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Chapter a Day

Chapter a Day® is heard daily at 12:30pm and 11:00pm on the Ideas Network stations of Wisconsin Public Radio. It is the oldest WPR program still being broadcast and may qualify as the longest running regularly scheduled radio program in the history of radio in the United States.

Chapter A Day

Monday
8/12/2013
12:30 PM

CAD - Return to Wake Robin
Susan Sweeney reads from "Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts" By Marnie O. Mamminga. Five generations of her family have visited this cabin built by her grandparents. Mamminga lovingly remembers the heart and soul of the place.
 
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Friday
8/9/2013
12:30 PM

"Return to Wake Robin"
Susan Sweeney reads from "Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts" By Marnie O. Mamminga. Five generations of her family have visited this cabin built by her grandparents. Mamminga lovingly remembers the heart and soul of the place.
 
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THE CHAPTER A DAY BOOK LIST

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Image of COMING: "Jewelweed: a novel" by David Rhodes
August 19, 2013
Monday, August 19 through Friday, September 27, 2013. Read by Jim Fleming.

The author of "Driftless" takes us back to Words, Wisconsin and a new cast of characters who must take on the burdens of the past.

(Milkweed; ISBN-10: 1571311009)

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Image of On NOW: "Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts" By Marnie O. Mamminga   (Photo by amazon.com)
 
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August 05, 2013
Monday, August 5 through Friday, August 16, 2013. Read by Susan Sweeney.

On Big Spider Lake near Hayward, Wisconsin is a cabin that has seen five generations of family visit, all of them fondly remembered by the author.

(Wisconsin Historical Society Press; ISBN-10: 0870204912)
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Theme: Phil Cook & His Feat; from the Album: Hungry Mother Blues 1.Frazee, MN, 2. The Jensens 3. Lament & Lullaby

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Image of "Stories from The Round Barn, Volume II" by Jacqueline Dougan Jackson
July 22, 2013
Monday July 22 through Friday August 2, 2013. Read by Karl Schmidt

Stories of life on a Beloit dairy farm from the early years of the 20th Century

(Beloit City Press; ISBN-10: 1881480100)

Theme: "In Formation" with the Kronos Quartet; Funky Chicken, When, Junk Food Blues OR Dark Razz, Enantio Dromia High"

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Image of "Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II" by Robert Kurson
June 24, 2013
Monday, June 24 through Friday, July 19, 2013. Read by Jim Fleming

The true story of two deep-sea wreck divers who found a German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey in 1991.

(Random House; ISBN-10: 0375508589 )

Theme: "Allegro from Symphony Nr 2 in C, Op 42" by Anton Rubinstein; Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - Stephen Gunzenhauser, cond. (Marco Polo 8.223001)

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Image of "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" by Erik Larson   (Photo by Amazon.com)
 
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May 27, 2013
Monday, May 27 through Friday, June 21, 2013. Read by Jim Fleming.

William Dodd was US ambassador to Hitler's Germany in 1933, a time when he and his family faced a changing world and the need for changing attitudes.

(Broadway; ISBN-10: 030740885X)

Theme: Weill: Mack The Knife / The Instead-of Song / The Ballad of the Easy Life from Threepenny Opera Suite; Orchestra of St. Luke's - Julius Rudel (MHS 512485Y)

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Image of "Back to Blood" by Tom Wolfe   (Photo by Amazon)
 
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April 01, 2013
Monday, April 29 through Friday, May 24, 2013. Read by Karl Schmidt

A big story in the well-known style of one of America's major chroniclers, this is the story of Miami and what it means to the country as a whole.

(Little Brown; ISBN-10: 0316036315)

Theme: "Just Wait a Minute" The Uptown String Quartet

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Image of "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach
March 25, 2013
Monday, March 25 through Friday, April 26, 2013. Read by Jim Fleming

If you don't love baseball you'll like this because it's a good story well told. If you do love baseball, well, same thing.

(Back Bay Books; ISBN 10: 0316126675)

Theme: "Um, Circles & Squares" from the album "The Lost Take" by Dosh

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Image of "Blood, Bones & Butter" by Gabrielle Hamilton
March 04, 2013
Monday, March 4 through Friday, March 22, 2013. Read by Susan Sweeney.

A fascinating memoir by the owner and chef of a New York restaurant tracing her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef.

(Random House; ISBN 10: 0812980883)

Theme: "Just Wait a Minute" The Uptown String Quartet

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