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Wisconsin Public Radio - Chapter A Day.
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| Monday January 2 through Friday January 20, 2006 |
Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans by Thomas Lynch
read by Karl Schmidt
(Norton; ISBN: 0393042065)
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 A Michigan poet and essayist writes about his Irish ancestry and how the events of 9/11 forcibly remind us all of the power of ethnic ties, race and language, history and custom. |
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Theme: excerpts from Ignaz Moscheles' Recollections of Ireland, Op 69; Howard Shelley, pf & cond. Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra |
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| Monday January 23 through Friday February 10, 2006 |
Andrew Jackson: His Life & Times
by H.W. Brands
read by Norman Gilliland
(Doubleday; ISBN: 0385507380)
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 A new biography of the President who ushered in The Age of Democracy |
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Theme: 'Tis Timothy Walker playing "Three Irish Airs with Variations: Gary
Owen" from Hyperion 66027 (dub fom an LP) |
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| Monday February 13 through Friday March 10, 2006 |
Ordinary Heroes: a novel
by Scott Turow
read by Jim Fleming
(FSG; ISBN: 0374184216)
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 A young man discovers a cache of letters his father wrote during World War II and learns the story of the difficult choices his father had to make. It causes him to reassess a man he thought he knew. |
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Theme: Harry James: You Made Me Love You, Cherry |
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| Monday March 13 through Thursday March 23, 2006 |
“Tracking” from The Summer He Didn't Die
by Jim Harrison
read by Karl Schmidt
(Grove/Atlantic; ISBN: 0871138921)
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 One of three novellas from Harrison's new collection, “Tracking” is a meditation on space and understanding one's surroundings. |
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Theme: Arvo Part: Alina (ECM New Series 1591 289 449 958) |
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| Friday March 24, 2006 |
Remembrance of Things Paris:Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet by Ruth Reichl
read by Karl Schmidt
(Modern Library; ISBN: 0812971930)
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 Two essays from this collection, both by Joseph Wechsberg: Sold & All That Glitters |
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Theme: Arvo Part: Alina (ECM New Series 1591 289 449 958) |
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| Monday March 27 through Friday April 7, 2006 |
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
read by Jim Fleming
(Knopf; ISBN: 140004314X)
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 This is an extraordinary book. It describes a year that began with her daughter in a coma and shortly after, her husband dead of a heart attack. Didion's examination of love and loss is intensely personal but open to everyone. |
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Theme: Rachmaninov: Moment musical in e minor Op 16 No 4; Prelude in G, Op 32 No 5; Gabriela Montero, piano (EMI Classics 5 58039 2) |
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| Monday April 10 through Friday April 28, 2006 |
The Myth of You and Me: a novel
by Leah Stewart
read by Catherine Brand
(Shaye Areheart Books; ISBN: 1400098068)
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 The story captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that follows the breakup of an intense and passionate friendship between two young women. |
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Theme: Selections from "The Guitar Trio" with Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola & John McLaughlin (Verve 314 533 215-2) |
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| Monday May 1 through Friday May 19, 2006 |
Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved
by Kate Whouley
read by Jim Fleming
(Ballantine Books; ISBN: 0-345-48018-X)
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 Kate Whouley (pronounced hoo-lee) has written a memoir of creating her own space, with all the inner and outer turmoil that involves, as well as the joy. |
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Theme: Alex de Grassi: "A Momentary Change of Heart" & "Deep at Night" (Windham Hill WD 1106) |
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| Monday May 22 through Friday June 9, 2006 |
Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer
read by Karl Schmidt
(Mountaineers Books; ISBN: 1594850100)
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 Wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and filmmaker Leanne Allison spend five months migrating on foot with more than 100,000 caribou, an experience that changes their lives |
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Theme: Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa - Ludus (Naxos 8.554591) |
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| Monday June 12 through Friday June 30, 2006 |
The Beatles: The Biography
by Bob Spitz
read by Jim Fleming
(Little, Brown; ISBN: 0316803529)
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 This new biography follows the famous foursome through their early years to their years of fame. |
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Theme: The Beatles - various selections |
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| Monday July 3 through Wednesday July 26, 2006 |
The Hot Kid
by Elmore Leonard
read by Karl Schmidt
(Harper Collins; ISBN: 0060724226)
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 A new novel of Prohibition Era crime from the man the New York Times calls “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever.”
