us to the front lines of the wars in the Middle East. |
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excerpt from Saint-Saens Symphony #1; Vienna SO - Georges Pretre (Erato MusiFrance 2292-45695-2) |
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| Monday January 19 and Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 11 PM ONLY |
The Case of Laker Absconded
by Arthur Morrison
read by Ken Ohst
(from the Chapter a Day Archives)
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 A This is a classic tale from the Chapter a Day archives. Inspector Martin Hewitt was the creation of Arthur Morrison and featured in many tales. Ken Ohst was for many years the voice of Chapter a Day.
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Theme: tba |
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| Monday February 2 through Friday February 20, 2009 |
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
read by Jim Fleming
(Harper Collins; ISBN: 0060817089)
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 When you bring home a Labrador Retriever you expect the kind of dog famous for its calm and helpfulness. Not Marley. One Hundred Pounds of pure exuberance, there is nothing and no one he can't bowl over. There are lessons here, but are they the ones you want to learn?
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Theme: Bernstein: Jet Song from "West Side Story"; Gershwin: Promenade "Walking the Dog"; Katia & marielle Labeque, pianos from their album "Encore!" (Sony SK 48381) |
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| Monday February 23 through Friday March 13, 2009 |
Mayhem in B-flat by Eliot Paul
read by Jim Fleming
(Dover; ISBN: 0-486-25621-9)
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 Elliot Paul's Homer Evans mysteries are classics of the form. In Mayhem in B-flat Paul tells the story of Evans and his stylish, pistol-packing companion Miriam Leonard as they tackle on a series of strange events. Against a richly evoked background of Paris in the 1930's, Evans and Leonard mix detection and comedy to find a murderer, rescue a notorious violin, and encourage romance. |
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Theme: Fritz Kreisler: Liebesfreud & Liebeslied; Gil Shaham, violin; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DG 449 923-2) |
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| Monday March 16 through Friday April 3, 2009 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato-Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
read by Susan Sweeney and Jim Fleming
(Dial Press; ISBN-13: 9780385340991)
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 A work of fiction in the form of letters about the power of books to nourish people living in hard times. The letters tell the story of the Isle of Guernsey during WWII.
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Theme: Eric Coates: Summer Days Suite; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - John Wilson, conductor (Avie AV 2070) |
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| Monday April 6 through Friday May 1, 2009 |
The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig
read by Jim Fleming
(Harcourt; ISBN-13: 978-0151012435)
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 A greatest generation story of the members of a Montana football team who go to war. One is selected by the army propaganda arm to tell their stories. |
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Theme: Cole Porter: Anything Goes; Stephan Grappelli & Yo-Yo Ma (CBS MK 45574) |
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| Monday May 4 through Friday June 5, 2009 |
Driftless by David Rhodes
read by Karl Schmidt
(Milkweed; ISBN 978-57131-059-0)
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 A story from the “driftless” area of Wisconsin, about a town apparently left out of time. It’s an unforgettable slice of life in rural America |
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Theme: Haydn: The Seven Last Words - introduction; Emerson Quartet (DG B0002053-02) |
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If you have a comment or a question, send a message to Jim Fleming.
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