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Wisconsin Public Radio - Chapter A Day.
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For Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:00 PM
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On Chapter a Day Annelise Dickinson reads excerpts from "A Gate at the Stairs," a new novel by Lorrie Moore.
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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 January 16 through Wednesday February 1, 2012 |
by John Vaillant
read by Norman Gilliland
(Vintage ISBN: 0307389049)
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 In rural Russia a tiger is killing people. Vaillant brings the tiger, the people, and the conflict to life in this true story. |
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theme: Edward MacDowell: Lamia on Albany Troy 235 - Keith Klein, LSO |
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| Thursday
February 2 through Friday February 3, 2012 |
A Gate at the Stairs
by Lorrie Moore
read by Analiese Dickinson
(Knopf; ISBN-13: 9780375708466)
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 Moore is known for her incisive short fiction, and her new novel takes on the disconnection so many people feel in a post 9/11 world. This is the excerpted first chapter as published in The New Yorker Magazine
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theme: Peter Schickele: Clarinet Concerto: Dawn
Robert Spring, clarinet, Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, Timothy Russell, conductor, on Summit 1023 |
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| Monday
February 6 through Friday February 17, 2012 |
Finding Freedom: the Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave
by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald
read by Jim Fleming
(Wisconsin Historical Society Press; ISBN-13: 9780870203824)
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 Joshua Glover was bought in St. Louis to be a "servant for life," broken out of jail after his escape by Wisconsin abolitionists, and helped to escape to Canada and freedom.
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theme: Mark O'Connor: Concerto No. 6 "Old Brass" ? mvt 1 "The Road is Smooth" ? Pro Arte Chamber Orch of Boston, Joel Smirnoff, cond. (OMAC-12) |
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| Monday through Friday |
Rodin's Debutante: a novel
by Ward Just
read by Karl Schmidt
(Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt; ISBN 13: 9780547504193)
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 A coming of age story in mid 20th century Chicago. As Booklist says: "...in this mordantly funny yet profoundly mysterious novel, Just asks what divides and what unites us. What should be kept secret? Which teaches us more, failure or success? And of what value is beauty?"
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theme: tba |
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| Monday through Friday |
The Eighty-Dollar Champion
by Elizabeth Letts
read by Jim Fleming
(Ballantine; ISBN 13: 978 0345521088)
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 It's November 1958 and the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City is about to begin. Into the rarefied atmosphere of wealth and tradition comes the most unlikely of horses - a drab white former plow horse named SnowmanCand his rider, Harry de Leyer.
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theme: tba |
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| Monday through Friday |
Patti LuPone: a memoir
by Patti LuPone
read by Michele Good
(Crown; ISBN: 0307460746)
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 The Broadway legend and multiple award winner has been a huge success on stage. In this memoir she takes the reader backstage personally and professionally to explore her life. |
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theme: tba |
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| Monday through Friday |
Something to Prove: A Daughter's Journey to Fulfill a Father's Legacy
by Yvonne S. Thornton
read by Cynthia Woodland
(Kaplan; ISBN: 1607147246)
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 The compelling memoir by Dr. Thornton reveals how she learned from her father's teachings how to overcome bias and rise to the top of her profession as the first African-American woman to be board certified in the obstetrical sub-specialty of maternal-fetal medicine. |
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theme: tba |
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| Monday through Friday |
The Girl in the Blue Beret
by Bobbie Ann Mason
read by Norman Gilliland
(Random House; ISBN: 1400067189)
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 An unforgettable novel about an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his memories of the people who helped him. |
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theme: tba |
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***** SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2011 *****
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| Monday January 3, 2011 through Friday January 21, 2011 |
Work Song
by Ivan Doig
read by Jim Fleming
(Riverhead; ISBN-13: 978-1594487620)
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 Morrie Morgan, the itinerant schoolteacher and charmer from Doig's The Whistling Season returns to Montana, to Butte in 1919 and "the richest hill on earth." The story of copper mining and union/management conflict reveals an important moment in American history. |
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theme: selections from "Fiddle Fever" (Flying Fish FF 70303) |
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| Monday January 24, 2011 through Tuesday February 15, 2011 |
The Quickening
by Michelle Hoover
read by Susan Sweeney
(Other Press; ISBN: 9781590513460)
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 Inspired by the life of the author's great-grandmother, this is a moving story of two Iowa farm wives struggling to survive during the Depression. |
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theme: Aaron Copeland's "Letter from Home" St. Louis SO - Leonard Slatkin (EMI CDC-7 49766 2) |
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| Wednesday February 16, 2011 through Friday February 25, 2011 |
Hollywood: A Third Memoir
by Larry McMurtry
read by Karl Schmidt
(Simon and Schuster; ISBN13: 9781439159958)
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 This is the third and final memoir detailing McMurtry's more than forty years in Hollywood. Though he's best known as a novelist, his story of the process of film making is compelling |
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theme:"Peace Piece" from Kronos Quaret - Music of Bill Evans (Savoy Jazz) |
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| Monday February 28, 2011 through Friday March 11, 2011 |
The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks
read by Jim Fleming
(Knopf; ISBN13: 9780307272089)
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 Oliver Sacks writes in his usual extraordinary manner about people who've lost what we think of as essential abilities, including reading, face recognition, and speech. |
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theme: Chopin: Fantaisie Impromptu, Op 66 et al from "Chopin Favorites" Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (London 417 798-2) |
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| Monday March 14, 2011 through Friday March 25, 2011 |
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by Deborah Blum
read by Norman Gilliland
(Penguin; ISBN13: 9781594202438)
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 If only your high school chemistry class had been this good. It's a fascinating account of two forensic pioneers in early 20th-century New York, and brings the art of chemistry to life. |
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theme: "Goose Pimples" and "Sorry"
recorded in 1927 by Bix Beiderbecke
reissued on Columbia CX 48175.
