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.

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

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

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

Monday, February 4 through Friday, March 1, 2013. Read by Jim Fleming.

In the autumn of 1929 a young man stumbles across the aftermath of murder.

(NEMO Productions; ISBN-10: 0971509352)

theme: Trevor Stephenson: "Whispering"

Monday, January 7 through Friday, February 1, 2013. Read by Jim Fleming.

Another of the special coming-of-age stories that Doig does so well, this one a loving tale of a son and father adjusting to a change to modern times in Gros Ventre, Montana.

(Riverhead; ISBN 10: 1594487359)

theme: selections from "Fiddle Fever" (Flying Fish FF 70303)

Monday, December 17, 2012 through Friday, January 4, 2013. Read by Karl Schmidt.

The extraordinary novelist unveils English society in four short tales: "Christmas at Thompson Hall," "Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage," "An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids," and "Father Giles of Ballymoy."

(Carroll & Graf; ISBN 0786700211)

theme: Mozart: Sonata for 2 Pianos in D K 448; Christine & Michelle Naughton, pianos; from their album "Piano Duets" (Orfeo C859 121A)

Monday, December 3 through Friday, December 14, 2012. Read by Michele Good

The staff of the Spencer Library in a small Iowa community saved the kitten. Everyone agrees the kitten turned into a cat who would save the community.

(Grand Central; ISBN-10: 0446407429)

theme: "Summer's End" by Pat Donohue; "Simple Melody" by Todd Barneson