Remarkable Creatures By Tracy Chevalier
Monday, July 11, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, July 11 through Friday, August 5, 2022. Read by Michele Good. Based on the true story of two extraordinary, 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns she has "the eye" to spot fossils no one else can see. She soon finds an...
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Monday, June 13, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, June 13 through Friday, July 8, 2022. Read by Jim Fleming. A mysterious beast is attacking ships all over the world. Famous oceanographer Pierre Aronnax is called upon to hunt for the creature. But when the creature attacks the navy vessel pursuing it and Aronnax is thrown overboard, the...
Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life by Marko Perko and Stephen M. Stahl
Monday, May 16, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, May 16 through Friday, June 10, 2022. Read by Norman Gilliland. The enigmatic Nikola Tesla—stalked by his ever-present inner demons—invents the modern world. He tames the mysterious force called “electricity;” dazzles the world with his endless inventions and discoveries; and blazes new...
The Memory Book of Jane Love Rankin Clark
Thursday, May 12, 2022, 12:30pm
Thursday, May 12 through Friday, May 13, 2022. Read by Susan Sweeney. Jane Love moved with her family in 1840 at the age of fifteen to what was then called the Iowa Territory. Her diary, which ends with her death in 1898, gives us a glimpse into homesteading life on the prairie as Americans pushed...
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Monday, April 18, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, April 18 through Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Read by Susan Sweeney. Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her...
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Monday, March 28, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, March 28 through Friday, April 15, 2022. Read by Susan Sweeney. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge. At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores...
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
Monday, February 28, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, February 28 through Friday, March 11, 2022. Read by Jim Fleming. John Charles Gilkey steals rare books, but only for love-the love of books. Ken Sanders wants to catch him. For author Bartlett, it's a fascinating chase, but also a search to find out: What is it that makes some people stop...
Make Way For Liberty by Jeff Kannel
Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 12:30pm
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 through Friday, February 25, 2022. Read by Norman Gilliland. Hundreds of African American soldiers and regimental employees represented Wisconsin in the Civil War, and many of them lived in the state either before or after the conflict. And yet, if these individuals are...
Lincoln Among The Badgers by Steven K. Rogstad
Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 12:30pm
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 through Tuesday, February 15, 2022. Read by Norman Gilliland. Verbal and written historical accounts of the visits that Abraham and Mary Lincoln made to the Badger State. Lincoln entered the state’s borders for the first time in 1832 during his military service in the...
A Beginner’s Guide to America (Part 2) by Roya Hakakian
Friday, January 28, 2022, 12:30pm
Friday, January 28 through Monday, February 7, 2022. Read by Michele Good. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes,...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Monday, January 17, 2022, 11:00pm
Monday, January 17, 2022. Read by Melvin Hinton. At the time of the award was given, Dr. King was the youngest person ever to get that particular honor, and said that he would dedicate all of the $54,000 that accompanied it toward the cause of equal rights. When he appeared in Oslo to collect the...
Driftless by David Rhodes
Monday, December 27, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, December 27 through Thursday, January 27, 2022. Read by Karl Schmidt. 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. Driftless by David Rhodes (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2008). Copyright...
Christmas at Thompson Hall by Anthony Trollope
Wednesday, December 22, 2021, 12:30pm
Wednesday, December 22 through Friday, December 24, 2021. Read by Karl Schmidt. Anthony Trollope’s Victorian “comedy of errors” "Christmas at Thompson Hall" was a holiday tradition for many years on Chapter A Day. Not quite a “Christmas story”, it nonetheless is filled with the festivity and...
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Monday, December 13, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, December 13 through Wednesday, December 21, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming. Every child knows about Santa Claus, the jolly man who brings gifts to all on Christmas. There are many stories that tell of his life, but this delightful version filled with fairies, immortals and a kidnapped human baby...
The Eye of Edna from Essays of E.B. White
Thursday, November 25, 2021, 11:00pm
Thursday, November 25, 2021 – 11 pm only. Read by Jim Fleming. "The Eye of Edna" is an essay from the collection "The Essays of E.B. White." The author, one of the founders of The New Yorker magazine, lived in Maine at the time and writes of spending a day listening to the radio while announcers...
Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf by Raymond C. Kaquatosh
Monday, November 22, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, November 22 through Friday, December 10, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming. Raymond Kaquatosh was born in 1924 on Wisconsin’s Menominee Reservation. The son of a medicine woman, he spent his boyhood immersed in the beauty of the natural world and the traditions of his tribe and his family. When his...
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
Monday, November 1, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, November 1 through Friday, November 19, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming. Paras, short for "Perestroika," is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and wanders all the way to the City of Light. Soon she meets an elegant dog...
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Monday, October 11, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, October 11 through Friday, October 29, 2021. Read by Norman Gilliland. In Oscar Wilde’s only novel, he forges a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young man in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction,...
A Beginner’s Guide to America by Roya Hakakian
Monday, October 4, 2021, 12:30pm
Monday, October 4 through Friday, October 8, 2021. Read by Michele Good. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes,...