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| Monday March 28, 2011 through Friday April 8, 2011 |
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 from the disc "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (Argo 444 457-2) |
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| Monday April 11 through Friday May 13, 2011 |
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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The One-Day Wednesday selections are from "The Thurber Carnival" by James Thurber (Modern Library)
read by Jim Fleming
| Monday May 16 through Friday June 10, 2011 |
Twice a Spy
by Keith Thomson
read by Jim Fleming
(Doubleday; ISBN13: 9780385530798)
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 The return of the characters from Once a Spy, heard on Chapter a Day last year, once again asks the question "What happens when a former CIA agent can no longer trust his own mind?" Charlie and Drummond Clark are hiding out in Switzerland when Alice is kidnapped and the action begins. |
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theme: Ellington: "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" Ramsey Lewis & Billy Taylor (CBS MK 44941) |
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| Monday June 13 through Friday July 9, 2011 |
The Lotus Eaters
by Tatjana Soli
read by Norman Gilliland
(St. Martin's Press; ISBN-13: 9780312674441)
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 A novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War. |
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theme: "Little Wing" and "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix
Played by Benjamin Verdery on
Newport Classics NPG 85509
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| Monday July 4 through Friday Friday July 29, 2011 |
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
read by Jim Fleming
(Random House; ISBN13: 9780812981223)
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 The quiet village life of Major Pettigrew changes forever with the unexpected friendship of Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village |
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theme: Elgar: Introduction & Allegro, Op 47; English String Orch - Boughton (Nimbus NI 5210/13) |
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| Monday August 1 through Friday August 19, 2011 |
An Irish Country Doctor
by Patrick Taylor
read by Karl Schmidt
(Doherty; ISBN-13: 9780765368249)
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 A naive doctor just out of medical school is introduced to life in a small Irish village filled with eccentric residents. |
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theme: "The Precious Jewel" from "Beyond the Missouri Sky" - Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny (Verve 314537130) |
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| Monday August 22 through Friday September 2, 2011 |
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much : The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
by Allison Hoover Bartlett
read by Jim Fleming
(Penguin; ISBN-13: 9781594484810)
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 John Charles Gilkey steals rare books, but only for love-the love of books. Ken Sanders wants to catch him. For Bartlett it's a fascinating chase, but also a search to find out: What is it that makes some people stop at nothing to posses the titles they love? |
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theme: Charlie Parker: Bird, The Savoy Recordings, Volume 1 - "Tiny's Tempo" and "Red Cross" (Savoy Jazz ZDS 4402) |
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| Monday September 5, 2011 through Friday September 9, 2011 |
The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks
read by Jim Fleming
(Knopf; ISBN13: 9780307272089)
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| Oliver Sacks writes in his usual extraordinary manner about people who've lost what we think of as essential abilities, including reading, face recognition, and speech. Further excerpts not broadcast earlier this year. |
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theme: Chopin: Fantaisie Impromptu, Op 66 et al from "Chopin Favorites" Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (London 417 798-2) |
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| Monday September 12 through Friday October 7, 2011 |
Doc: a novel by Mary Doria Russell
read by Karl Schmidt
(Random House; ISBN 978-1-4000-6804-3)
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 A fresh, imaginative portrait of the legendary Doc Holliday. |
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theme: Bill Frisell - "Gimme a Holler" and "Go Jake" from the album "Nashville" (Nonesuch) |
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| Monday October 10 through Friday October 21, 2011 |
Summers: A True Love Story
by Margot Peters
read by Susan Sweeney and Jim Fleming
(Xlibris; ISBN-13: 9781456897116; you can order from Margot Peters margot13.peters@charter.net)
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 A story in letters between a boy and a girl, letters which span the years 1949-1960. |
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theme: Eric Chesney: "Guiquenout" & "I Remembered You Today" from the album "The Pardoner's Refrain" (e.chesney@hotmail.com) |
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| Monday October 24 through Friday November 11, 2011 |
American Boy
by Larry Watson
read by Jim Fleming
(Milkweed; ISBN: 978-1-57131-078-1; AMERICAN BOY can be purchased at your local bookstore, or by contacting Milkweed Editions directly, at 1 (800) 520 - 6455)
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 The author of Montana 1948 and Justice is back with coming of age story from the heartland of Minnesota in 1962 that will break your heart, and win you over. |
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theme: Bernstein: West Side Story Suite; Lucian Plessner, guitar "Bernstein on Guitar" (CPO 999 505-2) |
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| Monday November 14 through Friday November 25, 2011 |
Lime Creek: a novel
by Joe Henry
read by Jim Fleming
(Random House; ISBN 13: 9781400069415 )
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 The story of a Wyoming ranch family sometime in the 20th century. |
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theme: Copland: Red Pony Suite; New Philharmonia Orch - Aaron Copland, cond. (CBS MK 42429) |
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| Monday November 28 through Friday December 23, 2011
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by Patrick Taylor
read by Karl Schmidt
(Doherty/Tom; ISBN 13: 9780765366856)
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 Taylor returns to Ballybucklebo, where doctors O'Reilly and Laverty are practicing country medicine. The holidays provide a different look at the eccentric village residents.
 
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Thinking about buying this book online? Start here!
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theme: "Anam" performed by Clannad on the album "Anam" (Atlantic) |
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| Monday December 26 through Friday January 13, 2012 |
The Tiger's Wife
by Téa Obreht
read by Susan Sweeney
(Random House; ISBN-13: 9780385343831)
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 In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death. Most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her?the legend of the tiger's wife. |
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theme: Schubert's Piano Quintet in C, the 2nd movement ("Adagio") |
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If you have a comment or a question, send a message to Jim Fleming.
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