Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Monday, January 16, 2023, 11:00pm
Monday, January 16, 2023. 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...
I Married The Klondike by Laura Beatrice Berton
Monday, January 2, 2023, 12:30pm
Monday, January 2 through Friday, January 13, 2023. Read by Susan Sweeney. In 1907, Laura Beatrice Berton, a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher, left her comfortable life in Toronto Ontario to teach in a Yukon mining town. When she first arrived in Dawson City, Berton expected to find a rough mining...
The Chimes - from Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
Thursday, December 22, 2022, 12:30pm
Thursday, December 22 through Friday, December 20, 2022. Read by Jim Fleming. This 1844 Charles Dickens’ novella concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness...
Christmas at Thompson Hall by Anthony Trollope
Monday, December 19, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, December 19 through Wednesday, December 21, 2022. 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...
Rest You Merry by Charlotte MacLeod
Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 12:30pm
Tuesday, November 29 through Friday, December 16, 2022. Read by Jim Fleming. Each December, the faculty of Balaclava Agricultural College goes wild with holiday decorations. The entire campus glitters with Christmas lights, save for one dark spot: the home of professor Peter Shandy. But after years...
More Selected Essays of Ursula Le Guin
Monday, November 28, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, November 28, 2022. Read by Susan Sweeney. Selections from "No Time To Spare" and "The Wave In The Mind". Best known for her speculative fiction, Ursula K. LeGuin’s writing career spanned over 60 years, gathering along the way numerous Hugo, Nebula and Focus awards. She’s been described as “...
Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 12:30pm
Wednesday, October 26 through Friday, November 25, 2022. Read by Michele Good. Nobel Prize winning author Kazou Ishiguro offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities who is seeking answers to...
Selected Essays of Ursula Le Guin
Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 12:30pm
Wednesday, October 19 through Tuesday, October 25, 2022. Read by Susan Sweeney. Selections from "No Time To Spare" and "The Wave In The Mind". Best known for her speculative fiction, Ursula K. LeGuin’s writing career spanned over 60 years, gathering along the way numerous Hugo, Nebula and Focus...
On Democracy by EB White
Monday, October 3, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, October 3 through Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Read by Jim Fleming. Anchored by an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays and letters from one of this country’s most eminent literary voices offers much-needed historical context for our...
Brush Back By Sara Paretsky
Monday, August 29, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, August 29 through Friday, September 30, 2022. Read by Susan Sweeney. V.I. Warshawski goes to help an old friend and ends up in a fight with Chicago political bosses. (Signet; ISBN-10: 0451477154 ) Theme: “Latin Shuffle” from the album “Combustication” Medeski Martin & Wood
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Monday, August 8, 2022, 12:30pm
Monday, August 8 through Friday, August 26, 2022. Read by Norman Gilliland. Following the many misadventures of a ship’s surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, Jonathon Swift’s wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s...
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...