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Theme: "Outlaws" & "Greg Leisz" from the album "Blues Dream" with Bill Frisell (Nonesuch 79615-2) |
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| Thursday July 27 & Friday July 28, 2006 |
The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
read by Karl Schmidt
(Penguin; ISBN: 159420036X)
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 Mark Helprin is an excellent writer, and these stories explore loss, regret, retribution and time's passage in places all over the world. |
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Theme: Franz Liszt: Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude; Steven Osborne, piano [hyperion CDA67445] |
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Monday July 31 through Friday August 18
Also Available as an Audio Book through the Radio Store 1-800-747-7444 |
The Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages by Sara Rath
read by Jim Fleming
(Terrace Books; ISBN 0-299-21520-2)
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 Hannah Swann leads a quiet life in Madison, but when she inherits her uncle’s rundown resort in the north woods, she finds herself proprietor of his environmental legacy as well. It’s a chance to discover her family, herself, and what is most important to her future. |
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Theme: excerpts from "Fretwork" with Chris Newman |
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| Monday August 21 through Friday September 15, 2006 |
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
read by Jim Fleming
(Harcourt; ISBN: 0151012377)
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 The story of a small Montana town in the early part of the Twentieth Century, of a time of one-room school houses and defining character. |
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Theme: selections from “Fiddle Fever” (Flying Fish FF 70303) |
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| Monday September 18 through Friday October 6, 2006 |
All the Numbers by Judy Merrill Larsen
read by Catherine Brand
(Ballantine; ISBN: 034548536X)
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 A divorced mother of two loses her child in a jet-ski accident. The story relates the year following the tragedy. |
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Theme: Rogdanovic, Mysterious Habitats (from L.A.G.Q. on the Sony label) & Rodrigo/York: En Aranjuez con tu Amor & Sting: Fragile (from L.A.G.Q. Latin on the Telarc label) |
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| Monday October 9 through Wednesday October 18, 2006 |
The Final Solution: a story of detection by Michael Chabon
read by Jim Fleming
(Harper Collins; ISBN: 006076340X)
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 In the English countryside an 89-year-old man known only as a former detective takes time from his beekeeping to look into the case of a mute nine-year-old escapee from the Nazis and his parrot. |
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Theme: Elgar, Salut D'Amour & Tchaikovsky, Melody; Liu Yang, violin; Gao Ping, piano (from the album "Song of Nostalgia" on a private label) |
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| Thursday October 19 and Friday July 20, 2006 |
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 October 23 through Friday November 10, 2006 |
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
read by Jim Fleming
(Viking Penguin; ISBN: 0670037605)
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 Nathaniel Philbrick says: “I thought I knew about the voyage of the Mayflower, but when I started to explore what happened when an old, leaky ship arrived off the coast of New England in the fall of 1620, I soon realized that I, along with most Americans, knew nothing at all about the real people with whom the story of our country begins.” |
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Theme: Berlioz: March of the Pilgrims from Harold in Italy; Montreal SO-Dutoit; Pinchas Zukerman, viola (London 421 193 2) |
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Monday November 13 through Friday November 24, 2006
Also Available as an Audio Book through the Radio Store 1-800-747-7444 |
The Land Remembers: The story of a farm and its people by Ben Logan
read by Karl Schmidt
(Itchy Cat Press; ISBN: 9780976145059)
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 Ben Logan's classic memoir of farm life and growing up in Wisconsin. With a new Afterword by the author. |
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Theme: Triptique for String Orchestra-Berceuse & Andante; Akutagawa - Angel S-36577 |
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| Monday November 27 through Tuesday December 19, 2006 |
The New Woman : A Staggerford Novel by Jon Hassler
read by Karl Schmidt
(Viking; ISBN: 067003455X)
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 Agatha McGee, now eighty-seven years old, has moved to the Sunset Senior apartments in the Minnesota town of Staggerford, but she’s not ready to slow down. |
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Theme: Toots Thielemans - "Ben" and "The Mooche" from the album "Toots Thielemans: The Silver Collection" (Polydor 825 086-2) |
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| Wednesday, December 20 through Friday, December 22, 2006 |
Christmas at Thompson Hall by Anthony Trollope
read by Karl Schmidt
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 Playing "Christmas at Thompson Hall" is a Christmas tradition. |
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| Monday December 25, 2006 through Friday January 12, 2007 |
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
read by Jim Fleming
(Harper Collins; ISBN: 0060571993)
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 The author of Krakatoa brings the same sense of urgency and lasting impact to the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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Theme: Scott Joplin: Heliotrope Bouquet & The Nonpareil; Southland Stingers with Ralph Grierson, piano (EMI CDC 7 47193-2) |
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Chapter a Day is heard daily at 12:30pm and 11:00pm on the Ideas Network of Wisconsin Public Radio
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